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01. Contents

Cover: Judith Owen, one of the stars of the Marylebone Music Festival

42. 04-19. Up front 04. Forward thinking 12. Local lives 04. 28. 16. My perfect day FORWARD GILDED CAGE 20-47. Features THINKING THE STRANGE 20. S ilver screen YOUR GUIDE TO STORY OF 28. Gilded cage JUNE AND JULY THE 34. The Peter principle IN MARYLEBONE WHO BUILT 42. After the deluge MARYLEBONE 48-53. Culture 48. Q&A: Judith Owen, singer-songwriter 52. Book reviews 20. 34. 54-63. Food 54. Q&A: Paul Sarlas of Bao & Bing 60. Food philosophy 42. 62-69. Style AFTER THE 62. Q&A: Belma Gaudio DELUGE of Koibird THE DIPLOMATS 66. Inside knowledge WHO ARE 67. The look SEEKING TO 70-77. Life SHOW THAT 70. Q&A: Michael RWANDA’S STORY di Giorgio of GOES BEYOND Greenhouse Sports GENOCIDE 74. Inside knowledge 78-83. Health 78. Q&A: Prof Keyoumars Ashkan & Mr Ranjeev Bhangoo of The London Clinic 20. 34. 48. 82. Special relationship SILVER SCREEN THE PETER JUDITH OWEN 84-91. Space THE CINEMA PRINCIPLE THE SINGER- 88. Ask the expert CLUB THAT HOW PETER SONGWRITER ON 90. Q&A: Tim Fairweather CELEBRATES GORDON CAME NEW ORLEANS, of Sandfords GOLDEN OLDIES, TO SHAPE PICASSO’S BOTH ON THE THE CAREERS WOMEN AND THE SCREEN AND IN OF SOME OF MARYLEBONE THE AUDIENCE LONDON'S MUSIC FESTIVAL FINEST CHEFS

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Marylebone Journal Web: marylebonejournal.com GOLDEN AGE Twitter: @MaryleboneJrnl MARK RIDDAWAY Instagram: marylebonejrnl Facebook: Marylebone Journal

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Summer has arrived, Gardens, this year’s al FORWARD EVENT which can only mean one fresco film is Billy Elliot. THINKING 15th—16th JUNE thing—it’s time for the Food stalls and the festival YOUR GUIDE TO Marylebone Summer bar open at 3pm, with live APRIL AND MAY MARYLEBONE Festival. Organised and jazz music on the lawn. To IN MARYLEBONE SUMMER funded by The Howard buy tickets, visit the website. FESTIVAL de Walden Estate, and incorporating a weekend Sunday 16th June of fun and activities, the Marylebone Sunday event will be raising money Street Party and awareness for the Sunday’s colourful Greenhouse Sports charity. community event runs from 11am to 5:30pm offering Saturday 15th June the familiar medley of street Marylebone Summer food, live music, fairground Film Night stalls and dancing in the Set in the atmospheric streets. The high street surroundings of and its surrounding streets Paddington Street will be pedestrianised to

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accommodate a vast array of activities. The main EVENT EXHIBITION EXHIBITION music stage and festival bar 19th JUNE UNTIL 22nd JUNE UNTIL 22nd JUNE are located in Paddington PORTMAN ANISH KAPOOR CHRIS SIMPSON: Street Gardens and will SQUARE CARNETS DE remain open until 8pm. Anish Kapoor, With Moxon Street car park GARDEN PARTY VOYAGE closed this year, most of the Every year for more than one of the world’s In 1987, a journey to children’s activities have a decade, the beautiful most distinctive Australia’s Northern been relocated, with the Portman Square Garden— and influential Territory to photograph big wheel moving to the top access to which is usually contemporary the region’s Aboriginal of the high street and a new reserved for residents of people—a personal wellness and activity area the square—has played artists, returns for project—had a profound located on the north side of host to one of the most his 17th exhibition impact on fashion Paddington Street Gardens. enjoyable social events of at Lisson Gallery photographer Chris the summer: an evening of with a striking new Simpson’s outlook. Marylebone Summer al fresco food, drink, live Stepping away first from Festival music and entertainment body of work that the fashion world and marylebonesummerfestival.com in a spectacular setting. includes sculptures later from almost all Proceeds from the event, created from stone, commissioned work, he which also features a welded steel, silicone focused instead on trying fundraising raffle, are to capture the landscapes this year being donated and mirrored and people of some of to Greenhouse Sports, a surfaces, as well the world’s most remote charity that uses sports as oil paintings regions, from the Atacama coaching and mentoring on canvas—a Desert to Easter Island, to improve the life chances from the Himba tribe of of children. The event, significant but Namibia to the tobacco tickets for which cost £45, is rarely-exhibited farmers of Cuba. This supported by Baker Street element of Kapoor’s exhibition, his first solo Quarter Partnership, practice over the show in London, features Home House, Hyatt shots from around the Regency London—The past 40 years. world, all of them marked Churchill, Invesco, The out by their clean lines, Lisson Gallery Portman Estate, Marsh simple compositions and 27 Bell Street, & Parsons, Seddons, deep sense of place. NW1 5BY Barclays, Eliska Design, lissongallery.com Marylebone Gin, Serve It Atlas Gallery Up and Sanders. 49 Dorset Street, W1U 7NF Portman Square atlasgallery.com Garden Party portmansquaregardenparty.com

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THEATRE MUSIC FILM THEATRE 14—22nd JUNE 16th—23rd JUNE 22nd—23rd JUNE 21st—24th JUNE HANSEL AND MARYLEBONE AMAZING THE WILD GRETEL MUSIC FESTIVAL GRACE PARTY Following last season’s Over the course Aretha Franklin’s Amazing The Royal Academy acclaimed production of of a week, many of Grace, released in June The Turn of the Screw, Marylebone’s most 1972, was the best-selling of Music Musical the Regent’s Park Open attractive destinations, album of the singer’s Theatre Company Air Theatre continues its including Manchester career, featuring one presents Michael budding collaboration Square, Wigmore Hall, of the most compelling John LaChiusa with the English National The Wallace Collection vocal performances in Opera with a production and the Rudolf Steiner the gospel music canon. It and George C of Hansel and Gretel— Theatre, will play host to a was recorded at a live show Wolfe’s dark, bawdy Engelbert Humperdinck’s highly diverse programme at the Missionary Baptist theatrical retelling operatic retelling of the of concerts and musical Church in Los Angeles of an infamous 1928 mildly disturbing Grimm experiences. Highlights when Franklin was 29 and brothers’ tale of witchery include a journey through at the peak of her powers, Joseph Moncure and gingerbread, which the impressive repertoire and among the lucky few March narrative was first performed in 1893 of Rick Wakeman with who were there to witness poem, taking the and has remained hugely performances by Sue the concert was the film form of a series of popular ever since. Sung in Perkins, Anna Richardson, director and future Oscar English and accompanied The Marylebone Music winner Sydney Pollack. vaudeville sketches by members of the ENO Festival Choir and the man The footage he shot portraying the Orchestra, the opera is himself; an evening with that night never saw the disintegration of being conducted by Ben Welsh singer-songwriter light of day—until now. a relationship at a Glassberg with direction and pianist Judith Owen; Painstakingly restored, his by Timothy Sheader. and a chamber music film offers a breath-taking drink and drug- concert themed around view of a defining moment fuelled celebration. Regent’s Park Open Air the life and work of in 20th century music Theatre sculptor Henry Moore. history. Royal Academy of Music Inner Circle, All proceeds from the Marylebone Road, NW1 4NU festival go to the West Regent Street Cinema NW1 5HT openairtheatre.com London Mission. 307 Regent Street, ram.ac.uk W1B 2HW Marylebone Music regentstreetcinema.com Festival marylebonemusicfestival.com

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MUSIC THEATRE EVENT EXHIBITION 24th JUNE 28th JUNE 29th JUNE 10th—30th JUNE ENSEMBLE A MIDSUMMER PRIDE IN KATE LEWIS: MARSYAS NIGHT’S DREAM MEDICINE: THE NEWS Ensemble Marsyas, which This summer, Shakespeare LGBTQ+ HEALTH PRESSED specialises in the virtuoso in the Squares—a DAY Textile designer and artist wind music of the 18th London-based, not-for- On the 50th Kate Lewis has created a century, performs Mozart’s profit touring theatre series of beautiful images Serenade in B flat K361 company—is taking the anniversary of the of flowers, each of which ‘Gran Partita’, probably Bard’s wild comedy of Pride movement, has a strong seasonal composed in 1781, the third love, marriage, theatre the health of connection, constructed movement of which found and fairies on a tour of 19 today’s LGBTQ+ from words and letters cut fame in the play and film venues across 21 dates. from newspaper stories that Amadeus at the moment On Friday 28th June, the community is the coincided with the arrival when Peter Shaffer’s group will be putting on focus for the RSM’s of those blooms is 2018 fictionalised Salieri first two shows in Paddington inaugural Pride and 2019: a spring cherry appreciates Mozart’s Street Gardens—one in Medicine event. blossom tells the story of genius. As part of the in the afternoon, one in bombings in Syria, courtesy Wigmore Hall Live Stream the evening. Their new The day consists of of the Sunday Telegraph; series, the concert will be production, packed with two elements: an the chrysanthemum of shown simultaneously on music, circus and dance, open forum, tickets autumn—symbolising the venue’s website. sets the play in the 1920s. for which are free, death—tells the Times’s story of the Jamal Wigmore Hall Shakespeare in the which includes Khashoggi’s gruesome 36 Wigmore Street, Squares educational murder by the Saudis. W1U 2BP shakespeareinthesquares.co.uk activities, At first glance, all you see is wigmore-hall.org.uk networking the flower—only on closer examination does the story Peter Whelan of Ensemble Marsyas opportunities and emerge. entertainment, and a series of paid-for Railings Gallery lectures, designed 5 New Cavendish Street, W1G 8UT for healthcare railings-gallery.com professionals and policy advisors.

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One of the highlights of restaurants, bars and TALK EVENT the summer calendar, retailers, many of which 4th JULY 18th JULY the Portman Marylebone are getting fully on board Summer Street Party, with the storytelling CHINESE PORTMAN returns to Seymour theme, while the streets’ CUISINE: MARYLEBONE Place and New Quebec boutiques will be offering DOES CULTURAL SUMMER STREET Street with an evening special promotions. The AUTHENTICITY PARTY (5-10pm) themed around event, which is partnering MATTER? storytelling. A walkway with the Carers Network Consumers are of books will lead to a charity, is free to attend. increasingly seeking story corner for theatrical Workshop places and food experiences that readings, and guests will complimentary food and are ‘culturally authentic’, take part in workshops drink will be offered on but defining authenticity covering everything from a first-come-first-served is always fraught flower arranging to orihon basis, so come early! with difficulty—and sketchbook making. particularly so when Street food and al fresco Portman Marylebone confronted by a cuisine as drinks will be provided Summer Street Party vast and varied as that of by the area’s exceptional portmanmarylebone.com China. What constitutes cultural authenticity? Do accepted notions of authenticity change over time in response to international influence and changing tastes? Who should we accept as credible ambassadors of Chinese culinary culture? These are some of the knotty questions that a panel of experts—food writer Fuchsia Dunlop, academic Mukta Das and chefs Jeremy Chan and Andrew Wong—will seek to address.

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MUSIC EXHIBITION EXHIBITION MUSIC 20th—26th JULY UNTIL 26th JULY 10th JUNE 22nd JUNE THE ST KENTARO —1st SEPTEMBER —8th SEPTEMBER MARYLEBONE YAMADA: AN ENQUIRING THE REGENT’S FESTIVAL EVERYTHING MIND: MANOLO PARK MUSIC COMES IN WAVES BLAHNIK AT FESTIVAL This impressive THE WALLACE programme of music, London-based Every Sunday afternoon dance and film celebrates COLLECTION and Bank Holiday the many artists and Japanese artist There aren’t too many Monday from 22nd June musicians who have Kentaro Yamada’s shoe designers whose until 8th September, the been connected with the first solo exhibition work would look entirely Regent’s Park Bandstand parish of St Marylebone in London presents at home interspersed will be playing host to over its 900 years, with between the paintings a programme of free any profits going towards a combination of 18th century Old musical performances, the conservation and of new and old Masters, but Manolo including concert extension of the parish works, including Blahnik is one such. This bands, jazz big bands, church’s Grade I listed light installations, exhibition, co-curated small groups and choirs. building. Highlights by Blahnik himself, will Highlights include the include a musical tribute sculptural objects feature some of the most National Youth Jazz to Judy Garland, whose and a series of extraordinary creations Orchestra on 30th June, marriage to Mickey Deans dyeline prints from his vast private Belvedere Concert Band was blessed at the church; created in 2011 archives juxtaposed with on 7th July and Fulham a performance of dance, the collection’s artworks. Brass Band on 21st July. All music and spoken word after the Tohoku Throughout his long performances are free to devoted to Vaslav Nijinsky, earthquake and career, the Spanish attend, and deck chairs are who died at The London tsunami. designer has openly drawn available to hire. Clinic and was briefly upon the high culture buried in Marylebone; The Daiwa Anglo- of Europe’s past, and The Regent’s Park and a jazz concert inspired Japanese Foundation each room will reflect Music Festival by legendary New 13-14 Cornwall Terrace, a particular theme that regentsparkmusicfestival.org.uk Orleans saxophonist and NW1 4QP has provided him with clarinettist Sidney Bechet, dajf.org.uk inspiration, from the who spent time here in 1922. spectacle of the commedia dell’arte theatre to the The St Marylebone colour and drama of Festival rococo art. stmarylebonefestival.com The Wallace Collection Manchester Square, W1U 3BN wallacecollection.org

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so phoned them up and a lot of regulars. Some started on the Monday. of them are picking up LOCAL That was for a guy called flowers for the local offices William Hayford, who had and surgeries, but many several shops, including actually live in the area. LIVES the one on Hanover Street. For example, there’s one LISA HOOKER I learnt on the job, picked lady, Rita, who I don’t see it up fairly quickly and much these days. She is 90 Lisa, a florist who runs the Sandfords ended up working there and has lived her whole Flower Stall, is a consistently cheery for about five years. life in Marylebone. Her presence on Marylebone High Street, There was a flower parents had a cafe on shop just down the road Marylebone Lane, which working outside in all weathers. She from my parent’s pub. The the family lived above. grew up in north London and lives in owner wanted to retire and They got bombed out and Gospel Oak so I took the business over moved around the back and was there for over 20 of Moxon Street. And Rita INTERVIEW: JEAN-PAUL AUBIN-PARVU IMAGES: ORLANDO GILI years. But when the lease has lived there ever since. came up, I decided that I I have served a few needed a change. I started famous faces. Joan Collins working on a freelance was really nice and I also basis and also got plenty served Eddie Redmayne of work from people who when he was only just knew me from the shop. famous—in fact I didn’t One day I bumped into recognise him at first. Jo Peter, who I now work for Good from BBC Radio My parents ran a pub in left without too many on the Marylebone High London comes past the Kentish Town called the qualifications. But I did Street stall. He asked if I stall all the time and Malden Arms, but I always pass geography and so at could help him out for a we always have a laugh. wanted to live in a normal least I knew my way home. couple of weeks—and that And do you know Peter house like my friends My first job was with was maybe five, six years Saville? He’s the graphic because we didn’t have a a company called Kids ago. The stall got busier designer who co-founded separate front door and International that tried and we’ve gradually built Factory Records and did had to go through the pub to set up American-style it up, making bouquets all the artwork for Joy to get upstairs. I’d come summer camps over here. as well as selling bunches Division and New Order. home from school and my I was the office junior and of flowers, and also doing He’s a lovely bloke and is greeting was a smoky haze would be sent on errands contracts for local offices. from Manchester, so he’s and the smell of beer. And driving a Sinclair C5 that The thing I love most normal—whereas with you could never sneak off had been given to my boss about my job is the people. some people I meet, you anywhere. People would by his friend, the inventor My dad says that I must wonder who got them always see you coming and Sir Clive Sinclair. I always have been inoculated with dressed and out of the going. laugh when I think of me a gramophone needle house in the morning, I can remember being driving through London because I can talk for because they have people outside all the time during in one of those. How I . And Pete always running around doing the summer of 1976. The didn’t get killed I’ll never says: “Just ask Lisa because everything for them. fruit and veg wholesalers know. she knows everything— They’re living in another around the corner had I then worked at even the name and address world. a big yard full of flatbed University College of the Unknown Warrior.” But all my customers lorries. We’d be playing on Hospital, paying wages, People often come to are lovely, and we keep them and would also go and as a telephonist for the stall and go: “The attracting new ones. to Hampstead, Primrose BT. They’d send me lady down the road said People will often say: Hill and the lido. We’d be somewhere different to come and ask you for “Ooh, someone bought out all the time. That’s the most weeks and I even got directions to so and so.” me some flowers from you. trouble nowadays—kids to work at Buckingham I talk to so many people They were beautiful and can’t play outside. Palace and the Tower of from all walks of life lasted ages, so I’m going to I went to a school just London. through working on the buy from here now.” And up the road and then to One day I spotted a job stall. Marylebone has such I get so many people just a convent, which luckily advertised in the Standard a cross-section of people stopping for a chat. People wasn’t too strict. I didn’t for a trainee florist. I liked and you learn a lot from have just got used to me mind school, though I the sound of that and chatting to them. We have being here.

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Marylebone is full of the summer—everybody Of course, there are characters. There was one wants my job in August. things about London that I wouldn’t want to move bloke, Kevin, who lived I love walking around I don’t like such as the out of London. The outside Waitrose for a London. This city changes congestion, the traffic. countryside is great for few months. One time he so quickly. They’re either The other thing that gets a day out. You go to a drew little signs all over putting up a building or on my nerves is people with country pub, have your Waitrose’s window and the knocking one down. And I mobile phones who either dinner and come home next day he drew all over just feel like I’m really lucky just stop suddenly in the again. But I wouldn’t himself. And have you seen where I live. I can come out street or walk into people. want to be stuck there that little lady who walks my house and walk to work I had someone literally along with the gold hat, through Primrose Hill walk into my stall once. robes and a big gold stick? and Regent’s Park—what a I talk on the phone She walks along singing to lovely start to the day. because I have to, but herself and will sometimes I wouldn’t want to move I’d much rather speak to stop briefly to say hello. out of London and be one somebody face to face. And Marylebone High Street is of those people who has to I’m not into social media. one of those streets where catch three buses into the I’m not on Instagram people feel comfortable centre of town. I couldn’t or Facebook, none of being who they are. You can imagine living anywhere them. What worries me be exactly what you want to else. The countryside is is that kids won’t be able be. I just love this street. great for a day out. You go to interact soon. Their You do get used to to a country pub, have your social skills will be gone working outside in the dinner and come home and they won’t be able to cold weather. You just again. But I wouldn’t want talk. I know a girl who’s have to wrap up for it and to be stuck in the middle of had two operations on her be prepared. Saying that, nowhere. I can walk to the thumb caused by texting there were a couple of days end of my road and catch constantly on her phone. last winter when I could the 24 bus right into the That’s a new illness: mobile have cried. But then there’s West End. Lovely! phone thumb.

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mj_2019_volume15_03_Features_01.indd 19 24/05/2019 08:19 20. Silver screen SILV ER SCREEN Every Wednesday, the Regent Street Cinema presents an afternoon of celluloid classics, live music and dance, designed to give older patrons a chance to meet old friends, make new ones, and reminisce about how much better films used to be before they all got so loud and sweary. The Journal heads along to meet the staff and regulars INTERVIEWS: JEAN-PAUL AUBIN-PARVU IMAGES: ORLANDO GILI

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Lindsey Bowden dancers, all sorts of things, and they When you’re projecting a lamp Assistant programmer have wonderful tales to tell. through a piece of celluloid, you Matinee Classics, part of the are working with something that’s University of ’s Mark Laflin physically there. Yes, it gets dirty, community engagement Organist yes, it gets scratched, but you are programme, is a weekly event aimed You don’t often find these essentially projecting a photograph at the over-55s. We work with groups instruments in cinemas anymore, through a lamp powerful enough such as Age UK and Open Age to get so it’s wonderful to have the chance to blast it onto a big screen. In that the word out there about what we do. to perform here at Matinee Classics. sense it’s as high definition as you Social inclusion is so important for The original intention behind these can really go. the older generation, particularly instruments was to accompany silent Today we’re showing a 4K digital those living on their own, because films and to provide intermission restoration of a film. Next week it’s it has a real effect on the quality of music. It’s always a pleasure coming a 35mm that’s come from a bonded life. For some, this is their only social to this lovely venue because the warehouse in Middlesex, so we’ve activity of the week. They come building has been restored so had to arrange for it to be collected here and make friends—two of the beautifully. It has a special kind of and delivered to us. I then have to regulars have actually become a atmosphere and they always get a assemble it, check it on the bench, couple, which is lovely. good crowd in for these events. make sure it runs through and that We used to have just one screening If I was playing the organ in the sound and picture quality are as on a Wednesday, but it became so church, for example, performing a good as possible. We are very lucky popular that we added a second. piece of music by Bach or someone because our projectors are in really An organist performs a live prelude like that, then I’d play the music good condition. They are about before the 12pm screening, then exactly as it’s written on the dots. circa-1990, German made, very before the 3:30pm screening we have But with something like Matinee high end, and their mechanisms are a dance and movement workshop— Classics you decide what tunes really good. a mix of ballroom, high energy salsa you’re going to play and then make and whatever else Diana the dance your own arrangements. So, it’s Cindy Dawkins-Lloyd teacher cooks up for them. It really is quite individual. I love performing Regular great fun. Matinee Classics costs just music from the thirties and forties. I live in Dagenham but began life in £1.75, and for that they get the film, Gershwin always goes down well and Jamaica and have been coming to the dancing, plus a free tea or coffee. seems to get a good response from Matinee Classics every week for the I go onstage and introduce each this audience. last two years. I love the films, the screening, giving the audience both music and the dancing. I love this information on the film and gossipy David Winstanley beautiful cinema, the ambience and bits from the set. I always do lots of Technical manager the people. I get a joy from everyone. research to find out fun facts that Part of my role here involves being the The socialising is a very important they might not know. I’m a great projectionist. Unfortunately, 35mm part of it, and I’ve made lots of lover of these classic films. Gene film kind of died off when digital friends through coming here. Kelly is one of my absolute biggest came in. Digital is a much cheaper I have always loved dancing, but heroes and Ann Miller was another. way of sending films to cinemas, my late husband had bad knees And the chance to listen to our because 35mm is both bulky and and so couldn’t dance. When he regulars’ stories about when they very heavy. It’s a dying art in the sense passed away, I started going to were younger is a real bonus for me. that they’ve literally stripped 35mm a contemporary dance class in Some of them used to be actors and projectors out of most cinemas. Newham. I now have a dance partner

With 35mm film, you are working I love the films, the music and with something that’s physically the dancing. I love this beautiful there. Yes, it gets dirty, yes, it gets cinema, the ambience and the scratched, but you are essentially people. I get a joy from everyone. projecting a photograph through The socialising is a very important a lamp powerful enough to blast it part of it, and I’ve made lots of onto a big screen. In that sense it’s friends through coming here as high definition as you can go Cindy Dawkins-Lloyd, David Winstanley, regular technical manager

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Lindsey Bowden, assistant programmer

Mark Laflin, organist

Cindy Dawkins-Lloyd, regular

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Georgina Dugdale, bartender

Sue Cochrane, Victoria Mackie, regular regular

Paul Welden, Marianne Wells, regular front of house manager

The community that has grown out of this, the friendships that have been formed, it’s just absolutely heart-warming. I’m going to be 60 this year and have learnt a lot from these people about getting older. And it makes me smile and it gives me hope Marianne Wells, front of house manager

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and we do ballroom and Latin. university closed the humanities Life and Death, written, produced Dancing makes me feel happy and programmes. I needed to find and directed by Michael Powell and it helps me health wise because of something else, had quite a good Emeric Pressburger. all the exercise and movement. I go academic background in film and I also love to come here for the into a trance when I dance because I had worked at an independent art Heavenly Films night—I know feel so happy. I love the films, too. My house cinema when I was in grad lots of people from the music scene. favourite film star would have to be school back in the States, so when I I love the sixties and seventies, Greta Garbo. She had the wow factor. saw this job advertised, I just had to but my favourite act these days is get it. You could not imagine a nicer Saint Etienne. I have seen them loads Georgina Dugdale place to work or a nicer group of of times. Bartender people to work with. This is a great way to spend a Matinee Classics is my favourite Matinee Classics is everyone’s Wednesday. It’s almost like secret day to work and I think it’s the most favourite day to work. The cinema. It’s not like your local important thing we do. It’s just really community that has grown out Odeon with a big front. People walk lovely and very social—at Christmas of this, the friendships that have past the entrance and have no idea we even had a party. There are always been formed, it’s just absolutely it’s even here. new faces, but we have a core of heart-warming. I’m going to be 60 regulars who we’ve really got to know this year and have learnt a lot from Victoria Mackie and become friends with. One of these people about getting older. Regular them lives near me and we often go And it makes me smile and it gives I am Spanish but have been here in to galleries together. There is a me hope. Your life doesn’t have to England for many years and now lot of social isolation among the just shut down. There are things out live in Morden. I live on my own— elderly and a few of the people who there and communities out there nobody loves me, darling! I have come to Matinee Classics say that that are waiting for people to join been coming to Matinee Classics for we’re the first people they’ve spoken and be a part of that are friendly and a few months. I have about 600 films to that day. welcoming—and fun. at home, but still I come here for the I am an actor too, and a costume I am a big fan of classic films, atmosphere, the big screen and just designer in my spare time. I was in that’s where my heart lies—classic to get out into the city. a film called House of the Gorgon Hollywood and British Golden Age. Life is magnificent and I have many, that was recently shown at Regent I like Hollywood in the thirties. many interests, including painting and Street Cinema. It’s a homage to the Margaret Lockwood is horribly embroidery. I really enjoy the social Hammer horror films and featured underrated—she was just a genius. side of Matinee Classics, but I don’t lots of the actors from those movies I absolutely love that whole era, right do the dancing. I don’t see myself as including Christopher Neame, up until about 1970. In fact, I just love adequate for dancing. I like a wide Veronica Carlson, Martine Beswick film. It’s a real joy and a pleasure to variety of old films and adore Sophia and Caroline Munro, who’s actually be part of it. Loren, her character, her style and her my mum. She played Naomi in The beauty—she is a lady. Spy Who Loved Me and I believe was Paul Welden the first woman in history to have Regular Sue Cochrane been killed by James Bond. I’ve been coming to the Regent Regular Street Cinema since it reopened— I am from Canada originally but Marianne Wells this is one of my cinemas. I mainly have spent the past 48 years living Front of house manager like the old British films; I guess in London. I used to be an opera I used to be a lecturer until my my favourite would be A Matter of singer and performed pretty much

Matinee Classics is the most Life is magnificent and I have important thing we do. There is a many, many interests, including lot of social isolation among the painting and embroidery. I elderly and a few of the people really enjoy the social side of who come to Matinee Classics say Matinee Classics, but I don’t do that we’re the first people they’ve the dancing. I don’t see myself as spoken to that day adequate for dancing Georgina Dugdale, Victoria Mackie, bartender regular

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all over the world. I worked for about a year ago. Rose lives in A lot of the films these days are Glyndebourne Opera, Handel Palmers Green and I’m up in Kentish full of violence and I can’t hear Opera and was also in the old Town, so we meet at McDonald’s in the dialogue properly because D’Oyly Carte Opera Company until Camden Town and then come here. the actors don’t speak clearly it shut down in 1982. After being Rose: I am nearly 83 and saw the enough. The camera only stays on made redundant many of us landed films the first time around, and it’s the actor for a few seconds and is up in mainstream musicals, your the memories. There’s no violence constantly jumping around. Are the Rodgers and Hammerstein, Ivor or swearing in these films and it’s just cameramen on acid? Novello, that kind of thing. We did nice to sit and remember. I’m a big fan of classic films and panto, old time music hall, cruises, Dorothy: We get to meet people and love watching the Talking Pictures just anything and everything. It’s a it’s very sociable. There aren’t many TV channel. The older movies not very strange life. places where pensioners can go. only have that lovely message, but I come to Matinee Classics almost Some of them are indoors all day and the camera stays on the actor long every week for the films, the dancing, don’t see anybody. enough for them to actually act. I’m the socialising and the wonderful Rose: I can’t dance anymore, but I not really into war films, but my one staff who make us feel very welcome. used to before my partner died. We for the music and the outstanding There is a nucleus of regulars, the used to dance, jig about. We couldn’t photography would have to be Zulu. usual suspects if you like, and we do anything fancy. If it was fast, we’d I also love the films of David Lean form a sort of social group. You turn go fast; if it was slow, we’d go slow. and another favourite is the musical up on a Wednesday and within five Dorothy: We love all the old classic Oliver! with Ron Moody—I actually minutes you’ll find somebody you films. Last week we saw The Wizard met Lionel Bart very briefly years ago know. The pair of you will then strike of Oz. We like the love stories and the at the London Palladium. up a conversation with someone you musicals. I have seen The Sound of don’t know and the social network Music 13 times. John McIntyre expands. I now see some Rose: I hadn’t been to the cinema Regular of the regulars in other contexts, for a long time until I started coming I am here every Wednesday for example, going on outings. here. I’m a big fan of Gone With afternoon for Matinee Classics, but These events are great, because big The Wind and Calamity Jane. I like I also enjoy coming to other special cities can be the loneliest places in Robert Mitchum and Richard Todd. screenings. Officially I’m an old age the world. Dorothy: I like Tony Curtis, pensioner, but really I’m a jack of all I love the dancing here. I have Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable and trades—a bit of writing, producing a lot of stage experience in my Laurence Harvey. and acting. background, which has included Rose: My husband was a chauffeur I absolutely love coming here and various forms of dance, but I have for Laurence Harvey. love the range of films they show. never touched ballroom and Latin. Dorothy: And I like all the horrors Maybe it’s because I had a misspent This is completely new to me, but in with Vincent Price and Christopher middle age—I was busy managing my retirement I don’t want to repeat Lee. reggae and rock ‘n’ roll bands, so what I’ve already done, I want to try didn’t have much of a chance to new things. Gary Foster watch films or television. Now I’m First timer really enjoying seeing all the really Dorothy Zdanowicz & Rose Beasley I live on my own in Manor Park, east great films I missed. Regulars London. This is my first time here REGENT STREET CINEMA Dorothy: Rose and I are sisters and and it’s been fantastic. I love films, 307 Regent Street, W1B 2HW started coming to Matinee Classics but you need to be very selective. regentstreetcinema.com

With a lot of the films these day, I can’t hear the dialogue properly because the actors don’t speak clearly enough. The camera only stays on the actor for a few seconds and is constantly jumping around. Are the cameramen on acid? Gary Foster, regular

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Dorothy Zdanowicz and Rose Beasley, regulars

John McIntyre, Gary Foster, regular first timer

I absolutely love coming here. I am nearly 83 and saw the films Maybe it’s because I had a the first time around, and it’s the misspent middle age—I was busy memories. There’s no violence managing reggae and rock ‘n’ roll or swearing in these films and it’s bands. Now I’m really enjoying just nice to sit and remember seeing all the great films I missed Rose Beasley, John McIntyre, regular regular

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GILDED CAGE The strange story of John Elwes, a man whose vast wealth funded the building of much of Marylebone, but whose extreme miserliness trapped him in a life of dressing in rags and eating roadkill WORDS: GLYN BROWN ILLUSTRATIONS: MATTHEW HANCOCK

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You think money’s going to make you happy, don’t you? Maybe it already has, for now at least. Everyone needs enough to get by, of course—but maybe what you need is just enough. Fiction and fact alike are stuffed with stories of wealthy who have let cash mess with their heads, because money can be a mistress with a liking for monstrous, furious. An example of

S&M. There’s a lot of money in this how not to live. He loves French food and wines, particular story, but little happiness; Most of what we know about him but only if other people pay. just anguish almost revelled in. And comes from a long out-of-print book He’s obsessed with his only love; the worst of it is, the man in question by Edward Topham, a flamboyant, he gets up in the night to count had such potential for joy. elegant man, a journalist and an amount of five guineas, which Our anti-hero is John Elwes, playwright and friend of Elwes, he wraps in paper and hides in the tightwad on whom, it has been though they couldn’t have been his desk. He’s become Gollum suggested, may more different. You see a portrait —the emaciated body, the sad, have based his portrait of Ebeneezer of Topham—soigné, solid, pen in wracked face Scrooge. He was worth millions, but hand. Elwes, meanwhile, racked and effectively lived on roadkill and wore cadaverous. Topham, who made a what he could find or nick off tramps. pile from this biography, wanted to He built much of today’s Marylebone, show the best of Elwes, who could so but crawled about homeless between easily have lived Topham’s happy life, the stunning Georgian houses he and what exactly can go wrong. owned, dossing in the cold on any Our boy is born John Meggot, on empty floor. But he was also kind to 7th April 1714 in St James’s, growing people, so the Scrooge comparison up in Southwark. His father Robert doesn’t really hold up. With friends in is a brewer but a wealthy one; John’s need, he was ridiculously generous, grandfather Sir George Meggot was and too much of a gentleman to MP for Southwark. Robert dies when remind them that loans are usually John is four. John’s mother is Amy repaid. It was himself he was hardest Elwes, granddaughter of Sir Gervase on. You look at his face as time Elwes, a baronet and MP for Suffolk. passes. The marks of anxiety appear. Money all over the place. But Amy’s Furrowed brow and worry. As he ages mother, Lady Isabella Hervey, was a and resignation sets in, those lines well-known miser. I’ve hunted to see become rigid. Soon he does look where this accusation comes from

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year with this man, visiting regularly. Hervey asks him to change his name to Elwes, and dies in 1763, leaving all he’s got, worth more than £250,000 (about £18 million now), to his nephew. John Elwes walks into the big Suffolk house he now owns. The antique furniture is riddled with woodworm. Windows are cracked and papered over. Rain patters through family estate, which includes the roof onto the floor. He’s 49 and Park, a manor house in . is now seriously wealthly. Life has not John is sent to Westminster School. been bad: John has lived in London, A good classical scholar, he loves gambled with friends at his clubs. books—but, already touched by Topham describes his manners: “They self-denial, once he leaves school, he were such, so gentle, so attentive, so never reads again. But it’s early yet and gentlemanly and so engaging, that he’s still relatively normal. He’s bad rudeness could not ruffle them, nor at maths and his friends (such as the ingratitude break their observance.” young Lord Mansfield) borrow from Elwes has a “gallant disregard for his him remorselessly. He doesn’t mind. own person”. Even as an old man, From Westminster, he moves to apparently, he still “wished no one to , where he concentrates on his assist him—he could walk, he could horsemanship and becomes one of ride, he could dance, and he hoped the best riders in Europe. He meets he should not give trouble.” In fact, Voltaire, and many think he looks a he’s out hunting with Topham in his bit like the poet and philosopher: pale 70s when a companion, useless at and fine featured, good-natured and shooting, accidentally fires two pellets smiling. But Voltaire’s enlightened into his cheek. Blood everywhere. The attitude doesn’t touch him. According companion is distraught, but Elwes, to Edward Topham, “the horses in in pain but gritting his teeth, shrugs, the riding school he remembered “My dear sir, I give you joy on your much longer”. improvement. I knew you would hit something by and by.” Back in England, John at last meets So, what goes wrong? One, his his uncle, Sir Hervey Elwes, who lives, friends have taken advantage, never in his massive home in Suffolk, like paying back the money they owe him, an animal. John is going to be his so he starts to distrust people. Two, heir, since Hervey has no children. he’s spent too long sitting with Uncle Aged about 19 at this point, John Hervey. And three, he’s inherited and it’s mentioned in the notes for “dressed like other people”. This is not treacherous genes. He begins to the diary of her brother, John Hervey, acceptable to Hervery, so John learns watch what he spends on himself, 1st Earl of Bristol. The evidence if to stop at an inn on the way and change and that habit slowly takes control. any, I suppose, comes in the fact that into the ragged stockings and tattered Soon, he’s travelling everywhere Isabella had four children; two died waistcoat his uncle prefers. They sit in on horseback, never in a carriage. fairly young and the remaining two the freezing, echoing drawing room, Overnight journey? He puts two hard- were Hervey Elwes, a miser of dastardly watching a single stick of firewood boiled eggs in his coat pocket and any proportions, and Amy. It seems burn, sharing a glass of wine—a bits of bread he can find, and at night there’s a neurotic, even paranoid gene sip for you, a sip for me. People are sleeps under a hedge. running rampant here because, her disgusting, Hervey insists, for wasting No one quite realises what’s brewer husband dying, Amy reverts things. Aren’t they? The boy nods. happening. But then his nephew, his to what her mother perhaps told her You don’t want much to eat, do you? sister’s son, comes to stay at Stoke. was right, refusing to pay for food, Jack shakes his head. Hervey was The nephew wakes in the night to and starves herself to death, leaving consumptive as a child; hidden away, find he’s getting rained on. He moves two small children, John and his sister he made no friends, became timid and the bed again and again, finally finds (never named). Amy had just inherited shy, then became a hermit, scared of an intact patch of ceiling and falls £100,000 (roughly £8 million now) people; according to Topham, he was asleep exhausted. At breakfast, he from Robert. John Meggot, now five “vegetation in a human shape”. Funny tells his uncle. Says Elwes, “I don’t or six, is left all that money, plus the but dreadful. Jack spends year after mind being wet myself, but for those

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London, he blossoms pathetically— stretches his hands toward the fire, squints like an owl in the glowing candlelight. He has a cultured palate, loves French food and wines, but only if other people pay for them. Otherwise he just gazes, watching them eat. Sketches of him in parliament show a handsome man, but now his appearance goes downhill. In Suffolk, he snatches half a moorhen off a rat and chomps it; he eats a half-digested pike he finds by the river. His servants are ashamed and embarrassed. He’s more and more obsessed with his only love; he begins to get up in the night and count an amount of five guineas, which he wraps in paper and hides in his desk. He’s become Gollum—the emaciated body, the sad, wracked face. who do, that’s a nice corner, isn’t it?” When he becomes briefly

There’s an Addams Family feel to ill, Topham gets him to write a Often, he walks home in the rain, this. Elwes offers a hungry friend a will, leaving everything to his then sits in wet clothes because piece of crushed pancake that’s been two illegitimate sons. A doctor is a fire to dry them costs money. in his pocket for two months. astonished; Elwes is strong because He starts to eat putrid meat. By now, he has two sons by he walks everywhere, and with no He finds a wig in a bush, dropped Elizabeth Moren, his Berkshire excess weight he has no gout. If his by a beggar, and wears it. housekeeper. He loves John and mind wasn’t broken, he could live People laugh George, but won’t let them be into his nineties. But it is. Within educated—that would put “ideas in months, he’s lost the last of his their heads”. Often, he walks home his properties is currently empty. marbles. He sleeps in his coat, shoes in the rain, then sits in wet clothes Really empty: each has a few chairs, and old torn hat, with his walking because a fire to dry them costs sometimes a table. He’ll sit in a new stick. On 26th November 1789, at money. He starts to eat putrid meat. mansion on Great Marlborough 75, he asks his son if he has “left him He finds a wig in a bush, dropped by Street, make a fire with woodchips what he wished”. And then he dies. a beggar, and wears it. People laugh. left by the carpenters, stick oiled I’m looking up the psychology of Meanwhile, he ponders London, paper in the windows, sleep on a the miser. A person trapped in a cage where he can still sometimes be pallet of straw. At dusk, he’ll go to of fear who can’t give money or deep happy. He gets in touch with visionary bed—that saves a candle. love, and is terrified of loss of control. architects the Adam brothers, and Superficial, but that could be a boy finances Robert Adam to begin And then something happens to who loses a genial father at four, and building Portland Place, constructed occupy his mind. At 60, Elwes is elected a mad, broken mother at six. speculatively in the hope of attracting as an independent MP for Berkshire. I don’t care. Having got this far, buyers. They decide on a slimmed It’s a halcyon 15 years, when somehow I’ve lost patience with him. It’s not down version of the aristocratic style the weight of money is pushed back. as if he’d once been poor and been used in grand houses. Portman He’s utterly upright, accepting no thrifty out of necessity. I look at that Square is erected, along with the backhanders, refusing a peerage, parliament illustration of him again, riding-houses and stables for the Life taking no income. He still dresses like that handsome face, and want to Guards, at the time headquartered a tramp—people give him money slap it. The point of money, once EVENT SPACES REIMAGINED both in Knightsbridge and here. The in the street thinking he is one. But you have enough, is surely to try to project becomes huge. It’s likely Elwes he attends meetings, sits in clubs do good with it. Elwes did construct is also the source of the money behind discussing affairs of government, exquisite buildings, though only the building of Devonshire Street, makes wise decisions. He absolutely for investment. But what I think we Weymouth Street, Quebec Street, reeks, but he smiles and seems happy. should all do now is take a walk down parts of Harley Street, and Baker The moment he’s retired from Welbeck Street, think of him, then Street. Without Elwes, it’s uncertain politics, though, he begins to starve go and buy ourselves or someone else the Marylebone we know would exist. himself and sit in the dark again. something silly, just for the hell of it. And when he visits London When parliamentary friends invite Doesn’t have to be big. But it has to now, he simply kips in whichever of him to the Mount Coffeehouse in be done.

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mj_2019_volume15_03_Features_01.indd 34 24/05/2019 08:20 35. The Peter principle After 18 years, The Providores and Tapa Room is saying a fond farewell—but its legacy will live on through the many stellar chefs who learnt their craft alongside Peter Gordon. So, what was it that made his kitchen a staging post on the way to success?

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Michael McGrath (left) and Peter Gordon

“They call him The Godfather... of doors will close for the last time as

fusion,” says Anna Hansen. But while Peter and Michael move on to new I’ve always viewed us as she does so with a smile and a comic lives and projects—but the legacy egalitarian—more of a family pause, her acknowledgement of Peter of The Providores lives on. Look restaurant, really. You have to Gordon’s influence could not be around London’s food scene and it’s do the job—you can’t be a slack- more genuine. As the executive chef impossible not to see, taste and smell arse—but we’re a family here. of Clerkenwell’s acclaimed fusion the impact of Peter Gordon. There’s We all muck in together restaurant The Modern Pantry and the rising popularity of fusion Peter Gordon a women who, alongside Peter, was generally (“though rarely in the way one of the founding partners of Peter does it,” says Anna, loyally)— The Providores and Tapa Room, but perhaps most importantly, she knows better than most the role there’s the staggering list of alumni her friend and former colleague who have passed through his played in making their shared style kitchen: Hamish Brown of Roka, of food—a considered cacophony Miles Kirby of Caravan, Moondog of techniques and ingredients from (yes, really) of Spiritland, Selin across the globe—popular. “Peter Kiazim of modern Turkish-Cypriot reinvented the wheel with his food,” joints Kyseri and Oklava—not to she continues, “and he believed in mention Brad Farmerie of Public me. That is everything. Peter by across the pond in New York. nature wanted the people he worked “We’ve had some extraordinary with to thrive and to succeed.” people,” says Peter, failing, For the past 18 years, since with characteristic modesty, Anna, Peter and their co-founder to acknowledge either his own Michael McGrath first opened up on role in contributing towards this Marylebone High Street, that success ‘extraordinariness’, or his knack for has proved palpable both inside attracting it. Fortunately, Michael is and outside the restaurant. Come there to compensate both for Peter’s the end of July, the restaurant’s lack of vanity, and the jet lag a recent

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Anna remembers. Again, it felt food scene is sociable, centred on

like family. quality and inclusivity. Their food Peter and Michael are living proof One of the most powerful is by geographical and historical that you don’t have to be nasty to testaments to the strength and necessity a combination of Asian be successful. The fact that they inclusivity of Peter’s kitchen has and western flavours. Famously, they created a restaurant that was a been his friendships: pretty much were brunching on avocadoes before wonderful place to work as well as everyone who has worked at either brunching or avos were even a eat doesn’t get the credit it should The Providores remains in touch. thing. Selin Kiazim “I remember in the early days of The Providores has acted as what Caravan, Miles, who was head chef Peter calls “a staging post” for aspiring here for eight years, ringing me up chefs from New Zealand looking to and saying, ‘I just want to thank you cook in London. “A lot of these young for the way you led your kitchen and Kiwis coming to the UK wouldn’t taught your staff. I understand now,’” have had the confidence to go into Peter remembers. “We treat people Michelin-starred kitchens.” Now, well, be they head chef or dishwasher. they’re going off into the world armed I’ll help wash the floors if everyone with a solid understanding of Peter’s else is busy. We work as a team.” approach to cooking. “I have given In an industry known for its churn, them freedom of expression—but The Providores’ staff retention has I think what people learned when it been unusual: Miles, for example, came to our kitchen was that fusion worked there for eight years; their is a discipline. You can’t just shove bookkeeper, JJ, has been there for random things together on a plate.” 16. “We don’t see it as a constant “Your combinations are stream of cheap staff. It’s beneficial instinctive,” says Michael loyally. for businesses to keep people,” says “Ultimately, when a chef puts Michael. JJ joined as a dishwasher different flavours together, they have back in 2003. When asked what to know if it is good or dreadful; when he wanted to do with his life, he it works and when it doesn’t.” Peter’s said accountancy, “so we helped protegees owe him a great deal, trip to New Zealand has landed him him get training, and now he’s our but their styles and sensibilities are with. “We have been a magnet for bookkeeper.” They aren’t the only unique to them—as is their food, be great people,” he says, “and a lot of restauranteurs to have invested in it sushi, fusion or modern Turkish. that is to do with Peter.” their staff—indeed, conditions have “When you started, people were When The Providores and Tapa improved considerably across the determined to put a name to what Room first opened in 2001, Gordon industry in the past few years—but you did—to put it into a box,” Michael Ramsay’s Boiling Point miniseries their sense of fairness and equality says, turning to Peter. “But people was still a talking point, exposing as of opportunity was certainly ahead care less about labels now. You can it did the extraordinary pressure and of the game. call it Pacific rim. You can call macho culture of high-end restaurant In part, it’s probably a New Zealand it fusion. But it is your food.” kitchens. “Hotel kitchens were such thing—a thought I dismiss at first, Marylebone—and indeed London a strong force in the 20th century, wary as I am of subscribing to ideas —is lucky to have had it for so long. and they were run like armies: huge around ‘national character’. Yet lines of chefs saying, ‘Yes sir, no sir.’ when Miles, Hamish and Anna all Selin Kiazim I think a lot of chefs came from that ascribe The Providores’ collaborative, Oklava and Kyseri environment,” muses Michael. “Peter can-do spirit to Kiwiness, I can’t help I remember the first thing I put in never operated like that. Anna never but ask Peter and Michael how their my mouth at The Providores: a betel operated like that.” native country has influenced their leaf with tender pork trim, shrimp “I’ve always viewed us as philosophy. “It’s that slightly more paste, tamarillo, crispy shallots and egalitarian—more of a family relaxed approach, combined with garlic. I thought, I want to work here restaurant, really,” says Peter. the confidence of thinking, I can do immediately. It was a damascene “You have to do the job—you can’t that!” says Michael. “Entrepreneurial, conversion. This was the food I loved. be a slack-arse—but we’re a family but easy-going—with talent,” adds At the time, I’d just finished here. We all muck in together.” In Peter. It’s not about where you’re catering college. Peter asked me to 2016, Peter and Michael celebrated from—after all, Selin is second come in for a trial and when I arrived, 15 years of The Providores with a generation Turkish-Cypriot, yet they sang out to me from downstairs dinner cooked by a team of alumni. she’s one of Peter Gordon’s proudest in the kitchen. Peter and Michael are “We cooked dinner with Selin, Miles, graduates—but there’s a common living proof that you don’t have to be Brad, Peter—it was a huge reunion,” consensus that New Zealand’s nasty to be successful. The fact that

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wonderful place to work as well as Peter was an amazing mentor: you There was an expectation that you eat still does not get the credit that it could always catch a word with would always do nothing but your should. I wanted to work with Peter him and ask some advice. He is best, but there was also support to not just for his creativity, but for the the person who discovered fusion make sure you did. The whole team support he gives. He’s so nice, you food, basically, and he is the single was built around camaraderie and want to please him, and that filters biggest influence on me I thrived in that environment down through the whole kitchen. Moondog Miles Kirby Cooking with Peter taught me to be completely fearless. Nothing sounds odd to me as a flavour combination—at The Providores I saw the impossible come to life. That makes your mind work in different ways, and even though I draw upon a lot of traditional dishes and methods in my restaurants, I think, what is the thing that will make it different, that no one else has thought of before? The other thing I learnt was how to balance a dish: to create levels and textures. There is a dish that comes on and off the menu at Oklava that demonstrates this. The Turkish element is the monkfish chargrilled over coals, with Turkish urfa chilli. I add bitter orange caramel, honey, soy, olive oil and a hint of fish sauce. I serve it with a blood orange and coriander salad. That is probably the epitome of At The Providores I learnt that especially coming from someone the food I cooked at The Providores while a kitchen can be stressful, it can called Moondog who walks around meeting the food I cook today. also be fun. Running a restaurant is barefoot—but I believe this sort of The Providores has been an about being firm but fair. You could unity comes through in the food. incubator for good chefs because they have a laugh, but at the end of the created a good place to work—and day Peter was the boss. Today, at Miles Kirby they have never been afraid to do Spiritland, that’s how I run things: no Caravan their own thing. one calls each other chef—we have The moment I arrived at The names—and I encourage my staff to Providores I knew it was the perfect fit Moondog be creative. There’s no divide between for my personality. I’ve never tolerated Spiritland front and back of house, no yelling or people who are unreasonable, shouty, When I was at The Providores it was screaming. The Providores instilled mean or bullying. That behaviour the dream team: Hamish, Anna, that in me. happens in certain kitchens, and Miles, Selin. I think that’s why I stayed When I came to create the menu I’ve done my darndest to avoid them. so long—I was there for nine years. for Spiritland, I sat down with Peter. What I didn’t know was how much fun It was a really beautiful, I wanted to chat about the fact that it would be. There was an expectation encouraging place. You’d make there would be some crossover, that you would always do nothing but something and Peter would taste because I learned so much from him. your best, but there was also support it and say, “Add this”—and he’d be He said, “That’s wonderful. Just as to make sure you did. The whole team right. You’d make something like long as you don’t put Turkish eggs or was built around camaraderie and I smoked strawberries and it would go scallops with crème fraiche and sweet thrived in that environment. It was terribly wrong, and he’d say, “Well, chilli on the menu.” a step up from anywhere I’d worked you tried. That’s how we learn.” He At the end of the day, Miles, before in terms of professionalism, was an amazing mentor: you could Selin, Hamish and I went to the and I loved it. always catch a word with him and ask same school. I helped Miles at I joined The Providores at the some advice. Peter is the person who Caravan. I helped Selin in her end of 2001 as chef de partie, just discovered fusion food, basically, first pop-ups. We laugh and talk after it opened. In my first week and he is the single biggest influence and make food and bounce off in Peter’s kitchen everything I on me. each other. I know it’s hippy-ish— tasted—absolutely everything—

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Anna Hansen The Modern Pantry People think that fusion is having a restaurant where you cook both Italian and Indian food, or where you do a classic French dish using lemongrass. That’s not what it is for Peter. He doesn’t set out to cook an Indian dish ‘with a twist’—he reinvents the wheel. What I love, and what I think Peter loves, about fusion is that it is individual and creative. What he cooks and what I cook will be completely different, even if we have the same ingredients. We have our own styles. Our way of being in the kitchen was pioneering—but I don’t think I knew that at the time. Peter was only the second chef I’d ever worked with in Britain and before that I was with Margot and Fergus Henderson who were equally cool, relaxed and friendly. They were part of a small group of chefs heralding a new era of running kitchens. For them, it wasn’t about killing yourself over Michelin stars. It was about working together to make food that was good and interesting. We did work ridiculous hours, often— but we did so by choice, because we all blew me away. Being from New wanted to thrive and succeed.

Zealand there were a lot of We had so much fun doing The The time I spent with Peter was ingredients I was familiar with, but Providores. When it was time to invaluable. He believes in people, I was still mesmerised. I loved the work, it was time to work, but we and I think the effect you can see British inspired Bottomless Brunch unapologetic, unrelenting pursuit had a joke, listened to music, and we around London is because of that of flavour—heat, salt, acidity. worked together, although it wasn’t Anna Hansen Though there’s a balance that needs always easy. It was the first time any From garden to table The Montagu Kitchen Sunday Brunch brings you a seasonal to be mastered, of course—there’s of us had opened a restaurant before British feast of flavours inspired by Chartwell Gardens in Kent– Winston Churchill’s nothing worse than someone saying, and it was a massive undertaking. “Can you tone it down a bit?” It was a good experience to have illustrious former residence. From British classics to vegan options, guests can indulge I do think the culture of New had when it came to opening The in bottomless homemade dishes, desserts, Champagne and a selection of wines. Zealand is reflected in The Modern Pantry—though that was a Providores—multiculturalism, different challenge. This time I was Brunch is served every Sunday: 12:30pm – 3:00pm humility, communication—and I’ve doing everything on my own. strived to create that at Caravan. The time I spent with Peter was For more information visit: www.themontagukitchen.co.uk We have an open forum in which In Caravan I wanted some of the invaluable. He believes in people, everyone can have their say on vibe of the Tapa Room. I loved the and I think the effect you can see T: +44 (0) 20 7299 2037 | E: [email protected] how we can improve. That’s very sharing small plates. We call ours around London is because of that. New Zealand. A sense of collective ‘well-travelled cuisine’: anything goes, He’s a unique human being who has responsibility is what makes as long as it is a true representation touched the lives of thousands of kitchens great. of something I’ve tried elsewhere in people, inside and outside the world Setting up Caravan was never the world. I wouldn’t say it’s fusion. of food. He is also a very clever man. about leaving The Providores. I think Peter really owns that space The only chef who can touch him It was about going back to my and I don’t want to copy him. But in for creativity and kindness is Yotam friends, Laura and Chris, who I’d the pursuit of flavour, of excellent Ottolenghi—and he is good friends met in Wellington 25 years ago. In relationships with suppliers and with Peter, so he must be okay. 30 Portman Square, London, W1H 7BH 2009 we felt like we’d all earned our in terms of vibe inside and outside T: +44 (0) 20 7299 2037 | E: [email protected] THE PROVIDORES AND TAPA ROOM stripes and could pursue our dream the kitchen, we definitely have 109 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4RX #themontagukitchen | www.themontagurestaurant.co.uk of having our own restaurant. similarities. theprovidores.co.uk

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Twenty-five years ago, Rwanda was torn apart by an AFTER explosion of genocidal violence—and for many people in the UK, that was when perceptions of the country became THE permanently set. The Journal visits the Rwandan High Commission to hear about the efforts being made to DELUGE reshape our impressions of one of Africa’s most beautiful and fascinating countries WORDS: JEAN-PAUL AUBIN-PARVU PORTRAIT: CHRISTOPHER L PROCTOR

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It was 25 years ago, in April 1994, that from it and are no longer in conflict the paradise of Rwanda—a country with ourselves. We are still healing— blessed with staggering natural that is not over, the healing process beauty—turned into a living hell. continues—but we are a reconciled Over the course of just 100 days, nation, a unified nation and a nation it is estimated that over a million that is trying to ensure that we never Rwandese people, mainly from the go back to what we experienced.” Tutsi ethnic group but also including many moderate Hutus, were The weight of this recent history has butchered by the forces unleashed by shaped the role of the Rwandan High a genocidal Hutu regime, while the Commission on Seymour Place.

United Nations hurriedly withdrew As you’d expect, its key functions We try to educate our audiences its peacekeeping force and the world include offering the usual range of about how we even got to the stood impotently by. consular services, as well as working troubles that produced the For most of us in the UK, our to strengthen bilateral relations with Genocide Against the Tutsi. perceptions of Rwanda have been the UK and Republic of Ireland, but There was a clear journey that entirely shaped by that short-lived but what sets it apart from most other led to the genocide and also a shocking explosion of violence, known embassies and high commissions is clear journey that took us away formally as the Genocide Against the the degree to which it is so actively from the abyss. We’ve travelled Tutsi, the seeds of which were sown involved in promoting Rwanda and the two extremes during Rwanda’s colonial era, when trying to change perceptions of both the region’s ethnic divisions were the past and the present. “At the high promoted and exploited by European commission, we try to educate our colonisers. But the horrific events of audiences about how far Rwanda has 1994 are only part of Rwanda’s story. In travelled since 1994, but also about barely a quarter of a century—despite how we even got to the troubles that the depth of the trauma, despite the produced the Genocide Against survivors’ inheritance of a stagnated the Tutsi, so there’s the historical economy, crippling inflation and perspective to explain. It didn’t prisons full of genocide suspects—this just happen. There was a very clear small east African nation has somehow journey that led to the genocide and seen 35 million times per day around found ways of gradually healing itself. also a very clear journey that took us the world. Visit Rwanda also gains Survivors and perpetrators have away from the abyss. We’ve travelled global exposure through branding come together through a journey of the two extremes.” on matchday LED boards, interview reconciliation, and communities have One high-profile example of the backdrops and stadium tours, and by been rebuilt and strengthened. Along high commission’s promotional work engaging Arsenal fans around the with its incredible natural beauty, is the Visit Rwanda partnership with world through the club’s social media biodiversity and wildlife, Rwanda Arsenal football club. Launched channels—for example, with videos of now pulses with energy, creativity at the start of the current football Arsenal legends Lauren and Alex Scott and innovation. Yet I only really know season, this three-year project aims getting up close and personal with the about the genocide. to increase tourism, investment and Rwandan mountain gorillas on a trip “That is very typical,” says Her football development in Rwanda. “As during Kwita Izina, the annual gorilla- Excellency Yamina Karitanyi, high a country, we have to come up with naming ceremony. The Arsenal deal commissioner for the Republic of innovative ways to market ourselves also presents an opportunity for Rwanda to the UK and non-resident as a place to visit,” says Yamina. “The Rwandan officials to engage with the ambassador for Rwanda to Ireland. Arsenal deal is one of many initiatives club’s top tier sponsors. “It’s beyond “And we understand and appreciate designed to ensure our voice is heard. tourism: we want to tap into the circles that, because it was a point in history It’s still early in the process, but we that Arsenal has, for them to explore that questioned humanity.” With know it’s already successful in the business opportunities in Rwanda.” Rwanda now striding confidently into sense that people who only know The partnership will see Arsenal’s the future, you might imagine there’d Rwanda as a genocide-torn country training staff host coaching camps be a reluctance to dwell too much on are now clicking on the website to out in Rwanda, to support the such a harrowing past, but Yamina try to understand why Arsenal is development of the game for boys is unflinchingly open in discussing partnering with Visit Rwanda.” and girls. Football, the country’s it. “Honestly, we don’t shy away from Rwanda is Arsenal’s official most popular sport, is playing a that history,” she says. “In fact, we tourism partner and the club’s first crucial role in the nation’s journey are often told that we overdo it. The ever shirt sleeve partner—which of reconciliation. Many of the reason we’re not shy about talking means the new Visit Rwanda logo young people reached by football about it is because we’ve emerged features on the sleeve of a shirt that is organisations in Rwanda are

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Her Excellency Yamina Karitanyi, high commissioner for the Republic of Rwanda

orphans of the genocide or children mountain rainforests, sweeping plains and youth empowerment. We protect of perpetrators and exiles. The and breath-taking lakes, Rwanda’s the wildlife as much as the population, government believes that football three national parks are teeming reducing human-wildlife conflict, can create bonds, build self-esteem with wildlife. “We have about a third giving back 10 per cent of tourism and engender a sense of belonging. of Africa’s bird species in Rwanda. receipts to the population living “Sport is a unifier,” says Yamina. “We We also have the Big Five, having around the national parks so that have used it to bring communities reintroduced lions and rhinos in the they protect wildlife. There are many together and to heal the nation.” past five years, which are thriving.” things we’ve done that would make Successfully encouraging And there’s good news too for the organisations such as Arsenal want to Europeans to visit Rwanda has both a famous mountain gorillas, which partner Rwanda. It’s a good story.” reputational impact and an economic are thankfully no longer critically And it’s a story that Yamina is one. Tourism is Rwanda’s largest endangered. “It’s a great testament to particularly keen to share with young foreign exchange earner, and it’s easy our efforts in conservation. The fact audiences, by accepting invitations to to see why: with its rich culture and that you have former poachers who are speak at schools and universities. “I heritage, the country is fast becoming now guides and proud to tell visitors like to speak to young ones, because a destination for safari, nature hiking, how they are now playing a positive that’s where it starts,” she says. “If bird watching and even professional role in protecting the environment is you can empower their minds into cycling. You can trek up the wonderful. That’s one of the stories understanding what is possible, they mountains to visit the gorillas, gaze that for me summarises the principles thrive. I think for countries such as at the magnificent Isumo waterfalls, that Rwanda carries forward.” the UK, that are safe, secure and creep along a walkway high above the Rwanda’s impressive progress wealthy, some can take things for rainforest canopy or explore Lake in recent years may explain why granted. The Genocide Against the Kivu by kayak. Arsenal are so keen to be associated Tutsi isn’t on school curriculums, but “Rwanda is a beautiful country,” with the nation. “We have the I think it should be, because it’s the says Yamina. “I call it ‘little Africa’, highest representation of females in most recent genocide. The young because you find everything that you parliament in the world, 61 per cent. influencers, the leaders of tomorrow, would in any of the other countries.” According to the World Economic should be made aware of it.” Abundantly rich in biodiversity, with Forum, we are the safest country in The Rwandan High Commission landscapes including volcanoes, Africa. There is equal pay for women, hosts fortnightly cultural sessions

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aimed at young Rwandans living with survivors and perpetrators

in the UK. “A significant number sitting together, agreeing to embrace A significant number of our of our diaspora have children who and say: ‘The past is the past. We diaspora have children who may may not have experienced Rwanda,” will now have to walk together to not have experienced Rwanda. says Yamina. “It’s important that we rebuild our country.’ But you need a It’s important that we teach teach them the culture, language coordinating and convincing angle them how to tell the stories of and dances. We teach them the good to have a survivor agree to sit with a Rwanda, including the story values of being a Rwandan and how perpetrator—it doesn’t just happen of the genocide, but also about to carry themselves in society; how to naturally. You need the right kind of what Rwanda signifies today tell the stories of Rwanda, including leadership; one that is caring enough Urgent the story of the genocide, but also to want to lift people out of poverty, about what Rwanda signifies today out of pain, and take them to a better so they are proud citizens and not place. We were blessed to have that ashamed of that genocide stigma kind of leadership right when we that is part of our history.” needed it.” Forging a sense of community is also an aim of the quarterly cultural Reconciliation has, inevitably, been evenings held for parents and their difficult and painful—a journey of Care Centre children. “Sometimes living away confession and forgiveness, one that from home you get lonely, depressed, according to Yamina required a return times may be hard. We always try to to Rwanda’s traditional, pre-colonial help where we can. It could be just system of administering justice. “We by listening to them. 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You can’t keep them all in what happened, we also speak of where 8.00am-10.00pm like so many Rwandans, born in exile jail—for how long? And some of them we are today. It is a story of renewal.” from her home country. Her early were well educated men and women I am curious to discover just what childhood was spent in former Zaire, who could help rebuild the country. Rwanda means to Yamina—not Open 365 days a year now the Democratic Republic of So, we decided that in the spirit of as high commissioner, but to her Congo, her parents having both been unity, we would only punish the personally. “For me Rwanda is a gift, forced to leave Rwanda during the masterminds, the ringleaders, because because I finally have this country that early 1960s in order to continue their the others were, in a sense, also I know wants me and loves me. And No appointment needed education, during one of the many victims—as long as they were willing to I’m not persecuted. 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Their moved to South Africa, then to the the 25th anniversary of the genocide daily prayer is: ‘God, make mummy’s US and finally back to Rwanda after by holding a commemoration service work finish so we can go home.’ I think Just walk in many, many years.” at St Marylebone Parish Church. “The it’s wonderful that they have that sense What she witnessed on her Rwandan diaspora, friends of Rwanda, of belonging and are proud of where www.urgentcarecentre.co.uk return, as Rwanda’s people sought to MPs, members of the House of Lords they come from. 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difference there is that everything in New Orleans Picasso reinvented himself is walkable. It’s a far more numerous times, and every manageable city. time he did he had a new

affair and a muse who would Which city inspires you set him alight and help him most, would you say? create. He was abusive: Not that we’re biased... an emotional vampire New Orleans is the place that treated women as that inspires me the most. goddesses, then doormats I see a level of musicianship that floors me, it is so amazing. I mean, sure London has hotel bars, Ronnie Scott’s, but there How did you come to and neighbours, as West isn’t really anything to be involved with the London Mission has, is a parallel the vibe in New Marylebone Music great thing. Orleans, where you just Festival? stumble onto these patches A few years ago, the You grew up in London, of greatness; where the QA festival’s founder, Meghan but today you and you only bar for anyone playing Cassidy, asked me to play husband split your music is that it has to be music from my Somebody’s time between here, fantastic; where there is no Child album in the Los Angeles and New pose or pretention, just a Wallace Collection as part Orleans. What’s it like love for music. JUDITH OWEN of the festival. Imagine living between such it, playing on a grand different cities? Your husband is actor One of the stars of piano, surrounded by Old Having grown up in Harry Shearer, of Spinal the Marylebone Masters. I was like, good London, I am used to a Tap and The Simpsons Music Festival on god—this is incredible! city where I am constantly fame. How do you sustain I love these people! And inspired. I’m in love with a busy, showbiz marriage? the draw of New my involvement with the the arts and everything I actually think it is harder Orleans, Picasso’s festival has just grown they bring to our lives, to be married to someone forgotten women since. I love the charity and the idea of being not in the business—who and why nothing in they support, West London somewhere I can’t access doesn’t understand and Mission, and all they do for that is very hard indeed. ends up being the one left life is ever simple the homeless. London is One of the reasons moving behind while you’re on the INTERVIEW: CLARE FINNEY in a complete state at the to the States was so tough road the whole time. You moment when it comes at first was that we started get to do the true love of to homelessness—it’s an off in Santa Monica, in LA. your life, your work, and the offence to society and Of course the sea and the other person is just... left. humanity, frankly, and beach was nice, and I like You either have to marry anything you can do, you hiking and rafting, but someone who really, truly should do. So of course it’s not what inspires me. understands the nature of I immediately agreed to My sister lives in southern the business, or someone play again this year [on Ireland and it feeds her who is doing it themselves. 20th June at the Rudolph soul, but I am a city girl. I know this all too well Steiner Theatre]. I really New Orleans and London because my dad was an hope people will come are both just throbbing opera singer at the Royal down and support—not with life, and I love that. Opera House in Covent just because it should be I’m out every night in Garden, and worked an extraordinary evening London, seeing friends around the clock, and it was but because of the cause for dinner, theatre, dance, very lonely for my mother. behind it. We all know classical music—and when To be married to someone how easy it is to become I’m in New Orleans, it’s in the business, you have to faceless and nameless the same thing. Both cities either meet on the road or in London, so to create share that mentality of really schedule your time to a community that cares wanting to savour all there make sure you’re together about its neighbourhood is to offer, and the only as much as possible. I

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think Harry and I have a listening to my covers to behind great artists— good balance because we discover all sorts of new usually women, because I have a deep-rooted understand this, and we things. of the way society has been dislike of bland, support each other and structured. Historically, the personality-less covers. each other’s work. You’ve written eloquently women behind Wagner, I was in a bar the other about your musical Strauss, Mahler and the night and heard a cover of Your recent tour to dyslexia. How has that great painters like Picasso Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke, promote your album informed your ability to were themselves often and it was the lamest, RedisCOVERed was create exceptional covers, talented artists, but they whitest thing I have ever subtitled ‘I don’t do do you think? ended up having to take heard. Just: why? karaoke’. What did you The first time my family a back seat. I like to know mean by the phrase? realised I had a talent for what makes people write, It’s quite simple really: as music, I was four years old paint and perform. I am a singer-songwriter and and my sister was playing fascinated by artists and storyteller, I have always the piano—a lovely by their muses—and done my own thing. Even piece by Debussy. I the more I read about when doing covers of songs, crawled onto the stool Picasso’s women and I’ve done my own version. I to try to copy her and his art, the more I was have a deep-rooted dislike whilst it wasn’t right, compelled to write of bland, personality-less of course, it was close something. Picasso covers, without any new enough for my family reinvented himself perspective. I was in a bar to say, “She’s got the numerous times the other night, and heard genes!” Yet the moment during his career, and a cover of Stevie Wonder’s they put music in front every time he did he Sir Duke, and it was the of me everything went had a new affair and lamest, whitest thing I to hell in a handbasket. a muse who would have ever heard. Just: why? I cannot see music— it’s set him alight and And to one of the funkiest just wiggles to me—but help him create. It God-given talents in the that worked in my favour was fascinating and world, of all people? If you because I did everything shocking, even painful haven’t got a new angle to by ear and that allowed playing a song cycle and a at times, because he was bring to a song, if you don’t me to be left alone really. I theatrical piece I’ve written abusive: an emotional personalise it and take it spent my time writing and about Picasso’s women. I vampire that treated somewhere, then don’t playing. I taught myself will be telling the story of women as goddesses, then bother. So when I came to how to ‘write’ music by each of those women who doormats. But I think all tour my album, I came up hearing songs or classical were famously the muses art comes at a great price with ‘I don’t do karaoke’: music, sitting at the piano for the look and style of if not to the artist then to it’s irreverent, funny and and doing my own version: Picasso’s paintings, and the people around them, facetious. their music, but in my each of the stories will be and these were not second- style. Then, when I was followed by a song, which place women. They were How did you manage struggling to be an actress will take you into the world remarkable in their own that? in London, I gigged in the of that story and continue right—and the brilliant With all of the songs on evenings, playing the piano it. It’s like two pieces of irony is of course that RedisCOVERed I want and singing for four, five a puzzle, I suppose. At they’ve been immortalised the listener to initially feel hours at a stretch wherever present, I’ve a couple in spite of it all. You’re like they are hearing them I could. Obviously because more songs to finish—and looking at them every time for the first time—at least I couldn’t read music, I had I’m excited. I’ve literally you look at a Picasso canvas. until they get to chorus. to learn any tune that might never done something Then I want them to think be requested by heart— like this, and I’m proud of In an age where we are they know the song, that and as I went, I rearranged this music. It is beautiful, increasingly aware of they’ve heard it—and pieces and made them theatrical and seductive, as toxic masculinity, this for the meaning to be my own. was the man. As, of course, piece seems particularly just turned on its head. were the women. pertinent. Where do you When I am doing a cover, Tell us about the new stand on the separation I absolutely reimagine collection of songs What drew you to between art and artist? them. It’s something I you’ll be debuting at the Picasso’s women in the You don’t necessarily have done since I was a festival. first place? like your heroes, and nor child, alongside writing As well as songs from I am really interested should you. I have met my own music. I want those my future album, I’ll be in the people who are some and fallen in love

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with them, and there are white, but almost entirely person: you lose your self- others I wish I’d never met. grey. It’s why I was drawn consciousness quite quickly I have met some of my I use this phrase all the to Picasso: because out of there. The good news is, I heroes and fallen in love time, but no one thing is shit came beauty. That’s can remember music very with them, and there are true. Life is wonderful and the job of the artist, to easily: I can remember others I wish I’d never met. it is awful. People can be make something awful thousands of songs because No one thing is true. Life is monsters and be amazing. into something great, and that is how my brain has wonderful and it is awful. Michael Jackson had the I’ve yet to meet one without developed—but it’s not left People can be monsters most appalling childhood trauma and a desire to be much room for names or and be amazing and turned into an abuser loved. I have great empathy simple facts or anything. himself. You can’t pretend with that, as someone I need more RAM. otherwise—I’ve known who has had a difficult it personally for years childhood. MARYLEBONE MUSIC FESTIVAL and years—but I am not marylebonemusicfestival.com someone who believes his How do you ‘write’ music, music should go away. He if you cannot write it made one of the greatest down physically? MARYLEBONE records of all time, and he I record everything. I MUSIC was also a groomer. Both write the lyrics down, and FESTIVAL these things are true, and I record any tune I think 16th—23rd JUNE to make out that he can of on my voice recorder. marylebonemusicfestival.com only be one or the other I have been known to is very undeveloped and be walking the dog or childlike, to my mind. wandering around Whole When you’re a kid you say: Foods, singing into the “I love you, I hate you.” As phone because I just adults, we should know thought of something. life is more complex than I thank America for that: that it is not black and making me a shame-free

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The characters are beautifully EVE WAS SHAMED drawn, and the trials and tribulations HELENA KENNEDY of addiction, marriage and £20, Chatto & Windus relationships are poignant and telling. Billy escapes from a typical In 1992, Helena Kennedy QC seventies rock-god combination of wrote the seminal Eve Was drugs, alcohol and blowjobs into a Framed, delineating from her wide devoted relationship with his wife experience of human rights law overt Camila, but the conflict between and covert gender inequalities in Daisy’s hedonism and his desperate the British justice system. Now, in sobriety is believable, painful and our brave new (old?) post-#MeToo incendiary. The resentment and era, she’s back with Eve was Shamed, misunderstanding Karen encounters an updated and profoundly for wanting to prioritise adventure, contemporary analysis of ways in independence and her musical which long-held prejudices and ambitions above domesticity are new circumstances continue to uncomfortably close to the knuckle disadvantage women in all areas of even today. “Maybe I would have the justice system. wanted a baby ... if I knew someone else Passionate, convincing, and well would raise it, someone else would let argued (as one might expect from go of their own dreams, someone else a top barrister, university president would sacrifice and keep everything and member of the House of Lords), together while I went and did what I it’s an analysis that manages to be wanted,” she muses, speaking not only both impressively wide-ranging and for many of her generation but a fair have her loving boyfriend catch her in remarkably detailed. She covers few of mine as well. bed with somebody else. The Temple everything from the Bar (14 per cent Part of the joy of the format is the family (celebrity actress mother, of QCs are women) and the High insight it offers into multiple different three successful adult children, and Court (only 21 per cent of judges are perspectives on a single situation, a clutch of gorgeous grandchildren) female) to female prisons (where 84 without privileging any one voice are gathering at their Portugal per cent of inmates are convicted over another: we hear from Daisy but holiday home to mourn the loss of for non-violent offences, despite also her best friend Simone, often their famous patriarch, Professor repeated rhetorical commitment to the person tasked with keeping her Max Temple, international expert on the idea of imprisonment only for together; Karen’s partner gets to tell conspiracy theories. Eighteen-year-old violent offenders). But alongside his side of the story, just as Camila Canadian Amanda is in Scotland for exposing flagrant examples of gets to give her perspective on being the summer, working as an au pair for injustice, she also interrogates the the domestic and maternal partner lawyer Vince and his much younger sociocultural structures—patriarchy, of a famously attractive, questionably wife Kirsten, who own the home next racism, Islamophobia, classism—that sober musician. Come to Daisy Jones & to the Temples’ in Portugal. Soon manifest themselves continually in The Six for the rock’n’roll dreams, but everybody knows about the mysterious large and small ways, enabling these stay for the characters, the insights and disappearance of little Niamh Temple injustices not just to exist but to go the drama. You won’t regret it. 16 years before, but Amanda suspects (often) unremarked. She talks about there may be a more present danger... attitude and assumption as well as FALLEN ANGEL Maybe Fallen Angel is not doing action, showing how these combine CHRIS BROOKMYRE anything drastically different to create a hostile environment for £18.99, Little, Brown plot-wise to some of the thrillers-by- women and minorities. numbers that clog up our shelves, Her splendidly and often ironically We all know what to expect from but Brookmyre does those things titled sections (I particularly enjoyed Chris Brookmyre: insightful, intricate intelligently and perceptively and ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and ‘Man- plotting; good representation; some the denouements are genuinely Slaughter) expose the connection unexpected twists and turns; an unexpected. I sometimes miss between quotidian misogyny and atmospheric setting; probably some Brookmyre’s Tartan Noir days, but to the cutting edge of criminal and sex and violence; Jack Parlabane have him doing airport thrillers this human rights law, and it’s deeply popping up unexpectedly; an incisive damn well is a pleasure in itself. Fallen satisfying. Kennedy’s eloquence and take on family relationships. Fallen Angel may perhaps feature some her deep knowledge of socio-political Angel delivers all this in spades. predictable ingredients, but they’re context as well as legal precedent and Ivy Roan is basically a terrible combined with great characterisation, argument render Eve Was Shamed person: her job is to cover up high-level witty writing and some incisive ideas a tour de force, awe- and anger- corruption and she has arranged to about families and trauma. inspiring in roughly equal measure.

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cuisine I know well and evening, everyone will should have something eat regularly. Taiwan is head to the night markets hearty on the menu too. something of a food capital for fashion and food—the That’s why we have our in Asia—it’s well known price is such that, these Taiwanese beef noodles: for its street food, and it is days, it almost costs less to slow-cooked short rib QA so regional, there is a real eat out than it does to cook of beef, vegetables and diversity of cuisines. Here at home. noodles in a beautiful in London, bao buns are broth, which is a bit very much on trend—and Bao & Bing covers Taiwan different from ramen— I don’t see that fading generally, rather than more tomato-based. It’s a PAUL SARLAS any time soon. Someone being regionally specific. family recipe from my wife, wrote an article recently Do you think we will start and it took a while to get The owner of Bao & suggesting we were catching to see different regions right because the recipes Bing on the regional the end of the bao ‘phase’, of Taiwan represented in are handed down by word diversity of Taiwan, but that is like saying a new London’s food scene over of mouth. It’s hard to pizza opening would be the next few years? maintain the quality while the importance of catching the tail end of Definitely. We have cooking in bulk. restaurant design, pizza. A bao is just a bun. It’s regional Indian food, and why the bao what you put inside it that regional Chinese food— How did you come to be bun’s moment is far makes it. Besides, there are even regional Italian food running restaurants? only four or five dedicated in London these days, with My parents were in the from over bao places in London. Ask Sicilian and Tuscan and business for years, so INTERVIEW: CLARE FINNEY most people if they’ve tried Neapolitan restaurants. I started young. I was IMAGES: ORLANDO GILI bao buns and they’ll say no. People are starting to working in their cafes and respect the regionality and restaurants as a teenager, How does Taiwanese food individuality of different then trained and worked differ from the cuisine of cuisines, and I am sure that as a chef for a short while its neighbour, China? will happen with Taiwanese until I realised I preferred Taiwanese and Chinese eventually. being front of house. I went cuisines are similar of from there, really. I studied You’ve lived, worked course, but the two are so It’s almost impossible to management and worked and opened restaurants regional. China is vast and take a bad photograph in a boutique hotel in everywhere from Sydney has such a massive diversity in this restaurant. Is that Sydney before opening my to Moscow. What brought of different cuisines, and deliberate? first cafe in the city. Today you to Marylebone? even Taiwan, an island a Yes. Instagram plays a huge I’ve 12 restaurants there. I’d been living and working fraction the size of China, part in restaurant design I’ve worked in Singapore, as in London for the past six has huge variation. I was these days. For example, director of Asia-Pacific for years when my good friend staying on the coast with yellow light on blue tiles Hilton, which was beautiful Kurt Zdesar, who owns my family last summer, and makes faces look green. and totally different. You Fucina next door, told me the food was so different You have to be mindful of will never get Chinese or about this space. We’re from anything we’d eaten that. You have to ensure Japanese food here like both from Sydney, and have in the country before. people look beautiful in you do there. I then moved worked together before, There are so many different your restaurant, as well as to Moscow and worked as and he thought I might like influences: Korea, China, your food. a director of a restaurant to open something here. Vietnam, Malaysia. One group there. I loved I’ve just had coffee with him thing that is really common If bao are buns, what is Moscow—particularly the in fact! Marylebone is very throughout Taiwan, bing? winter. Being Australian, Italian-focused and there though, is street food. Bing is a traditional egg I was as excitable as a kid is little in the way of Asian Everything on the street crepe breakfast roll, with when the snow came. street food, so I thought is amazing. You go out for wok cabbage, spring onion, When I first moved there, that would work nicely. breakfast, and what you crispy wonton skins and Starbucks had only just That said, I spent a long find will be 10 times better hoi sin sauce, and you can opened its first store, and it time contemplating exactly and more affordable than add chicken or pork too. was either incredibly cheap which cuisine to put here. anything you could find in Like the bao, it’s another food or fine dining. There a hotel. There’ll be 10 stalls street food dish, which you was nothing in between, How did you alight upon offering a noodle dish, just grab and go. These and everything was very Taiwanese? each with its own unique were the two street food focused on the traditional It was the easiest. My wife recipe. Some will have huge elements I felt we should cuisine: you could open a is from Taiwan, so it’s a queues, others won’t. Come have—then I thought we Japanese restaurant and

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still have to have Russian salad on the menu. It Instagram plays a huge changed a lot while I was part in restaurant design. there. I’ve been back since For example, yellow light and it’s now like London— on blue tiles makes faces you can get anything and look green. You have to everything. be mindful of that. You have to ensure people look To what extent has your beautiful in your restaurant, wife influenced the as well as the food menu? She’s been a huge influence. She created the menu with our chef, and many of the recipes are those of her family. We take pride in our menu being authentic, and in not having very much western influence. This is reflected, I think, in our already having a large Chinese and Taiwanese clientele.

You have been busy almost every night and lunch, at a time when many mid- range restaurants are struggling. What’s your secret? from Taiwan is never easy You’ve taken the bold never opened a Greek We are a small restaurant— because Taiwanese food decision to have no restaurant? only 50 seats—and we and drink still isn’t that big reservations—and I have been asked that focus on doing things in London—but we wanted no cash. What’s the many times, and the right: offering good food, to stock things you couldn’t motivation there? reason is very simple: at the right price point. really find anywhere else. At the end of the day, this I am too passionate about For £15 you can get a The cocktails are bubble is a street food concept. Greek food. I would tell substantial beef noodle tea cocktails, and the tea is Tables turn quite quickly, customers what it should dish and a drink, and Taiwanese. I’m Australian, and if I am holding them taste like, rather than leave feeling full. We also so I love my coffee, but in for people who are late or listening to what they don’t try to please all the Taiwan they only drink not turning up, that’s not enjoy. Greek food is also people all the time. We tea, so that’s what we have really fair. As for going very regional. My parents haven’t westernised too on the menu. As for wines, cashless, I think that is come from different much. We’ve added some I have to admit that my just the way society is parts of Greece, and are mayonnaise for the baos, a palate generally leans going. Managing cash is a fiercely defensive of how few Japanese touches, but towards New World wines. I problem in any business in things should be. I would we make sure we stay within do try not to be prejudiced, terms of theft and security, just get too emotional, the Taiwanese parameter. but it’s Austrian and New and if I have ever had a and Greek customers are It’s easy to get distracted by Zealand wines I love more challenge in business it emotional and judgmental trying to please everyone. than anything else. I love has been that. Having cash too. They are very stuck seeing people enjoy a really on the premises means in their ways. I prefer to What about drinks? good bottle of Australian assigning staff to go to the eat Greek food and create It was really important wine with their bao—and bank and bank it, and I restaurants for other for us to have Taiwanese all the wines we have are don’t see a reason to put cuisines. Maybe one day, beer on the menu. We good. Even the cheapest on them at risk. when I retire to Greece, have one at the moment, the menu is good quality. I will think about it. and two more coming, as I’d rather take the hit and Both your parents were BAO & BING well as some other Asian lose the margin than serve Greek immigrants to 22 Paddington Street, W1U 5QY beers. Getting supplies wine people won’t enjoy. Australia. Why have you baoandbing.com

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one thing people in our works like your stomach, bakeries are proud of: using microorganisms that the business really sprayed on little recycled cares and makes a point of plastic bio chips that mix having relationships with with the food to digest charities. I think that’s it and turn it into water, awesome. which goes into the drains system. The things we can’t GAIL’S BAKERY put in there, like shells or 4-6 Seymour Place, W1H 7NA big bones, are taken away gailsbread.co.uk and turned into fertiliser. We also partner with Kobus Maree, the Plan Zheroes, which The Langham, London collects surplus food There are many challenges and distributes it to local delicious, it’s a waste of the that come with providing charities. They take WASTE bakers’ time and skills. But the experience that our anything left over in the DISPERSAL like any shop, some days guests expect while doing restaurant at the end of the we sell out completely, and what we can to reduce day, such as our croissants How some of other days we don’t. food waste. As a five-star and bread rolls. A lot of our Marylebone’s When there is surplus operation, you can’t run conference guests pay for businesses and bread, we give it all away. out of food—if it’s on the all the food, but they don’t We have partnerships with menu it must be available, eat all of it, so with Plan charities are more than 40 charities, so inevitably there are Zheroes we can donate it confronting the which collect our food at products that don’t sell on their behalf to charity. problem of food the end of every day. Those every day. But nothing We are audited every waste people have the biggest ends up in landfill. In the year by Earth Check and hearts: it’s initiatives like kitchen we have a very as the first hotel in Europe WORDS: ELLIE COSTIGAN those that really bring a good system, the Orca. It to achieve a gold mark, we community together. But In the UK, around 10 there are a number of million tonnes of food things we do in-house to are wasted every year, reduce waste, too. Today’s disastrous for the planet croissants are tomorrow’s —estimated to produce filled croissants—we more than 25 million double bake them. We tonnes of greenhouse have great relationships gas emissions—and, with our suppliers: we work at a time when the use closely with Quicke’s dairy, of food banks is at an for example, to make all-time high, deeply sure we use everything unfair. So, what are the that they’re making. We people and businesses of get whole wheels of their Marylebone doing to help clothbound cheddar limit waste and, where and use slices of it in our it’s unavoidable, ensure sandwiches, then any it goes to a worthy home? offcuts go in our thyme and sea salt sourdough Romy Miller, stick. We also use their G A I L’s B a k e r y butter, which is made Food waste is entirely from whey, a bi-product contrary to our way of of cheesemaking—and thinking about the world. absolutely beautiful. At GAIL’s, everything At GAIL’s, nothing goes is handmade: if we are in the bin. My team do this wasting something, because we really believe not only is it a shame it’s the right thing to do. because nobody’s eaten Nobody wants food to go and enjoyed something to waste. It’s the number

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certain artists. The store Where is Koibird design always starts with heading to next? a piece of art that I love— Korea. It’s going to be that sets the colouring. very different. Up until I work with an amazing now, we’ve sourced from set designer called Anna designers all over the Burns, who helps me world, but with this it will redesign the store for be just Korean designers. each new edit. Each one We were there last month, has been inspired by a picking and choosing. particular painting. It’s very different to other Asian cultures: not as Why did you feel there commercial as Japan was a need for a holiday and China, for example, shop in the first place? and we’re doing as much I always thought there was research as we can and a big demand for a holiday liaising with the embassy shopping experience. I to ensure we are as travel a lot, and I am always authentic as possible. It’s looking for new holiday going to be pretty heavily wear—it’s what gets me beauty focused. Korean most excited about going women are seriously into away. I wanted to create makeup and cosmetics. a one-stop shop where There are masks you could go and get a everywhere: tightening, You describe Koibird great selection of bikinis, moisturising, anti-ageing, as a one-stop shop for handbags, sunglasses, all made with different holiday wear. What kind jewellery—everything you things. One I saw contains of holiday does Koibird need for a specific trip, in caviar. It’s been a big thing stock for? one place. in Korea for ages, and QA Every four months we they’ve actually supplied do a whole new travel Obviously, there are masks to a lot of the destination and theme, practical items you need western world for years. BELMA GAUDIO and produce an edit for some holidays, such accordingly—so right as skiing. Do you stock The Koibird aesthetic The founder now, it’s Koibird goes to technical, practical wear is very distinctive and of holiday wear California. Before that we as well as the fun stuff? comes through in each boutique Koibird went skiing, and before We were really serious edit. How would you on travelling the that was the beach. Our about the ski edit. We describe it? customers really enjoy it—I had three or four proper To be honest, it is a world, packing think because it makes the technical brands for feeling—a mood really. concisely and her experience of shopping the skiwear, and the rest I am a visual person: I intuitive approach more interesting. Every was more après ski: nice pick art and clothes that to sourcing four months the shop is a jumpers, and moon boots visually excite me and whole new environment. and fur boots, which are gravitate toward things WORDS: CLARE FINNEY People want an experience great for the mountains, that are unique. If I have when they are shopping but not really London wear. seen something lots of these days: somewhere The important part of an times before, my eyes are that’s fun to come to and edit is to touch all aspects tired. We buy eclectically, browse. It’s interesting of the destination. So, and we never feel obliged that our shop actually does with California, we have to buy someone’s whole better than online when it sneakers, summer dresses collection, which is very comes to sales figures. and flipflops for the day, different from most sequin jumpsuits and heels retailers. We pick a couple The store design is for the evening. A lot of of pieces from lines and indeed striking. Who is these items you could wear collections and hope for responsible for dressing in a London summer of the best when it comes the shop? course, though it is very together. It is intuitive, and I love art and collect much the style of LA. very much about us loving

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something so much we just overpacked, because What made you alight have to have it. If I put my I hate lugging around stuff upon Marylebone? I actually tend to colour all and my love into buying I’m not wearing. I start My whole life is in code my trips, so I only something, I am hoping preparing my case a few Marylebone. I live here, pack certain, similar colour the customer will see that, days before I travel, taking my kids go to school here, palettes. That stops me and love it also. It’s very into account how long I am my husband works in from the ‘oh this bag is different from the usual going for and what kind of the neighbourhood. cute, I’ll pack that in case way of doing retail—it trip it is. I actually tend to This is my area. Asides I need it’ mentality takes some education of colour code my trips, so I from that, I do think customers and brands— only pack certain, similar it has what New York but it works, and I am colour palettes. That stops neighbourhoods have: proud of it. me from the ‘oh this bag not too hip, not too is cute, I’ll pack that in conservative, not too What are you most case I need it’ mentality. commercial, with a nice excited about in store When I went to Korea mix of people and a good right now? recently, I knew it would be vibe and energy about it. Right now, it’s my rainy and cold—so I stuck People just love hanging collaboration with this to blackish palettes and out here, and the retail amazing vintage designer only needed one pair of is quainter, smaller and in New York, who recycles boots, one pair of sneakers more interesting than the old 1940s chenille blankets and a pair of dressy shoes. offering on big streets. into coats and kaftans. As soon as you start When I look at the kind of They are beautiful. packing more colours brand we are—creative, To produce these from your shoe collection quite quaint, more scratch would be seven doubles or triples. speciality—Marylebone times the price. Another just made sense. is the California street Where were you before KOIBIRD rock brand R13, who are Koibird? 62 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2PB really on point. I worked in finance for koibird.com about 10 years, but I Where do you find new was always in and out of designers? fashion, working with the Instagram, trade shows, British Fashion Council but mainly through and various friends of travelling. I travel a lot mine. We moved to Hong and am always on the Kong, and I dabbled lookout for things that are in design there before new and exciting. I travel having two kids. After my to each location we edit second child, I made the for beforehand, on the leap: I’d just come back lookout for brands they from a summer vacation, have. and I’d curated a really fun summer wardrobe. Have you thought of I thought, wouldn’t it be designing yourself? cool if I took all of these No. I dabbled a few years brands I have found and ago, but it’s the buying and learned about over the the collaborative efforts years, and created a place that make me happy. specifically for holiday I can’t see myself going wear, where you can buy back into designing any from a curated collection? time soon. Shopping for your holiday is exciting, but it can prove You must be something hard work. In the past, I of a professional packer. usually ended up having to What are your tips? go to six or seven different I actually like to pack really places, which takes time concisely. I get properly and effort that people just nervous when I am don’t have these days.

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mj_2019_volume15_03_Compendium_01.indd 65 24/05/2019 08:20 66. Style INSIDE KNOWLEDGE SUSTAINABLE EYEWEAR Anna Laub of Prism on 70 Michael di Giorgio the art and importance of The founder of Greenhouse Sports sustainable eyewear on how sports coaching can change the lives of disadvantaged Prism has always been about young people supporting traditional craftsmanship, about creating a market for handmade products, built to last by skilled artisans. Our glasses are made in a small, old-school factory in Italy, using techniques passed down through generations. Everything we do has this ethos through it. It’s not just a marketing concept. customers, I advise them to consider face shape, skin tone, hair colour, eye Provided you don’t lose or sit colour and the colour of the clothes on them, a pair of Prism glasses they wear. should last you forever. I still have glasses from my first collection. I don’t buy new glasses often, but I do always find it strange It’s our 10th anniversary this year, when people ask me why I need and to celebrate we decided to look more than one pair. I wear optics backwards, at the first collection every day. If I change my shoes we ever produced. Many of those according to my outfit, why wouldn’t models are still selling now, 10 years I change my glasses—which, unlike later. They’ve become classics, still my shoes, are the first thing you see? relevant today. We wanted to explore Some people have about 35 pairs ways of making these classics more of shoes. sustainable, using new materials that have been developed since we Each pair of Prism glasses is opened a decade ago. unique: they are all handmade, cut from one block of acetate. A There is a new bio-acetate block of acetate is like a piece of that is renewable, natural and wood, in that each part cut from it biodegradable, because it’s is slightly different. By contrast, a completely phthalate free and mass-manufactured pair of glasses made from cellulose acetate and is made by injecting plastic into a plasticiser. We’re manufacturing mould—which is why thousands several of our longstanding classics upon thousands of pairs can be from our archive in this material. made for a tiny cost.

Part of our approach to product To sell glasses at £3 is to encourage longevity is to be fashionable and the ethos of purchasing and not a little bit experimental, but not so caring. Such a thought process out there it’s over the top and will is alien. Of course, there is an be passé in a few years. Our fashion accessibility there, and it’s great for is more understated—we want people on low budgets, but when it timeless design. encourages a ‘buy, buy, buy’ attitude I just find it a bit gross. If you want glasses that are PRISM going to last, you need to choose 54 Chiltern Street, W1U 7QX carefully. When I’m helping prismlondon.com

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coaches are 51 per cent is terrible. In other words, mentor, 49 per cent sports it’s not just that sport in coach. The idea is to make itself is good, it’s the quality sure that we use sport as of the coaching. If you a way of engaging with are at school and you are people who would not the last to be picked in necessarily have access to the playground or have the high-quality provisions a teacher who is not very that we provide. Inevitably, good to you, sport will as they spend many hours not change things for doing it, they become the better. It only works better at the sport and start when you have the kinds competing and entering of coaches that help you tournaments. We’ve had develop the life skills that many go on to become we think are so important. How did Greenhouse very good sportspeople: Sports come to be? we’ve had them go on What makes a good I was a financial consultant, basketball scholarships to coach? Finding the right but sold my business in the States, one has gone on people must be very 2001. I set up Greenhouse to be English table tennis important... QA in 2002 and was CEO champion. But our goal is We made lots of mistakes until a couple of years ago: to develop them as people on the way. Many of them I am still a trustee, but first—not necessarily to have been with us for many I am no longer quite as produce champions, but years and come from very operationally involved as to use sport as a way to similar backgrounds. They MICHAEL DI I was. We’ve made a lot of engage with young people. understand the young GIORGIO progress since 2002: we now Everything else is a bit of a people we work with. We run 50 programmes every bi-product. only work with schools that The founder of day, all over London. have a high percentage of Greenhouse Sports, What is it about sport that deprivation—we’re not the charity partner How does it work? makes it a good medium interested in working with We put sports coaches into to do that? private schools, we are only of the Marylebone secondary schools to work I think sport is something interested in working with Summer Festival full time—48 weeks a year, that engages lots of people, schools that otherwise and Portman Square 40 hours a week, in term but I don’t think sport is the wouldn’t have those Garden Party, on time and in the holidays. only way to do it—I think opportunities. We need It’s one school, one sport. art, drama and music are coaches who understand how sports coaching That could be basketball, also good, but we happen the children, as well as can change the lives table tennis, volleyball, to do it through sport. having the technical skills of disadvantaged tennis, judo. The coach will Our idea is to provide very to provide that particular young people often start pre-school, so intensive, high-quality activity. with breakfast clubs, and we coaching to young people. INTERVIEW: ELLIE COSTIGAN often do things after school, We’re trying to prove to You also run a community too. During school time, them that if you can engage centre in Marylebone. some pupils are selected to with us and work hard and Tell us about that. come out to be coached, really commit to the sport We were recently donated and so they miss a particular and get better at it, then a deconsecrated church class—sometimes it’s PE, you can do the same for in Cosway Street by a very but different schools have academic subjects and get generous benefactor. It is a a different philosophy as better at them too. A lot of Grade II listed building so to which class the young the people we work with there were lots of planning people can miss. They work don’t have enough support issues—from the time in a small group with other at home and we’re very we bought it to the day we people and that particular keen to make sure that the opened, it was probably coach. coach is somebody who about four years. But we provides them with that. have transformed this What is it that you’re That said, we think good into a community sports seeking to achieve? sports provision is good, centre We’re principally We like to think that our but bad sports provision doing table tennis there,

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generosity of others. We’re very keen to find more people to help us, more donors, both individuals and companies. We might be able to have local companies come and have a fun day at the centre and hopefully that will turn into some financial support and volunteering opportunities. We very much want to be part of the community.

What role has sport but we’re also doing other is great. In the day we’ve played in your own life? activities. We’ve now been had various faith groups I’m originally from Malta, We’re trying to prove to open a year and we’re very who want to do women- I came to England for the children that if you can keen to work with the local only sessions, such as yoga secondary school. When engage with us and work community. We work with classes. We’ve done judo, you first arrive in an hard and really commit a lot of people from the mini-tennis, basketball. unfamiliar country, you to the sport, then you can MARYLEBONE SUMMER FILM NIGHT Lisson Green estate, local I could go on and on. We don’t know many people do the same for academic schools, both primary make sure that we have all and it’s all alien to you, but subjects and get better at SATURDAY 15th JUNE and secondary, we’re also the necessary safeguards playing sport is a way of PADDINGTON STREET GARDENS them too working with other local for everybody to feel safe making a lot of friends. I FOOD STALLS, FESTIVAL BAR, JAZZ BAND groups who we feel need and welcome. found it to be a very good supporting and getting way to meet people and POP-UP CINEMA them to come and use the You’re this year’s integrate into society. As centre. We’re working with charity partner for the a result, I appreciate the ‘BILLY ELLIOT’ schoolchildren, but we’re Marylebone Summer power of having the right MARYLEBONE SUMMER FAYRE also working with adults. Festival. Are you looking PORTMAN mentors—the sorts of There are lots of other forward to it? people that helped me to SUNDAY 16th JUNE local groups doing good I personally know how SQUARE settle in and develop the life things in the area and we much energy The Howard GARDEN skills that I have developed. FARMERS’ MARKET would love them to partner de Walden Estate puts into PARTY It’s something I’ve always with us—they’d be very developing its community, 19th JUNE felt I’d like to share with HOT FOOD STALLS welcome to come and talk so we were very lucky to be other people, and I’ve been portmansquare to us. We have this space chosen by them to be their lucky enough to do that. gardenparty.com and we’re very keen for charity. We’re very excited BIGDRAWING WHEEL COMPETITION people to use it. by it. We will have a stall at You were awarded an the Fayre and we’re taking OBE for your work in What sorts of projects do some table tennis tables 2017—that must’ve been FARM ANIMALS you run there? and various other things. fantastic recognition. A lot of young people come We’re very much looking It was, but the best TOMBOLA and use the centre after forward to meeting lots recognition is seeing young three o’ clock. We have of people, telling them MARYLEBONE kids develop. Actually, slightly older groups— what we’re up to and many of them are our LIVE MUSIC more secondary school encouraging them to come SUMMER coaches now. The number age—using the centre to the centre. I was there FESTIVAL of people who come up marylebonesummerfestival.com after about five. We run last year and it was such a 15th—16th JUNE to me and say: “Do you a homework club in the good day. remember me? I was on that marylebonesummerfayre.com crypt on Mondays and particular programme and msfilmnight.com Wednesdays—a lot of What are the biggest I’m now doing this”—you people don’t have the challenges you face as a can’t help but feel proud ORGANISED BY facilities to do it at home charity? that you’ve helped them a and we have not only the The biggest risk is little bit on their way. THE HOWARD DE WALDEN ESTATE facilities, but people there obviously that, because we IN SUPPORT OF GREENHOUSE SPORTS THE GREENHOUSE CENTRE Registered Charity no. 1098744 to help young people with are a charity, we’re always 88 Bell Street, NW1 6SP their homework, which very dependent on the greenhousesports.org

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The easiest way to update walk in? If it’s the bedroom, of something. But you have I appreciate your home is to start what do you want to look to be practical. If you’re craftmanship. A lot of looking at the things you at when you wake up in the working all day, you don’t the works and objects that have and trying to find morning? What are the want lots of things that need I source are very serene value. People sometimes things that everybody else to be cleaned all the time. and there is a maturity. think they need to change sees? You have to consider There’s a lot of labour everything, or need to buy all of these things. The secret is in marrying and love, and knowledge new things, but in most the artwork or object to the of materials. I love that. instances it’s just a case of We each have our history right person and the right Especially in a time when moving things around. In and our own collection context. I am very lucky to everything is disposable. It that way, you can refresh of things. Sometimes you work in a place where I am makes it very special. your house and make it have something that is very surrounded by what for me look completely different. dear to you: a photograph, are beautiful things, then If you don’t know what a piece of fabric, a beautiful when somebody buys it to do with something, It doesn’t matter book or object—that’s what and that piece goes to their but it has value to you, if your house is I am looking for. I want to home, the whole cycle has don’t dispose of it—turn extremely modern, with bring them out and give been completed. I believe it into something else. contemporary works of them a new importance that every work finds its I know artists who can art, or more conventional, by highlighting them and perfect fit. make something out of it is possible to make old making them part of your it—your favourite book and new objects work everyday life. The works we sell are very can be made into a piece together. It might be a beautiful, very poetic, of jewellery, for example. colour or a texture that I am quite minimalist. and you have to buy them I think that’s a wonderful ties everything together. I don’t want a space to be because you love them. I way of keeping an object; It is about creating a flow completely devoid, but never rush something. The to transform it into that draws your eye from rather a curated selection art that we show here may something beautiful. one thing to the next—a of very beautiful things. I become investments, but I dialogue between the don’t like an accumulation don’t push them as that. A frame can make or objects. of clutter; I like texture and kill a work. Or, you might three-dimensional objects, I sometimes deal with have a painting that just I always make a site- you can tell that by what I clients who do not have by moving it to one side specific assessment. display in Jaggedart, my the same taste that I have, of the room and putting I look at the placement of Devonshire Street gallery. and they ask for things an object on the other, the windows, the light, the that are not what I would you create a completely architecture of the building, As you get older, it is show in the gallery—I different dynamic. It’s in the colour of the wall. Is it nice to be surrounded completely respect that. the details. the first room you come into by things that have a I am happy to then source ANDREA HARARI HOME in your house? What are the meaning to you, that are those things. I usually have CURATION SERVICES things you want to see as you important or remind you access to them. homecurationservices.com

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MY MARYLEBONE Although Marylebone the venue is as a place for NONNA CASABAYO does have some big day conferences, seminars, The business support brands, it also has local, workshops and training manager at The King’s independent shops: barbers sessions. In the evening, Fund on her life in and delis and gift shops and there are either drinks Marylebone clothes you would never see following on from those The second most frequent anywhere else. There is a conferences, or there are question I get asked after regular interview question parties, and we host events “Where are you from?” in the Evening Standard, such as weddings and bar/ is “Why? What are you “What would you do if you bat mitzvahs at weekends. doing here?” I’m from were mayor for a day?”, For our evening events, Barcelona, and people often and one of the things I we have two seasons: the wonder how I cope with the would wish to support is summer, which is all about weather—but London has local independent shops. the nice courtyard, perfect so much to offer, culturally They really give charm and for an ice cream machine and gastronomically. It’s a charisma to an area, when or a street food tricycle; stressful city, and the weather these days high streets and Christmas, which is isn’t reliable, but the social life across the country all end far more involved, because compensates for that. up looking the same. every year we theme the Some people try to avoid I’ve worked in Marylebone venue. We’ve had James the area they work in when since 2012, here at The Bond, Alice in Wonderland, they are socialising, but I like King’s Fund, a charity in Christmas in Manhattan, hanging out in Marylebone the health policy sector. ski lodge and traditional because it is such a great I started in leadership Christmas market. It mixes place to be and there is so and organisational things up for our regular much to do. After work, I like development, then in 2013 clients, who come back year to stay local and get friends I moved to the commercial on year, and it means we to come over; a glass of wine department, which draw in different sorts of at 28-50 followed by a bite at manages the beautiful companies too, according to Delamina makes for a really No.11 Cavendish Square the theme we’re running. nice combination. Even at venue. The main use of Fortunately, I love logistics and managing events. the weekends, I find myself Trishna in Marylebone, because It’s what I do. The biggest there is so much to do here. reward for me is seeing My favourite place for dinner the plans that were in our is Trishna—their tasting heads come into action: menu is delicious. For a girls’ when you see the venue night we would more likely looking amazing, the people head to 108 Brasserie. You arriving, and everything can have dinner, stay for very you’d planned happening good cocktails, and it’s open in front of you. And the fact quite late, so you don’t have that all this is for a charity to move around. And for the supporting the heath sector daytime I love Daylesford— is a brilliant thing. everything looks and tastes NO.11 CAVENDISH SQUARE organic; it’s the perfect place 11 Cavendish Square, W1G 0AN for Sunday brunch. 11cavendishsq.com 77. Life

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surgery but there must 1990s, the survival rate for How does the tumour be a clinically-indicated brain tumours had not present? need for further surgery. improved since the 1950s. RB: it can present in They also cannot have Life expectancy was nine to several different ways. The had any other treatment 12 months post-diagnosis. symptoms vary depending QA such as radiotherapy or Things have improved but on where in the brain the chemotherapy. This is there is still a clear need tumour is. If it is in the crucial. for new treatments to be frontal part of the brain it developed. The problem can present with altered What happens to is that brain cancers are moods and behaviour; in PROFESSOR potential patients? uncommon, accounting for other areas it can affect KEYOUMARS Prof Keyoumars Ashkan: only one to two per cent of speech, affect movement, ASHKAN Each prospective patient all cancers, so funding has causing clumsiness, AND MR RANJEEV goes through a very strict never been a high priority. impact on sight, cause BHANGOO protocol. We see them to seizures or cause several ensure they pass the entry Is the prognosis poor other symptoms. While Consultant criteria. Dr Matt Williams, because of a lack of headaches are possible, I neurosurgeons a consultant oncologist research or because of the want to reassure people at The London working on the trial with nature of the tumour? that the chances of your us, makes sure they have KA: I think both. Unlike headache being caused Clinic on a highly all the oncological tests other body parts where by a brain tumour are promising clinical and assessments they the number of different vanishingly small! trial for a new brain should have at this stage types of tumour is quite Unfortunately, these cancer treatment of their disease. This limited—around four to tumours can destroy an stage is very important six—in the brain there are individual. They affect the INTERVIEW: VIEL RICHARDSON because we need as much over 100 different types personality and the way PORTRAIT: CHRISTOPHER L PROCTOR data as possible about the of brain tumour, and this people interact. Often patient before they start doesn’t include cancers by the end the patient no treatment. If they meet that have spread from longer recognises their all the criteria they will be elsewhere. Glioblastoma loved ones, which is tragic. What is the nature of admitted onto the trial. multiforme is only one of It means that for those of the clinical trial you’re these types, though the us who treat brain cancer, currently running? How does IORT work? technique may well be the work is very personal. Mr Ranjeev Bhangoo: We KA: IORT is a form of usable in other types of We are unlikely to cure this are part of the ‘INTRAGO radiotherapy—a highly tumour. in our lifetime, but we can 2’ phase three clinical targeted dose of high hopefully manage it in such trial. It is a multi-centre intensity radiation. Once Does that complicate a way that people can retain trial designed to examine the tumour has been diagnosis? their quality of life. the effectiveness of using removed, the x-ray source KA: Very much so. intraoperative radiation applicator is placed close to Even within individual Is early diagnosis therapy (IORT) on patients the wound, and this delivers categories it has been important? who are suspected of the radiotherapy dose. The found that tumours are RB: It’s always best to find having a glioblastoma aim is to kill cancer cells that different when you do a cancer early, but that does multiforme tumour in will still be there, but which full genomic analysis. In not always make things the brain. Glioblastoma cannot be seen. Because fact, if you sample different straightforward. If the multiforme is an aggressive we are only affecting tissue parts of the same tumour tumour is in an area of type of tumour of the around the tumour site, we they can be genetically the brain that we call ‘very brain or spinal cord and can deliver much higher different, and if you eloquent’—meaning an is the commonest form of doses than if we were sample the same tumour at area that controls speech or primary brain cancer. delivering the radiation different times results can movement—the diagnosis from outside the body in the change. This is what makes will likely be made relatively Who qualifies for the normal manner. it so very difficult to treat. early, but treatment is much clinical trial? These are very unstable more difficult because we RB: The selection criteria What has the prognosis tumours that can change are working around parts are strict. Patients cannot for these patients rapidly and adapt to the of the brain that have a very have already undergone traditionally been? different treatments like obvious impact, leaving significant surgery on the RB: When Prof chemotherapy. It makes very little room for error. tumour. They may have Keyoumars and I started them very difficult to In other parts of the brain had a biopsy or limited in neurosurgery in the characterise. that control less obvious

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We have to KA: Nowadays, we practice 020 3219 3315 accept that this trial is not maintenanceisrecommended. a very personal type of [email protected] for everyone and there medicine. We characterise are still limits to what we your brain tumour at a can do. At Cubex, we useasafeand pain free technique called Microsuction. It involves theuse of abinocular molecular level. That microscope providingamagnified viewofthe ear canal.Thisallows us to use afine lowpressure requires lots of tissue to until the tumour has trial would get, so the only What will you consider to ensure we have all the been removed. Only then clinical difference is the be a success? suction to safely remove ear wax, debris &foreignbodies. information we need are we told if they are IORT treatment. RB: For the purpose of across the geography of receiving IORT. If they are, this trial, we are looking the tumour. 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But advance in technology control set or the treatment the tumour coming back. with brain tumours, for the is key—in the old days set, do better than patients That is called the ‘primary foreseeable future surgery this would not have been who are not in the study. end point’ of the trial. We is the safest, quickest possible because the size of also recognise that factors and most effective way the equipment meant you Why is that? like quality of life are very Ear Health Check Ear Health Check of treating the patient. had to take the patient to RB: Attention to detail. You important, so we also have &Wax Removal &Foreign BodyRemoval Oncologists we work with a dedicated radiotherapy are being operated on by what are called ‘secondary will always ask us if we can suite for the IORT. a surgeon who has a deep end points’. For these, £ £ operate before considering interest in brain tumours, we look at metrics that 85 100 other treatment options. What is the trial designed so they are very engaged examine the impact of the to reveal? and have a high level of skill. procedure on the patient’s Is yours a randomised KA: What we are testing Then there is the rigour quality of life, alongside control clinical trial? is the efficacy of the IORT of the trial around you. short and long-term side RB: Yes, it is. The great procedure. This makes it Everybody is on top of their effects. This trial can offer ** thing about the way the trial critical that there are no game, because nobody real hope to people. We MondaytoFridayfrom9am –6pm has been designed is that other differences along wants to compromise a are monitoring patients even as surgeons, we do not the treatment path of patient’s results through in other clinical trials know whether the patient patients in the trial. After a mistake. 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Mayo Clinic is a US-based in the same procedure. Every year at Mayo Clinic medical organisation This is a multi-disciplinary we go through the process One of the great things that provides patient approach based on the of refining our protocols— about this partnership is care, undertakes research idea of accessing whatever each process is rigorously that many of the values and runs educational expertise the patient assessed, based on the underpinning Mayo facilities. We are best needs at that precise point. outcomes it has produced Clinic are also there within known for our expertise This deeply collaborative in the previous year and the Oxford University in diagnosing complex way of working is in the the application of any Clinic environment and difficult medical cases Mayo Clinic DNA, and it new relevant scientific and devising the often- is the philosophy we will knowledge. Procedures complex treatments that be bringing to the new that are no longer valid or these conditions need. Over Portland Place facility, have been supplanted are time, we have developed which is opening as part discarded and ones proven a reputation for being of a unique partnership to provide a better set of the place to go when you between Mayo Clinic and outcomes are adopted. The need answers to medical Oxford University Clinic. supplying patient care aim is to produce actionable issues that have defied One of the great things outside of one of our US findings. We want to be able explanation elsewhere, or about this partnership is facilities. At Portland to say to every patient: “This where the symptoms the that many of the values Place we have created a is what we have found, this is patient is presenting with underpinning Mayo Clinic state-of-the-art screening what we can do about it.” are such that you need to are also there within and diagnostic centre Another major benefit get to the right explanation the Oxford University with equipment such of this partnership is quickly, at the first attempt. Clinic environment. We as MRI scanner, CT Oxford University Clinic’s The core of Mayo all have huge respect scanner, dual-energy x-ray intimate understanding Clinic’s philosophy is the and reverence for the absorptiometry (DEXA), of the legal, cultural and LEADING CONSULTANTS, COMPASSIONATE CARE, fact that we are a not- Oxford side of the mammography, endoscopy. ethical frameworks of the for-profit organisation. partnership—they bring We are also staffing the British medical landscape. TRADITIONAL VALUES. All money remaining a level of scholarship facility with people who The great thing is that as we after operational costs and research that in have expertise in our work on our protocols and From the moment you set foot in The London Clinic, you are entering a charitable hospital goes back to support our my opinion is second to style of ‘executive health’ procedures for the UK we three core principles: none, they are really at screening and diagnostics. have excellent guidance as that is dedicated to putting our patients first, advancing healthcare, and setting the standards patient care, research the top of the field. We This is a programme to how to blend what we are for the end-to-end patient experience in private medical care. and education. This has will clearly learn from our that is not simply about bringing from the US with allowed us to create a partners at Oxford, but pushing people through what is expected here. This patient-focussed, science- hopefully we are bringing the latest scanning has been a very collaborative based culture that runs some new knowledge technology on fishing process, which, as well throughout the whole and approaches in trips to see what we can as being exciting and organisation. For example, an atmosphere of find; it is about evidence- rewarding, has also been a I am a thoracic surgeon, collaboration and based, individualised great deal of fun. For more information, please contact us on and it is not unusual friendship. risk assessment and for me to be operating While Mayo Clinic has scientifically-driven MAYO CLINIC HEALTHCARE IN [email protected] | 0203 219 3500 | www.thelondonclinic.co.uk alongside a neurosurgeon, research collaborations screening of patients. PARTNERSHIP WITH OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINIC a gynaecological surgeon with other countries, this Every clinical decision 15 Portland Place, W1B 1PT and a gastroenterologist is the first time we will be we take is evidence based. mch-ouc.co.uk

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In most places, the sides, which made it very “The ground level A QUART creation of a new building difficult,” says Julian in the courtyard was IN A is a fundamentally Morrow, a director of already about half a straightforward exercise: Morrow + Lorraine, the storey lower than it was PINT POT you start with a plot of architects commissioned on the mews side, so by How a new land, dig down to set by the Estate to untwist digging down another your foundations, then this particular conceptual half storey we could allow development continue construction in a tangle. “We also had to the basement flat to face tackled the vaguely upwards direction. connect a new building out onto the courtyard, challenge of turning But such conceptual into the old pub building, with large windows and the tight corner simplicity is a luxury rarely and the link between the plenty of natural light,” afforded to architects two was a complicated says Julian. “A lot of fairly of a mews into a working in Marylebone, a thing to achieve. This complex engineering spacious residential conservation area in which was a relatively small work was required to make development, while planning restrictions are development, but also that happen, but that also bringing a tight and space even tighter. highly complex, and excavation was central Here, almost every new quite challenging from a to making the whole much-missed pub project begins with a hefty planning point of view.” project work.” back to life Gordian knot, demanding Building upwards was The rear of the new INTERVIEW: MARK RIDDAWAY to be unpicked. never an option—the building was set up to This much was certainly modest elevation of the create an intricate series of true of The Howard mews is a large part of its stepped terraces, each of de Walden Estate’s charm, and one that is which has been planted as impressive new residential quite rightly protected—so a green rooftop, designed development on Weymouth the only way of enlarging to boost biodiversity as well Mews, a street which, with the site to accommodate providing an aesthetically its confusing array of the apartments was to dig pleasing echo of the dead-ends and tangents, down. “That introduced courtyard’s past. “This is itself quite knotty. One another design issue that space would once have consequence of the street’s we had to solve: how do been the garden to 63 New asymmetric layout is that you get good standards Cavendish Street, so in a the building adjoining of daylight down to the way we’re bringing some 34 Weymouth Mews is basement level so that it of that planting back,” says (doubtless to the confusion doesn’t feel like a dark Julian. “The outlook from of any stand-in postman) basement,” says Julian. The the back of Asia House is the rear of number 43, answer could be found in now much improved— a pub whose entrance is the space behind number much better than the found on a completely 34, between Weymouth big concrete box.” different branch of the Mews and New Cavendish While the planning mews. In order to create a Street, which had authorities provided spacious, modern, seven- recently been acquired the architects with apartment residential by the Estate from Asia considerable latitude in development in this tight House. This courtyard, their approach to the corner, the Estate planned previously home to an courtyard, the same wasn’t to demolish number 34, unsightly cuboid of 1960s true at the front of 34 previously a small and fairly concrete—a building Weymouth Mews, where uninspiring house, and used by Asia House for a stipulation was made create a new building that storage and temporary that the original 1920s would extend to the rear exhibitions—was facade be retained. while also melding to the sufficiently voluminous “That was very important upper floors of the pub. that, once this ugly to Westminster and to Even by the standards extension had been Historic England,” says of Marylebone building demolished, it could easily Julian. “You’ll find this projects, the Estate’s brief accommodate a rear all over the borough, was a demanding one. addition to number 34 anywhere you have a mews “We were asked to insert while leaving sufficient building. Even if it is quite a building into a very open space to supply a modest building like this compact space, constrained plenty of natural light to one, if it’s of a certain age and overlooked on all the apartments. they want to preserve it.”

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“We actually viewed at passers-by, this is a work materials—a restrained that constraint as a really of high-grade design palette of pale brick positive thing,” says Tom that keeps itself to itself. cladding, cast concrete, Powell, an associate Its corner of Weymouth blackened steel and dark at Morrow + Lorraine Mews looks much like it timber—and the fine and the lead designer always has—a little more detailing. “In the common on the project. “If we’d spruce, but essentially parts, we have these big been asked to design a unchanged—while inside concrete sheer walls, facade, to get it through and hidden to the rear, a then in between those planning—which can whole new world opens up. we’ve put really beautiful be quite conservative in “That’s one of the things walnut timber panelling,” a setting like this—we that makes this such an explains Tom. “Where we would have ended up with intriguing project,” says have joint marks in the something that felt like a Julian. “You can’t really concrete we’ve aligned pastiche; maybe a slightly see it from the street; it’s that through with the modern take but still a designed to be enjoyed panelling—a lot of love fundamentally traditional by the people who use it went into getting that It’s quite arresting that design. We were happy to and by the people in the right.” you walk through this keep the original facade surrounding buildings “The Estate wanted traditional facade and and make it a feature of whose view we think the common parts to find yourself in a strikingly the design.” it improves. It’s quite feel quite luxurious, and modern building as soon as As a result, one arresting that you walk when we explained our you cross the threshold of the most unusual through this traditional concept of expressing characteristics of what is a facade and find yourself the structure and having fairly bold piece of modern in a strikingly modern bare-faced concrete, their architecture is that most of building as soon as you concern was that it might the bold, modern aspects cross the threshold.” feel a bit cold,” says Julian. are entirely hidden from That sense of modernity “But they trusted us, and view—rather than bellow presents itself in both the it has worked really well.

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The introduction of the installation of a modern wood, and the detailing of commercial kitchen— the stair and the carpet, currently turning out means that it is anything the exceptional Sichuan but basic and utilitarian, noodles of street food and the quality of the light legends Liu Xiaomian. really makes you feel like “The pub’s basement you’re entering a luxury previously had quite a development.” small floor to ceiling The lighting in the height, so it couldn’t stairwells and corridors has really be used for much,” been designed to increase says Tom. “We ended up the impact of the sun- digging the basement drenched apartments. “In down to increase the the common parts, which height so that they could are essentially your journey have a kitchen down from the entrance into your there—originally the flat, the lighting is at quite pub had been using one a low level, so the contrast of the bedrooms as a you get when you enter kitchen space.” Now, the these flats, which are so airy bedrooms are bedrooms and brightly lit, really hits once again, and thanks you,” explains Tom. to the magic of acoustic The new apartments separation the pub can go share a similar palette, about its business without although the two above disturbing the peace of the the pub, which have residents. retained much of their The success of this period detailing, have a complex project was, says slightly different feel— Julian, testament to the albeit still clean, light Estate’s approach. “They and modern. “We tried allow the designers to to create something get on with their jobs, quite contemporary to find the answers they but appropriate to the need. Obviously, they building itself,” says Tom. are very much involved Bringing life back with briefing and with to the pub, not just the ensuring that the design flats upstairs, was an meets their requirements, important part of the but they never dictate to project. In this day and you how you should do age, it is unusual—and it. That’s what you need extremely heartening—to in order to successfully come across a residential design something, but it’s development that has very much not the case sought to revitalise a with all clients.” Julian and historic pub rather than his colleagues have now occupy it. The Dover turned their attention to Castle closed its doors in transforming the Estate’s 2016, but thanks to the historic headquarters on Estate’s redevelopment Queen Anne Street into work this beautiful a contemporary office Grade II listed tavern has space. Another Gordian now reopened as The knot awaits its skilfully Jackalope, its striking unpicking. early-19th century wood panelling still proudly THE HOWARD DE WALDEN ESTATE intact but its facilities 27 Baker Street, W1U 8EQ extended to allow for the hdwe.co.uk

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What drew you to the How would you What advice would you property sector? characterise the give people who are I started in 1987, when I Marylebone market looking to sell? was 17 years old. I started at specifically? You’ve got to have your the bottom—and I’ve been Prices have definitely come asking price at the right QA trying to work to the top down. It’s very difficult level. Buyers will buy if they ever since! It’s the only job to be specific as to how see that the asking price I’ve ever had—I was never much, because it depends is right, but over-the-top even a paper boy. property to property. That property prices will end said, some properties, if up being reduced anyway, TIM You’ve been director at they’re really desirable, and there is a track on FAIRWEATHER Sandfords since 2006. haven’t come off at all. the internet of the price What does a typical day We’ve just exchanged coming down. Buyers look Director of look like? contracts on a big house on at that in a negative way. Sandfords My day to day job is Harley Street, for instance. Get the asking price right Marylebone on primarily overseeing the The price we achieved for in the first instance, listen sales side of W1—selling that was at the same level to comparable evidence in Brexit uncertainty, properties, conducting that we probably would terms of what has sold this interaction between valuations, that sort of have seen pre-2016. That’s year—not what’s on the sales and lettings, thing—but I oversee an example of a quality market now. and the return of the lettings department property that’s held its as well. I’m involved in all value. In this market, good What gives Sandfords the a more traditional aspects of it, I am as close property will sell. edge over other agents? approach to selling to the coal face now as I think I have more INTERVIEW: ELLIE COSTIGAN I was decades ago. I have Are you seeing much knowledge of this market trusted clients I’ve dealt difference in the types than most people and I’ve with for decades who come of transactions you’re worked in difficult markets to me for advice, so it’s dealing with? before. Plus, being a small, important I stay in tune The investment market is boutique agency gives us with the market. And I not as active as it was—most an edge because you get enjoy it. of the sales we are doing at better service. We have the moment are generally far more experience than How is Sandfords people who’ve got a good most—the directors are responding to turbulence reason for moving, or dedicated and involved on in the market? people who are buying a daily basis, dealing with I think we are responding for rental investment. buyers and sellers, and more than most. A lot of A lot of international—and each director has been in estate agents are sitting national—investment the business for well over there with over-staffed buyers are waiting to see 30 years. Buyers want to be shopfront offices. We where the market goes. dealing with an agent they have taken the strategic But people who need to feel they can trust—who decision to unify our move will always move, knows what they’re talking offices and departments providing the product is about. Gone are the days into one core hub, good and sensibly priced. where it was young kids covering from Marylebone running around opening up to Regent’s Park and Is there much interaction doors and expecting sales St John’s Wood, offering between the sales and to happen; you’ve got to a wraparound service. lettings markets? take people out to a lot Our focus is not volumes Very much so. That’s very of properties, show them of staff, but quality staff. important—it’s why we what is out there and build Because the market’s now have the two markets a relationship. I think trickier now, you need working in the same room selling property now has very good people in order together, because there’s a gone back to being a little to get the results. You lot of cross-feed into rentals bit more old school in that can’t just put bums on from sales, where people way. It’s about being honest seats and expect things haven’t achieved with people, vendors or to happen, it’s all about the results they’d like buyers, not trying to lead building trust with buyers in sales so are exploring people on a merry dance. and sellers. options for rentals. You’ve got to be very direct,

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of changing times. A lot of clients of mine own Buyers want to deal with considerable amounts an agent they can trust, of property and they who knows what they’re will come to me to rent talking about. Gone are them out. If they look to the days where it was young sell, they come to me for kids running around just advice. I am always happy expecting sales to happen to value portfolios—where there’s properties within Marylebone and other areas as well.

What do you like most about Marylebone? I lived in the area for a long, long time. I have two children, and when they were three or four, we moved out of the area to Hertfordshire—it’s only a 40-minute commute, though everyone thinks I live out in the Hebrides! But before that I lived in Montagu Square, then York Street. I loved the area, it’s very easy to live around here: the amenities, restaurants, pubs, bars, whatever you want, there’s an abundance of it. We’re between two parks, Regent’s Park and Hyde Park. People jump on tubes and in taxis but actually, in central London you can walk anywhere relatively quickly. You can walk from Marylebone to Kensington in under half an hour. You can walk to the river, if you’re very straight with people. international, and not just unrealistic to expect the brisk, in a reasonable It’s as simple as that. in Marylebone. The longer government to give up the amount of time. You can it takes, the worse it is for high level of stamp duty walk up to Primrose Hill What are your the UK property market. I in this country, although I from Marylebone. This projections? think whatever the deal is, think we should. time of year, with the sun That’s the million-dollar we will see some positive coming out, it’s really question. I’m positive signs of bounce-back in Do you have a core client pleasant. And you bump about the market. At the the market. I think towards base? into people—that’s one moment, the market is the end of this year, early Very much so. When I of the things I love about slow because of Brexit— next year, we could see a came to Marylebone in Marylebone. because the country’s not bit more growth, though 1995, it was very much a making a decision. That it would be unrealistic to local market. It’s much SANDFORDS MARYLEBONE 213-215 Gloucester Place, is affecting the whole say that prices will start more international now, NW1 6BU market, domestic and to go up. I also think it’s which I think is a reflection sandfords.com

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Guide Price: £2,650,000 Guide Price: £2,295,000

An outstanding 4 bedroom family apartment, A simply stunning new interior designed that has been reconfigured and refurbished to 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom (2 en-suite) an exceptional standard, in a secure 24 hour apartment, with quiet, private garden portered mansion block next to Regent’s Park. views, in a popular Art Deco building with 24-hour porter, on a long lease, ideally Leasehold: 94 years positioned next to Selfridges and Hyde Park.

‘My family and I want to put on record our Leasehold: 132 years appreciation for the professionalism you have shown during the purchase of our flat. You For full details or to arrange a viewing: provided us with impeccable service with 020 3091 9311 [email protected] utmost integrity and guided us with insightful www.jaffray-estates.co.uk and swift advice during the entire process.” Mr Al M, Baker Street.

Baker Street, George Street, Marylebone NW1 Marylebone W1H

Guide Price: £2,850,000 Guide Price: £3,850,000

A stunning 3 bedroom apartment, offering A stunning newly refurbished family 1,700 sq ft of lateral space, with 7 apartment with 4 en-suite bedrooms, in a south facing windows in a prestigious secure 24-hour portered block in Marylebone, mansion block in the centre of London. located next to Marble Arch and Hyde Park. Leasehold: 105 years Leasehold: 94 years If you are looking to sell, and would like either advice on the current market or a free market appraisal, For full details or to arrange a viewing: please call Nicholas Jaffray directly on 020 3091 9311 [email protected] 020 3475 1745 or email at: nicholas@ www.jaffray-estates.co.uk jaffray-estates.co.uk.

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Guide Price: £2,650,000 Guide Price: £2,295,000

An outstanding 4 bedroom family apartment, A simply stunning new interior designed that has been reconfigured and refurbished to 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom (2 en-suite) an exceptional standard, in a secure 24 hour apartment, with quiet, private garden portered mansion block next to Regent’s Park. views, in a popular Art Deco building with 24-hour porter, on a long lease, ideally Leasehold: 94 years positioned next to Selfridges and Hyde Park.

‘My family and I want to put on record our Leasehold: 132 years appreciation for the professionalism you have shown during the purchase of our flat. You For full details or to arrange a viewing: provided us with impeccable service with 020 3091 9311 [email protected] utmost integrity and guided us with insightful www.jaffray-estates.co.uk and swift advice during the entire process.” Mr Al M, Baker Street.

Baker Street, George Street, Marylebone NW1 Marylebone W1H

Guide Price: £2,850,000 Guide Price: £3,850,000

A stunning 3 bedroom apartment, offering A stunning newly refurbished family 1,700 sq ft of lateral space, with 7 apartment with 4 en-suite bedrooms, in a south facing windows in a prestigious secure 24-hour portered block in Marylebone, mansion block in the centre of London. located next to Marble Arch and Hyde Park. Leasehold: 105 years Leasehold: 94 years If you are looking to sell, and would like either advice on the current market or a free market appraisal, For full details or to arrange a viewing: please call Nicholas Jaffray directly on 020 3091 9311 [email protected] 020 3475 1745 or email at: nicholas@ www.jaffray-estates.co.uk jaffray-estates.co.uk.

MJ june 19 ads 98-103 Jaffray Estates.indd 6 23/05/2019 16:34:12 MONTAGU SQUARE, LONDON W1 £2,150,000 STC One of Montagu Square’s Finest Duplex Apartments SOLE AGENT

An extremely rare opportunity to purchase a 1st and 2nd floor duplex apartment, featuring a magnificent 23’ x 20’ reception room. ACCOMMODATION & AMENITIES Entrance Hall * Reception Room with High Ceilings * Master Bedroom with En-suite Bathroom * 2nd Double Bedroom with En-Suite Shower Room * Kitchen * Guest WC * Separate Study/Utility Room (off the communal landing and fully demised to the flat)* Communal Gardens Leasehold Approx. 34 years remaining - Although offered on a short length lease at present, a 90 year extension can be obtained. Please contact this office for further details.

THE LUXBOROUGH AT THE W1, MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET W1 £9,950,000 STC One of the Finest Penthouses in Marylebone JOINT SOLE AGENT

A sub penthouse, lateral apartment on the 5th floor of a brand new development in the highly sought after Marylebone High Street. ACCOMMODATION & AMENITIES Spanning 2,600 Sq Ft * Entrance Hall * Superb Terracing and a Balcony * Large Open Plan Reception/Kitchen/Dining Room with Doors out to The Terraces * Master Bedroom Suite with Dressing Room, Ensuite Bathroom and Doors onto the Balcony * 2 Further Double Bedrooms with Ensuite Bathrooms * Utility Room * Guest WC * Passenger Lift * 24 Hour Concierge * Secure Underground Car Parking * Underfloor Heating Air Conditioning * Quiet Outlooks * Leasehold 898 years

RESIDENTIAL SALES, [email protected] LETTINGS AND DRUCE druce.com PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 020 7935 6535 PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY

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Carisbrooke Court W1 £965,000 STC Faraday House W1 £1,400,000 STC Leasehold Approx. 101 Years Share of Freehold

Chiltern Street W1 £850,000 STC Falmer House £645,000 STC & £875,000 STC Leasehold Approx. 135 Years Leasehold Approx. 165 Years

RESIDENTIAL SALES, [email protected] LETTINGS AND DRUCE druce.com PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 020 7935 6535 PRIME RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY

MJ June 19 ads 104-105 Druce.indd 2 23/05/2019 16:50:32 Rent a property in Marylebone directly from The Howard de Walden Estate

Superb garden square apartment

Bryanston Square, W1H Marble Arch Underground Station: 0.4 miles MEDICAL OFFICE RETAIL & LEISURE RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION +44 (0) 20 7290 0970 +44 (0) 20 7290 0970 +44 (0) 20 7580 3163 +44 (0) 20 7290 0912 +44 (0) 20 7290 0970 Reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, dining room, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] dressing room, 2 further bedrooms, further bathroom, guest cloakroom, balcony extending across 4 rooms with access from 7 sets of double doors, lift, porter. EPC = C Leasehold plus Share of Freehold | 2,003 sq ft | Guide £4.395 million

Claire Reynolds Savills Marylebone The Howard de Walden Estate owns, Residential Sales manages and leases one of the largest 020 3527 0400 property portfolios within Marylebone [email protected]

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Superb garden square apartment

Bryanston Square, W1H Marble Arch Underground Station: 0.4 miles MEDICAL OFFICE RETAIL & LEISURE RESIDENTIAL EDUCATION +44 (0) 20 7290 0970 +44 (0) 20 7290 0970 +44 (0) 20 7580 3163 +44 (0) 20 7290 0912 +44 (0) 20 7290 0970 Reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, dining room, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] dressing room, 2 further bedrooms, further bathroom, guest cloakroom, balcony extending across 4 rooms with access from 7 sets of double doors, lift, porter. EPC = C Leasehold plus Share of Freehold | 2,003 sq ft | Guide £4.395 million

Claire Reynolds Savills Marylebone The Howard de Walden Estate owns, Residential Sales manages and leases one of the largest 020 3527 0400 property portfolios within Marylebone [email protected] hdwe.co.uk

FPMJ MaryleboneJune 19 ads 106-107 Journal HdeW May and100519.indd Savills.indd 58 2 23/05/201917/05/2019 16:51:47 10:47 Delightful freehold mews house Benefiting from an abundance of in a sought-after location. character and period features.

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Bryanston Mews West, Marylebone W1 Clarence Gate Gardens, Marylebone NW1

Bryanston Mews West is ideally located moments from the boutiques and Craig Draper looks forward to helping you. Perfectly positioned moments from the wide open spaces of Regent's Park as Ali Mathews looks forward to helping you.

restaurants on Marylebone High Street, as well as being a short distance from the well as being ideally located for the boutiques and restaurants on Marylebone [email protected] [email protected] hustle and bustle of the world-class shopping and restaurants in the West End. High Street. 020 3641 5853 020 3641 5853 • Extensive amount of living space and completely refurbished throughout 07823 416354 • Sought-after red brick mansion block 07968 622503

• Impressive outside space, with terraces on both the first and second floor • Benefiting from a dual aspect and wonderfully high ceilings • An abundance of natural light and double height ceilings in places • Balcony access from dining room and master bedroom

• Approximately 3,108 sq ft (289 sq m) • Approximately 1,515 sq ft (140.75 sq m)

Guide price Guide price £5,250,000 Freehold £1,750,000 Leasehold: approximately 166 years remaining knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly. Connecting people & property, perfectly.

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Bryanston Mews West, Marylebone W1 Clarence Gate Gardens, Marylebone NW1

Bryanston Mews West is ideally located moments from the boutiques and Craig Draper looks forward to helping you. Perfectly positioned moments from the wide open spaces of Regent's Park as Ali Mathews looks forward to helping you. restaurants on Marylebone High Street, as well as being a short distance from the well as being ideally located for the boutiques and restaurants on Marylebone [email protected] [email protected] hustle and bustle of the world-class shopping and restaurants in the West End. High Street. 020 3641 5853 020 3641 5853 • Extensive amount of living space and completely refurbished throughout 07823 416354 • Sought-after red brick mansion block 07968 622503

• Impressive outside space, with terraces on both the first and second floor • Benefiting from a dual aspect and wonderfully high ceilings • An abundance of natural light and double height ceilings in places • Balcony access from dining room and master bedroom

• Approximately 3,108 sq ft (289 sq m) • Approximately 1,515 sq ft (140.75 sq m)

Guide price Guide price £5,250,000 Freehold £1,750,000 Leasehold: approximately 166 years remaining knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly. Connecting people & property, perfectly.

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Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury WC1 Bickenhall Mansions, Marylebone W1

Located in the heart of the wonderful Bloomsbury area of Central London, a sought-after location Craig Draper looks forward to helping you. Perfectly positioned in the heart of Marylebone on Bickenhall Street, Bickenhall Mansions Ali Mathews looks forward to helping you.

benefiting from a real community feel. This exceptional Grade II listed townhouse is perfectly is a delightful, sought-after mansion block. Located moments from the wide open spaces [email protected] [email protected] positioned just moments from Russell Square with the delightful Queens Square on it's doorstep. of Regent's Park, as well as the boutiques and restaurants on Marylebone High Street. 020 3641 5853 020 3641 5853 • Wonderfully high ceilings and period features 07823 416354 • Wonderful bay windows and high ceilings throughout 07968 622503

• Exceptional living space, perfect for entertaining • Exceptional contemporary open plan living • Excellent amenities such as a home bar, gym and dressing room • Three double bedrooms all benefiting from en suites bathrooms

• Approximately 3,979 sq ft (369.65 sq m) • Approximately 2,028 sq ft (188 sq m)

Guide price Guide price £5,000,000 Freehold £3,150,000 Share of freehold knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly. Connecting people & property, perfectly.

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Great Ormond Street, Bloomsbury WC1 Bickenhall Mansions, Marylebone W1

Located in the heart of the wonderful Bloomsbury area of Central London, a sought-after location Craig Draper looks forward to helping you. Perfectly positioned in the heart of Marylebone on Bickenhall Street, Bickenhall Mansions Ali Mathews looks forward to helping you. benefiting from a real community feel. This exceptional Grade II listed townhouse is perfectly is a delightful, sought-after mansion block. Located moments from the wide open spaces [email protected] [email protected] positioned just moments from Russell Square with the delightful Queens Square on it's doorstep. of Regent's Park, as well as the boutiques and restaurants on Marylebone High Street. 020 3641 5853 020 3641 5853 • Wonderfully high ceilings and period features 07823 416354 • Wonderful bay windows and high ceilings throughout 07968 622503

• Exceptional living space, perfect for entertaining • Exceptional contemporary open plan living • Excellent amenities such as a home bar, gym and dressing room • Three double bedrooms all benefiting from en suites bathrooms

• Approximately 3,979 sq ft (369.65 sq m) • Approximately 2,028 sq ft (188 sq m)

Guide price Guide price £5,000,000 Freehold £3,150,000 Share of freehold knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly. Connecting people & property, perfectly.

MJ June 19 ads 108-111 Knight Frank.indd 4 23/05/2019 16:52:42 30 Years Experience in J &Co Jeremy James and Company Marylebone J Jeremy James and CompanyVillage

MARYLEBONE LANE, MARYLEBONE VILLAGE, LONDON W1

Mixed use investment building comprising ground and lower ground floor retail unit, plus three residential two bedroom flats (one with a roof terrace) on the upper floors. The building is located on the east side of Marylebone Lane, in the heart of Marylebone Village. The area is well known for it’s wonderful amenities including shopping, restaurants and bars and the green open spaces of Regents Park and Hyde Park as well as excellent transport links. For further details, contact Jeremy James and Company. Please see website for full details LEASEHOLD 999 YEARS FROM 6TH JULY 1920 POA

WIMPOLE STREET, MARYLEBONE VILLAGE, LONDON W1

A delightful interior designed duplex apartment on the ground and first floor of a beautiful period house in prime central Marylebone. This spacious (aprox 1295 sq ft/120sq m) two bedroom, two en-suite bathroom apartment offers ample living space with the added benefit of a study off the reception room, downstairs cloakroom and separate kitchen. The flat also boasts a fabulous wood floor and grand entrance hall. The internal common parts have recently been redecorated and re- carpeted, retaining original features. The building is located on the east side of Wimpole Street, close to the junction of New Cavendish Street. Please see website for full details £875 PER WEEK

+44 (0) 20 7486 4111 www.jeremy-james.co.uk [email protected]

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DEVONSHIRE MEWS Marylebone W1G

A recently refurbished mews property of approximately 1,248 sq ft located on one of Marylebone’s prettiest mews streets in a sought-after location in the heart of Marylebone Village.

Reception room • 2 bedrooms • 2 bathrooms • Unfurnished • EPC rating E

£1,200 pw/£5,200 pcm

Marylebone & Regent’s Park 020 7486 8866 [email protected]

DEVONSHIRE PLACE Marylebone W1G

A wonderful apartment measuring almost 1,400 sq ft and finished to a high standard in a prime location in the heart of Marylebone Village.

Reception room • 2 bedrooms • 2 bathrooms • Open-plan reception • Ground floor • EPC rating D

£1,225 pw/£5,308.33 pcm

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