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05-16. Up front 05. Forward thinking 12. Local lives 05. 28. 36. 16. My perfect day FORWARD TYPHOID DAIRY ROARING TRADE 18-43. Features THINKING HOW A WAVE A CELEBRATION 18. Model citizen YOUR GUIDE OF SERIOUS OF 15 YEARS 28. Typhoid dairy TO AUGUST ILLNESS IN OF THE 30. Pole position AND SEPTEMBER 1873 SPARKED A MARYLEBONE 36. Roaring trade IN MARYLEBONE FIGHT BETWEEN FARMERS’ RESIDENTS AND MARKET 44-49. Culture BIG BUSINESS 44. Q&A: Sebastian Faulks, writer 47. Cultural convictions 30. 36. 48. Book reviews 50-57. Food 50. Q&A: Andrea Fraquelli of 18. La Brasseria MODEL 56. Food philosophy CITIZEN 58-67. Style THE PUPPET 58. Q&A: Clare Hornby MAKER BEHIND of Me + Em THE OPEN AIR 62. The look THEATRE’S 63. Inside knowledge DINOSAUR 68-75. Life EXTR AVAGANZA 68. Q&A: Corin Mellor of David Mellor 74. Inside knowledge 18. 76-81. Health 76. Q&A: Al Russell, chief executive of The London Clinic 30. 82. 80. Mind games POLE POSITION INTELLECTUAL 82-85. Work THE POLISH PROPERTY 82. Intellectual property AMBASSADOR OLLY 86-93. Space ON CULTURAL FENN-SMITH, 86. Perfect pitch EXCHANGE, THE NEW CHIEF 90. Ask the expert STEREOTYPES EXECUTIVE OF 92. Q&A: Nicholas Jaffray AND BREXIT THE PORTMAN of Jaffray Estates ESTATE

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FORWARD ART ART FOOD THINKING UNTIL UNTIL 14th—18th YOUR GUIDE TO 17th AUGUST 18th AUGUST AUGUST 2018 AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER ONOME OTITE: CHRISTOPHER LE GRAND BAIN IN MARYLEBONE PATTERN OF LE BRUN: Edward Delling-Williams MOVEMENT NEW PAINTING is that rare and beautiful Pattern of Movement, Christopher Le Brun, a thing: a talented young a new show by London- widely celebrated British English chef with the based contemporary painter, printmaker and fortitude to take on the artist Onome Otite, sculptor and president of French at their own game, is a celebration of the Royal Academy of Arts, in Paris, and the skill to choreography and presents his first exhibition do so successfully. He costume. Otite uses hand- at Lisson Gallery, featuring originally made his name drawn pieces embellished colourful large-scale oil at St John before crossing with fabric to capture paintings, some dense the channel to become the relationship between and noisy, some light of head chef at the popular dancers and their clothing, touch; abstract works that Au Passage. He has since and its importance to the contain within them subtle opened his own restaurant, beauty of their movements. references to music and Le Grand Bain, a small literature. A culmination but increasingly voguish Circus of Le Brun’s work over bistro in the Belleville 58 Marylebone High Street, the past two years, New neighbourhood, with an W1U 5HT Painting is a collection inventive, ever-changing, circuslondon.com that is innovative, thought- hyper-seasonal menu. provoking and technically Now, Delling-Williams is complex. returning home for a week- long stint at Carousel. Lisson Gallery 67 Lisson Street, Carousel NW1 5DA 71 Blandford Street, lissongallery.com W1U 8AB carousel-london.com

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THEATRE PHOTOGRAPHY MUSIC THEATRE UNTIL UNTIL UNTIL UNTIL 26th AUGUST 1st SEPTEMBER 2nd SEPTEMBER 15th SEPTEMBER THE CAMDEN HIGH: REGENT’S PARK LITTLE SHOP OF FRINGE 2018 PHOTOGRAPHS BANDSTAND HORRORS Throughout August, FROM ABOVE CONCERTS An eclipse. A carnivorous The Cockpit theatre in From monochromatic Every Sunday between plant. A recipe for disaster. Marylebone will be one shots of a city waking up, 3pm and 5pm (plus Bank The stage at Regent’s Park of the main venues for to dazzling blue aerial Holiday Monday on 27th Open Air Theatre, despite the Camden Fringe, shots of a swimming pool, August), Regent’s Park’s hosting more than its share which features a relentless this exhibition brings iconic bandstand will be of gory Shakespearean and highly affordable together a collection of the venue for a diverse tragedies, has surely never programme of events, diverse photographs, programme of free seen a performance as providing a platform on depicting our world from family-friendly concerts, blood-curdling, scream- which bright new talents an elevated perspective. including a Brixton-based inducing, and heart- can shine. The Cockpit Photographers on show wind ensemble, a klezmer thumping as The Little is putting on more than include Olivo Barbieri, an band and a jazz orchestra. Shop of Horrors. Based 20 different shows across Italian artist and master on the classic Roger the course of the month, of the ‘selected focus’ Regent’s Park Corman film, this musical covering just about technique, known for Chester Road, production follows the every possible genre shooting while suspended NW1 4NR story of Seymour, a flower- of performance. The from a helicopter, and royalparks.org.uk/parks/ shop assistant on Skid Row, schedule includes fresh Kacper Kowalski, a the-regents-park and the consequences of takes on Shakespeare’s paraglider and pilot his discovery of a deadly The Comedy of Errors and of small aircraft and plant. With an outstanding Jean Anouilh’s Médée, gyrocoptors who exploits cast and crew, this solo shows about plastic his aeronautical abilities horticultural horror is sure dependency, music and to capture dramatic to be a hit. Regent’s Park the future of sex, some perspectives on the natural Open Air Theatre. Japanese physical theatre, and urban environments a musical about egg of Poland. Regent’s Park Open Air freezing, and a whole host Theatre of dark comedies about the Atlas Gallery Inner Circle, modern world. 49 Dorset Street, NW1 4NU W1U 7NF openairtheatre.com The Cockpit atlasgallery.com Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH thecockpit.org.uk

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MUSIC EVENT 17th SEPTEMBER 15th—23rd IAN BOSTRIDGE SEPTEMBER AND THOMAS LONDON DESIGN ADÈS: FESTIVAL: WINTERREISE MARYLEBONE D911 BY FRANZ DESIGN DISTRICT SCHUBERT Marylebone is this year The great English tenor providing one of the Ian Bostridge isn’t just Design Districts around familiar with Franz which the increasingly Schubert’s Winterreise impressive annual London [Winter Journey] song Design Festival is based. cycle, he literally wrote The area’s grid of attractive the book on it: Bostridge’s Georgian streets, packed Schubert’s Winter Journey: with characterful period Anatomy of an Obsession buildings, provides both traces the history, context accommodation and and personal significance inspiration for a genuinely of an enigmatic diverse and impressive masterpiece that has been collection of design a cornerstone of his career. retailers, galleries and Adding to the 100-plus workshops, ranging from times that the singer has interiors to millinery, performed the work on jewellery to furniture. Over stage, and promising the course of the festival, to be among the most partners will be hosting memorable, comes this workshops, demonstrations collaboration with peerless and exclusive launches, pianist Thomas Adès. centred around Marylebone’s chosen Wigmore Hall festival day, Wednesday 36 Wigmore Street, 19th September. Look out W1U 2BP for contributions from the wigmore-hall.org.uk likes of Another Country, Little Greene, David Mellor and The Conran Shop.

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FILM ART THEATRE EXHIBITION 27th SEPTEMBER UNTIL 29th—30th UNTIL KING LEAR: 30th SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 7th OCTOBER NT LIVE GARDEN SIX NIGHTS ON DISAPPEAR Fifty-six years after his SCULPTURE THE ACROPOLIS HERE debut Shakespearean Garden Sculpture This theatrical adaptation Since the Renaissance, performance, Sir Ian celebrates and explores the of Six Nights on the perspective has been used McKellen plays what will beauty of the stone statues Acropolis, the only by artists and architects to be his last in a haunting that add personality and completed novel by the depict realistic impressions performance as King Lear. life to parks, open spaces, Nobel laureate poet of the world. Sam Jacob Directed by Jonathan and our own back gardens. George Seferis, tells Studio has redesigned Munby, this modern Visitors are greeted with the story of an aspiring the main gallery at retelling of Shakespeare’s stunning contemporary poet and a group of RIBA’s 66 Portland Place most nuanced tragedy saw sculptures by the likes of young friends who make headquarters into an sell out audiences and five- Tom Greenshields, Carol their way up to the most interactive space in which star reviews at its original Peace, Simon Bacon, famous and beautiful of participants can explore showing at the Chichester Vanessa Pooley, Susan Athenian landmarks on original drawings and rare Festival Theatre, before Jones and Angela Hunter, six consecutive nights of books from the institute’s transferring to the ranging from striking a full moon. Directed by archive, all of which intimate Duke of York’s slate grey birdbaths Anastasia Revi, produced attempt the translation of theatre in London’s to burnished copper by Theatre Lab and The three-dimensional space West End—a venue that statues, all presented in Hellenic Centre and onto a two-dimensional has been rendered even the gallery’s beautifully starring the composer, surface. This fascinating smaller by having half its cultivated garden. writer and performer and broad-ranging seats removed. Happily, if Stamatis Kraounakis, it exhibition touches you’re unable to get hold Thompson’s Gallery is a tale brimming with upon the disciplines of of a much sought-after 3 Seymour Place, philosophy, poetry and art, architecture and ticket, you can catch the W1H 5AZ passion. mathematics. play at Regent Street thompsonsgallery.co.uk Cinema, which will be The Hellenic Centre RIBA streaming the theatre 16–18 Paddington Street, 66 Portland Place, performance live. W1U 5AS W1B 1NT helleniccentre.org architecture.com Regent Street Cinema 309 Regent Street, W1B 2UQ regentstreetcinema.com

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The Asia House Literature for women at each stage EXHIBITION INSIDE VIEW Festival is the largest pan- of their career. We also UNTIL 10th SEPTEMBER— Asian festival in the UK. It have author Xinran Xue in 6th JANUARY 2019 6th NOVEMBER focuses on writing from Asia conversation with Roseann SIR RICHARD ASIA HOUSE or about Asia—which we Lake, discussing the career 3 WALLACE: BAGRI think of as running from and family pressures facing 310 Turkey to Tokyo—and modern Chinese women. 40 Schools THE COLLECTOR FOUNDATION 100% Students LITERATURE the diaspora, particularly Young British-Indian poet 13 Nationalities To mark the opening of British-Asians. It has been Nikita Gill will look at how iGCSE/Brevet Represented its new and impressive FESTIVAL going for 12 years, but this social media has changed 33 PROGRAMME Community Pass Rate display space, The Wallace is the first I’ve organised the world of publishing 1:5 Projects Collection presents an MANAGER ANNA and I wanted to make it and talks about her book, Extra TEMBY ON WHAT Curricular exhibition that explores TO EXPECT FROM accessible—you don’t have Fierce Fairytales, which Staff to Inspiring critical minds, the life of its benefactor, THIS FESTIVAL OF to be a massive fan of the reinvents the heroines Pupil Ratio Sir Richard Wallace, and authors or be reading all of traditional fairytales, creativity and self-confidence his personal contribution ASIAN WRITING the time to engage with the while Zing Tsjeng will be to the collection—and in sorts of issues these events discussing the forgotten turn, the nation’s cultural will discuss; you don’t have women of history—the Creating opportunities to develop heritage—through the to have in-depth knowledge subject of her just-published lens of his eclectic artworks to enjoy the conversation. series of books. But it’s not students’ curiosity, social skills and passions and a delve into his One of the highlights only women: satirist Karl philanthropic legacy. will be BBC news presenter Sharro, or Karl reMarks as Mishal Husain talking he’s known, is coming in, The Wallace Collection about her new book, The as is Jeffrey Archer! Hertford House, Skills, in which she’s collated Manchester Square, information from her own Asia House W1U 3BN life and interviews with 63 New Cavendish Street, wallacecollection.org strong, successful women, W1G 7LP and given practical advice asiahouse.org

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few seconds later there was LOCAL the tinkling of glass as it LIVES fell onto the scaffolding MARK CHAPPELL NEWBERRY behind the nick. This was during the Mark Chappell Newberry, a retired police height of the IRA campaign sergeant, was stationed in Marylebone of the seventies and between 1969 and 1992 and now lives on eighties. We were actually having our Christmas Harcourt Street. Last year he published his meal at Paddington Green debut novel, November Uniform, which Police Station, with the draws on his experiences as a policeman Irish comedian Frank Carson as our guest, when INTERVIEW: JEAN-PAUL AUBIN-PARVU PORTRAIT: ORLANDO GILI we received word that the Balcombe Street Siege had been lifted. Then it became a double celebration. The move to Seymour Street didn’t happen until the early 1980s. It was a new I was born in Paignton, a Ronnie Kray out of his bed. development—they were seaside town on the coast There was the odd bit of building the police station Here was one of Britain’s of Torbay, Devon, but spent excitement, for example, from the basement up— premier unknown much of my childhood in Walter ‘Angel Face’ Probyn and occasionally we’d pop composers, a modern Wiltshire. In late 1960, getting ambushed by a along to see how the work Elgar, toddling off to the I took off to join the newly squad team operation, with was going. supermarket with his formed Metropolitan his wife chasing him up I remember various carrier bag Police Cadet Corps—and the road shouting “shoot well-known personalities so began my next life. them Wally”—or words to coming to the counter The commandant, that effect. A young lad got during my years in Lieutenant Colonel Noel in the way of a truncheon Marylebone, including Croft, was quite a character. being thrown at the fleeing the commentator Peter He was an Arctic explorer, culprit and became a local O’Sullivan, in the company a former SOE man and just hero. There were times of a certain royal racehorse perfect for the job. After my when you just had to laugh, trainer whose car had been initial training at Hendon even when it got a bit rough clamped. There was a film I was sent on what they and tumble, but it was a star arrested for drink called ‘second phase’, in good place to learn how to driving and the wife of a my case to Bow Road police be a policeman. well-known Hollywood station in the East End, and I then moved to script writer—an Oscar then onto the third phase Marylebone Lane, a tiny winner no less—who was at Limehouse just down Victorian police station. arrested for shoplifting. the road. I was attested in I referred to it as ‘Widow One example of the March 1963. Twankey’s cottage’. If you downsides of my job was I remained at walked in off the street and the discovery one night that Limehouse police station turned to the right you a prisoner had defecated until 1969. Limehouse arrived at the tiny counter so hard that it had gone covered a large expanse, and front office where straight up his back and taking in both the Isle of you found me, the station into his hair. I spent the first Dogs and much of the East officer. half hour of my late shift End. We witnessed the last I remember being at getting him cleaned up and hoorah of the docks, with Marylebone Lane when then putting his soiled suit Jack Dash and his union the IRA detonated the into a property bag, which still going on strike and bomb outside Selfridges. his wife was most upset to causing lots of problems. We had received a warning be handed. That was the We were there when and managed to clear sort of thing you faced as a the Krays were making the street. There was this custody officer. problems and a pal of mine initial ‘woomph’ sound During my early years was in the team that nicked rather than a blast and a at Marylebone Lane I was

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warden, Marie Mee, and the local detective sergeant, Ernie Swift. Miraculously, the Arthur also encounters a local lowlife, in the form of a dodgy bookmaker, who blade had missed is smuggling drugs. That’s the plot in a nutshell. both eyes and it Back in the early nineties I was lamenting the lack of tuneful classical British was the congealing composers to a friend of mine, Peter Morris, blood that made a composer in his own right. Peter asked if I’d ever come across George him fear that his Lloyd, which I hadn’t, so he lent me a tape of Lloyd’s sight was lost. fourth symphony. I was so impressed that I started doing some research Lucky indeed and discovered that George actually lived in Marylebone. I then attended a concert featuring one of his pieces at the Royal Festival Hall. Not long after, I saw George passing the bookies and so ran down the street on night duty when I heard of them had grabbed a imitation pistol. There was and accosted him. We the most almighty ruckus weapon and lashed out, a bit of a fracas between me had a good chat before he coming from the charge striking the injured officer and the guy with the gun, went on his way. Here was room. Opening the door, in the face. whom I managed to hold one of Britain’s premier I was met by a scene from a Years later I was onto until help arrived. unknown composers, a horror film. On his hands enjoying a pint in my local, He subsequently got three modern Elgar, toddling off and knees in a rapidly The Windsor Castle on years. But the guy with the to the supermarket with spreading pool of blood Crawford Place, when a knife legged it out the door his carrier bag. Anyway, we was a CID officer with his stranger approached me and was never brought began corresponding and nose hanging away from asking if I’d worked at the to justice. he once invited me to tea his face. Beyond him, old Marylebone Lane police I retired in April 1992. with his wife and himself being held against the station. He had been the Last year I self-published at their home in Clarence barred window by officers victim of that bloody attack, a comic crime novel. The Gate Gardens. I last met brandishing chairs and a faintly visible horizontal title, November Uniform, him a few months before truncheons, was another scar across the bridge of his is taken from the phonetic his passing in July 1998. man struggling violently. nose testifying to his injury. alphabet and the book Ever since then I’ve I managed to guide the Miraculously, the blade is set in 1992. Drawing been pushing for Proms injured man to a nearby had missed both eyes and inspiration from my own performances of his work, detention room and it was the congealing blood background, my lead without much success. But used bedding to staunch sealing his eyes that made character Arthur Moe is an the amateur orchestral the flow of blood, while him fear that his sight was East End police sergeant scene in London has been listening to his vocal fears lost. Lucky indeed. approaching retirement more than positive, the of being unable to see. I too I have always enjoyed a who receives the news that latest development being feared the worst. punt and was in my local his father, a racing-mad that the Ealing Symphony Apparently two men bookies one afternoon punter, has died of a heart Orchestra has undertaken had been brought in when two young guys burst attack. Arthur heads back to perform all 12 of his with a range of cleaver or in wearing balaclavas. to Devon to arrange the symphonies over the next machete-style weapons. One was armed with a funeral. There he meets year or two. So things are Without warning one knife and the other held an the rather attractive traffic finally looking up.

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The Journal visits the tiny workshop of Max Humphries, the puppet maker whose extraordinary creations will be blowing the minds of many a child at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre this summer WORDS: JEAN-PAUL AUBIN-PARVU IMAGES: ORLANDO GILI, ROBERT DAY

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“Why are children so fascinated by knowledge and exuberance about project with a clear vision. “My goal dinosaurs?” ponders puppet designer dinosaurs. So I hit it full on. Yeah, it’s was to put dinosaurs on stage in a way and maker, Max Humphries. “That’s totally my jam—I love dinosaurs!” that felt very theatrical, so it didn’t feel a really good question. There’s like a museum exhibit. It had to feel obviously the mystery surrounding Dinosaur World Live tells the story of like something that was living and dinosaurs: the fact that they were here a palaeontologist, Miranda (played breathing, and you were there with and then weren’t. Kids also like the by Elizabeth Mary Williams), who, these creatures.” variation—there are lots of dinosaurs after being shipwrecked, was raised Remarkably, these giant dinosaur and you can have your favourites, on an island inhabited by dinosaurs. puppets were made in a workshop so almost like Pokémon. Also, you can Many years later, having fixed her small you could barely swing a sabre go and see their bones. Dinosaurs boat, she brings some of her reptilian tooth cat in there. “I made them in are majestic, mysterious and almost chums over to meet the people of the tiny workshop behind us,” says mythological in their scale. And the UK. The dinosaurs range in size Max. “And then we had a garage yet they really existed, which is the from a theatre-filling Tyrannosaurus hired from the museum in town, so coolest thing about them.” With that rex right down to a cuddly baby we did it between the two. It’s quite Max takes a puff on his pipe. triceratops in a funky coloured hard to fit a 10-metre-long T rex into We are sitting outside his tiny spotted babygrow. Other species a nine-metre-long workshop, but we workshop at Farnham Maltings. It include Giraffatitan, Segnosaurus managed it somehow. It was a bit of was here that Max and his small team and Microraptor. a squeeze.” created the prehistoric puppets that The show, whose creative team The process began with research. will fill the stage for Dinosaur World includes writer and director Derek Possessing a strong knowledge of Live, a new interactive family show Bond and puppet director Laura dinosaurs gave Max a head-start. running at the Regent’s Park Open Cubitt, is aimed at children of three The next step was to employ a skilled Air Theatre this summer. As a child, years and above. “Children come paleontological artist—the search Max was completely obsessed by without any preconceptions and they for which was fairly straightforward. dinosaurs, partly inspired by the work aren’t jaded like adults,” says Max. “Obviously I employed my dad of his father, book illustrator Tudor “Also, they are completely in touch because he’s been doing it for years. Humphries. “My dad illustrated with the suspension of disbelief and So, he came up and we talked about many dinosaur books, so I grew up are much more likely to play along what dinosaurs we were going to spending all my time at the Natural without worrying about what other make. I always start with a drawing History Museum,” he says. “Dinosaurs people think of them. And when you and then from the drawing I work out were a big part of my childhood.” put them onstage and ask them to the mechanisms.” Being asked to be puppet designer walk a baby T rex, they are fully up Max works from the inside out. for a show about prehistoric creatures there walking a baby T rex.” “Once I know what I’m going to was pretty much his dream job. Max’s involvement as puppet make, I start building the skeleton. “When Ollie, the producer, contacted designer was a marathon slog lasting I work out where the puppeteers are me and said they were thinking the best part of 10 months, with him going to go, how the thing needs of doing a dinosaur show I don’t and his team working 12-hour days, to move and what it needs to do. think he was quite prepared for my six days a week. He launched into the Once I have the skeleton, I then start

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working out how the puppet is going of insane, because obviously we don’t was very important to us from the to look on top of that, and building really know what they looked like in start. We wanted it to feel like these up. And if you get the skeleton right, terms of colour.” were trained animals that had been the puppet will move beautifully. In deciding which species to brought on stage, rather than just The outside of a creature reflects include, Max didn’t want to focus a procession of beautiful images. its internal structure.” solely on the Victorian classics. “I have That theatrical likeness was While Max focused on the tried to keep it as scientifically up to something really important.” machinery, including all the levers, date as possible, which is why I pushed cogs, linkages, gears and springs, for having dinosaurs such as the Max, 34, grew up in rural Devon colleague Chuck Brown used the Segnosaurus in the show alongside with his parents and three brothers. same plans to create wax models, the classic T rex and Triceratops, His father worked from home. “Dad showing what the body of each Many of the dinosaurs that people would often set us artistic challenges puppet would look like to scale. are most familiar with are the ones at the start of the day,” recalls Max. “The skeletons, we mainly make out of discovered 150 years ago, but there “We’d often come downstairs to find aluminium, laser cut plywood, water have been loads of cool dinosaurs paper laid out for us, so there was a jet cut materials and 3D printing, and discovered since then.” lot of painting, drawing and making then lots of hand machined and hand The puppets are all capable of stuff. I did my first puppet show at made parts as well,” says Max. “So, it’s sophisticated movements. They can about the age of four, and from then a mix of using industrial scale parts blink, they have mouths that open on whenever people asked me what I and parts that I’m literally making on and tongues that can stick out and wanted to be when I grew up, I’d tell my lathe.” The body of the puppet, lick things. Every movement has to them I wanted to make puppets. And made from foam, is carefully attached be triggered by a puppeteer—no basically, I’ve been making puppets to the skeleton. Feathers and skin easy task considering it takes several nonstop for the last 30 years.” are added, carved into the body to puppeteers to move and manipulate During his teens Max landed a job produce the desired textures, before the adult T rex. “A big part of our as a Punch & Judy man and went on the final painting begins. job is trying to strip weight down as to study theatre design at the Royal One of the most striking things much as possible,” explains Max. “But Welsh College of Music & Drama, about Max’s dinosaur puppets is the more weight you strip down the which included two modules on just how colourful they are. “My weaker the puppet gets. So, you have puppet making. “From there original pitch for the show was that to keep this balance of strength to I spent the next year or so working I didn’t want green, grey and brown weight—it’s a constant problem.” for whatever people could pay me, dinosaurs. My puppets are very Arguably the show’s greatest just to learn more about puppets. brightly coloured—bright blues, triumph is just how natural each of I earned about £4,000 to live off in my greens and reds. They’re the colours these movements is. “A lot of that first year, and was like a wandering you’ll see if you’re lucky enough comes from Laura Cubitt,” insists journeyman. I was then in Bristol for to go to the jungle—vibrant colours. Max. “Laura is ex-Warhorse and one a couple of years, working with Green I think the Victorian illustrations of of the best puppet directors in the Ginger and Pickled Image.” dinosaurs have done a lot to define country. She is really good at finding These days Max is puppeteer in how we think of them, which is kind those animalistic movements, which residence at the Farnham Maltings

I think the Victorian illustrations of dinosaurs have done a lot to define how we think of them, which is kind of insane, because obviously we don’t really know what they looked like in terms of colour

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What I love about puppetry is you have to be a sculptor, engineer, leatherworker, shoemaker and dressmaker. You have to learn carpentry, metalwork, electronics, brazing, welding, tech drawing and 3D modelling. I can meet any craftsman, take one of their skills and apply it to my work

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arts centre in Surrey. “They are really was at the Science Museum a while As well as Dinosaur World Live, supportive and even let me have one ago where they have the big beam audiences at the Open Air Theatre of the unused spaces as a workshop. engines built by James Watt, and I this summer will also have the chance The Maltings does amazing work and used one of his mechanisms and built to marvel at Max’s creations for the I’m very proud to be here. I took on that into one of my eye mechanisms, production of Little Shop of Horrors. my first apprentice, Chuck Brown, just because I could see how I could But there’s no rest for the wicked, about six years ago, my second, use that with the puppetry. So, I’m because he and his team are currently Charlie Hoare, probably three years constantly inspired by everything hard at work creating the puppets ago and have just taken on my third, I see.” for the forthcoming Madagascar Izzy Bristow.” Max is also a student of movement. musical. “That’s going to tour all over Farnham Maltings is a stunning “Graceful movement is something I the UK,” says Max. “So right now we’re location to ply one’s trade, but don’t always want to get in my puppets. If making lots of penguins and lemurs.” imagine Max leading a rarefied I’m making an animal, the first thing No doubt these adorable existence. His workshop is freezing in I’ll do is look at slow motion video of creatures will prove as big a hit with winter and a furnace during summer. how it moves. And then I’ll study its young theatregoers as they have But Max seems far too engrossed in skeleton, so I know exactly where the with Max’s two-and-a-half-year-old puppet making to even notice. “What joints are, and work out where these daughter. “She loves all the puppets,” I love about puppetry is you have to be things and how these things have to smiles Max. “She has grown up in an engineer, sculptor, leatherworker, move. Movement is always where my the workshop and will also often shoemaker and dressmaker. And work comes from.” FaceTime me for a chat before then you have to learn carpentry, That work has been utilised by the bedtime. She’ll then ask to see what metalwork, electronics, brazing likes of Cirque du Soleil, the National I’m working on, which can take quite and welding. And that’s not even Theatre, the Royal Opera House, a while. But, yeah, she loves them.” getting into all the things I do on the the Royal Ballet, the New York Met, And has she ever asked him to computer. So, I’ve had to teach myself Little Bulb Theatre, Figurteatret i bring any of the puppets home 3D modelling for the 3D printing we Nordland, the Bristol Old Vic and with him? “No, but she gets a bit do, and tech drawing so I can get all Lyric Hammersmith. “Working sad sometimes when they leave the the stuff laser cut and water jet cut. with Cirque du Soleil was both a workshop to go off to the shows. But that’s what I love about it. I can professional and personal highlight,” I think she’s really going to miss the meet any craftsman, take one of their beams Max. “I was working with penguins, because she absolutely © Pierre-Yves Riom skills and apply it to my work.” the designer from Pan’s Labyrinth, loves them.” which is one of my favourite films. It Perhaps Max could make a spare Max’s work draws inspiration from was quite daunting working in a shed one for her? Japan’s Bunraku puppet school, the with a guy who’s won an Oscar. I went “If only I had the time,” he laughs. automata of 18th and 19th century out to Canada and spent a long time Europe and the drama theory of with those guys, who are amazing. DINOSAUR WORLD LIVE Edward Gordon Craig—Max even Their work is unique to them and 14th August—9th September Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre boasts a tattoo of the great man. But the scale of it and the ambition is just Inner Circle, NW1 4NU inspiration can strike anywhere. “I breathtaking.” openairtheatre.com Converting power into DINOSAUR WORLD LIVE performance. 14th AUGUST —9th SEPTEMBER First-class private banking solutions; comprehensive financial and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre investment offering; delivered one relationship at a time. Inner Circle, NW1 4NU openairtheatre.com

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TYPHOID DAIRY In 1873, the children of a Marylebone doctor were struck down by a horrible illness, and his attempts to uncover its cause would lead to a tense showdown with the corporation responsible for supplying the area’s milk WORDS: TOM HUGHES

It was 1873, and Dr Charles was frantic. Murchison, both father for the neighbourhood. The Murchison was a leading figure in and physician, desperately sought Great Marylebone Milk Panic was London’s medical and scientific some explanation: in the drains, in underway. community. Aged just 43, born in the water, from playmates, whatever. Jamaica, trained in Edinburgh, From neighbours and colleagues, Unusually, this particular sickness he was the senior physician to the he began to hear similar accounts. outbreak wasn’t in some squalid London Fever Hospital, and his Rarely were the adults in any of the slum, but rather in the “aristocratic treatise, The Continued Fevers of homes affected. Since children parish of Marylebone, one of the Great Britain, was considered a were by far the greatest consumers most wealthy and salubrious districts masterpiece of its ilk. For many years, of milk, his focus turned to the of the metropolis”. And Murchison Murchison had been trying to trace supply of this frequently adulterated was also taking on no less than the the means by which typhoid fever beverage. The quality of London “admirably well-managed” Dairy could be spread. That summer, the milk was a regular subject for Reform Company (DRC), founded doctor would have the opportunity, discussion and concern. Even the specifically on the pledge to sell only unwelcome though it was, to observe best milk was often thinned with “pure milk”. Early trains from the that dreaded disease close at hand. as much as 30 per cent water. At its Home Counties brought DRC’s fresh That July was scorching hot. At worst, it was a whitish mix of chalk milk to King’s Cross for delivery by their home at 79 Wimpole Street, and water, one that Punch described carts to London’s best homes by 8am. the numerous Murchison children, as a “wishy-washy triumph of art over The DRC headquarters were on ages nine down to an infant, would nature without ever having been Orchard Street, Portman Square; its find themselves falling ill, one by possessed of a cow”. directors included peers, physicians one. The three oldest girls, Effie, Within days, Murchison had and scientists. “All the doctors in the Clara and Helen, poorly with fever, ascertained that more than 80 per neighbourhood have this particular diarrhoea and lethargy, were sent cent of the fever cases in Marylebone milk, and recommend it to their away from disease-ridden London to involved families served by the same patients. If anything was safe, recover. Soon after, the two youngest, dairy. On 4th August, he went to it was the milk.” bonny little Roderick and baby sister the Court House on Marylebone Although the Marylebone Katherine, came down with much Lane to report his concerns to Dr bureaucracy and the dairy offices the same symptoms. Their mother John Whitmore, the health officer were only a few streets apart, the

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offered to halt sales but only if the only 244 cases, in 143 households,

Marylebone vestry would indemnify almost all well-to-do. There had There had been far larger and them for lost revenues. The offer been, and would continue to be, more deadly fever outbreaks was declined. far larger and more deadly fever in other parts of London, but Public pressure drove the Local outbreaks in other parts of London, location and class will ever matter. Government Board to appoint an but location and class will ever Disease, death, and misery were independent inspector. DRC agreed matter. Disease, death, and misery not commonplace in one of the to allow its farms to be visited, in the were not commonplace in “one of healthiest parts of one of the company of its own director-scientist. the healthiest parts of one of the healthiest cities in Christendom The answer came quite quickly. A healthiest cities in Christendom”. widow named Jessup ran the Chilton Among the dead were a clergyman Grove farm in Buckinghamshire, and a teetotal butler, both of near the “remote hilltop village whom were mourned as great of Brill”, a later favourite of John milk drinkers. The inevitable Betjeman. The poor woman’s parliamentary review concluded husband, who’d been sick for some that the idea that the fevers were time, died rather suddenly in June; caused by the infected milk supply, the suddenness led to a report that “amounts for all practical purposes he died of heart disease. But a local to a certainty”. The DRC escaped physician admitted that the man had condemnation, but was advised, exhibited all the signs of typhoid in the future, to act more quickly fever. In fact, the doctor had ordered upon “reasonable probabilities” that “all the evacuations from the and “not wait upon a minute bowels of the sick occupier of the etiological elaboration”. farm, and all of the chamber slops from the sick room” be dumped DRC announced new and stricter well away from the cowkeeper’s procedures, more regular farmhouse. Alas, the “ashes” were inspections of its milk suppliers and a dumped in an area where they very renewed pledge to provide London’s likely contaminated the farm’s water purest milk. The publicity attendant ensuing squabble was handled in a supply, which was used for washing on the Marylebone outbreak proved series of very proper but increasingly the milk-cans and churns. the theory that milk can be a vehicle acrimonious letters. Dr Whitmore, Still, it was a day or two before to transmit typhoid germs. New citing Murchison’s claims, urged the DRC finally admitted the truth: regulations throughout Britain were DRC to give “serious consideration” “There is now, we regret to say, no imposed with a predictable rise in to halting milk sales until the source doubt that a large percentage of milk prices. “If we will have things of this tainted product could be the recent cases of typhoid fever pure, we must pay for our security, located. The DRC’s secretary replied in Marylebone, as in some other and the choice seems to be, ‘Your that the claim was “absolutely districts, has been caused by milk money or your life.’” unsupported by any evidence supplied by this company.” The In April 1874, a small ceremony whatsoever”. Not even the entry of firm was roundly censured for was held in the drawing room of Harley Street’s legendary Sir William obstructing the investigation from Dr Murchison’s home in Wimpole Jenner to the cause would sway the the first, refusing to “put in peril the Street. The room was crowded dairymen. Meanwhile, the sick list dividends of their shareholders for with neighbours and medical lengthened, including “a titled lady”, the sake of a chance of preserving colleagues. Among those present, children of a respected nobleman human life”. Dr Murchison, whose on their best behaviour, were the and “a strangely large proportion children had all recovered from Murchison children, “patient of cases occurring in the families of their complaints, raged on. At least zeroes”, to borrow a phrase, for medical men”. two deaths, perhaps more, had the milk outbreak. Their dad, in The press were brought in— been linked to the milk. Murchison acknowledgement of his skill and headlines shouted news about denounced the company’s conduct perseverance, was presented with a the “remarkable outbreak”, the as tantamount to manslaughter. set of silver candlesticks and a gold “extraordinary spread” and the “Monstrous and absurd,” retorted watch. “We owe to you the vigorous “mysterious disease” ravaging DRC and lengthy, highly scientific proceedings which forced an inquiry Marylebone and the West End. papers flew back and forth in the and arrested the epidemic,” read Londoners were urged to boil their medical journals. the embossed testimonial. Among milk. Pressure mounted on DRC but Once the milk from Brill was the undersigned were many listed its directors rejected “panic-stricken” stopped, the outbreak ended. as former customers of the Dairy appeals to stop sales. Eventually, DRC Despite the great panic, there were Reform Company.

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‘Plenipotentiary’ is not a word most of had added the practical side of important part of his job, as it fosters us will hear in our professional lives. that relationship. It means that I greater understanding of his native In fact, it is not a word that many of us can be here in this country putting land among the British. People tend will ever hear at all. It is derived from my knowledge to use, and in a to think of ambassadors frantically the Latin words ‘plenus’, meaning very real sense helping to build playing the geopolitical game of full, and ‘potentia’, meaning power. connections between us and our treaty negotiations and alliances, but It means that the person to whom it is British friends.” while these are clearly vital areas of applied has been granted full power the role, Arkady’s function is far wider of independent action on behalf of This is an activity that has been going than that. He believes that there is a their government while abroad. It on in one form or another for a great deal of misunderstanding of his was coined in the mid-17th century great deal longer than people might native land in the UK, and he wants us when information could take weeks realise. Arkady explains that the first to look at it again with fresh eyes. to travel between capital cities, and tentative contacts between the two Arkady points to recent history political decisions were sometimes nations took place between King as the cause of many people’s necessary in days or even hours. Ethelred the Unready and Bolesław misconceptions. For almost 50 Amid all the pomp and ritual, it is the the Brave in the 11th century, when years after World War II, Poland word plenipotentiary that makes an the world and both of these countries was cut off from western Europe, ambassador an ambassador—and it were very different places. In 1597, in the grip of Soviet control. This was a word that Arkady Józef Rzegocki Paweł Działynskiá was dispatched by meant that for five decades, while became deeply familiar with in 2016, King Zygmunt III, supposedly to be strong cultural links were being when he was appointed the seventh part of peace negotiations between forged between Britain and the rest Republic of Poland ambassador to the England and Spain, but mainly to of Europe, Poland, along with the Court of St James’s. complain to Queen Elizabeth I about other Warsaw Pact countries, was “The epoch is different of course,” Drake, Frobisher and England’s excluded. “Even though it has been says Arkady, with a smile, refering to free-wheeling privateers attacking over 30 years since we regained our his early modern predecessors. “But Polish ships that were trading with the freedom, it takes many years to get the core idea of their job and mine Spanish. Działynski’sá forthright and over that gap in time, for people to is exactly the same. We are here to very undiplomatic manners enraged stop thinking about us as an Eastern spread knowledge and to increase the English court, but he did manage Bloc country,” Arkady explains. the closeness of the relationship to undertake negotiations on the “This is why building cultural links between our two countries.” issue with some success. is so important. For example, if you Prior to entering the world of Luckily, today there are no visit a country, you create memories, diplomacy, Arkady had built a such Rabelaisian Englishmen make friends, and it becomes part distinguished academic career. menacing Polish merchantmen of your life. Many people in the He is an associate professor at the on the high seas, so the ambassador UK retire to parts of Europe, but at Jagiellonian University, the oldest has time to turn to the significantly the moment Poland is not in their university in Poland, and a visiting more pleasant task of arranging thoughts. There are beautiful places professor at Cambridge University the celebrations to mark the in Poland, so it is part of my job to on Polish affairs. His main fields centenary of Poland’s independence change stereotypes about it, and try of interest are English and Polish from the Russian, German and to get it in the same place in British political thought and the uses of Austrian empires. minds as France or Spain.” soft power. He has been involved “We regained independence The benefits, he says, can be in projects designed to promote on 11th November 1918 at the end economic as well as cultural—the knowledge of his home country of the First World War, and at the ambassador is certain that after in Britain. He has organised a moment we are engaged with helping gaining a deeper knowledge of his postgraduate study course entitled to organise a Polish Heritage Day country, British people will be more ‘the Polish-British strategic to celebrate that,” the ambassador likely to do business there. He points partnership’, which was taught in explains. “Events will be taking place out that few people here realise both Poland and London. It would, in towns and cities around the UK. that Poland is one of the biggest quite frankly, be difficult to think of There will be concerts, exhibitions, countries in the European Union, anyone better suited to his job. conferences, meetings, artistic events with a dynamic and fast-growing “In many ways this position is and historical events organised by economy. “Even some Poles living simply a continuation of a lifelong the Polish diaspora. We are having a in other countries do not quite interest,” he says, sitting in a grand concert in the Guildhall, because that realise the improvements at home,” reception room in the Portland is where Chopin gave the last concert he adds ruefully. “Things like the Place townhouse that houses the of his life, and there is also a major condition of the roads, the location Polish embassy. “In the past, I concert in the Royal Albert Hall.” and number of airports, the railways, focussed on a theoretical analysis According to Arkady this kind of the facilities available in cities, many of the relationship, whereas this job cultural exchange is perhaps the most of the things that make living and

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Those in Britain, as elsewhere, Arkady believes it to be crucial stayed in their adopted country, that both sides work very hard to to your diamond putting down roots and becoming ensure that cultural, historical, part of local communities. They economic, political, scientific and anniversary party, started Saturday schools, Scout personal ties are not thrown out with troupes, parish churches, libraries the economic and legal ones, as that 66 Portland Place and other institutions as they began would be to the great detriment of to settle and integrate. both sides. “From my perspective, A further wave of Polish migrants it is obvious there should be some is a landmark Art arrived here following Poland’s special relationship between the accession to the European Union European Union and the United Deco venue for all doing business much easier—all of in 2004. “There are now over a Kingdom,” the ambassador tells me. these have improved hugely. This million Polish citizens in the UK, “We share so many common values, is what I mean when I say there is which makes it the largest group of and cooperation on issues like the celebrations in not enough knowledge. I am sure foreign nationals in the country,” defence, security and our economies if British businessmen knew more Arkady reveals. “Dealing with should be very close.” life, right on your about what life was like and what them and representing them is an These are interesting times for the environment was like in Poland important part of our task.First and Anglo-European relationships there would be more business done foremost, we are here to help them and Arkady Józef Rzegocki is not doorstep in the heart between the two countries.” at a consular level, if needed, dealing the only ambassador having to with problems with passports or navigate uncertain waters, but of Marylebone. While the relationship goes back other identification papers. If they for him this in an era filled with a long way, the 20th century saw a find themselves in some difficulty opportunities as well as significant defining moment in Anglo-Polish which requires official assistance, risks. “The vote to leave the EU Parties | Weddings | Anniversaries | Private dining relations with the coming of World perhaps if family problems arise and subsequent negotiations Bespoke events | Conferences | Meetings War II. It was, after all, the Germans’ back in Poland, they may ask us for have put the relationship between Training | Product launches | Film and photo shoots refusal to withdraw from Poland assistance. But beyond that, I believe our two countries under greater Award-winning service | Dedicated event management that led Neville Chamberlain to the Polish community in Britain scrutiny,” Arkady says with a smile. In-house catering by Harbour + Jones | Two to 400 guests declare war. 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The opportunity to not been for the magnificent work and in many ways are representing meet so many of my British friends of the Polish squadrons and their Poland just by living their lives. and exchange knowledge about unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to Sometimes part of my job is simply our cultures is always a pleasure. say that the outcome of battle would to celebrate this and to help them One of the necessities for being have been the same.” They truly continue to do so.” an ambassador is to love both your were a fundamental part of Britain’s Of course, in any discussion homeland and the country you are ‘finest hour’. involving Britain’s relationship in. I am a proud citizen of Poland “I believe there were 20,000 Polish with Europe, it is hard to escape with a long affection for Britain and pilots in the United Kingdom during the British vote to leave the EU, a the British way of life. The ability the Second World War and they were decision Arkady regrets but says he to be intimately involved with both second only to the British in the Battle must respect. “We are really good in my working life makes being my of Britain,” says Arkady. “Poland had friends with Britain and from my country’s ambassador a real joy.” MAKE AN ENQUIRY a lot of flying experience, much more perspective it is obvious that both so than many of the British pilots who the European Union and the British THE EMBASSY OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND [email protected] | 020 7307 3888 IN LONDON architecture.com/RIBA-Venue-Hire were being newly trained.” need to work hard to maintain the 47 Portland Place, W1B 1JH One of the biggest migrations best aspects of the relationship,” londyn.msz.gov.pl

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“I can still remember being shown Marylebone today, with

the site,” Cheryl Cohen recalls, its smorgasbord of butchers, Our customers are local. wonderingly. “I remember having bakers and fishmongers, but We get the odd tourist, but the someone take a picture of me on the back in 2003 it was a bit of a vast majority come from within a steps to the car park and saying, this wilderness, food-wise. Waitrose one-mile radius. We wouldn’t be is going to be a market. It’s a shock, and La Fromagerie aside, the selling joints of lamb and pints of really, to realise that was 15 years area offered remarkably little in Hurdlebrook milk if they weren’t ago.” Marylebone farmers’ market is the way of fresh, seasonal, high celebrating its 15th anniversary this quality food. year; London Farmer’s Markets, the umbrella company of which Cheryl “It seemed like a good location is a director, is approaching 20. And and La Fromagerie was very with developments to the car park encouraging,” Cheryl remembers. necessitating the move of the market Most Marylebone shops were closed (it’s not going far, don’t worry), the on Sundays, leaving the area bereft time feels plum-ripe to reflect on of people as well as food options. The Moxon Street car park’s weekly farmers’ market has brought many metamorphosis from rough tarmac things to Marylebone—William’s to treasure trove. famous sandwiches not least among “I’ve lived in Marylebone for at them—but perhaps one of the most least 25 years and I have seen all of its enduring has been the village’s changes,” says local resident Renata Sunday retail boom. “We wanted Brady. “One of the best things to to encourage people to stay in have happened is the arrival of shops in the area—to support local its farmers’ market. I’ve been a businesses, as well as come to the regular since it started and now I market. We encouraged shops and can’t remember a Sunday morning cafes to open and created a food without a mushroom sandwich from trail with The Howard de Walden William.” William Rooney is one Estate around the village,” she says of two brothers behind Mushroom proudly. “Even Waitrose told us their Table. When the market first Sunday sales had increased since started, there was very little cooked we’ve been here.” food. Cheryl suggested to William When Nanette Pigaga, another and Matthew that they sell hot regular, was moving to London from mushroom sandwiches alongside the United States, her estate agent their produce. “They’ve cursed me took her to Marylebone and, passing ever since!” she grins, when I marvel Moxon Street car park, said casually, at the length and enthusiasm of their this is where the farmers’ market queue. It’s hard to believe looking at is held each Sunday. “That was all I

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There aren’t any town squares in the centre of London, put it like that. And there aren’t many places where you can be on first name terms with the people who grow your food, either

needed to hear,” says Nanette. “I told amazed by the sense of goodwill vendors has become something of him I wanted to limit our flat search and community at the market. I’ve a distinguishing feature of London to Marylebone from that point.” always felt valued: whenever I spoke Farmers’ Markets. “People might The first market opened on a wet about the cheeses, people were want something to eat while they’re Sunday in June 2003. It didn’t rain so genuinely interested and listened. shopping, but it’s not the prime much as pour down on the stalwart Often quite an audience would motivation. We want people to be group of stallholders as they laid out form,” recalls Will Nash, who for able to shop for ingredients to cook their wares—yet the good people many years worked on the stall for with,” says Cheryl firmly. of Marylebone still came, ate, and Bath Soft Cheese. He describes “I don’t like to use the word ‘purity’, loaded their baskets and bags-for-life great friendships forged between but we’ve always been quite strict. with produce. “If people will turn traders and customers—and We grow it, we sell it. It’s as simple out in the rain for it, it’s probably indeed, when I ask Corinne as that,” she continues. London’s going to work out,” Cheryl said to Gautier of Madame Gautier for farmers markets are just that: herself—and sure enough, with the her highlight of the 12 years she’s markets to support farmers. exception of Christmas and New been in Marylebone, she doesn’t Indeed, so strict were they when Year, the market has opened without describe being voted the customers’ they first set up, “it took a long fail every Sunday since. “We open favourite stall (as it was this year), time for us to even allow coffee”. every week. We open at Easter. or selling to celebrities, but a family Meanwhile, those who have been We open in the rain, snow and sun,” who returned from an entire year’s wondering when they might be she says, feelingly. “We want this to sabbatical to tell them how Madame able to get a stronger brew with be somewhere people can rely on Gautier had accompanied them their shop will be pleased to know to shop for their food each week.” all over the world. “One of the the rules have been changed to Not only that, but by virtue of being children’s favourite games had been allow brewers and distillers to sell in an open space in the centre of playing at being Madame Gautier,” here. “Vineyards we’ve always had, Marylebone, the farmers’ market she continues, beaming. “They took because you can grow grapes in this has become something of a weekly it in turns cooking dishes to sell at country—but hops are difficult,” meeting point for residents, many of the market, buying them at the stall, she acknowledges. As a result, you’ll whom only know each other through reheating their purchases and finally now find Bucks Star Beer at the coming here. serving the fictitious delights to their market: a solar-powered, zero-waste “There aren’t any town squares parents.” It was Marylebone that microbrewery in Milton Keynes in the centre of London, put it inspired Corinne and partner Mark that produces live beers without like that,” says Cheryl, when I ask to start selling their freshly made pasteurisation, filtering, fining or her what she feels the market has French dishes at farmers’ markets, adding sugars or CO2. “We move brought to the community. “And and they are one of the few vendors at our own pace,” she smiles—a there aren’t many places where you permitted to sell ready-made food. description which seems fitting for can be on first name terms with the a market trading in carefully crafted, people who grow your food, either.” It might sound counterintuitive, time-honoured ‘slow’ food. “Over the years I’ve worked in but in a city increasingly dominated One of the most recent stalls to Marylebone, I’ve never ceased to be by street food, not having hot food join the market, Heritage Cheese,

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is being manned by Laurence MARKET ECONOMY Layer Marney Lamb Verfaillie. “I was part of the market A selection of the traders at the Grass-reared, free range, native breed for two years and have missed it Marylebone farmers’ market lamb, butchered on-site in Essex and so much since I left Bath Soft brought directly to the market by James Cheese in January, so I am delighted Coe, who also supplies free-range to be back,” she tells me happily. chickens and, come the season, She’ll be selling Quicke’s cheddar: game birds shot on the farm. a marvel of milk that’s been two years in maturing and more than Opera Ice Cream 450 years in the making. Mary Gourmet ice-cream made in Quicke is the 14th generation in The Garlic Farm north London using a range of her family to turn the ripe, creamy Fresh, unfrozen, untreated garlic, locally high quality ingredients, including milk of her Devonshire farm into grown and sold as is, or made into a range Somerset milk and organic eggs cheddar. It’s a perfect fit for a market of garlic-based pickles and relishes. from Rookery Farm in Sussex. which Laurence says reminds her “of a French street market more than Vadasz Deli Longshore anywhere else”—praise indeed for Pickles, relishes, kimchi and sauerkraut, Simon Long catches fish off the north a woman born and raised in France. made in London using recipes that call Norfolk coast in his dayboat Don’t In September, Marylebone upon Nick Vadasz’s family Hungarian- Know. He also gathers up oysters, farmers’ market will move up onto Jewish heritage. mussels and, in summer, samphire Aybrook Street. “We’ll be on the and winkles in the sheltered waters pavement around the car park The Culinary Herb Company behind Blakeney Point. initially, then there’ll be a market Started life as a small allotment, but such hall going up and we’ll be in there, was the demand for herbs of superior Hurdlebrook spilling out onto the street,” Cheryl quality, the business is now based at Silky, golden raw milk and cream from tells me. She’s not worried. “We’ve a larger nursery on the outskirts of grass-fed Guernsey cows, produced at be working on that for a few years London, which provides an even wider the Somerset farm run by Dave Paull, now,” she continues. Besides, if the range of seeds, sprouts and herbs. a third generation dairy farmer. traders and customers I’ve spoken to are anything to go by, you don’t get much more loyal than a Marylebone To get to Marylebone, Edwin Broad people of all creeds, colours and farmers’ market regular. “Our of Riverdale Organic Farm rises at ages. “It’s really cosmopolitan, customers are local. We get a few half four on Sundays. “We’re a very with regular customers who tourists, but the vast majority come small concern. There are only three originate from many different from within a one-mile radius. of us on the farm, and we grow more countries,” Edwin says of We wouldn’t be selling joints of lamb than 105 different lines over the year. Marylebone. “This makes us work and pints of Hurdlebrook milk if We sell our organic produce at four at really giving them what they want, they weren’t.” There’ll be the different markets in London at the which is so rewarding.” Food is a odd tourist, lured by the scent of weekend. Marylebone is my market broad church—and there is indeed sizzling mushrooms or the sound and I love it. I really look forward to something religious about so many of oyster-shucking at Longshore, but coming to work here,” he tells me. people coming together every they are welcome additions rather For regular customers Ann and Sunday to break bread handmade than staples. “It is really important Carl Eastman—who are 76 and 90, by ex-offenders and the long-term to us that we are rooted in the respectively— being able to support unemployed at the award-winning community.” “those farmers who care about their The Dusty Knuckle bakery, stock up land and stock” has been twofold. on garlic from The Garlic Farm and London Farmers’ Markets are “It’s revolutionised our eating—we catch up with each other. important to the communities never buy fruit or vegetables doused Marylebone Farmers’ Market in which they are based, and in chemicals and refuse to touch has seen many changes. Come Cheryl and the traders take that poultry unless it’s free range and September, it will see another responsibility very seriously. But hasn’t been routinely treated with one. But I have every faith we’ll be the markets are equally vital to the antibiotics. This has undoubtedly toasting its 30th in 2033 with a live bakers, makers, fishermen and helped to keep us healthier, happier beer and some oysters—because farmers themselves. These are small and active.” with organic, unpasteurised beer scale operations—one-man bands, Street food markets are being brewed on your doorstep, in some cases—which, without the glorious things. I for one would who needs champagne? support of Marylebone and other not be without a good mac and MARYLEBONE FARMERS’ MARKET markets, would struggle to exist. cheese truck. But it’s at the city’s Moxon Street car park, W1U 4EW Many of them work 24-seven. farmers’ markets you’ll find lfm.org.uk

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In Birdsong, you describe I think fiction has the a book about a man like the savagery of the power to tell people things me. Spin that round, and First World War in such in a way that’s uniquely it is possible for me, too. vivid terms, I felt sure powerful. If you think of Unfortunately, this view, when reading it that any George Orwell, a lot of that liberal consensus, has kind of repeat would be people’s understanding failed because not enough impossible. Now I’m not of totalitarianism comes people believe in it. The so sure. To what extent can from having read 1984 and president of the United we learn from the past? Animal Farm. Of course, States doesn’t believe in The war was a low point there are numerous people it. And that gives rise to for Europe. This continent who understand it from identity politics, because thought of itself as the having lived through it, but people believe they have best in the world. It had for those of us who didn’t, I to fight to be the loudest: had the Renaissance, the certainly got a much clearer to seize the mic and say, Enlightenment, fantastic idea from those novels “My grievance is greater scientific and cultural than I did newspapers or than yours.” discoveries—and then, contemporary history. Interestingly enough, when weapons of mass The same goes for my American publishers killing were developed, had Solzhenitsyn’s novels, were far more sensitive little compunction about which give a much clearer about this cultural QA using them. And to achieve account of how the Soviet aspect of my book than what, exactly? And yet, if Union worked than my London publishers, you compare the Europe anything written at the who weren’t remotely of 1910 and the Europe of time, not least because of bothered. Their problems 1990, we had moved from a censorship. Of course, films with race are different to SEBASTIAN world of kaisers, kings and and documentaries have a our problems, for obvious FAULKS archdukes to democracy. powerful role to play, but reasons, and their way Speak to NATO and they’ll I think the novel is unique of dealing with them is One of the UK’s point out that the number in that it can take you deep different. I wouldn’t say finest novelists of people killed in war since into the consciousness one is ahead or behind, on enlightening 1954 has fallen to the lowest of an individual, and so but they are on different since the early 19th century. give you an insight into journeys. All I can do is literature, identity So, there are grounds for a historical situation you listen respectfully. politics and the optimism. My view is might not otherwise have essence of a great that history is partly had, as Hilary Mantel did What drew you back to bookshop linear, partly a mess— with Thomas Cromwell. France for this novel? and it only tells us so much. I actually don’t think about INTERVIEW: CLARE FINNEY To understand humanity, In your latest novel, Paris it as going back to France. PORTRAIT: MUIR VIDLER you really need to bring in Echo, one of the lead I think of this book as anthropology and look at characters is a 19-year- being about Paris in a way the very strange nature of old Moroccan boy. Is your that is very particular. I the animal you are dealing ability to inhabit such first went to Paris when I with. We are a recently characters ever stifled by was 17 to study after I left evolved creature, and a identity politics? school, and I felt I had very unstable one. The First I think novelists have to unfinished business. I have World War wasn’t the war believe they can inhabit never really liked the city, to end all wars. It wasn’t the lives of the characters and I was curious to find the end of anything: it was they have created. Tariq out what it was that people the beginning of a strange, didn’t exist before I created do like. I thought going benighted century, and we him. My belief—and it is somewhere I didn’t very don’t know if it will go down partly because I am a child much like would help me as a horrendous blip in the of the sixties—is that what to avoid writing a terrible history of humanity, or the unites us is far greater touristic love letter—which beginning of a new savagery than what divides us, this most certainly isn’t. in humankind. and therefore there is no If you think you are going reason why a young woman to read about having a Do you think literature in South Korea shouldn’t, café au lait and a croissant has the power to inform with sufficient research in St Germain, you can and enlighten? and talent, be able to write forget it. You will be in

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places you will never have just as I was—though I December in London? seen as a visitor, and you did live in Paris for three No, I felt that was a version Fiction has the power will be eating some pretty months for research. of the city, really. What to tell people things in disgusting food, too. In some ways it is more united the characters a way that’s uniquely difficult to set a story in was that they all lived in a powerful. If you think of Is there much difference London, because I know it virtual reality—whether George Orwell, a lot of in your authorial so well. I don’t look around that was drugs, dealing in people’s understanding approach to Paris Piccadilly Circus and have financial derivatives, or on of totalitarianism comes compared with London? a feeling for a character or the internet as a religious from having read 1984 Not really, but then I am a story, I look around and fanatic. It enabled me to and Animal Farm not writing from the view think, god, this again? look at London in a new of a Parisian. My two lead light. characters are both seeing So did you struggle the city from the outside, with setting A Week in Paris Echo explores the reverberations of the city’s past through the protagonists—yet unlike Rome or London, the architecture of Paris is almost uniformly 19th century. Does Paris echo? I hope that when you read the book and see the epigraph from Victor Hugo, you’ll understand it. The thing about France is every metro station, street and square is named for historical reasons. In London they are named after families, or because there was a river there or a market; in France, everything is named after a soldier, statesman, politician, inventor, artist, explorer, doctor or a significant historical event. Paris is basically one huge self-advertisement for French glory. Yet at the same time—and this is the paradox—the people of Paris are extremely... unforthcoming. And they have a lot to be unforthcoming about. That is the echo. For me, the fact the architecture is of a piece—from 1851 to 1870, during which period the city was rebuilt— creates a slightly sinister uniformity. Every building, every street, looks the same as the next, but it isn’t. That’s part of the intrigue. The past is available in Paris if you choose to tune into it.

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Your protagonists, Tariq In the book, Tariq has You have the rare ability and Hannah, could not what appears to be an SEBASTIAN to be both popular and be more different, one a out of body experience. FAULKS: literary. Do you feel there runaway teenager from Is that a real thing? PARIS ECHO is often a disconnect Morocco, the other an It is indeed. You can look 13th SEPTEMBER between the two? American post-doctoral it up. It’s believed to be a There is a disconnect, if you Daunt Books researcher. Where did connection thing: your think of a very literary poet 83 Marylebone High you find them? brain is slightly lagged, like John Berryman then Street, W1U 4QW To be honest, I can’t everything is out of sync, think of James Patterson, dauntbooks.co.uk really remember. Initially I then it syncs again—but who barely writes English needed two characters no one really knows. It really. One sells very few to exemplify very different does, however, play nicely copies, the other more ways of looking at the into my strange romantic than 100 million. But then world. The book is about idea of the double or Shakespeare—the greatest many things, but perhaps doppelganger. It was also writer in the language, as most critically it asks a way into the book: when well as the most popular whether if you are well I was in Paris, I went to an and enduring—gets informed, like Hannah, evening class to improve performed every night all you will necessarily lead my French—I could speak over the world. I think my a better, more worthwhile it, but my comprehension books are pretty serious, life than if you are less wasn’t always great—and so I’m constantly surprised informed, like Tariq. the teacher there gave they sell in the numbers However, I didn’t want us poems. One of them they do. It goes against the puppets—they needed was a haunting poem by perceived wisdom. But other aspects to them as Alfred de Musset about I think you can get hung well. I wanted someone a double-type person, up on these things and I from north Africa because and it was just the key. I am certainly not going to an important part of strongly believe in those complain that they sell. Paris is its relationship little moments which open with former colonies, doors for you—but you Come September you’ll be particularly Algeria, have to do the research, in Daunt Books to discuss Morocco and Tunisia. and more importantly you your novel. What makes a The relationship between Tariq was initially have to be there. If I hadn’t good book shop? America and France has Algerian, but I thought been heaving myself into I can answer that quite always intrigued and it might seem a bit heavy- a child’s desk on a damp simply: I stumbled upon amused me. Mention handed—like I was trying February evening in Daunt’s in Marylebone the word Paris to an to make a point about suburban Paris, I would once and thought, “I want American and they say, the Algerian War, which never have got this clue. to buy everything.” I wanted “Oh, I just adore Paris.” indeed I am, but it’s better so much it was almost Mention America to a to come at that from an Is there a connecting frustrating: it was brilliantly Parisian and they have angle. I can’t remember thread in your work? well chosen and displayed. nothing but loathing why Hannah is American. The way that intensely Daunt’s makes books feel I’m not very good at private emotions and urgent and important. It’s English characters and private individual decisions nothing like a warehouse, it might also be something are, in ways you might but it looks plentiful and to do with the relationship not be aware of, affected well curated. There is a between America and by public events and the Daunt’s near where I live, France, which has always movements of history. That on Holland Park Avenue, intrigued and amused is one thing. Then, looking and the feeling in there is me—this long and back, I feel that the first similar. You feel like you completely unrequited eight books I wrote ask, who can get anything in there, love of one country for are we and how did we get but can be steered towards the other. Mention the ourselves into this mess? just what you need. word Paris to an American The ‘we’ being human SEBASTIAN FAULKS: and they say, “Oh, I just beings. The next eight PARIS ECHO adore Paris.” Mention ask what we are: why is the 13th September America to a Parisian and human animal so strange? Daunt Books 83 Marylebone High Street, they have nothing but But that is a broad brush, in W1U 4QW loathing. retrospect. dauntbooks.co.uk

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art, but he also gave away a lot of money. He received a Légion d’Honneur for his donations to the needy of Paris, during the French Revolution.

8. When Hertford House closed for refurbishment, he allowed Bethnal Green Museum to house his art—all these places in Knightsbridge and Kensington and he chose a poor neighbourhood. Wallace’s philosophy was to CULTURAL make art accessible—and, Wallace liked pieces fantastically, the collection CONVICTIONS with provenance. drew two to three million SIR RICHARD WALLACE He was particularly people, many of whom were keen on those related Curator Ada de Wit on the philosophy cabinet makers, who could to important historical be inspired by different of Sir Richard Wallace, whose 200th figures anniversary is commemorated in a new designs, patterns and prints. exhibition at the Wallace Collection 9. One of the most brilliant INTERVIEW: CLARE FINNEY pieces is a 16th century ‘cabinet of curiosities’, carved out of box wood, which has a very fine grain, allowing a great level of 1. The problem with was particularly keen on provenance. It’s for this detail. They must have used Richard Wallace is that we those related to important same reason, we think, that magnification—there is no don’t really know much historical figures. he bought a trophy head other way they could have about him. There are no from Asante—present created something like this. family papers, no letters, 4. While the galleries day Ghana. The Asante Unsurprisingly, it was one no memoirs. We don’t here are renowned people controlled extensive of the pieces Wallace chose even know for certain that for their French 18th gold resources and were to be painted when he had he was illegitimate. We’re century and Dutch Master renowned for the items someone paint a selection pretty sure, but we’ve never paintings, Wallace was they made. This head of his collection. found any concrete proof. interested in medieval art, probably depicts a tribal the Renaissance and— king—it didn’t matter to 10. Wallace died in 1890, 2. All we really have is his unusually for his time— Wallace if it was an African in Bagatelle, France—and collection of art. How you exotic pieces, too. We have king, a Chinese emperor or we’re pretty sure it was he interpret it is up for debate, some spectacular gold a member of the European who instructed his wife to but when you look around wine cups, decorated with aristocracy, as long as it was give his art to the nation. this dedicated exhibition pearls, precious stones and a person of importance. Again, we don’t have proof, you will see his taste was kingfisher feathers, made but in 1897 she gave the quite specific. for the Qianlong Emperor. 6. Wallace moved to whole collection, together There are only four of these London from Paris in 1872, with Hertford House, to the 3. For this exhibition, we’ve in the world; we have two. mainly because England country. It was among the picked out some highlights They’re a perfect example was more stable. Victorian greatest gifts ever made to from his collection. It of what he loved: the gems, society would not have been the nation. There’s nothing seems eclectic—ancient the gold, the exoticism. easy to integrate, given his comparable. Chinese vases, decorative status as an illegitimate armoury, snuff boxes, 5. We have no proof that son with a middle-class SIR RICHARD WALLACE: bronze nudes—but they Wallace knew much about wife, but his philanthropy THE COLLECTOR do all have something in Chinese culture. He just helped him here. Until 6th January The Wallace Collect common: Wallace liked appreciated colourful Hertford House, Manchester Square pieces with provenance. He art with an interesting 7. Wallace bought a lot of wallacecollection.org

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It’s also underpinned by some of media, Akala is the BAFTA and pretty sound cultural insights into MOBO winning writer, thinker and the driving ideologies of Britpop’s hip-hop artist responsible for The decline from optimistic self-referential Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, wistfulness into “blokey, triumphal, Knowledge is Power Vols 1 & 2, emotionally reductive” degeneration. social entrepreneurship across There are also some brutal glimpses several continents and a number of the dynamics of gender, power of viral YouTube clips. Natives is an and politics—the narrative tackles autobiography that also functions as these spectacularly and satisfyingly. a polemic against systemic racism, a Suzanne’s determined gate crashing dissection of the human aftermath of of the misogynist Brat Awards (“in a the British Empire, and an eloquent room full of powerful men, women series of essays about race and class. tend to stay silent”), and Dolly’s It’s often profoundly moving. passionate panegyric to the culturally- The early chapter where a five-year- derided passions of teenage girls are old mixed-race Akala, subjected disquietingly relevant. to racial abuse, realises that he is Moran also writes incredibly well racialised as black and his mother about sex, which is vanishingly rare. as white is poignant, frustrating Not just incandescent, filthy, hungry, and sad. Another scene where a adoring sex but terrible sex, the kind teacher—in multiracial Camden— of sex people have because they think describes lynching as “crime- they ought to want it or can’t work fighting” is horrifying, and throws out how to avoid it, and she captures the comfortable complacency of not just physical experience but King’s desire to get his favourite white privilege into sharp relief. emotional timbre. She nails absolutely married off enables the dissolution Whatever the horrors of my schooling, the complex mess of shame and of Frances’s dysfunctional and at least the people entrusted with settling and searching that attaches occasionally brutal marriage and a my education never advocated for to sexuality for women, and in the match between the pair. At first they my genocide. It’s not always an easy process sets all of us free. are happy, but Overbury, an old flame read, bringing home the depth and Full of compelling characters, of the King, loathes Frances and complexity of oppression and struggle narrative pace and sharply observed the whole Howard dynasty, and as faced by so many people, but it’s comedy, How to be Famous is a wise, his friendship with Carr (and Carr’s argued with a ferocity and precision insightful meditation on human relationship with James I) begins to that are singularly impressive. nature and gender politics, wrapped break down, he ends up defying the Akala’s genius lies not just in his in some filthy, funny jokes—and that is King and being flung into the Tower intellectual rigour but in his ability a considerable achievement. for his pains. I haven’t said much to put complex cultural flesh on the about Frances and that’s intentional, bare bones of a ‘bright kid on the THE POISON BED because despite sharing the narrative wrong side of the tracks’ salvation EC FREMANTLE she’s a slippery and conflicted story. He rejects that narrative £12.99, Michael Joseph character, and to reveal much more absolutely. Instead, he digs deep into than the enchanting surface would the cultural power dynamics that The Poison Bed is a creepy and give far too much away. weighed against him and recognises powerfully immersive retelling of The Poison Bed is unerringly the contributions that British one of the greatest scandals of the addictive. Fremantle’s writing has a Caribbean supplementary schooling Jacobean court: the prosecution of dynamic quality and an immediacy and family and community support James I’s favourite Robert Carr and that draws the reader in, whether or made to his success. his beautiful wife Frances Howard for not they’re familiar with the material He’s not optimistic, at least about the murder of minor courtier Thomas of the story. the immediate future. As he says, Overbury. Rumour has swirled about “the 2018 child will likely have far the dynamics of that particular drama NATIVES: RACE AND less chance of ‘lifting themselves for some 400 years, but Fremantle’s CLASS IN THE RUINS out of poverty’ than I did, as the vision is a plausible, interesting and OF EMPIRE mechanisms that helped make often disturbing version that gets AKALA that possible for me continue to under your skin and stays in the back £16.99, Two Roads be deliberately eroded.” But while of your brain, twitching. the existence of such a fierce and Robert Carr, King James’s lover, For anyone who’s missed his impassioned activist’s intelligence is bewitched by Frances, despite her articulate and intelligent social may not solve anything, it’s hard not marriage to the Earl of Essex. The commentary across various forms to see in it some reason for hope.

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First thing’s first: what of people who have since I have known since I was was your relationship come in here saying how a child. The chef, for with Getti, the Italian much they disliked Getti example, is like an uncle. restaurant that was here and avoided going in! I’m He was a really important for over a decade before not offended: we’ve had person in my unstable QA La Brasseria opened? almost as many people twenties—someone who Getti was one of four telling us how they loved was not my father, who I restaurants my dad owned Getti, and hoped we were could be totally honest through his restaurant still the same place— with. All the best people I group Metropolitan, and I because the food was good. have worked with in past 10 ANDREA worked here as a manager It was the best thing about years are in this building. FRAQUELLI during my twenties. It it. What was bad was the Then of course there is did very well when it first restaurant’s appearance. my brother, my current The co-founder opened, and even towards I’m not sure I should tell business partner. He’d and manager of the end had loyal customers, you this, but if people come never been in the family La Brasseria on as the food was excellent. in and say they hated Getti, business—he was a lawyer But it was tired. Outside, I tell them it is different, and had worked in the City working with family, Marylebone was changing because it is different. for 20 years, but he was falling in love with a lot, especially in food and They stay, eat and leave tired of the long hours, Paris, and the drink, but Getti was in a bit happy. And if people come and jealous of my freedom. difference between of a rut. The ambition was in saying, “You haven’t We’re chalk and cheese: zero. I worked here under changed it have you? I loved he is the straitlaced one ambition and greed my father for a decade, then Getti!” I say, “No, not at all,” with the legal background INTERVIEW: CLARE FINNEY three years ago we had a because in many ways we and nice shoes. I am the PORTRAIT: ORLANDO GILI bust-up: admittedly I didn’t haven’t changed. We’ve one with tattoos and sports always behave as well as the same chef, the same gear. If we weren’t brothers, I should have done— food suppliers and many we wouldn’t be friends. I liked a party, and it of the same staff who were As it is, we have a great wasn’t unknown for me at Getti. And those people relationship, and being to wake up in New York stay, eat and leave very such opposites has worked when I was meant to be happy too. very well for La Brasseria. starting a shift—but I was also fed up of having no How has working How so? stake in the restaurant. in a family business My brother’s background In the end, it was a good influenced you? and professionalism thing: we re-established I am a third-generation made us look very strong our relationship on better, restaurant owner. My in front of the banks. At more honest terms, and grandad, Lorenzo the same time, I brought when my brother joined me Fraquelli, founded experience in the in the business we seized Spaghetti House— restaurant industry. Now the chance to transform London’s first ever Italian we’re established, we are Getti into La Brasseria, and restaurant chain—in the run like a very organised our father happily took a 1950s, so he was pretty British institution by my step back. influential. He worked brother, but me and the with his brother and boys and girls who work So, it’s a totally different brought over various family the floor try to bring restaurant? members from Italy to charm and character. The For a while, we were going work in the restaurants customer doesn’t get a to hold on to our heritage as the business grew, but corporate animal, and the by including Getti in he passed away when my bank doesn’t feel we are the name. Then to our dad was young. My dad unprofessional. designer’s dismay, three started working there with weeks before we were due his uncle, then in 2000 What other restaurant to open, my brother and I decided to set up his own experience do you have? sat down and said: “It’s do group of restaurants. I When I was younger, I or die. Let’s drop the whole worked with dad from wanted to investigate how thing and start afresh.” the age of 13, waiting other people ran their I’m so glad we did, partly tables—we have a few restaurants, so I worked because of the number employees in the company in Zuma, worked at The

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remember exactly where I special occasions, and the our teams to feel they’ve a was and how I felt writing menu is Italian but caters stake in the business. My Italian food is as good as this letter. Anyway, my for a busy city that eats at second home is New York, ever, but they’ve forgotten dad calmly wrote back all times of night and day. because my mum is a New the role that mood plays. and said, continue your Yorker, and I want a second When you’re arranging to studies and let’s talk when Your menu reflects restaurant there, but meet, you ask yourselves you get home. I ended up a diversity of Italian nothing unmanageable. what atmosphere is graduating and, after a cuisine, yet you describe The term I despise is ‘roll conducive to what you are very brief career as a semi- yourself as a Milanese out’: I don’t want 30 or 40 doing—and only then do pro footballer, which my restaurant. How come? restaurants, I want three you look at the menu dad largely subsidised, he We do have the veal and or four. insisted I get a job in his the risotto alla Milanese, restaurant group again. But but you’re right: our chef is You fell in love with what happened there was Tuscan and we have dishes Paris, lived in Barcelona the start of all of this: I loved from Sicily, Venezia, Lazio, and describe New York as Wolseley. It was super Paris, I loved the restaurant all over. The Milanese your second home. How instructive. I learnt a lot business, and I loved all- element is really about do you identify? about making money at day dining, which Italian the metropolitanism My mum is Turkish and Zuma—it’s a printing cuisine does not permit. and stylishness. Milan is grew up in New York. My machine—but it was the only city in Italy that dad is Italian and grew from Wolseley owners Why doesn’t it? is truly international— up in England, so I was Chris Corbin and Jeremy In Italy we eat lunch and Rome is internationally brought up half Muslim, King that I learnt about dinner religiously. We visited, but it doesn’t adopt half Catholic, half Turkish- hospitality and providing don’t eat breakfast: we have anything. Milan is more American, half Italian- the best service. To this day a cappuccino, maybe a open-minded than the rest English, and for a while they go from restaurant to cannoli to dunk in it, and of Italy, which sells nothing I was really confused. As restaurant—they are always a fag—and that’s it. Italian but its own food. The it turns out, it’s been an in them—and all of them cuisine is primarily based city has opened itself up absolute blessing, because provide a human element on peasant food from the because of business links, I am not fiercely proud of you don’t get somewhere countryside. The dishes fashion and geography. anything. I can go to Paris like The Ivy. Then, during demand time, they form That is what we wanted to and fall in love with that university I spent a year in long sit-down meals, and convey. city, in a way a real Italian Paris as part of my degree aren’t suited to the eating couldn’t bring themselves and worked in Café de la environment of the city. You have mentioned to do, and I can put French Paix opposite the opera Here, people want to eat wanting to open a and Spanish wines on house. It was there that the at any given hour of the number of restaurants. the menu, which my dad idea for La Brasseria started day—and usually with Aren’t you wary, given couldn’t believe. When I to take shape in my mind. someone. We consume the plight of some came back from living in food and drink in social or chains recently, of over- Barcelona, he laughed that What happened in Paris? business meetings. It’s not expanding? I preferred Spain to Italy. Café de la Paix was—still always necessary, but it gives It’s a fine line, but for me I said, “No, I prefer the is—a super Parisian us something to do while there is a real difference Spanish to the Italians.” monster restaurant, we talk. Italian restaurants between ambition and I can be all of those things serving breakfast, lunch have fallen behind, I think. greed—and I don’t want to and none of those things. and dinner to numbers The food is as good as be greedy. My dad showed I can be at home wherever I had never seen before, ever, but they’ve forgotten me how to manage a neat I am. My profound and I just fell in love. I the role that mood plays. company of four to six realisation over the had good friends, this When you’re arranging restaurants. It allows you past few months has job, a little romance, all to meet someone, you ask to be hands-on, and to been: I am a Londoner. the things that make you yourselves what atmosphere have trusted staff who have The restaurant is an feel at home in a city, so I is conducive to what you are worked for you for years in amalgamation of that wrote my dad a letter telling doing—and only then do each place. I don’t want a feeling, and all the people him I was dropping out of you look at the menu. We’ve chain. I don’t want to lose I’ve met, the restaurants university, living in Paris tried to accommodate that independent feel, I’ve worked in and the a bit longer, then coming that by having the cafe but I think you can have places I’ve been. home and taking over his and terrace upstairs for more than one restaurant restaurant to improve it. a familiar meeting place, and still retain that. Our LA BRASSERIA 42 Marylebone High Street, I was very dramatic at the and a more formal dining business model is about W1U 5HD time (I still can be!) and I room downstairs for partnerships: we want labrasseria.com

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INTERVIEW: VIEL RICHARDSON

blanc grape is that the level what we call ‘terrace wine’, This may not be the sexiest THE of acidity it has contrasts made for light afternoon tool in our kitchen, but it’s WINE LIST with the ripeness you find drinking. While you a fundamental part of LE BEL OUVRAGE on the nose. don’t have to wait for a what we do here every When you drink Le special occasion, it has day. It is called a Pacojet. Clément Robert, Bel Ouvrage, the first real depth and complexity, It was originally created head sommelier impression you get is of which for me makes it to make things like ice at 28°-50° Wine its richness. The flavours a bit more of an evening creams and sorbets to are apple and quince, drink. However, the order. But I use it very Workshop & with honey on the nose. main purpose of wine differently. I use it to Kitchen, picks out a The feel is round, rich, is to be enjoyed, so if you make snow. wine from his menu creamy and buttery. After want to open a bottle at I’m from Iceland, so that, the acidity comes 3pm on a sunny afternoon, I would say that snow is through to balance all there is nothing wrong very close to my heart. It that richness. Those fresh, with that. Sometimes represents freshness, and Le Bel Ouvrage, Damien slightly tart notes play wine appreciation can that is something that Laureau, Savennières, against the rich flavours have too many rules. I want to bring into my France 2012 and are absolutely crucial This is a wine that benefits cooking. As an ingredient, to balancing the wine. from being allowed to the snow we make brings Le Bel Ouvrage, made by It is lovely to drink breathe, so I would decant a real freshness and Damien Laureau on his on its own, but also it about 15 minutes in intensity of flavour. small organic vineyard in pairs wonderfully with advance. The way that the Saint Gemmes sur Loire, is food. I have served it as I liked Le Bel Ouvrage machine works is simple, a wonderful wine and one an aperitif, as it has all the first time I tasted it, but very clever. It uses two of the purest expressions the necessary palate- thinking how drinkable different blades, joined in of chenin blanc you will cleansing qualities. You it was. But as time passed, the shape of a cross, with find anywhere in the can pair it with something my appreciation of it grew one sitting above the other. world. traditionally French, as my palate developed, You place a container full It is not necessarily like a terrine or a pâté, and today it is one of my of frozen liquid into the a wine that I would where it will cut through favourite wines in the Pacojet. When you turn recommend to everyone, the richness. One dish world. There is something the machine on, the blades because chenin blanc is that works beautifully is in this for everyone, from start rotating at very high a very particular grape. scallops with finely grated those who like a glass at speeds, then descend into It can have this very ripe, green apple. Or you can go the weekend to the serious the container holding the almost austere apple for something a bit heavier student of wine. Even if in flavoured ice. flavour, which can be off- like chicken roasted the past you have stayed The two blades have putting for some people. It on quince with some away from chenin blanc, different jobs. The one also has a highly distinctive sweetcorn. It also goes very I would recommend that reaches the ice first honey aroma, and some well with cheese—I think trying Le Bel Ouvrage is designed to shave very people, as soon as they get it is a particularly good at least once. thin layers off the top. The a sweet scent on the nose, match for goat’s cheese. It second blade forces the are just not interested. is a very versatile wine. 28°-50° WINE WORKSHOP shavings up and whirls & KITCHEN But one of the fascinating One thing I would say 15-17 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2NE them around in order to things about the chenin is that this is not really 2850.co.uk get as much air as possible

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2. Tomme de Corse Tomme de Corse, on the menu at Blandford 68 Comptoir, comes from the Corin Mellor on east coast of Corsica, where his design process, the sheep graze on aromatic his love of materials, and the recent bushes, lending a herbal note surge in demand for cake forks to the finish.

3. Roquefort The producers of Orrery’s roquefort make their version of the famous blue using into the mixture. This have tomatoes, olives, a usually gives you a soft, gazpacho and a tomato bacteria from their rye smooth, creamy texture— snow. sourdough. Heavily laced but I am looking for One of the things the with gritty blue veins, this is something different. snows do is preserve all an intense blue cheese, yet What I am after is very the flavours of the base fine, almost dry powdery ingredient. Because the fruity and well-balanced. ice crystals that are just snow crystals melt very like fine snow. What makes quickly in your mouth, you 4. Idiazabal the difference is the way get this instant, intense hit Made with the unpasteurised I make the flavoured ice of that base flavour, which mixture. I experimented a lifts the rest of the dish. milk of latxa and carranzana lot and developed a more I don’t use a great deal sheep indigenous to the water-based recipe than of butter in my cooking. Basque Country, this hard usual, which produces the Everything I do is about cheese from Donostia has required ice crystals. clean, fresh flavours and Each of the different textures, and these snows a nutty, smoky flavour that snows is designed to really bring that freshness pairs well with membrillo. complement a specific to my dishes, taking them dish. So, for example, to another level. 5. Flower marie I have a salmon The snows we make Made by the Blunts in East gravadlax, which is a are so important to my very Scandinavian dish, cooking that I sometimes Sussex and found at Boxcar, and I serve it with sorrel joke that if the Pacojet this unpasteurised, three- snow. Sorrel is a wild grass broke down, I would have week ripened cheese is that you find in Iceland to close the kitchen! gooey and brie-like, with a and is a real flavour of TEXTURE bloomy rind and delicate home. There is also a 34 Portman Street, W1H 7BY tomato salad, where we texture-restaurant.co.uk mushroom-y flavour

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the customer. They aren’t FOOD regulars, you can’t take care To be honest, I have of them another time, you PHILOSOPHY this job because of my can only take care of them TOMMASO BARERA father—he loves food, once, so you have to provide he loves to eat. I should The manager of Conran Kitchen the best experience. thank him, because he

on his relationship with food gave me this love for food 9. We are planning to INTERVIEW: ELLIE COSTIGAN IMAGES: JAMES CRITCHLOW have events here where a supplier shows customers how they make things—it is always nice to see how what you are eating is made and meet the person who made it. For me, as a customer, it 1. I come from a typical 3. The gluten-free quiche 6. We have a lot of regular makes me smile. I want to Italian family, always is one of our best sellers— customers. Sometimes they bring that smile to people. having huge dinners in the past a customer has come in just to say hi and together. On Saturdays, come in to place an order chat about the weather, 10. I have a huge my father and I would go to for 10 of them! They had which is lovely! You get to international market next to the market for ingredients tried it in the cafe and know people and when my place in south London and would cook for my loved it. you do, you can take good that sells traditional Polish, mother. To be honest, I care of them. That is what I Indian, Thai, and Italian have this job because of my 4. I started here two wanted to bring here—that food—a mix of everything. father—he loves food, he Christmases ago. Before, personal customer care. I use my neighbourhood loves to eat. He travelled a I was running three for inspiration: it is full of lot and would always bring restaurants, which was 7. When I change the cocktail bars and small me back something to eat completely different—in a menu, the most important restaurants, so it gives me or recipe books. I should restaurant you are cooking, thing for me is my customer a lot of ideas. That is what To explore the Estate’s retail To find out more about the Estate thank him, because he running a kitchen and feedback, but I want I spend my spare time Make sure you’re offering or read a wealth of or to view its rental portfolio visit: gave me this love for food. a floor, it’s like another feedback from the staff too. doing—eating! connected to features visit: hdwe.co.uk reality. But it is still crazy For every new menu, I will marylebonevillage.com 2. We have some special here, even with just one do a tasting with the staff. It 11. If the food is good Marylebone Village To find out more about suppliers who make sure coffee shop. The menu isn’t is a nice chance for us to get but the atmosphere is through social and @MaryleboneVllge Harley Street Medical Area visit: our food is fresh every huge, but we are always together. not, you are not going to Marylebone Village harleystreetmedicalarea.com online. @marylebonevillage day: fresh pastries, cakes, trying to make it the best appreciate the food. You sandwiches, salads. The possible, which isn’t easy. 8. I worked for a catering have to provide a good @marylebonejrnl @HarleyStMedArea Carefully nurtured by The Howard @marylebonejrnl #HSMA supplier of one of my company in Venice. We did experience—that is what de Walden Estate, Marylebone Harley Street Medical Area best-selling cakes only uses 5. Every corner of London private parties and events hospitality means. The Village is an attractive and To find out more about the Estate’s Sicilian products. We only is different. Marylebone is for companies like Vanity Conran Kitchen provides welcoming neighbourhood, community event work visit: deal with small suppliers— a very interesting area. It’s Fair. Catering develops that. It’s the best of both. offering residents, workers and marylebonedesigndistrict.com they take care of us, and we a big family, and people problem-solving skills. visitors a quality of life unrivalled marylebonefoodfestival.com THE CONRAN KITCHEN in most major cities. take care of them. And we are very dedicated to it. It You have to think fast and 55 Marylebone High Street, W1U 5HS marylebonesummerfayre.com work on the menu together. gives it a nice vibe. find the best solution for conranshop.co.uk marylebonechristmaslights.com

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consumer not have that as successful,” she chortles. Polytechnic before they need?” she reflects. The way things are going, joining a graduate “My business partner back such stellar success surely course at Harrods. “You then, Emma Howarth beckons. Clare employs have to be creative and (the ‘Em’ bit) and I some 70 people. Me + Em commercial—the two QA brainstormed on holiday now boasts five stores in are intrinsically linked,” in a villa in Majorca and prime London locations. believes Clare, whose started a business called The brand is expanding business and advertising Pyjama Room. At that rapidly, with new west background has given her time, the loungewear London headquarters. the ideal synergy. CLARE HORNBY revolution hadn’t really Her background has begun and PJs were lent her a more modular Were you interested in The founder of relegated to the darkest, approach to her craft. clothes when you were Me + Em on ‘fashion most distant corner of the Consequently, Clare has growing up? Lego’, the secret to department store. The her own template and Yeah, obsessed, I think. insight was that you spend mantras—expressions Mum and I used to make looking younger, a lot of time at home with such as “fashion Lego”, all my clothes. She was and her reverence your partner, you want meaning easy pieces that super stylish, my mum. for Coco Chanel to be comfortable but slot seamlessly together. We’d pick patterns and always end up hanging “Everything is an outfit, fabrics—I think that’s INTERVIEW: JACKIE MODLINGER IMAGES: BRENDAN FREEMAN out looking scruffy, so we so we make the tops to go where my eye for detail tried to elevate that. The with the trousers so that the and fit originates, because ethos of Pyjama Room was silhouettes work with the I used to spend hours in great, but it was too narrow lengths,” she explains. front of the mirror fitting a concept. We launched it ‘The Three Fs’—the clothes with her. We lived online and then realised essential ingredients for in a big textile area, so I we had a much bigger her fashion recipe—are worked in denim and dress idea, Comfortable flattering, functional and factories up north, and I Luxury, which we then fashionable. “It’s quite worked at Oldham market. re-branded as Me + Em. It simple to buy from us, I had my own little shoe Me + Em is one of the opened us up to knitwear because in the main, we business. I’d buy from a most talked-up brands on and outerwear and do the same shapes season wholesaler and then go up Planet Fashion, the label everything.” after season. We update and queue for a stall. So I du jour as well as toujours. Tall and rangy, Clare, them with contemporary think I’ve always had retail Aficionados include Amal who defines her style as twists and trends and and clothing in my blood. Clooney, Rosamund Pike, “pared-back with a bit of colours.” Wardrobe Thandie Newton, Emilia edge”, looks incredibly “unlockers” (like the What was the thinking Fox and the Duchess of cool in her own-label put- Breton stripes), “fashion behind the name Cambridge (after Kate together navy, pinstripe icons” (familiar styles and Me + Em? sported one of Me + Em’s tux-style jacket, with silhouettes re-interpreted A name is less important cobalt blue Breton tops at contrast satin revers over with a new colour hit every than people think. You’ve a polo match, sales went a bright green top, paired month) and “gatekeepers” got to get a name and viral). with faded, fray-hem jeans, are all part of her then that name becomes Earlier this year, a Me accessorised with pink vernacular. what you are. I liked + Em store appeared on slip-on Common Project Think athleisure, sport Me + Em because it’s a New Cavendish Street. It trainers. “I don’t like going luxe, layering and clashing palindrome—it reads the immediately begged the smart top and bottom—to textures and you get the same way backwards and question: who’s ‘me’ and go casual with one, that’s picture, though dresses frontwards—and when who’s ‘Em’? how we look younger, I and more evening wear are we put it into a logo, it just I meet ‘me’—the think. We’re always in that in the pipeline. “We’ve just looked really iconic. brand’s owner and battle: how do we dress our done a floral wrap midi founder Clare Hornby—at age?” dress,” enthuses Clare, Do you think you have a the Groucho Club where, With her centre-parted “I am not normally a floral good understanding of over double espressos, I ‘lob’, Clare bears a striking person, but I wore it with what women really want learn about the brand. similarity to Natalie trainers at the weekend and to wear? “I worked in advertising, Massenet, founder of I have never had so many I think if you’re part of your and I was trained to look Net-a-Porter. She likes the compliments.” own target audience, that for a gap in the market. So analogy. “Oh, really that’s a Clare studied retail gives you insight and ideas I thought, what does the compliment. Sadly, I’m not marketing at Manchester that you can’t have if you’re

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out of the starting block so quickly. When Coco Chanel created the palazzo pant, Do you think your two her insight was, how do teenage daughters might women get off gondolas go into the business? in long skirts? She’s the Then you could call it one who put functionality Me + Them… into fashion I think they think they might—there’s a long way to go, though. I could see a role for both of them in it. I am making them work for the business now in their school holidays. I get them very involved—not just on the clothing side, but also the business side. They look at Google Analytics. I quite often help them with their homework through talking about how it works in business. I think maths becomes easier if you know what goes on in the real world.

How do you relax away from it all? Cooking—I cook a lot. not, in some sense, your a little, becoming more defined luxury, it’s Coco I love cooking with the own customer. I get ideas by experimental, using Chanel, for her insight. children. I’ve just gone wearing my own clothes; by separates more, jackets and She created the palazzo vegan, so lots of vegetables, getting to know what I like jeans. I do love jackets and pant. The insight was, how leek and potato soup. I have and don’t. It’s a permanent that’s a great area for us— do women get off gondolas so much more energy than research project. smart with jeans. in long skirts? She created I used to have. Walking the the Breton as a fashion dogs—I have a labrador Who is the Me + Em Who in the industry icon. She’s the one who put and an English cocker show woman? do you admire? functionality into fashion. spaniel. We go on quite Really interesting question, Anyone who has a lot of holidays, skiing, that. I now think the Me established a brand What brought you to watching movies with the + Em ‘gatekeeper’ pieces that’s seen it through Marylebone? girls, and going to my book, are actually becoming the decades and anyone I really love Marylebone. film and entrepreneurship multi-generational—my who’s run a successful It’s great—it’s kind of like a clubs. mum wears the cashmere and profitable business. London village. It’s got the hoodie and so does my I massively admire Natalie big business community, What’s next for Me + Em? 14-year-old daughter—but Massenet—I think she’s a as well as a transient We are going to get back I think that the age range phenomenon. She single- community, so you’ve into bags next year, then is probably around 40-50. handedly changed the got the locals, those that shoes—we’ll start with She’s not a really corporate way people shop luxury. work here, and then the trainers. More category woman—not City, I’d say Jo Malone, Chrissie international, so for retail growth, then growing more journalism, film, Rucker [of The White it’s perfect because you get online, internationally, advertising. It comes from Company], Johnnie all-year-round business. concessions. We’ll probably my background; I never Boden, anyone who’s built You’ve got lots of working look at America in two to dressed in a corporate way, a brand and stuck to it— women round here, too. three years’ time. Watch but I did want to dress in who really understands It’s very good for brands this space. a smart way. I think also their customer and has a like ours. Marylebone’s ME + EM that workwear’s changing. vision. If I was to pick one amazing—it’s doing so 4 New Cavendish Street, W1G 8UQ People are de-constructing designer who I think has well, that store, and it got meandem.com

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mj_2018_volume14_04_Compendium_01.indd 61 26/07/2018 10:08 62. Style THE LOOK TRUNK CLOTHIERS Mats Klingberg of Trunk on the store’s new own- brand range of clothing With the exception of the shoes and the pocket square, everything here is own-brand.The designs are suitable for all four seasons—in style, at least— and you can dress them up or dress them down. Different pieces are made in different places, according to their specialism. The wool trousers are made in a wool works in Bradford that’s been going since 1875. It’s a lovely fabric, perfect for the year-round classic look. The jacket is made in Portugal. It’s very soft, and the unconstructed shoulders make it easy to match with things. It would work well with chinos and we have some beige cords that match perfectly. It’s easy to travel with, too—you can just fold it in your case and it’ll be fine. Chambray shirts are always popular— perfect for those occasions when you have a business meeting, then drinks later. The shoes are from Common Projects—quite a famous brand in my little world. They have a huge following. We’ve had them since we opened and they do well each season, despite looking exactly the same. TRUNK 8 & 34 Chiltern Street, W1U 7PU trunkclothiers.com

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INSIDE For each collection, I’ll have a theme. Winter 2018 is inspired by KNOWLEDGE the Ancient China exhibition I saw PRINTED FABRICS at the Met recently. I was particularly Designer Anna Coroneo on inspired by the beautiful silk screens I saw. I will research and sketch for a using her paintings to make while, then the best of those sketches clothes and accessories I will select to paint.

There are so many bad news Everything we sell starts with a stories out there, so I like to create painting. Sometimes it’s oil or acrylic, happy, quirky prints. I like to do but mostly it’s ink on canvas—my half a collection as humorous, slightly favourite medium. I love the vibrancy whimsical prints, and the other half 86 of ink, and the way you can smoothly more abstract. At the moment I’m The extraordinary drive the brush over the page. It allows finishing off the summer 2019 prints, redevelopment of the Royal you to capture such detail. I use black which are all about Australia, where Academy of Music’s and grey to get the outlines, then build I am from. I’m having so much fun performance up the colour gradually, starting light, drawing koalas and kangaroos. spaces then progressively layering up. It is really inspiring as a designer Once the artwork is painted, I scan when customers understand what it or, if it’s large, take a photo and you are trying to convey. We have a lot put it onto the computer. I can then of customers who collect our prints. It’s change the layout and create different also lovely when customers come in to colour ranges. I send the finished look for a gift and find something that designs to our factory in Italy, to go on they just know their friend or partner fabrics. Sometimes we do a sample if will really love—that is really ‘them’. we’re not sure of the scale. I want to design pieces that will be Mostly I print on natural fabrics, treasured forever. I don’t have sales, like cotton, silk and linen. I like the or design just for one season. I’m feel of them, and they take the dyes always going back through my archives much better than synthetic materials. and bringing out old prints from a However, we have just done our first couple of years ago. Nothing is ever swimwear collection in nylon, and that rendered obsolete. is beautifully soft and has taken the ANNA CORONEO colour wonderfully. A lot of synthetic 27B Devonshire Street, W1G 6PW fabrics have really improved. annacoroneo.com

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of salt. I’m not unaware of what is happening, but I’m not defined by it. It’s important not to get caught up in it—if you do, ultimately, you’re going to end up creating a product that will date quite quickly. We’ve always focused on purity of form; making beautiful simple shapes that are not flashy, that’s our trademark. Hopefully you end up with something that still looks good in Have you always been a he could have that total 10 years’ time. designer? control: start off with I studied a mix of furniture the design and oversee Is there a point at which and product design at its development and striving for a certain Kingston University, which manufacture. aesthetic can impinge on QA I really enjoyed. After that practicality? I was lucky enough to go Have you carried on that It’s inevitable. I wouldn’t and work for a London approach? criticise anyone for it, we’ve architects’ firm—it was I’m involved in everything, all fallen for it at different the nineties, everybody yes. I was on the factory times in our lives—and I CORIN MELLOR got a job back then—but I floor at six o’ clock last think there’s a valid place found it a bit frustrating, night—I have an amazing for it. Without fashion, the The creative because I couldn’t actually factory manager who’s economy would stop— director of David make anything. I retreated been with us for 40 years, but I also think there’s a Mellor and son of its back to the Peak District so I liaise with him on really good argument for and got involved in the production and help him buying something that’s eponymous founder family business. I worked with any issues—and I beautifully designed, on his design alongside my father for am totally involved in the beautifully made, high process, his love of many years, then took over design side. The design quality, and will last a long materials, and the about 10, 15 years ago. department is me and my time. It can work out more assistant. It’s tiny. I like economical—you’re not surge in demand It would seem design is in that: if I had 20 designers, buying rubbish that only for cake forks the blood… I wouldn’t be able to keep lasts a year. It depends INTERVIEW: ELLIE COSTIGAN I suppose it is really. My tabs on what’s coming out. on your mindset—some PORTRAIT: JOSEPH FOX grandfather used to work I also oversee the direction people quite like to change for something called of the company, manage things. On the other hand, the Sheffield Twist Drill all our staff, and do all of if you’ve got something Company and he was a the display work in the you have an affection for toolmaker—a craftsmen, shops. I’m in London a and you’ve bonded with, really, but in those days couple of times a week. you want to keep it. And those sorts of craftsmen you can only do that if it’s weren’t as celebrated as David Mellor is known well-made. they are now. It was just for its timelessness. Is it a job. I love materials, I challenging to maintain You mentioned the love finding out about that while bringing in importance of knowing processes and how things new products? how things are made. are made. I love going I don’t know if it is a What did you mean by round workshops and big challenge. I think it’s quite that? factories. I think to be a simple—you just have to We were known for good designer, you really not over-design things making knives and forks, need to know how things and really understand that got our reputation are made. That’s actually materials. I’m not anti- going, but since I took over, why my dad set up his own fashion, but I think you do I’ve become involved in cutlery manufacturer, so have to take it with a pinch designing other things,

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but finding someone a process. When you normally I would go into else to make them: fine have a process, you the workshop and make Without fashions, the bone china, glassware, can traverse over other a very rough prototype— economy would stop— woodware, cast iron. If areas—I designed a bridge ’knock it up’, as I call it, but I also think there’s a you’re designing an object for Sheffield Hallam with bits of stainless steel: really good argument for to be made with hand- University, for example. weld them together, file buying something that’s blown glass, you need to It’s the same thing, but them and shape them and beautifully designed, understand how hand- on a different scale, with polish them to get what beautifully made, high blown glass is made to be different considerations. I’ve sketched in rough 3D. quality, and will last a able to design it. I normally But I couldn’t design a Then my design assistant long time do it that way round; make cushion or a dress, because James will transfer what sure I understand the I don’t understand the I’ve mocked up into the process—if it’s cast iron, skills needed to make computer. From that we’ll how iron is cast—and them. It’s a bit alien to do a 3D printed prototype, then design something. me. Perhaps it’s to do with then move on to tooling. Otherwise you might materials—what you feel It’s a similar process with have designed something comfortable with. the hand-blown glass, but the makers are not very we’ll go straight to the comfortable with, so won’t What is your process? workshop and they’ll do do a very good job. You end It might sound mad, but I the mould and prototype. up not achieving what you design things in my head want. first. Then I’ll go to the David Mellor has been sketch pad—I’m really around 60 years. How Are you able to apply old fashioned, I do it by much has changed? your design skills to any hand. It helps me think, The way we manufacture medium? How much and I can adjust as I go. hasn’t changed at all— is art and how much is The next step changes bar the odd machine, it’s science? depending on what it is I’m pretty much the same as As a designer, you follow designing. If it’s a knife, it would’ve been 100 years

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products and ensuring I think The Howard de they fit? Walden Estate genuinely There are three types does like to have a mix of of product in the shop: independent shops, which those we design and make; is what drew us really. And those we’ve designed and there’s no one else doing found someone else to what we’re doing. We’re make; and things we’ve lucky with the space, too— selected from elsewhere. like many of the buildings Everything is very carefully here, it’s architecturally vetted to make sure they spectacular. Marylebone fill a gap and fit in visually also has such a lovely feel. with the rest of the shop. As soon as we arrived, Some of them go back 30 people were coming in the years, like the John Leach door saying, “Oh gosh, this pottery, or they might be is just what we wanted,” things we just think are a which is great. People really good design. We’ve love the shop. Other than always supported British perhaps having a visual craftspeople—wood awareness, I wouldn’t turners, potters, basket say there’s much that makers. People who have defines the ‘David Mellor their own little studio customer’—they can workshop. But then we do be students, they can be have things from abroad. stars—but most of them Frankfurt is where we are the same customers do most of our buying. who are carrying around We found some fantastic Daunt Books or Conran Japanese pottery. It’s really Shop bags. We fit in here. what’s well-made and what ago. You could mechanise tools. Our oldest range fits, which comes from 30 What with the shops, it more, but because we do is Pride from 1953, and years of trying products. your workshop and such small volumes of so we’ve realised it’s not big factory, it’d seem you many different designs, enough. There are, more You only sell through live and breathe David it’s not feasible. We’re recently, customers who David Mellor shops. Is Mellor… absolutely people-led, want a cake fork—that’s that deliberate? My work and home life which has its advantages: been a bit of a ‘thing’— We once sold to many have always overlapped, if a customer comes in and and a butter knife. We’ve independents, but we which has advantages and says, “I’d like that range never sold one in that decided we didn’t want to disadvantages. I live on site, of cutlery but shinier,” we range. I think part of that’s be in a shop where they which is great, because at can do that. If they want a because people are taking didn’t know the product. night when everyone’s gone certain knife but they want food more seriously. If I know all our staff well, I can go into the factory and different serration, we you’d asked me the same I’ve trained them all. make something—fiddle can do that. It gives us that question five years ago, They know where every on the lathe, play with the flexibility. I’d say people are paring wood turner is from, and wheels. The disadvantage back, but now there are everything about them. is when something goes How much have changes people who like to have I think the story is almost wrong, there’s someone in lifestyle affected what these special tools. To as important as the product, knocking at my door at six you do? accommodate that, we’ve and we need to tell it. It o’ clock. My father started If you went back 150, 200 always sold our cutlery in means you get that personal that, on a much smaller years, the place set was individual pieces. You can, touch—proper service. scale, so I just took it for enormous: now some in effect, buy the tools to We are a family company, granted. I’ve been making people really only need a do the job you need—if we are small scale, and I things since I was a little boy spoon and a fork. Other you only eat cereal all day, want to keep it like that. and I love doing it. My life people love the showiness you can just buy a spoon. and my work merge into of the dinner party, where Marylebone is your one, really. they’ll likely be doing quite Tell us about the rest second London outpost, DAVID MELLOR a few courses and therefore of the range—how do of three shops in total. 14 New Cavendish Street, W1G 8UW need quite a few different you go about finding What drew you here? davidmellordesign.com

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MY MARYLEBONE tip is to get in touch with Marylebone has a very RAHIM ISMAIL your concierge before your boutique, villagey feel and the The head concierge at arrival, to get information benefit of being quiet but also The Marylebone Hotel on the local area or to make buzzy, and just two minutes on his life in Marylebone any bookings. It allows us to from the centre of town. The I’ve worked at The create amazing itineraries Wallace Collection for me Marylebone Hotel for nine and help guests plan their is definitely one of the best years now. I started as a perfect trip. destinations in Marylebone guest services manager and In Marylebone, there is a and not as well-known as it have worked my way up to real community feel that I should be! I’m always sending head concierge. My working wouldn’t say exists in other our guests there when they’re life is hectic. I usually get to areas of London, so it’s looking for a great local work around 7am, in time natural that you get to know a attraction, and the feedback for the early arrivals and to lot of the business owners and is consistently outstanding. make sure the lobby and managers in the area. I’m 108 Brasserie, which is the outside of the hotel are also part of Le Clefs d’Ors— part of the hotel, is one of in immaculate condition. ‘the Society of the Golden my top spots for breakfast I familiarise myself with Keys’—which is an exclusive or brunch. We have such arrivals, meetings and any society for concierges. a beautiful terrace on the events we have in-house, The aim is to link with other lane—when the sun is out, and make sure the team are concierges globally. We meet it’s the best spot to be in, and up to speed with everything every month and I try to go the food is great. Otherwise, that’s going on in the hotel. along whenever I can. We I’m a big fan of Daylesford Then I’ll start dealing with share information on new for breakfast: the produce is any guests who come down openings and events, and good, the food is good and to the lobby. We coordinate there are also regular Golden it’s just around the corner. luggage storage, deliveries Keys events, where we might, Along with dining and any bookings we need for example, get a private gems such as 2 Veneti on to take care of, like airport tour of a new exhibition. Wigmore Street or Trishna transfers, restaurant and It’s a great way of staying on Blandford Street, there theatre bookings, or any on top of what’s on in town. are also some amazing retail

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Your background was in but finding more effective Of course, clinical the telecommunications processes and structures. decisions take their own industry. What led you time, and that is not to make the switch to How will you set out something I’m going to healthcare? achieving this? get involved in. But I do QA My first role with The To give one example, any sometimes feel that the London Clinic was as a hospital generates a vast clinical pace dictates trustee. At the time the amount of information, and the pace of everything hospital was making a using this efficiently and else, including ancillary lot of IT decisions and effectively is key: registering practices that could be done AL RUSSELL also looking for some patients, logging return better and more efficiently. commercial oversight. visits, having clinicians It’s about balancing speed The chief executive Working as a trustee, I soon access patient records with good practice. Which of The London began to realise there was and interrogate the data processes can we speed Clinic on its something quite special they have collected. One up without compromising here. I felt real satisfaction of the things that is very patient safety or clinical distinctive culture, from the tangible benefits different in the world of excellence? We are already listening to staff, the work delivered. We telecommunications is the on the right path, but there and the impact would talk about things in a approach to data. There are is further to go. of commercial room, and they would make real advances to be made a real difference to patients Throughout our hospital. How do you approach the innovations on in our hospital corridors. clinical side of your role? clinical care When the chance arose Can improving this I have spent a lot of time INTERVIEW: VIEL RICHARDSON to become the CEO here, ancillary work directly listening. We have many very PORTRAIT: ORLANDO GILI it was a ‘yes’, as I feel I can improve clinical loyal staff who understand make a difference in a very outcomes? and respect the culture tangible way. Yes, these processes can of this hospital and I have definitely improve on the asked their views on a range What differences did you delivery of clinical services. of issues. Based on this, we find from more corporate Every minute we can have formulated a strategy cultures? shave off booking patients which has three areas Some things that were in, booking theatre slots of focus. One is surgery, second nature to me were or sorting out radiology in particular relating to new to the organisation. appointments is extra digestive diseases. Another There are structures and time that our consultants is our musculoskeletal processes you will find in can spend with patients. work—we have a very strong most large businesses— I want those structures to rehabilitation facility here. commercial things, what we be razor-sharp. It is quite The third is based around call ‘process points’—that unglamorous, but it can patient management, and aren’t as widespread in our provide huge benefits. our multidisciplinary teams hospital departments. It has (MDTs), especially in cancer been good to impart those What have been the most care. These MDTs are a ways of thinking into the challenging aspects of key part of how we operate. organisation, and see the your work? One of our goals is that benefits begin to accrue. I think because of my whenever a patient has a I want to ensure that The background, I am wired for procedure, we want them London Clinic maintains speed. I am finding myself to return for their follow- its status as the leading having to adjust to the up treatment. That is good independent general slightly different pace for the patient, it is good hospital with charitable of this industry. I sometimes clinical governance, and it status in central London, in want things to happen is good for our business. We an increasingly competitive more quickly than they should not hide from the field. We will do that by do! I am very ambitious for commercial side, especially maintaining clinical this place. The market is as we are a charity, so all the excellence while improving moving so quickly, and we money that we generate our efficiency in non- cannot afford to stand still; goes back into the hospital. clinical areas. It’s important we need to make use of our to stress: that does not mean independence to be more What commercial simply looking for savings, fleet of foot. changes are you making?

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This is all about commercial Is clinical innovation agility, and our commercial important as well? agility will underpin our Very much so. Recently we Est.1964 clinical pillars. The London Those with the did some pioneering work Clinic is an independent with Mr Erlick Pereira on organisation with a unique deep brain stimulation, ethos: caring, collaborative, closest proximity an innovative treatment friendly and specifically not for Parkinson’s disease. corporate. To maintain that, to the customers Mr Dinesh Nathwani is London’s Leading Ear Care & Wax Removal Clinic we need to keep delivering breaking new ground outstanding patient with very low-invasive outcomes, and attract more are often the best knee surgery, using a new patients. We need to be robotic system. We are The production of wax is completely natural. 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It was about five years ago the consulation—Adam targeting several specific awareness, lifestyle that I first became aware explained that hearing is areas, such as attention, practices, and mindfulness that something wasn’t all about communication, working memory and and meditation. The right with my hearing. so those close to you need processing speed, all programme uses evidence- I’m by no means deaf, but to be involved in any of which are key to our based cognitive exercises I was struggling to hear solution. I sat with Adam listening and hearing designed to help patients people in groups or in and he asked me about skills. in each of these areas. You places where there were my problem. What did After the final test, do the tasks online and lots of different sources of I want to get out of the Adam, Jerusha, Ellie Cubex has access to your noise. I was increasingly consultation? When do and I talked through progress and will be there reading people’s lips or I struggle? How does it everything that had gone to help along the way. body language to try affect my life? Ellie talked on: the tests, the results, There are some to understand them, to another audiologist, how Ellie and I were practical things I can start and communication Dr Saima Rajasingam, feeling. Then we came doing straight away. Adam was getting more about her experience of to an overall assessment and Jerusha suggested problematic—not just for our interactions. about my hearing and I tweak some aspects of me but for the people I was Then I went on to some communication status. my lifestyle, be conscious talking to. I also started audiological and cognitive While my hearing about getting enough to struggle on the phone, tests. They checked for wax sensitivity is okay, the sleep, and be aware of my when all those visual cues and tested my ear pressure problem seems to be the diet, workload and stress I’d come to rely on are to ensure my ear drums processing aspect. levels. Neglecting any of missing. were working properly. The cognitive tests had these works against your None of this has I put on some headphones shown that my functional cognitive skills being at stopped me going about and pressed a button when memory was operating their very best, which can my normal business as a I heard a sound. Then at a slightly lower level in turn really affect your Leading consultants, research student, but it was there was a recording than they would expect. hearing comprehension. compassionate care, all a bit frustrating and of a woman talking in a It turns out that my brain I’m very glad I went quite worrying: I began busy environment, where was taking that little bit through this process. I feel traditional values. to wonder if one day I they raised the level of longer than expected to so much more informed was going to find myself the background noise to make sense of the sounds. and in control of the From the moment you set foot completely deaf. the point that I couldn’t The good news is that situation. Talking to Adam in The London Clinic, you are It was getting hear what she was saying. with the right training and Jerusha was great entering a hospital that is dedicated increasingly frustrating, They also tested how I was and exercises, these types because so much of what so I came to Cubex to have hearing individual words. of cognitive issues can be they said really resonated to putting our patients first, and setting things checked out. I was For the cognitive tests, worked on and improved. with me. It gave me real the standards for the end to end patient seen by Adam and Jerusha I was given an iPad and They want me to go back confidence that they are experience in private medical care. Shulberg, who own the told to work through a in and have some more getting to the bottom of practice and are the senior series of tasks—basically cognitive tests so they can my problem. The whole audiologists. It is in a lovely playing games and solving really home in on the issue. process has left me feeling place, like walking into puzzles. Jerusha explained They also want me to much more positive and a cottage in the centre of that they were looking at undertake a programme confident about the future. Find out more at London. how my brain receives and called CALM, which CUBEX I was told to bring my processes the sounds I stands for cognitive 25 New Cavendish Street, W1G 8LP www.thelondonclinic.co.uk partner Ellie with me to hear. These ‘games’ were wellbeing, audiological cubex.co.uk

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West End, owned by the themselves. Twenty years INTELLECTUAL Portman family. But it’s ago, when the current PROPERTY more than that. It’s also Viscount Portman inherited about promoting this the Estate, it was in need of Oliver Fenn-Smith, the new chief area of Marylebone and a lot of investment. Since executive of The Portman Estate, on creating something for then we’ve been investing development plans, environmental future generations—not £20-30 million per annum, just of the family, but of the and we have a programme responsibility and the importance people who will live and of another £350 million to of controlling ground floors work in the area in years to invest over the next 10 years. INTERVIEW: MARK RIDDAWAY come. I think that seeing We’ve been restoring and PORTRAIT: KRIS PIOTROWSKI ourselves as part of a wider redeveloping our buildings, community is vital to what and we’ve been taking back we do. We are custodians of control of buildings as well. the area. It has been in the You’ve recently stepped Bill came here from the family for 500 years, and we What does that mean? up to be chief executive military with skills that hope it will continue to be Historically, a lot of our of The Portman Estate were very complementary for the next 500 years. properties were out on long after 12 years on the to those we already had It is also our head leases, and that limits board. What were you in-house, with me on the responsibility to engage your ability to really shape doing previously? property side and Mark with businesses, residents, the character of an area. I joined The Portman Estate Southern as finance schools, the council. It’s particularly important to in 2005 as property director. director and now chief We have a charitable control the ground floors— Prior to that, I’d spent 11 operating officer. Bill foundation, the Portman the restaurants and retail— years at the Grosvenor brought a huge amount of Foundation, which works as it’s those tenants that set Estate, then been a garden experience in leadership, with local organisations. a very visible tone. We can designer for three years. I in driving delivery, and We’re currently partnering take back control of an asset was on the property board at in cultural change. We’ve Carers Network, which when a long lease comes Grosvenor, jointly running always had a strong supports unpaid carers in to an end, or by actively their London estate, when I culture—it is very important Westminster—we raised entering into discussions decided I wanted a change. to us—but I think Bill £30,000 for them last year. with head lessees. It can be a I knew that I wanted to developed that further and It is vital that estates like slow process, but it’s central remain within property, but has left a wonderful legacy. ours are relevant to the to our strategy. while waiting for the next areas they’re set within, and opportunity I did a garden So, how would you also to London as a whole. Any notable successes? design course at the English describe that culture? We’ve been particularly Gardening School in the I think it’s a collegiate How much has this area successful on Edgware Chelsea Physic Garden. I set culture, we recognise changed in recent years? Road—we’ve picked up a up my own garden design talent, it’s not hierarchical, When I started working in number of blocks there. business and was running we get on well but we work Mayfair in the early 1990s, Another good example is that when I was approached extremely hard, hopefully people didn’t see much 1-9 Seymour Street, the about the role here at the with very good results. call to go north of Oxford old police station. That Estate, and it was an offer We invest a lot of time on Street. That has changed was out on a 104-year lease. that ticked all the boxes. I wellbeing and how we can completely. There are a When it ceased to be a still love gardens, though. make the Estate a place couple of major factors. police station, though, we I’m really interested in the that people want to work. Firstly, we have worked were in a position to buy green spaces on the Estate I think having the Portman hard to maintain a balance back the lease. We’ve just here—the squares, but family behind us helps to of property uses: roughly completed a major mixed- also the little gardens, roof set the culture: we run a a third residential, a third use scheme there after a terraces and courtyards very professional property offices, and a third retail three-year development. that people have in their company, but in the context and hotels. Having that After we’d acquired control, flats and offices. of a family business. mix gives real vibrancy the choice was, do we to the area. To maintain develop it ourselves, partner As property director, you How would you sum up it, we don’t necessarily with another developer, worked very closely with the Estate’s role? convert buildings to the or sell it out on a long your predecessor as CEO, Ultimately, it’s about highest value use—we lease for someone else to Bill Moore, during his six realising the value of look at the entire 110 develop? We decided we years here. How would you the assets within a 110- acres. Secondly, you need would develop it ourselves characterise his tenure? acre portfolio in the to invest in the buildings and create a core asset in

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transformed into a whole the law, it became easier new independent retail for long leaseholders to quarter, which Derwent extend their leases and London will develop, but acquire freeholds, so there which we will then take was a danger of the historic control of and curate. These estates being broken up. A more major streets are lot of the estates, including definitely going to change in ours, changed their strategy character—I think we’ll see at that time to renting out them becoming much more their residential property a part of the Estate, more wherever they could. As recognisably influenced by a result, the nature of the our approach. occupiers has changed. We now have a portfolio What is your relationship of over 600 assured the middle of our estate, back into our direct control. like with your next-door shorthold and market taking advantage of our We’ll then be able to choose neighbour, The Howard tenancies. That means very talented team. It’s been the retail tenants there, too, de Walden Estate? we have a more transient our largest, most significant so we should be able to start It’s very positive. We have population, but it also development to date. really influencing that part a great relationship. Both means we have people living of the Estate. of us see ourselves as being in our properties rather Is that approach likely to part of something bigger, than holding them as a pied set the template for future Do you have different part of Marylebone. We’re a terre or an investment. developments? plans for different parts working together on lots That’s vitally important, as Our strategy is certainly of the Estate? of initiatives—the Journal, it means we have a large and moving that way. Of It’s certainly not a the Marylebone Food characterful population, course, we will continue homogenous area. Its Festival, London Design which supports the to partner with others on character really changes as Festival. We shared a restaurants and the shops. occasion, because we can’t you come from Edgware tent with them at the JLL We make sure we know our do everything ourselves— Road in the west and work triathlon recently, which customers extremely well. we have a whole estate your way east. We have was great fun. We see it as a We have a customer services that needs to evolve—but villagey areas—Chiltern really important link—the manager, and she meets and if I look around, I can Street, New Quebec Street, more we can do together greets everyone who rents pick out various other Seymour Place—where we to promote the whole area, from us, whether residential properties where I would can curate an independent the better for both of us. or commercial, and we get want us to undertake the retail offer. Then we have We each have our own direct feedback on why redevelopment ourselves. our major thoroughfares, characteristics—they have they’re here and what they The next big one is 1-4 like Edgware Road and their world class medical want from us. Marble Arch; we have Oxford Street, where area, for example, while we planning permission historically we haven’t have a significant number The country is facing to create seven floors of had so much control, but of hotels; they have the a fairly uncertain offices and a new 20,000 we’re starting to see some high street, while we have economic future. How square foot flagship retail major changes, and these our more villagey areas— can you ensure that you’re store. That again is a direct will take shape over the so we’re complementary prepared for whatever is development, where next five to 10 years. On rather than competitive. thrown your way? historically we might have Edgware Road, we now When you take the two We have to continue to sold it out to somebody else. control about 70 per cent of estates as a whole, you have provide properties that Doing it this way means we’ll the frontages, so we’ll see a a really interesting mix. people want to rent, be able to choose the retail lot of evolution there. On whatever happens. The tenant, which will hopefully Oxford Street, too, we’re Marylebone has a very portfolio is all concentrated help us reposition that starting to make our mark. high proportion of rental in the West End, so it isn’t end of Oxford Street and With Baker Street, we don’t properties. Why is that diversified geographically, Marble Arch. have much direct control, and what impact does it but we can diversify in terms The Marble Arch Place but we’ve been working with have on the area? of use. You can also diversify scheme, which is right Derwent London on 19-35 It came about as a direct in the nature of the leases next door, is being led by Baker Street, which is a very result of changes to that you’re offering—you Almacantar, but we’ve important site in the middle the leasehold reform can have short leases or very negotiated for the retail of the Estate. At the back is legislation. From 2002, long leases, and leases that facing Marble Arch to come a car park, and that will be because of changes to are much more all-inclusive.

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On the rented residential London, we know all the Having been part of the side, people are used to issues and it’s important Estate’s strategic thinking I think that seeing just paying rent, with no we address them. We look for 12 years, I think it would ourselves as part of a wider separate service charge, and carefully at all our new be surprising if I said that it community is vital to what that model is now moving developments. 1-9 Seymour was all now going to change! we do. We are custodians across to the commercial Street achieved a BREEAM It is going to be very much of the area. It has been market—we’re seeing outstanding rating, and about evolution rather than in the family for 500 companies taking shorter we’re very excited about revolution, building on years, and we hope it will leases, more flexible leases, our Passivhaus scheme on the work that we’ve done continue to be for the next with fewer hidden costs. Gloucester Place Mews, to date. It may be more of 500 years Co-working is obviously which is a first for a listed the same, but that is still a very attractive to young building. Some of the most very exciting proposition. businesses. We’re constantly important work we do One of the reasons I was looking at how we can evolve isn’t necessarily the most attracted here in the first our offer and remain as exciting—for example, place was that I could see its relevant as we can. looking at our existing potential and see how much buildings and thinking could be done. As a team, The Estate is involved about how we can improve we take tremendous pride in the Low Emission insulation. The bits of work in seeing our developments Neighbourhood and Wild that we quietly do behind come to fruition, seeing West End, and you’ve built the scenes probably have as new retailers open, seeing your first Passivhaus. much impact as headline- small start-ups succeeding Do you feel a particular grabbing initiatives. and our customers enjoying responsibility to be an working and living here. environmental leader? Your feet haven’t been We have done a lot, but Perhaps a champion long under the desk, but there’s still so much to do. rather than a leader! do you have a sense yet of THE PORTMAN ESTATE Environmental concerns what you want to achieve 40 Portman Square, W1H 6LT are very relevant in central as chief executive? portmanestate.co.uk

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The Royal Academy of Music’s new recital hall, located above its transformed theatre

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PITCH theatre was paramount, but in conversations with Ian PERFECT Ritchie we realised we could The story behind do so much more than that. We came to understand the extraordinary that here was a rare redevelopment opportunity to kill about of the Royal five birds with one stone. Academy of Music’s Brian Heron: When we undertook that initial performance spaces study, our brief was written INTERVIEWS: VIEL RICHARDSON on a single sheet of A4 IMAGES: ADAM SCOTT paper and concentrated purely on improving the theatre facilities by creating better acoustics, increasing the size of the orchestra pit and introducing wings and a fly tower. We then asked: “If we could put a space on When, in 2009, Jonathan the roof above the theatre, Freeman-Attwood, what would you do with principal of the Royal it?” They mentioned extra Academy of Music, practice rooms, but were commissioned a study of sceptical about getting the feasibility of upgrading permission. the institution’s theatre, he JF-A: There is an oral had no conception of the history that develops within length and complexity of any old institution. Ours the journey that he and his told us that we would never colleagues would be setting get planning permission for out upon. Nine years and a major theatre extension, much fund-raising later— and especially not for the final project cost was anything on the roof, as around £30 million—the we are in a Grade II listed conservatoire has been building in a conservation transformed. As well as area. It was Ian Ritchie who possessing a significantly said that it could be possible enlarged and improved and then suggested some of theatre, it is also now home the ways in which we could to new percussion studios, get more out of this project. rehearsal spaces, teaching The transformation of the rooms, recording facilities theatre has been a triumph, and—the icing on the but the jewel in the crown, cake—a recital hall. Along sitting rather like a private with chief project architect chapel in the heavens, is Brian Heron of Ian Ritchie the new recital hall, simply Architects, he looks back because we never thought on a demanding but very something like that would rewarding project. be possible. It is a beautiful space, with a lovely acoustic. Jonathan Freeman- And the architects added Attwood: What the something extra: what looks feasibility study revealed like a rear wall can open was that this was going to up to reveal a recording be the most complicated control room, turning project in the building’s the space into a first-class history. We knew that recording studio. It is a creating a world class wonderful piece of design.

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BH: Something we kept in mind from the beginning The Royal Academy was that this is a performer- of Music is old, but based project—we were it operates firmly in designing spaces for the the here and now. students. In the main I really appreciate theatre, while we wanted that juxtaposition: to provide an excellent the new kicking the audience environment— old about a bit, but you could be sitting in the old responding that space for four hours in a positive way watching an opera—our main aim was to ensure that the performers felt a warm, embracing feeling from the auditorium, that it helped to elevate them and give them confidence. JF-A: Our prime mission, from our 1830 charter, is to serve a community of aspiring professional musicians in the art and science of music and more specifically to train musicians for lifelong careers. If you think you can just remain in an ivory tower, you’re in the wrong place. That is why upgrading our theatre was so important. For example, on the walls The ceiling involved thinking was repeated BH: The academy had they required us to have a similar discussion with with all the specialists very specific requirements a series of long vertical the structural engineers. across the project. It was for the acoustics. For the batons of differing depths We wanted to use the a real team effort. theatre we were asked and at varying distances. geometries from the curve JF-A: The theatre in my to produce an acoustic But that did not match the of the orchestra pit and mind is a triumph in all best suited to opera and aesthetic vision we had the balcony to inform respects, although we musical theatre. For the for the space. We wanted the beams supporting couldn’t know quite how recital space, they asked the walls to reference the the roof. In the original wonderful until we heard for best overall musical horizontal sweep of the drawings these were a live performance with an acoustic. balcony. In one of those straight, but after a lot of audience. It is incredibly JF-A: We have moved from wonderful moments, hard work we came up with even throughout the a dry conference-centre- which belong to nobody an economical structure auditorium and the style acoustic, where there and everybody, we came that used faceted steel balance between the was always a danger of up with the idea of placing beams overlaid with wood, voices and the orchestra is young voices forcing their these batons within giving us these wonderful stunning. Since opening, tone and not trusting horizontal bands of wood, curves while still meeting we have performed a themselves, to a beautifully creating the appearance the acoustic needs of wide variety of genres: balanced and sympathetic of a library. This allowed the design. Once we had orchestral, intimate acoustic for young artists us to randomise the laid out the new design baroque, jazz, modern to hone their skills. vertical batons and also it turned out to be an compositions, multimedia BH: The company keep that horizontal flow, ellipse with the feel of the presentations, as well designing the acoustic, meeting both the acoustic Mercator map projection as classical, opera and Arup, said that for what and architectural needs. of the world. We loved that. musical theatre. The space we wanted in the theatre, It means that the walls We thought it would reflect performs well for them all, they needed hard surfaces: don’t look disconnected the global nature of the providing not only warmth wooden floors, walls and from the space, and the academy. This dynamic but real clarity. ceiling. But each surface auditorium reads as an of very close, sometimes BH: The other major works in a very specific way. architectural whole. difficult collaborative visual aspect of the theatre

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Top left: the recital hall This image and bottom left: the theatre auditorium

was the lighting. It is the new theatre. The lighting of the things I really love Hearing those first bars concept of an exploded designer programmed about this conservatoire is a memory that will stay chandelier, so you see a the ceiling lights to ripple, is that in one sense it is with me forever. It sounded galaxy of light sources suggesting twinkling stars old—it has its history and beautiful. When Jonathan hanging down from the in a dream sequence. deep musical roots—but it turned around and gave us auditorium ceiling. There It was lovely to see the operates firmly in the here the thumbs up, that was a are over 600 fibre-optic lighting being used in this and now. I really appreciate special moment. fittings, powered by 52 unexpected way. that juxtaposition: the new JF-A: Looking back, the projectors. Each projector JF-A: Seeing performances kicking the old about a bit, thing I am proudest about feeds 12 fibre-optic cable in the new spaces and but the old responding is the human aspect of bundles, each of which walking around the new in a positive way, creating the project, the unity of ends in either a hanging facilities leads you to something special. You can purpose everyone showed crystal or a fixed lens in reflect on how rewarding also see that in the way that in getting through a very the ceiling. Looking up, this project has been. Elton John’s stunning Kuhn difficult build, how the they give you a sense of A significant proportion organ sits in the cradle staff, students, donors, and the stars, which blends of the best young talent of our well-upholstered public worked together. very well with the ceiling’s in the world comes to the Edwardian Duke’s Hall This project succeeded Mercator projection shape. academy and our new BH: Hearing music because of collaboration There are also crystals in facilities help to set out our played here is a real joy. and teamwork. That’s what the walls, as if shards of the stall still further. It really is We were happy with what pleases me more than exploded chandelier have magnificent emblem of our we had done before the anything. What we have lodged in the ‘bookcase’. priorities and ambitions. opening-night. We liked achieved is a real symbol All the lights are This may be an adjunct to the look and the feel, and of our vision of the role of programmable. One the teaching, but it’s one we knew the new facilities music and our belief in the lovely moment came in the that we believe is central worked well. But this importance of the Royal performance of Flight, an to the training. It shows place is about music, so Academy of Music. opera by Jonathan Dove, you what our priorities and there were always going ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC which was performed at ambitions are. On a more to be a few nerves before Marylebone Road, NW1 5HT the royal opening of the philosophical level, one that first performance. ram.ac.uk

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Chiltern Street some areas—it’s an area Below: Marylebone High Street you can live and thrive in. I don’t think any other central location has that like Marylebone does.

Have recent residential developments added to the area? I think they have improved the area in many different ways. First, in terms of aesthetics. Take Chiltern Street as an example—you had the car park, which doesn’t exist anymore, ASK THE and the 1960s office block, EXPERTS which has since been You can tell our developed into beautiful Christian Lock- apartments. Because the buildings from Necrews, partner new development is a high at Knight Frank grade offering, it helps those managed by Marylebone, on support everyone who owns in the area, protecting them C the property market from downward pressures. our competitors M and the public I am personally a fan of realm the architecture, too. Not Y everyone is going to love CM it, but I believe it has been done very cleverly. There MY How has the development street and go to a nice cafe, reduced, making it feel are other new buildings CY

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residential property, built through referrals and primarily here in reputation—people like Marylebone, but also across dealing with advisers who prime central London. they know have their best interests at heart. Once this What’s your role? is established, a client can I oversee all aspects of the stay with you forever. business, from valuations and viewings, to ensuring What sort of properties sales go through smoothly. do you deal with? It seems a lot, but the Mainly apartments, as company model is one that is what Marylebone of quality rather than largely consists of, but also quantity. We handle a select houses on occasion. Much number of properties, so we of our clientele is from What is your professional can provide the maximum parts of the world such as background? value achievable. If I’m not the Far East, India and the I started my career in sleeping, my clients can Middle East. International private banking and always reach me, and in an buyers are attracted to have always had a natural international marketplace, secure, 24-hour portered QA affinity with sales. I am this is important. buildings such as the ones passionate about my work found along George Street and about dealing with What is your approach to and in Portman Square, people, which is incredibly selling? where many of our recent important if you want to It’s not good enough to sales have been. I know NICHOLAS be successful in your field. purely advertise a client’s the buildings inside out— JAFFRAY After the financial crisis property. Of course, our from record prices, many of 2008, I started working client’s properties are of which I still hold today The director of at one of London’s largest advertised through all the from over the years, to who Jaffray Estates on estate agencies, where key avenues, but you have to the managing agents are. the secrets of selling, I quickly became the go further to achieve sales. As a result, I am aware of number one agent, out of I go above and beyond any works coming up and the importance of 50 offices across London. to ensure my clients’ whether there is a sinking trust and the appeal I progressed to a high- properties are in front of fund to cover it, as well as of Marylebone end independent agency the correct profile of buyer. having contacts with the in Marylebone, where I I have an extensive network most experienced solicitors INTERVIEW: ELLIE COSTIGAN PORTRAIT: ORLANDO GILI dealt with international of property finders, buying for that building, who know clients and private banks, agents and representatives, all the relevant parties and handling transactions many of whom are personal can ensure a speedy and between £2 million and advisers to buyers of a informed sale. £10 million. It was only certain tier of wealth living natural that I set up my own abroad, people who will What other aspects do business in the area—it’s never walk in off the street you specialise in? where my experience and to an agent’s shop. Short leases. Many expertise lie. properties in central You’ve worked in the area London currently have How did Jaffray Estates for 10 years. How does mid-term and short leases come to be? that affect your business? remaining—for example, Jaffray Estates was Customer service is there are a number of originally a buying very important and buildings on The Portman agency—acting on behalf much of it comes down Estate with 42-year leases. of the buyer to source to relationships. I’ve International buyers aren’t properties and handle got 10 years’ worth of so familiar with the process negotiations—but it relationships here. My of extending a lease, as it’s evolved into an estate business is built on merit. quite old-fashioned and agency. Back to my roots! My clients instruct me British, and if you don’t The company still handles because they trust me— know what you’re dealing private acquisitions, but and trust is everything. with these sales can be a I specialise in selling Much of the business is nightmare. Jaffray Estates

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has close relationships with experts in the field. I can My business is built say on valuation how much on merit.My clients it’s likely to cost to extend instruct me because the lease on a particular they trust me—and apartment, giving my trust is everything clients peace of mind. It all comes down to experience and knowledge.

How do you see the market evolving? It will be hard work, but transactions are achievable. Buyers are increasingly price- sensitive, so correct pricing is imperative. Marylebone remains a sought- after location and has performed well compared to other parts of central London.

Why do you think that is? Everything the capital has to offer is on its doorstep, from Michelin- starred restaurants to world-renowned Selfridges, to the Royal Parks—what’s not to love! Geographically, Marylebone is in the centre of London and has the benefit of all transport links, with easy access to Heathrow, St Pancras for the Eurostar, and the tube from Baker Street, which can get you pretty much anywhere in London. It means the area is appealing to both local residents and international buyers wanting a central pied-a-terre. If you are only coming to London three times a year, you want to make the most of your trips—that means a smooth arrival into London and getting to your property with ease. It’s got to tick all the boxes, and Marylebone does. JAFFRAY ESTATES 7 New Quebec Street, W1H 7RH jaffray-estates.co.uk

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FOR SALE PORTMAN SQUARE, MARYLEBONE W1 £1,999,950

Two Double Bedrooms I Interior-Designed | Balcony I Portered Block | Private Gardens A beautifully presented sixth floor, two bedroom, two bathroom apartment with balcony, situated in a sought after portered block moments from Selfridges and the numerous shops and transport facilities of Oxford Street. The property benefits from access to the immaculate private gardens of Portman Square, offering an oasis of tranquillity in the heart of London.

Pastor Real Estate Pastor Real Estate +44 (0)20 3195 9595 · [email protected] · 48 Curzon Street, London W1J 7UL +44 (0)20 3879 8989 · [email protected] · 11 Curzon Street, London W1J 5HJ

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York House, Marylebone W1 Basildon Court, Marylebone W1 • Exceptional newly refurbished raised ground floor flat Our Marylebone expert, • Large communal terrace Our Marylebone expert, • Large windows allowing for an abundance of natural light Nicholas Shaw, looks • Newly refurbished Nicholas Shaw, looks forward to helping you. forward to helping you. • Approximately 1,138 sq ft [email protected] • Approximately 784 sq ft [email protected] 020 3641 7938 020 3641 7938 York House is excellently located close Marylebone Village and London’s 07976 730 452 Basildon Court on Devonshire Street is ideally located for all the shop 07976 730 452 West End, with many fashionable bars, restaurants and shops on offer. and eateries of Marylebone Village and is within easy access of the Nearby transport links include Baker Street station and Marylebone Station. green open spaces of Regents’ Park. knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk

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Guide price Guide price £2,500,000 £2,200,000 Share of freehold Leasehold: Approximately 95 years remaining

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Guide price Guide price £2,500,000 £2,200,000 Share of freehold Leasehold: Approximately 95 years remaining

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Upper Berkeley Street, Marylebone W1 Picton Place, Marylebone W1 • Private patio Our Marylebone expert, • Two balconies Our Marylebone expert, • Two large storage vaults Christian Lock-Necrews, • Private parking Craig Draper, looks looks forward to helping you. forward to helping you. • Approximately 4,229 sq ft [email protected] • Approximately 1,537 sq ft [email protected] 020 3641 7938 020 3641 7938 Upper Berkeley Street is a few minutes walk to the Marylebone Village, 07785 518 571 Picton Place is located just moments away from Oxford Street and the 07823 416 354 Marble Arch, Hyde Park, Selfridges and a wealth of fashionable shops world famous Selfridges departments store as well as Marylebone High on Oxford Street. Street offering a range of boutiques, cafés, pubs and other amenities. knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk

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Guide price Guide price £6,950,000 £3,850,000 Freehold Leasehold: approximately 144 years remaining

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Guide price Guide price £6,950,000 £3,850,000 Freehold Leasehold: approximately 144 years remaining

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Portland Place, Marylebone W1 The Chilterns, Marylebone W1 • Portered building Our Marylebone expert, • 24 hour porter Our Marylebone expert, • Bright and spacious Nick Beckett, looks • Secure underground parking Nick Beckett, looks forward to helping you. forward to helping you. • Approximately 857 sq ft • Approximately 1165 sq ft [email protected] [email protected] 020 3641 5853 020 3641 5853 Located excellently in the heart of Marylebone with easy access 07867 001 953 The Chilterns is located on the corner of Marylebone Village 07867 001 953 to the fashionable shops and restaurants on Marylebone on Paddington Street, moments from the boutique shops, High Street, Oxford street and Regent Street. restaurants and Paddington Street Gardens. knightfrank.co.uk knightfrank.co.uk

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All potential tenants should be advised that, as well as rent, an administration fee of £288 and referencing fees of £48 per person will apply when renting a property. There will also be a £48 charge to register All potential tenants should be advised that, as well as rent, an administration fee of £288 and referencing fees of £48 per person will apply when renting a property. There will also be a £48 charge to register your deposit with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme if applicable. (All fees shown are inclusive of VAT.) Please ask us for more information about other fees that will apply or visit www.knightfrank.co.uk/tenantfees. your deposit with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme if applicable. (All fees shown are inclusive of VAT.) Please ask us for more information about other fees that will apply or visit www.knightfrank.co.uk/tenantfees. Knight Frank is a member of the ARLA Client Money Protection Scheme and our redress scheme for consumers is Ombudsman Services: Property. Knight Frank is a member of the ARLA Client Money Protection Scheme and our redress scheme for consumers is Ombudsman Services: Property.

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MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET, MARYLEBONE VILLAGE, LONDON W1

This modern two bedroom / two shower room top floor maisonette with wooden flooring is situated on the desirable Marylebone High Street and is only five minutes walking distance to Baker Street Underground Station. Accommodation comprises of two double bedrooms both with en-suite shower room, reception and separate kitchen. Ideally suited for two professionals or couple. Please see website for full details £625 per week

PORTLAND PLACE, MARYLEBONE VILLAGE, LONDON W1

A unique opportunity to acquire an un-modernised four bedroom, four bathroom apartment located on the third floor of this mansion block with a lift. It has the added benefit of high celings. The apartment would make an ideal family home in one of the most sought after buildings in the heart of the Marylebone Village. The open spaces of Regents Park together with Baker Street and Regents Park underground stations are close by. Please see website for full details SHARE OF FREEHOLD Approximately 900 years remaining £4,750,000

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

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MARYLEBONE HIGH STREET Marylebone W1H A 5th floor penthouse apartment with a stunning west-facing roof terrace in a great location on Marylebone High Street.

Reception room • 2 bedrooms • 2 bathrooms • Roof terrace • Unfurnished • EPC rating TBC

£1,550 pw*/£6,716.67 pcm*

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

ST CHRISTOPHER’S PLACE Marylebone W1U

A spacious & homely furnished apartment, stylishly decorated to a high standard & in a prime location close to Oxford Street & all the amenities of Marylebone. Full rent is £600 pw* inclusive of gas, water, electric & broadband.

Reception room • Bedroom • Bathroom • Furnished • Upper floor with lift • EPC rating D

£550 pw*/£2,383.33 pcm*

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

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