CORRESPONDENT DOVER STREET MARKET 10 Things We Should All Know About the New Dover Street Market on Haymarket
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CORRESPONDENT DOVER STREET MARKET Spring 2016 ISSUE 12 ST JAMES’S CORRESPONDENT CONTENTS 06 – 11 13 – 28 ICA: Betty Woodman Dover Street Market 04 32 Editor’s Letter Hilditch & Key On joining forces to Shirtmakers a cut above the stand out from the crowd. cookie cutter conglomerates. 04 33 From the Archives Collars and Cuffs Why for any noble gentleman A guide to the what, when and there is no better way to restore one’s why of shirtmaking styles from honour than to risk one’s life for it. Hilditch & Key. 05 34 – 35 Village News 67 Pall Mall St James’s in a five-minute read. We get all mushy about St James’s first gentlemen’s club in nearly a 06 – 11 hundred years. ICA: Betty Woodman 36 – 38 Hear why Art World dirty words ‘decorative’ and ‘domestic’ have never had The Rise and Fall, and such contemporary resonance. Rise Again of Haymarket 32 12 From the serene to the surreal, Hilditch & Key the story of this up and coming Calendar London street. Fashion, art and food events to 39 put a spring in your step. 13 – 28 Team St James’s Andy Nutt on how to crack the Dover Street Market new business breed of St James’s Our special collaborative, office occupier. commemorative, covetable insert to 40 mark their move to Haymarket. 30 – 31 Property 30 – 31 Caroline Rush St James’s Market looks set Caroline Rush to launch this Spring. On why there are no rules. 36 – 38 The Rise and Fall, and Rise Again of Haymarket stjameslondon.co.uk [email protected] @_stjameslondon Commissioned by St James’s London. The Crown Estate, 16 New Burlington Place London, W1S 2HX thecrownestate.co.uk Cover illustration by James Graham Design and editorial by dn&co. 02 03 ST JAMES’S CORRESPONDENT VILLAGE NEWS To p: Herdwick lamb leg, salsa verde and smoked aubergine from Cafe Two-Michelin-starred Aquavit Murano’s ‘Pranzo della Domenica' menu to open first UK restaurant in Middle: 'Species' sofa by St James’s Market Fredrikson Stallard, from the Gravity exhibition at David Gill Gallery New York’s preeminent Nordic restaurant, Aquavit, has Below: announced it will be opening a large dining space in St James’s Smeg dual fuel range Market. With exquisite cuisine that balances a conviction to try cooker with gas hob new techniques and ingredients with a deep respect for tradition Opposite: Illustrations by and seasonality, this is exciting news indeed for connoisseurs of James Graham fine dining. Visit stjameslondon.co.uk for the latest news on the Get familia with Cafe Murano’s West End’s most anticipated food destination. new Sunday menu aquavit.org @aquavitnyc Cafe Murano recently launched their new ‘Pranzo della Domenica’ menu at their St James’s Street restaurant. Owner Angela Hartnett created the Sunday Lunch menu with executive head chef Sam Williams, as a nod to the traditional family meals of her childhood, designed more as social occasions then just a few fresh dishes. From shared, roasted cuts of Herdwick lamb leg to the bowls of Murano’s famously silky pasta made daily by the chefs and the newly introduced ‘Harry’s Bar’ toasted sandwich inspired by the famous Venetian bistro – these Sunday dishes are all prepared with Hartnett’s signature style of simple, seasonal Italian cooking. cafemurano.co.uk Prince purchases sculptural @cafemuranostj sofa before official opening at David Gill Gallery Swiss bike brand ASSOS rides into EDITOR’S LETTER St James’s Market with a UK first One of the most eye-catching pieces at the Fredrikson Stallard ‘Gravity show at David Gill Gallery is the ‘Species Sofa.’ So Fashion Foreword ASSOS, the high-end cycling clothing brand, is to open its first eye-catching in fact that a foreign prince – we are sworn to flagship store outside Switzerland in St James’s Market. Roche secrecy on his name – came in to purchase it before the show There are those neighbours you’ll never forget. The Maier, Createur at the Swiss company, said, “St James’s had even opened. Made from carved and chainsawed ever-patient retired couple who helped out taking reputation for high quality, bespoke craftsmanship fits perfectly polyurethane coated in subtle strands of coloured polyester, parcels or holding a spare set of keys for (fairly with our core values. We’re excited to be opening at St James’s which give it the quality of a Rothko painting, the piece-of-art frequent) emergencies. Or the crotchety gentleman Market… a store that we call “Manga Yio.” According to a report sofa appears more like a chunk of molten rock than your living on the corner who once reversed over our bikes that last year, one-in-four Brits now cycle regularly, the highest room settee. Thankfully, the material ingeniously bends and glorious summer. And then there’s the exciting number in decades. Alongside The Bike Rooms and Bespoke stretches to fit your figure as you sit. arrival of new neighbours… Cycling, ASSOS will also add to St James’s burgeoning range of As any area of London can testify, new neighbours davidgillgallery.com quality cycling shops – this upsurge in popularity looks set to can signal important changes for a neighbourhood @dgillgallery change how we see an area usually famed for its promenades. in how it will come to be seen and valued. Imagine then our complete teenage-scream level excitement assos.com @assos_com with the news that beyond-outré fashion cosmonauts COMME des GARÇONS would be upping sticks and One of London’s oldest relaunching their superstore and high concept retail galleries Colnaghi to open space Dover Street Market on Haymarket, just opposite the new St James’s Market. FROM THE ARCHIVES in new Duke Street space This issue then is our basket of muffins, our potted A century after the firm moved from Pall Mall to Mayfair, plant, our housewarming party. Working together on A Favourite Spot for Duelling Colnaghi will return to St James’s in 2016 with a new this special edition and insert, we have come to see 4,000 sq ft exhibition space, which is part of the 26 Bury Street how much Dover Street Market and St James’s already Duels were an important part of 17th and 18th so vigorous that they can still be heard on the redevelopment due to complete in early summer. In the heart have in common. From a shared appreciation of century social life. For a noble gentleman there anniversary of the fight. of the gallery will sit the company’s celebrated and highly design classics – with heritage Swedish bucket bags was no better way to restore one’s honour than Perhaps more famous was the duel involving treasured library and, most exciting for Colnaghi Chairman and Post-War-inspired spectacles included in the top demonstrating a willingness to risk one’s life for it. Lord Hervey, a professional politician and Konrad Bernheimer, is a huge street-level window to attract DSM products shoot on page 18 – to shared friends On a spring evening in 1696, Sir Henry Dutton Colt, ambitious courtier, whose witty propagandist passers-by. The increased size of the gallery and its bespoke and mutual admirers, as Chief Exec of the British Baronetcy of St James’s-in-the-Fields, challenged pamphlets promoting Walpole’s Whig ministry Smeg to open its door to St James’s design will allow Colnaghi to have several exhibition spaces, Fashion Council Caroline Rush shares her particular the rakish Robert “Beau” Fielding, a notorious provoked politician William Pulteney into nasty and offers them the opportunity to present a wider range of take on DSM’s move on page 30. figure known for duelling, gambling and bedding innuendo about Hervey’s personal life. Hervey with new lifestyle concept store their international Old Master paintings, sculptures and We can all be a bit precious about our own corner mistresses. The location, behind Bridgewater House responded to this libel by challenging Pulteney to drawings. The 255-year-old gallery with a distinguished Joining St James’s Market will be iconic Italian upmarket of the world, and St James’s is no exception. We are on Cleveland Row, was chosen by Fielding who a duel behind Arlington Street. reputation should prove an exciting addition to St James’s fridge-maker Smeg. An entirely new retail concept will allow ever thankful for an enthusiastic following that wished to fight like the knights of old – under the At four o’clock on Monday 25 January 1730, the dazzling art gallery line-up. customers to experience the whole range of products with shirks the ‘High Street’ and who drives their own beautiful eyes of his mistress and future wife, the duellists stripped to their shirts – though it was an appliances and fittings that reflect the Smeg lifestyle, while sartorial path away from mass consumerism and notorious Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. icy morning and snow covered the ground – and colnaghi.com offering the opportunity for increased customisation. Vittorio towards both bespoke clothing and a bespoke With a standard dueller’s rapier – a sharp, slender drew their swords. It was a somewhat foolish act by Bertazzoni, CEO of Smeg, said, “between historic landmarks, lifestyle. But as paragons of internationalism and sword suited to thrusting attacks – in hand, Fielding Hervey, who was quickly led from the field having St James’s – a premium world class destination – is the perfect individualism, new neighbours Dover Street Market ran Sir Henry through before he had time to draw fainted from ‘a slight wound in his side and four or choice to welcome our UK flagship store, which will thrive in offer us a timely reminder that for this pocket of his weapon.