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MARYLEBONE
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MS DIANA NORTHOVER SRCH 1960
MS DIANA NORTHOVER SRCH 1960
DR ANDREW c liddle mfdm
DR ANDREW c liddle mfdm 19541954
professor john shillingford 1914-1999
professor john shillingford md md 1914-1999
Dr frederick james 1920
Dr frederick james md md 1920
mrs margaret myles rgn 1937-2008
mrs margaret myles rgn 1937-2008
Dr Marylyn Poytner RCSI 1952
Dr Marylyn Poytner LDS LDS RCSI 1952
MRS SANTOKBEN J Bhundia 1927-2006
MRS SANTOKBEN J Bhundia 1927-2006
DR Daniel annan ba ba 1907-1972
DR Daniel NeeNee annan1907-1972
professor robin eastwood frcp
professor robin eastwood frcp 19381938
lady joan maria rahman sheikh 1929-2008
lady joan maria rahman sheikh 1929-2008
professor sam lingam frcpch
professor sam lingam frcpch
dr richard hunter 1923-1981
dr richard hunter md md 1923-1981
miss anne boutwood frcog 1927-2009
miss anne boutwood frcog 1927-2009
dr lesley jane knowles frcpsych 1949-2007
dr lesley jane knowles frcpsych 1949-2007
dr paul venn frca 1923-2008
dr paul venn frca 1923-2008
dr abdelhalim m abdelhalim frcp 1910-2009
dr abdelhalim m abdelhalim frcp 1910-2009
dr rita 1971
dr rita palpal 1971
tudor thomas frcs 1941
Mr Mr tudor thomas frcs 1941
dr margaret thomas mbbs
dr margaret thomas mbbs 19441944
roger cudmore frcs 1935-2004
mr mr roger cudmore frcs 1935-2004
dr michael o’ryan frcgp 1935-2009
dr michael o’ryan frcgp 1935-2009
professor sharat d gangolli frcpath
professor sharat d gangolli frcpath 19261926
dr noË pines (kiev) do do 1887-1910
dr noË pines md md (kiev) 1887-1910
dr leslie frank hewitt phd 1900-1967
dr leslie frank hewitt phd 1900-1967
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04—MARYLEBONE JOURNAL Culture, food, fashion, shopping, history and property
08: Estate briefing
The Journal’s designer wins an award
People
12: Local lives
Agatha Kalisperas, director of the Hellenic Centre
Features
14: Pass master
Our food-phobic writer brushes up on his ravioli-making at Cafe Luc
18: Big interview
BBC London presenter JoAnne Good on why she’s no longer a morning person
22: Putting on the Ritz
Local actors Felicity Dean and Jos Vantyler discuss the world’s greatest courtesan
26: Culture in brief
Photography of Marylebone, a jaggedart artist, and Simeon Stafford’s London
30: Book reviews
Daunt Books’ offerings read and assessed
32: Guide
Art, music and cultural events in February and March
28: Style
36: Style guide
14: Learning the fashion ropes at the American Intercontinental University
40: What’s in?
The Journal’s regular guide to the pick of Marylebone’s retail crop
42: Gail force
Jackie Modlinger speaks to the woman behind leading fashion directory Diary
46: Well kempt secrets
Lifting the lid on luxury hair salon Gielly Green
48: Intelligent design
The eponymous designer of Designer’s Guild on colour, coffee and the Queen
Food
52: Baker’s treat
Clare Sheppard, the secretary turned recipe innovator at Le Pain Quotidien
56: Three of a kind
Foie gras parfait, sea bass and a souffle from the wizards of Orrery’s kitchen
58: Food in brief
A legendary dynasty, a handful of stars, and an amazing wine-saving device
60: Food & me
Barry Hirst, co-owner of the gastronomical Grazing Goat
40: 62: World of wine
Robert Giorgione on a new type of wine bar
History
64: The lady thief
Or, what happens when a 19th century lady steals a handkerchief
Health
68: Joint account
Keeping osteoarthritis at bay at the Princess Grace Hospital
70: Health in brief
The Bowen Alignment Clinic and a new gym
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EstatE
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then as a co-founder of browns, had
initiativE tHE PriZE recently set up on his own, using the
name em-project, and he successfully
pitched for the book, making the
Estate his very first client. a couple
several years ago, in order to The man behind the Marylebone Journal’s of years earlier, in 2004, i had been
introduce some greenery into design and the Howard de Walden Estate’s lucky enough to be offered the task
our urban environment, the corporate identity has been named Designer of reinventing the then dormant
Estate introduced hanging of the Year by his peers in the publishing Marylebone Journal after the Estate
baskets to several of the streets world. This esteemed Journal’s editor, conducted a search of London’s
in the area. We were pleased Mark Riddaway, explains why journalism colleges, looking for a
to see that some years later new editor. i was asked to edit the
the Marylebone High street it was a very proud moment for Marylebone village book as an
ward allocated some budget all of us involved with the Journal extension of my work on the Journal.
to extending the provision of when our friend and colleague “Working on the book was a really
hanging baskets. this theme Mike turner, who also happens to enjoyable experience,” says Mike.
continues in the work of be the man behind the Howard “getting to know the area was great
WiW tree Planting initiative, de Walden Estate’s branding, was fun and a real pleasure, and it soon
which we have been pleased named Designer of the Year at the became clear that the raw materials
to support. their work in independent Publisher awards back we would be working on – the
promoting the planting of trees in December – the Oscars for our possibilities for great photography
has enhanced the attractiveness industry. after seeing the award for and writing – could hardly be any
of the area. they are featured in which i had been shortlisted – Editor better. Jenny and her team at the
the space section of the Journal. of the Year – being scandalously Estate knew what they wanted to
One of the pleasures of my carried off by the top man at some achieve, but they were also open to
job is that i have a valid excuse kind of hedge fund magazine, i was new ideas, so it was a very creative
to try out the area’s many able to summon up just enough experience. the key thing was how
restaurants.My experience magnanimity to choke out my passionate they were about the project
with local restaurants has been congratulations to Mike before and about what they are doing in
limited to that of a satisfied heading off to howl in agony and Marylebone, so they were determined
customer, so the article on a day confusion at passing strangers. i’m to make it work.”
working in the kitchens of Café OK now. as i keep reminding Mike, after the book, Mike was asked to
Luc serves as an interesting it’s not the winning that counts, it’s the come up with a new brand identity for
reminder of the work that goes taking part. Winning just cheapens the Estate, which despite its admirable
on behind the scenes. the experience. i’m something of a reputation for its work in Marylebone
We also feature a new Corinthian in that respect. had never previously been particularly
exhibition by simeon stafford i first came across Mike in 2006 active in developing and promoting its
at thompson’s gallery. John when we were both commissioned branding. “i would get off the train at
thompson has been a regular by the Howard de Walden Estate’s Charing Cross,” says Mike,” then walk
supporter of Marylebone over creative director Jenny Edwards up regent street, which was plastered
the years, including running to work on a coffee table book in the regent street branding, past
the highly successful Howard documenting a year in the life of the Carnaby street, which has an equally
de Walden art Prize, in which Estate, and our subsequent working strong identity, then cross the chaos of
artists were invited to produce relationship has been a very fruitful Oxford street. i arrived in this lovely,
two pieces of art on some one. both of us began this stage of calm, beautiful area that looked and
aspect of life in Marylebone. our careers as beneficiaries of the felt so completely different, but you
the gallery is well worth a visit. Estate’s admirable proclivity for never quite got that sense of why. by
working with small, independent building a strong identity for the Estate,
Toby Shannon, chief executive, suppliers. Mike, who had made his and having that identity prominently
The Howard de Walden Estate name first as creative director at displayed on hoardings and posters, we
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hoped that more people would begin would be impossible to sum it all up in we had been given by the Estate. it
to understand that this area is the a logo,” says Mike. was Mike who, two years ago, created
Howard de Walden Estate, and that’s Mike is now responsible each year the new design template for this very
why it feels like it does.” for producing the much admired Journal, which has proved such a great
the challenge was to modernise branding and marketing materials success – the classy, sophisticated
the institution’s identity while for the Marylebone village summer feel of the publication is typical of
respecting its history and traditions. fayre and the Christmas Lights his approach. We now work together
the result, like much of Mike’s work, event, thereby guaranteeing a on a range of different magazines,
was striking in its simplicity and clean significant involvement in the area’s websites and corporate branding jobs,
lines. “the use of a very strong, very two biggest days of revelry. this, and his work with us has been more
simple logo and a pallet of just black as anyone who has ever met this than deserving of the recognition
and white came from the fact that the gregarious graphic designer will that is now being directed his way
Estate brings its own colour. the area attest, is a very suitable fit. from within our industry. next time
is so diverse and so rich in tone that it Having enjoyed working together you see a summer fayre Poster or a
on the book, i began to commission Christmas Lights postcard or the logo
LINKS Mike to work on projects for the of the Howard de Walden Estate, you
growing magazine publishing can think to yourself, Oh look, it’s the
Mike Turner business that my Marylebone Journal designer of the year. and this non-
em-project.com colleagues and i had been able to award winning editor is actually really
build off thanks to the opportunity happy about that. Honestly.
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LOCAL LIVES
AGATHA KALISPERAS
Agatha Kalisperas is the director of and in the evening. We have 350
The Hellenic Centre on Paddington Street. students, and the last time I counted
She lives in Hampstead Village and there were 38 different nationalities
is also a magistrate learning Greek here.
The centre does not belong to
I was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, but left any government, something we
at the age of 17 to study architecture in are very proud of. The centre was
Athens. I got engaged very young and set up by private donations, so we
came to England in the late 1960s, don’t depend on governments to tell
so I have been in London most of my us what to do. But this does mean
life – although I still have an accent. that we have to raise money. We do in the shops. I do my food shopping
I studied psychology at London this by hiring out our facilities for at Waitrose and buy my clothes in
University and then did a masters conferences during the day. And at Marylebone. I live on my own up in
degree in management at Surrey Christmas time companies can have Hampstead Village, which is a lovely
University. A single mother bringing their parties here. area, but I’m hardly there. I spend one
up two sons, I ran a private hostel for We are really pleased to host the quarter of the day at home sleeping
female university students and then Howard de Walden Estate Christmas – the rest of the time I’m here.
I had a small property company. party. The Estate has performed I’ve been a magistrate since
In 1996 The Hellenic Centre miracles. In 1997 this area wasn’t half 1995, sitting at Highbury Corner
rang to ask if I could take over, just as nice as it is today – they have made Magistrates’ Court. I felt that because
to help them for six months because amazing improvements. And through this country accepted me, I should give
the director had left. A friend of them people get to know us, because something back. It’s a voluntary job
mine advised me not to, saying that when I first came to the centre people – nobody forces you. For the first six
it would be very difficult, but I like a were sometimes afraid to come in. months I wondered why on earth
challenge. That was in January 1997 They thought: “What is this? Is it for I decided to do it. I was very depressed,
– and I’m still here. members only?” I want to tell people but then you realise that you only see
The centre was established in 1994 that the centre is open to everybody. a small percentage of society. And you
to provide a focus for the Hellenic We are part of the community. feel that you’re helping them, because
community based in the UK and My role is extremely demanding. you’re not only sending people to
to promote Hellenic culture. We I’m usually here from 8am until late, prison, you’re also sending them to
host many lectures and exhibitions. and I also work many weekends. have treatment for alcohol and drug
English people love Greece and its I have to supervise everything and abuse. Most of the crime is drug
ancient history, and 95 per cent of our deal with the accounts and the related, and most of the violence is
lectures are in English. We are not budget. I have a small, hardworking alcohol related, so our role is not only
just for Greeks – we are for everybody. team and we are very hands-on. to punish people, but to help them.
We have a wonderful Steinway piano For example, if the cleaner doesn’t If I have the time, I like the theatre
and host many concerts. Most of our turn up you still have to ensure that and the opera. Or I see my children
events are free of charge and in times the centre is clean. I’m not the type and my grandchildren. The Hellenic
of financial difficulty it is important who says: “I’m the director. You do Centre’s trustees told me not to work
that people have a place to go and everything.” If you don’t do things so many hours. But I enjoy my job
still have access to culture. There’s yourself then you can’t expect your very much, even though it is very
a lot of culture in London, but you colleagues to do them. I feel very demanding. There are deadlines
usually have to pay. strongly about that. every day. We are a very busy place.
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In an urban village of sophisticated gastronomes, Jean-Paul Aubin-Parvu is a bewildered,
food-phobic outcast. Could a stint as a commis chef in the kitchen of Cafe Luc, under the
watchful eye of head chef David Collard, help drag him into the Marylebone mainstream?
Marylebone has two gangs. The commis chef is definitely open to all to the eggs, plus a pinch of salt and
Gastronomes are the kings of the comers. I desperately look around for several tablespoons of extra virgin
playground. Every Sunday they steam someone I can kick, but the kitchen olive oil. I go to work with the whisk.
through the farmers’ market, making porter is in far better shape than me. Chef then switches on the mixer
the kind of offers that traders would So I’ll just stand still. and watches me gradually pour the
be unwise to refuse. The Gastronomes David’s team are busy at their eggs into the flour, just enough to
know what they like and where to find various stations, doing all sorts of achieve the perfect consistency and
it. They speak their own language, things to all sorts of ingredients. elasticity. “We don’t want the dough
a slang of souffle, truffle oil and pan All preparation must be finished to be too wet,” says David. And the
fried asparagus. Behind closed doors before the first lunchtime order second I finish kneading the dough
they throw lavish dinner parties, swish arrives. I expect to be asked to peel a he wraps it in clingfilm – air is no
interesting wines and vociferously ton of carrots, thus allowing the head friend to pasta – and places it into
debate the latest restaurant openings. chef to get on with running his kitchen, the fridge to rest for 20 minutes.
The Gastronomes wear aprons, wield but that’s just not David Collard’s style. But instead of taking an official
Nakiri vegetable knives and can fillet So together we will prepare his latest union tea break, David and I start
a fish in less than 30 seconds. And you creation, a starter of crab and salmon preparing the garnish. Chef slices away
are probably one of them. ravioli with lemongrass and ginger. the skin from a pink grapefruit and
The other gang doesn’t have a David strides over to his tiny office demonstrates how to delicately cut
name and only boasts one member area. Running his index finger along out small segments, which then need
– me. I sit alone at one end of the a row of ring binders, he eventually to be brunoise. I’m sure they do, except
seesaw, the last man in town who stops on the one containing this I haven’t a clue what this actually
knows nothing about food. Scared to recipe. David keeps a vast collection means. “Finely diced,” whispers David,
show my face at the farmers’ market, of his own recipes. “You want not wishing to advertise my ignorance
I am baffled by just the concept of consistency every time,” he explains. to the rest of the kitchen.
confit. I once hosted a barbecue, “The sauce has to be the same To julienne fresh ginger into
where instead of impressing the girl everyday. The garnish must be cut perfectly thin strips David uses the
of my dreams I poisoned her with in the same way – everything.” fingers of his left hand to control
my experimental flash fry chicken We start with the saffron ravioli the passage of the knife across the
a la ketchup. She spent the next week pasta. David places a horde of big ginger. Though these fingers are
on her back – and not in a good way. kitchen knives onto a metal bench perilously close to the blade, chef
I have never cooked for anyone since. and begins to sharpen one. This manages to move the knife in a blur.
Until today that is. I’m standing in prompts my high pitched enquiry as I adopt a more tortoise approach,
the kitchen beneath Cafe Luc with to whether he is one of those highly yet only four of my ginger strips pass
head chef David Collard. It’s 9:30am, volatile chefs you hear about. “We all the garnish test. The remainder
and I’m about to make my debut have different moods,” answers David, resemble fat chips, which will have to
as a commis chef. According to my cryptically. “It just depends on the day. content themselves with becoming
brother-in-law, an authority on all But no, I try to be a nice person.” part of the sauce.
things Masterchef, a commis chef is To make the pasta dough I first The sauce I speak of needs
the lowest of the low in the kitchen weigh out 250g of flour and pour it shallots, ginger and lemongrass.
hierarchy. Apparently the head chef into the mixer. Then into a separate David and I chop the above before
may kick his sous chef whenever the bowl go three egg yolks and one heading over to one of the cookers.
fancy takes him, who in turn can kick whole egg – and no shell. David On the boil is a huge cauldron full
the fish chef, grill chef or vegetable has had saffron infusing in water of a dark, bubbling liquid. Though
chef. I can’t remember who is entitled overnight, and gets me to add three not strictly any of my business I can’t
to kick the pastry chef, but the tablespoons of the golden liquid resist a quick peek. All sorts of meaty
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PASS MASTER
looking things bob on the surface your life?” chats. But David was none
– hopefully not all that remains of the less determined to rise to the top
the last commis chef. of the profession.
David puts a pan onto the heat and He began his career in the kitchens
adds 100g of butter to the pan, purely of several Michelin starred restaurants
for taste reasons. Soon it’s the turn in Paris, including Joël Robuchon’s
of the shallots, ginger, lemongrass, Restaurant Jamin. Then in 1993, he
a pinch of salt and some coriander came to the UK to work as sous chef
seeds. I pour in a lobster stock which for Michael Caines at the Gidleigh
David has prepared in advance. We Park hotel in Devon, before moving
leave the sauce to simmer. to London to work alongside Gordon
Still no sign of a tea break. Our Ramsay and Marcus Wareing at Petrus.
ginger julienne has to be blanched It was hard work. “I used to arrive at six
three times to reduce its intensity. o’clock in the morning and not leave
While the ginger heats in a pan of until one, two o’clock the following
water, David’s eyes scan his kitchen, morning,” he recalls. “Taking 20
checking that everything is running minute breaks and drinking loads of
like clockwork. I suspect he might coffee – the pressure was so intense.
be an excellent chess player, because But if you want to be one of the best
he’s always several moves ahead. chefs then you have to sacrifice yourself
During the second blanching for a few years and really push yourself
I also take a moment to study to the limit.”
David’s troops. Everyone is working His first position as head chef was
flat out, but there is none of the at Fleur at St James, followed by three
Shakespearean tension, drama and and a half years at the Langham
unhinged ego that I’d expected to Hotel and a lengthy period at The
encounter. While David demands the Wallace Collection. David has been
highest standards from his team, he head chef at Cafe Luc since it opened
prefers the magic to be conjured up its doors in June 2010.
in a friendly atmosphere. Cafe Luc Cafe Luc presents itself as a
is the sort of place that could give European Grand Cafe. The food may
kitchens a good name. be French and Belgian at heart, but the
It’s like the United Nations down influences also lap at Mediterranean
here. Behind the French head chef shores. David’s menu offers everything
is a Malaysian chap who previously from unabashed comfort food right
worked for David at the Langham up to the level of sophistication you’d I am treated to several
Hotel. The sous chef is as English expect at a far pricier establishment. glasses of champagne
as the pastry chef is Belgian, while With dishes such as the steak tartare
others originate from Poland and fast becoming the talk of the town, no
followed by a sumptuous
Italy. Just then an attractive blonde wonder Cafe Luc has so many regulars. lunch. I wonder if every
girl walks into the kitchen. Suddenly my nostrils detect a commis chef gets such
While the ginger julienne is treated strange smell. Oh God, I’ve burnt royal treatment on their
to a third and final blanching, I watch the bloody ginger. This is it! Turning
David fix a manual pasta rolling to face David, I brace myself for a first day in the job
machine to the bench and begin justifiable tirade of Gallic abuse. But
the process of rolling out the dough. the noble Frenchman smiles warmly
When it reaches the desired thickness and then politely asks one of his chefs
I use a round metal cutter to produce to blanch some more ginger.
several large ravioli disks. David fetches a tray from the LINKS
David hails from Reims in the fridge, on which are a dozen gooey
Champagne region of France. balls – the salmon and crab mix that Cafe Luc
The son of a famous butcher, he only will fill the ravioli. Chef produced 50 Marylebone High Street
decided he wanted to become a chef them just before my arrival. “For 020 7258 9878
after dad cornered him for one of the mix I basically made a scallop cafeluc.com
those “what are you going to do with mousse in a food processor with a
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bit of double cream and a pinch of away. Chef picks up a spoon, tastes adding the blanched ginger julienne
salt,” he explains. “I added crab meat the sauce and ponders for a moment. garnish and a few delicate cuttings
and diced salmon, and then mixed I notice a slight crease form over his of dill. “And if you want to be super
it all together with a bit of chopped left eye. He reaches for half a lemon, extravagant you drizzle on a little bit
coriander and chopped dill. A touch squeezes a little juice into the sauce of chilli oil,” says David, doing exactly
of lemon juice, and that’s it.” and passes me a spoon. “Let me know that. His finished dish is a work of art.
David brushes the circumference what you think,” he says. This proves David eyes the clock. It is
of one of the ravioli disks with a impossible. The sauce is so good that dangerously close to midday. Service
mixture of egg yolk and water. He words actually fail me, and all I can is about to begin, with today’s lunch
places a ball of the crab and salmon manage is an enthusiastic thumbs bookings including a function for 35
onto the centre of the ravioli and up. David passes the sauce through people. In a few minutes the first of
covers it with a second disk, then a chinois – a fine mesh sieve – before many orders will flood the kitchen.
gently seals the edges of the two disks nipping off to check on the pak choi From then on the team will launch into
with his fingers, before inviting me that he’s been secretly cooking in overdrive to ensure that a great many
to create a second ravioli. We blanch vegetable stock, ginger, lemongrass things happen at once – and on time.
our ravioli for one minute in a pan and lemon zest. This will certainly be no place
of water, olive oil and a pinch of salt. It’s time to plate up. I decide for the likes of me. My shift at an end,
This doesn’t cook the ravioli through to allow David this honour. The I hang up my apron and make my
but ensures they seal perfectly, before warmed plate is embossed with the way upstairs to the restaurant.
being put into the fridge. This means words “Cafe Luc” and “Marylebone There I am treated to several
that when chef receives an order for London” – no doubt a precaution glasses of champagne followed by
ravioli he can simply remove one should David’s food prove so a sumptuous lunch enjoyed in the
from the fridge and blanch it for a delicious that his customers forget charming company of Cafe Luc’s
further five minutes. where they are. Chef arranges pak directors, Julie van Oostende and
David decides to pretend that an choi in the centre of the plate. After Laurent Vercauteren Drubbel. I
order has come through. He sets the scattering a few diced grapefruit wonder if every commis chef gets
timer for five minutes and begins to segments around and about, he then such royal treatment on their first
blanch one of the saffron coloured very carefully places one large ravioli day in the job. I expect they do – it’s
ravioli. Our attention now turns to on top of the pak choi. He then probably a European Union working
the sauce which has been simmering spoons on some of the sauce before practice directive.
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BIG INTERVIEW
GOOD
FORTUNE
BBC London presenter JoAnne Good talks to Viel Richardson
about dogs, Marylebone eccentrics and why being dumped
from her breakfast show turned out to be a stroke of luck
JoAnne Good is a busy woman. show with her pet bulldog Mathilda. would sit in the cafes after their shows
On Sundays to Thursdays between All of this follows an acting career watching people walking by, and
10pm and 2am she takes to the that included stage, screen and chatting. It was brilliant.”
airwaves as the host of the Late Night television roles and still throws up the Jo had moved back to London
show, where a motley collection occasional part. from Brighton and was living with
of entertaining, controversial and But the main focus of Jo’s friends in Battersea. She remembers
downright disorderly guests gather working life is the radio, the studios there being a lovely feeling of a
to set the world to rights for BBC for which are based at Portman village when coming to work and
London listeners. On Saturdays she Square – handy, as Jo lives just off she liked the sense that the high
presents the equally lively Breakfast Marylebone High Street, a stone’s street was bustling but not horribly
show with Simon Lederman, leaving throw away from work. In fact work crowded. She also recalls a feeling
Jo’s weekly ‘night off’ as Friday is what brought her here in the of space enhanced by Regent’s Park
– not traditionally known as a low first place. “I was working for BBC and she just loved it. And then there
key, restful, put your feet up kind London in Marylebone High Street, were the clothes shops. Jo knew that
of night. When not presenting, she and it made me feel happy every time she needed to buy a place in London
occasionally reports for BBC current I came here,” says Jo, as she passes me and now she knew where she wanted
affairs shows such as Inside Out and a huge mug of coffee in her small but to be. At first she thought that it
can also be seen as a guest on various beautifully formed Marylebone flat. would be out of the question, but
chat shows. She has even found “We all loved working down here; it a bit of luck some hard work and a
time to co-star in an upcoming TV was like one big playpen. Everyone bout of pretty intense negotiating
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BIG INTERVIEW
But the journey to Marylebone
was not always a smooth one. It was
a particularly low point in Jo’s acting
career that set her on the road to radio.
“I had moved down to Brighton in the
90s and work was beginning to dry up.
I was doing the obligatory – The Bill,
Casualty, Holby City appearances once
every six months – but it was hardly
enough to keep me in tights.
I was a very pretty young actress and
was often employed as a ‘dolly bird’.
We were literally employed for a show
and told, ‘Just go along and be a dolly
bird.’ But in this business there is always
a younger blonder person around the
corner. You go from the dolly bird to
playing married women, then from
the wife to cameo roles like ‘old bag’.
There was nothing happening for me.
Then BBC Southern Counties radio
asked me to do a paper review on
their breakfast show. After that they
kept asking me back, and eventually
I ended up presenting it. That was
how I got into radio – I kind of fell
into it. Also, radio is so organic, the
only time something matters is when
you are saying it, and the next show is
completely different, and I love that.
I just love the spontaneity of radio.
Finding out that I was valued as a
presenter by the BBC still ranks as
the highlight of my career.”
Jo then spent over a decade
later she was the proud owner of a wonderful area. Once you’ve lived presenting the show and garnering
one bedroom flat in the centre of her here you cannot live anywhere else. awards before being offered the
favourite part of town. There are loads of people who have chance to return to London, which
When I ask what in particular been here for years like the man who she leapt at. After a brief stint on
attracts her to the area, her answer owns an art shop I sometimes go in, an evening show, Jo took over the
comes back almost before the last or people I meet walking my dog. Radio London Breakfast show from
word of the question has faded into Getting their take on people like me Danny Baker and for the next six
the ether. “I love the people here,” coming in is really interesting. They years entertained both herself and
she exclaims with genuine delight. see the pop stars and all the celebrities much of London with her lively
“There is a woman who lives nearby come in, Barbara Windsor lives down and irreverent style. More awards
called Professor Cotton who went the road, Dale Winton is around the followed and all seemed well when,
to school with Aldous Huxley. corner. You can see the old timers out of the blue, Jo was hit by a
Her parents were doctors based in watching the incomers. It all makes bombshell. She was being replaced.
Harley Street so Marylebone was for a wonderful atmosphere. I have a Gaby Roslin was being given her slot
her playground. She is wonderful, friend who makes bunting and I help on the flagship show.
an absolute eccentric. And there are her with her stall at the Cabbages & “I haven’t talked about this in
many others like her who have never Frocks market on Saturdays, and you an interview before, but losing
left, and are still here clinging on could be at any village fete. All the the breakfast show, which I was
to their Jaeger coats. Many are not locals who you see around the week presenting with Paul Ross, was
affluent, but they come from this are there.” one the worst experiences I can
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remember. It was absolutely everything else that I have done.
mind blowing because I couldn’t I produce the show, so I decide who
understand why. We had never lost comes on. I know what is out there,
our audience, the reaction to the I know who interests me, and so
show was still great. To be frank, part I can call on everything I have been
of me still doesn’t fully understand through and all the people I have
why that decision was made.” met. Anyone I meet in life, like my
During her short spell on the builder who worked on this flat,
evening show after returning to I can just say, ‘Come on the show.’
London, Jo had performed extremely Literally anyone I find interesting
well, attracting a growing audience, can come on the show. The funny Losing the breakfast show
so when Gaby Roslin was handed the thing is, I would never do breakfast was one the worst experiences
breakfast show, Jo’s bosses offered to again, I just love doing the late show.
return her to the late slot, saying she So it has worked out well, but I was
I can remember. It was
could do whatever she wanted on it, as bruised in the process.” absolutely mind blowing
long as she didn’t offend. When I ask Through the radio shows, new because I couldn’t understand
if such an unusual amount of freedom opportunities have began to arise why. But the funny thing is,
might be a quid pro quo for being and Jo is finding herself back in
replaced by “the other blonde”, there demand on television. “I have just I would never do breakfast
is a pause, one of the few in the entire finished a ‘dogumentary’ coming out again – I just love doing
interview. “I think the real hurt this year about life seen through the the late show
came from feeling initially that my eyes of dogs. My dog Mathilda and
integrity and abilities as a broadcaster her best friend Molly are the dogs
were being questioned,” she says. who link the whole series. But there
“The thing that got me at the time is are others. There is a camera on the
that London is my playground. dog and one on the owner so the
I have lived in every part of London, dogs get just as much screen time.
I walk around the city, I spend all my It was hysterical to film and they
time talking to people here, so as a voiced Mathilda as Josie from Big
London breakfast presenter I had Brother. That’s out in the spring. It is
total relevance. But I am also very a light hearted look at a dog’s world.”
outspoken, and opinionated, and Her involvement reflects a love of
there are certain things that I would dogs that is also quite apparent when
say that you probably don’t want to Jo is on air. “Every Thursday we have
hear on a breakfast show. At the time a slot called Barking At The Moon
my boss said my style was more suited which is the only dog friendly radio are allowed to have dogs. So he came
to a late night show, but for me the show in the world. We have academics on my show and talked about his dog
decision was devastating. On the radio on with their dogs, we have people a lot, but I also did it to highlight that
all you are offering is yourself, so to like Cath Kidstone and Brian Sewell. this is a great charity that will support
be replaced when the show was going Bryan Adams came on but only to dogs and also to say, ‘All of you lot in
well, I was gutted.” talk about his dog, which was fine by Marylebone give to this man because
Then as suddenly as it had me. We used to have all the dogs in he is a really nice bloke.’ He told
appeared, the furrowed brow is gone, but the BBC have now banned them me it’s been brilliant since the show.
and the usual wide smile returns. from the studio. Someone was allergic All the women on the high street say
“But the boss must have known what so Health and Safety has destroyed hello, some have even offered to look
he was doing because I love what something yet again.” after the dog on a Saturday night if
I am doing now. It makes sense of As she continues, Jo tells a story he wants to go somewhere where the
that brings us back to Marylebone dog is not welcome. Can you believe
LINKS again and beautifully illustrates why that? That is something I really love
she and so many others fall in love about Marylebone. You would think
JoAnne Good with the area. “There is this Big Issue that these people were judgemental,
joannegood.co.uk seller on Marylebone High Street. but they are not judging him at all.
I had him on the show because he They are really very compassionate,
has a dog and stays at St Mungo’s, one the people who live here. It really is
of the few places where the homeless quite wonderful.”
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CULTURE
PUTTING ON
THE RITZ
Marylebone residents and highly acclaimed actors Felicity Dean and Jos Vantyler are currently
touring together in a two-person play, Swimming At The Ritz, which brings to life the lonely
last days of Pamela Churchill Harriman – daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, social
climber, political operator and the most famous courtesan of the 20th century
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The pair of you first performed Swimming funny – it feeds and informs your but she was close friends with Wallis
At The Ritz together two years ago. How timing and delivery. Simpson, who taught her a thing
have you come to be taking it on tour now? FD: Personally, I think it’s a brilliant or two. Then she became a famous
Felicity Dean: We first worked on the play for a recession. It’s funny and wartime hostess, married to Randolph
play at the Eastbourne New Vic for a it’s short and it’s about sex, money, Churchill, then an international
festival of new writing that’s held there power, greed. What else could you jetsetter and femme fatale, then a
every year. The writer, Charles Leipart, possibly want? starmaker’s wife in New York, then a
sent the play to the director David Giles JV: It’s very decorative to look at; very Washington consort, then ambassador
and suggested that Jos and I have a look opulent. Pamela Churchill Harriman to Paris, and every time she changed
at it. It was about 300 pages long. David is the US ambassador to France roles she reinvented herself, learned
took it, worked with it, cut page after and she’s almost Thatcher-esque, with from her man, played his foil.
page, made it perfectly compact, not the hair and the suit, but incredibly JV: She really was a courtesan.
a line wasted, then we put it on for five sexual with it – she talks about the Her life was a career, right to the end.
shows at the festival. The reason it got men she’s slept with and the tricks She plotted everything, planned
another life is… she’s learnt, and power and politics and everything. She found what she
Jos Vantyler: We got brilliant Bill Clinton. And it’s all true. was good at, then fine-tuned it.
reviews! It just really took off at the She became one of the greatest
festival. The other plays were all very So she was quite a character then? hostesses in America.
serious – a play set in Israel, a play FD: She was an amazing woman. FD: Her list of men is like a who’s
about dementia, and then in the My parents and their friends knew her who. She was madly in love with
middle there was our very jolly little from the gossip columns and because Edward R Murrow – he was going
play. It’s very funny, very political. We she married Winston Churchill’s son, to marry her, then his wife got
got these great reviews, four stars, five so they were quite shocked to discover pregnant. He sent her a telegram
stars, “a towering performance from this other side to her. saying: “Casey wins.” That was the
Felicity Dean”, all that. A Broadway JV: And people who knew the other name of his child. She was a love
producer, Chase Mishkin, read the side of her were shocked when she rival to Rita Hayworth – she was
reviews, saw how well it sold, and was made ambassador to France. You with Prince Ali Khan before Rita
offered to do a tour, so now we’re wonder how the hell she pulled it off. Hayworth. They were at a party and
back with it. I mean, she got a state funeral! The Rita Hayworth was there. Ali turns
woman was a complete monster! round and says, “My God, who is
What was the secret to its success? FD: She was incredibly single that?” That’s when Pamela knew it
JV: Obviously it was a fantastic script, minded, revoltingly ambitious, and was over, but she just walked away,
but it also helped that it was on for she was one of the most calculating jammed her fingernails into the
over a month, but with only a handful people you could ever imagine. palms of her hands, and looked for
of performances, so we had quite big JV: But that’s what makes her so the next one. She wasn’t going to sit at
gaps between shows. Within those perfect for a play. Would you really home crying, waiting for him to ring.
gaps we were able to rework it, get it want to spend an evening watching She moved on, met Gianni Agnelli.
perfect. Often with a new play like a play about Florence Nightingale? He bought her an apartment in Paris,
this, you start it on Monday, finish on Boring. Get off. You could have a bought her a Bentley, opened an
Friday and it’s on the Friday that you wonderful one act play about Mother account at Dior, paid all her bills.
suddenly work out what you should Theresa, but you’re not going to wet JV: When she married Averell
have done. yourself laughing are you? Harriman, a railroad millionaire,
FD: We had the time to reflect she finally struck gold. He left her
back, and see what the audience So how did Pamela come to be the US everything.
gave us. We realised that what they ambassador, living out her final days in FD: Apart from any friends. She died
loved, which we hadn’t realised the Paris Ritz while her stepchildren sued alone. The poignant thing about this
in rehearsals, is just how funny it her over their inheritance? play is that her companion at the end
is. It’s only when you get in front FD: She had about six incarnations. is her Italian valet, Pietro. With a lot
of an audience, and have their She started as an English debutante of very, very rich people, in the end
participation, that you realise what’s – chubby, red haired and round faced, their closest friends are their staff.
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PUTTING ON THE RITZ
there’s so much information for You had worked together before. Did you
you, but on the other hand you’re get on well?
working from a script, so you have to JV: We had previously spent three
put all that away and make your own weeks working together on a bawdy
interpretation from the lines that comedy in Southwark, at the Jerwood
have been written for her. I looked Space. We got on great, got loads of
at some great CBS interviews and laughs, so we were excited to work
documentary footage, but it’s all so together again.
stiff and controlled, it’s hard to see FD: It helps that the whole experience
the private person underneath. of putting the play on was so enjoyable.
Pamela Churchill Harriman It is great fun having the freedom to
is the US ambassador to Does Felicity manage to make a convincing do something like this without the
75-year-old? pressure of starting it in London.
France and she’s almost JV: When Pamela was 70 she had a If you’re opening a new play in town,
Thatcher-esque, with the face that looked 50. the pressure on the director, the
hair and the suit, but FD: She’d had this massive face lift, writer, the producer, is awful.
incredibly sexual with it and I haven’t. I remember working at the National,
JV: They spent hours on the hair and rehearsing three new plays by Tom
– she talks about the men the clothing. Pamela had this kind of Stoppard, called Utopia. You had
she’s slept with and the tricks armour – the face, the hair, the suits, Trevor Nunn’s table, Tom Stoppard’s
she’s learnt, and power and the shoes, the pose. It’s like Margaret table, their assistants, loads of
politics and Bill Clinton. Thatcher: “My hair won’t blow in important people coming in and out,
the wind.” you were working in an environment
And it’s all true that was brilliant but very high
It’s a two person play. How was that? pressure from the start. To be away
FD: We share the same dressing from that, with David Giles, who is
room. sadly no longer with us, was just lovely.
JV: If we go somewhere with two He was in his 80s. He’d got to the stage
rooms, we’ll decamp to one of them. in his life where he understood the
FD: We make it into a party every value of creative freedom. And now we
It’s very sad. She confides in Pietro, night. We have a really good time. know the play works and we have the
then she dies in a swimming pool. It’s the kind of play that’s light and confidence to bring it to more people.
funny, so we have to generate that
How does Pietro see her? energy, that fun. Did you know from the start that it was
JV: He has a healthy contempt for the JV: We’re basically preparing for an going to be a hit?
rich, and he’s seen her type before hour and half together before we go JV: Not at all. On the first night in
but never with the intimacy that they on, getting ourselves hyped up. Eastbourne, we were the last play to
share. She brings him in and talks FD: He works on my wig a lot. We’re go on, and still then we didn’t know
to him and they act things out into our roles. We try to get into it if it was funny or not.
together. He’s kind of fond of her, early so that once we’re on it’s sparky. FD: I kept saying to Jos, “God, I wish
and he thinks that she’ll tip well. I was in that dementia play.”
Which she doesn’t. LINKS JV: With a serious thing, you know
FD: She makes him do things. it’s serious. It’s about dementia
It’s all quite sado-masochistic. Swimming At The Ritz – it’s horrific. You know what the
“Go out, come back, tidy this, do 14 – 16 March audience reaction will be. When
that.” She makes him dance with Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne you do something that’s funny, you
her and listen to her stories. He’s the eastbournetheatres.co.uk don’t know if it actually is funny until
only person who’s there, who’s real people start laughing. I was waiting
– everyone else is just talked about. 30 – 31 March to come on behind the screen and
Greenwich Theatre, London Felicity was on the stage doing her
Did you study her closely to help create greenwichtheatre.org.uk first big address, and when that first
the character? 1 – 2 April roar of laughter rocketed up and I
FD: I read two very good biographies Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford knew it had worked, it was like a huge
of her. For an actor playing a real yvonne-arnaud.co.uk burden lifting. After that, we loved
person it’s a fantastic gift because every single minute.
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CULTURE: IN BRIEF
MUSEUM
MAN
Dr Christoph Vogtherr has been
appointed as the next director of
the Wallace Collection, starting
when Dame Rosalind Savill
retires in October.
Dr Vogtherr is a specialist in
18th-century French painting. In
1997 he became curator of French
and Italian paintings at the
Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und
Gärten (Foundation of Prussian
Palaces and Gardens) in Potsdam
and Berlin, where he curated
exhibitions on Chardin, Pater
and the patronage of the Prussian
GEORGE’S The fifth annual Art in Marylebone
exhibition takes place from Thursday
royal house and initiated an
interdisciplinary research project
MARVELLOUS 16th to Sunday 19th June, and for the
third year running will be held at the
on French paintings in the
collection of Frederick II. He has
COMPETITION American InterContinental University
on Marylebone High Street. Any artist
been curator of pre-1800 pictures
at the Wallace Collection since
living or working in Marylebone is 2007, and was acting head of
invited to submit works for selection. collections from 2008-10. He
The photographic competition is the curator of two exhibitions
that featured as part of last year’s on Watteau which open at the
event, entitled A Day in the Life Wallace Collection in March.
of Marylebone – St George’s Day,
proved so successful in 2010 that it Dame Rosalind retires after 19
is now to be an annual happening. years as director, having helped
The competition is open to all to transform and enhance the
photographers, both amateur and beauty of Hertford House. Last
professional. Images must be taken year marked the 10th anniversary
over the weekend of 23rd-24th April, of the Centenary Project, which
with up to three shots being submitted she devised to give 30 per cent
LINKS before midnight on 26th April. The more visitor space by glazing
images shortlisted for the prize will the courtyard and excavating
A Day in the Life of Marylebone be exhibited at AiM and will also be the basement. These new spaces
Entry closes midnight 26 April published in a commemorative book. provide an education studio,
Exhibition: 16 – 19 June Last year saw photographers out extra galleries, a visitors’ library, a
artinmarylebone.org and about from early morning until meeting room and a lecture theatre,
American InterContinental University late at night, getting into every nook and are crowned by the Wallace
110 Marylebone High Street and cranny. Shots included panoramic Restaurant in the elegant and
020 7467 5600 views across rooftops, street life and airy courtyard. As director, Dame
aiulondon.ac.uk café culture – not to mention the ducks Rosalind has also overseen the rise
of Regent’s Park. of visitor numbers to a record level.
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Salix II by Patricia Swannell
Artist Profile
ANDREA HARARI OF JAGGEDART
INTRODUCES US TO THE ART OF
PATRICIA SWANNELL
Who is Patricia Swannell? the 21st century. While she works in a wide for The Royal Botanic Garden Kew at
Patricia came to the art world from a range of media – printmaking, painting, Wakehurst Place. She has designed a
business background and for many years glass etching, sculpture and installation brick and turf maze and a series of small
had developed her interest in art through – all her work shares this theme. bronzes, which highlight the conservation
collecting. After working in finance she work of Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank.
decided to follow her heart and study art How did jaggedart come across Patricia?
full time, doing both her BA and MA at City When we visited Patricia’s degree show, Tell us about her current exhibition.
and Guilds of London Art School. Four years we immediately asked her if she would In Marking Time, which runs from 9th
ago, immediately after her BA, she held her show at the gallery. Although she had just February until 5th March, Patricia has
first show at jaggedart with the sculptor graduated, her work conveyed a serenity worked with Jude Tucker again on works
Jude Tucker. The show – Flowers From An and maturity which, as dealers, we do not inspired by Books of Hours. These devotional
Unknown Tree – involved an installation always encounter at degree shows. Her books were popular in the Middle Ages.
based on the 29 trees of Cleaver Square in work seemed very refined and subtle, and They led their readers through prayers and
south London. Patricia’s delicate graphite very much in line with what jaggedart is meditations, or ‘offices’, linked to the time
drawings matched the current profile and about. The concept and the form were both of the day, the week and the season. While
circumference of each tree. At the centre of poetic and beautiful. these offices grew from Christian monastic
each drawing was a seed or cutting from a practice, they closely reflected the cycles of
tree that represented both the starting point Why do you like this artist so much? the natural world. By paying close attention
of the tree and its future. The passage of Since her initial show, Patricia’s work has to the rhythms and moods of the passing
time was subtly portrayed through rings of continued to evolve in technique and hours, weeks and seasons, Patricia and Jude
writing repeating that tree’s characteristics ideas, but the underlying concept remains invoke a contemporary link to these cycles.
– common name, Latin name, location and true to her ambition of finding fresh ways to
the date – echoing the endless repetition of focus on the natural world, including prints Patricia Swannell
the seasons through time. reflecting on the ephemeral beauty of the patriciaswannell.co.uk
leaves, branches and feathers collected
Describe her work. in her daily walks in the park, or subtle jaggedart
Patricia’s work focuses on the challenge of paintings of the changing hours. Her focus 28a Devonshire Street
finding a sustainable relationship with the on environmental matters is also reflected 020 7486 7374
natural world in the 24/7 urban society of in her work currently under construction jaggedart.com
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CULTURE IN BRIEF
LONDON EYE
Artist Simeon Stafford on his new with pigtails, as well as this girl doing
exihibition at Thompson’s Gallery handstands, with a dog that jumps
up on her left hand side. Once, many
“I live in Cornwall and I don’t travel years ago, my mother told me a story
much, so when I came up to London about a sister she had who loved doing
two years ago I thought a lot about handstands at the back of their house.
how I could paint it. When I started painting this figure
You’re probably used to London, 15 years ago, I called her Dot. I didn’t
as you live here all the time, but for immediately realise who she was, and
me it is fascinating. I got on an open it took a while for the story to come
top bus – seomthing you’d probably back to me. When it did, I got my
never do – settled down, took sister to check our family graveyard
photographs and just watched. and there was Dot, who died as a
I don’t really do reality. Once I’d young girl. Now she’s the
used the photos to get an idea of the one everyone looks for.
buildings in London, that was it: the The one time I left all the characters
rest came from me and the painters out, the art dealer who was collecting
who have influenced me. Lowry has it asked where they were. When
been a big influence, with his use I told him they were on a day out in
of crowds, and of stick-like figures Blackpool, he said: ‘If I come back
against a wide background, but tomorrow will you paint them back in?’
features like using different coloured I’m not like a normal painter. LINKS
strokes for the rain is something I have After the photos, I’m the type who
done since developing my own style. sits in a room and paints, without ever Simeon Stafford
See the painting of all those looking out. Actual things are like a 9 – 27 March
umbrellas? It really captured me, that backdrop onto which I compose. You Thompson’s Gallery
scene. It fitted with the ‘composition’ know how they say everything in life is 15 New Cavendish Street
person in me – the impulse to include like a stage? I think that’s how it is with 020 79353595
certain figures. For example, I’m my paintings. I don’t know what will thompsonsgallery.co.uk
well known for painting a small girl happen or where it will go.”
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BY SASHA GARWOOD
CULTURE: BOOKS
BOOK OF THE MONTH
We Had It So Good
Linda Grant
Virago, £14.99
Linda Grant is the kind of author his expulsion they marry, primarily
to restore your faith in the entire so he can avoid the draft. They stay
concept of literary fiction. Despite together largely out of the same sense
being shortlisted for almost every of inertia that initially brought them
prize going, and winning a fair few together – Andrea wants a marriage,
of them; despite the major questions and for Stephen, “who wanted the
about identity and culture and change hassle of finding another chick, when
and choice they tackle; despite there was one already?” And yet they
attracting descriptions like ‘epic’ and know each other in the way only long-
‘masterpiece’, Grant’s novels are still term couples can, aware they don’t
so criminally absorbing they’ve had understand one another but believing
me missing bus stops. We Had It So that they’ve become “the same
Good is the story of Stephen Newman, person”. If nothing else, We Had It So
baby-boomer, and his English-born Good is a profound mediation on the
wife Andrea, as they stumble through meaning and nature of intimacy.
the 20th century, wondering whether As they move from idealistic
their “blessed” generation is really youth into comfortable middle age,
so blessed after all and, if not, where, the world does as it will with them
exactly they went wrong. At the same – therapist Andrea metamorphosises
time, it’s the story of the malaise of a into a toned blonde who habitually
generation, the rapidly shifting pace mystifies her husband; Stephen makes
of change, and the complications of documentaries for the BBC and grows
humanity and connection regardless increasingly irrelevant; their children
It is the story of the malaise of place and people. grow up distant from their parents.
of a generation, the rapidly Stephen is born in LA in the Their friends Ivan and Grace, smug
aftermath of World War II, the son advertising executive and lifelong
shifting pace of change, of European Jewish immigrants who outspoken traveller, continue to float
and the complications of seem to their “all-American boy” in and out of their lives, sometimes
humanity and connection very much like strangers in a strange leaving chaos behind them.
regardless of place and people land. His father Si is a furrier, “a The characters are not necessarily
man of the Old World”, impressed likeable – Stephen for one can be
but nonplussed by his son’s intellect. criminally insensitive – but they
Stephen sets off for Oxford on a are remarkable for their realistic,
Rhodes scholarship, “convinced flawed, three-dimensional humanity.
that he is the next Einstein”, a fact For all their grasping after some
he eventually demonstrates by being sense of certainty, everyone’s truth
ALL REVIEWED TITLES sent down for defacing a library book is different. The novel opens with
AVAILABLE FROM DAUNT to synthesise LSD. Before doing so, Stephen trying on Marilyn Monroe’s
however, he meets the “plump, pre- fur coat, “taking out the opportunity
Daunt Books Raphaelite” Angela and her coltish, to try out transformation...his
83 Marylebone High Street opinionated, outspoken friend Grace, birthright, the American capacity to
020 7224 2295 whose therapy sessions punctuate be reborn.” And yet, throughout the
dauntbooks.co.uk the book. Soon, he and Andrea are novel, what perhaps comes over most
a couple (“because it seemed like clearly is the truism that we carry our
the expected thing to do”) and after histories with us.
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Why Not Say What Happened? The book is touching and sometimes
by Ivana Lowell sad in its openness. Lowell recounts her
Bloomsbury, £25 profoundly unhappy or unkind behaviour
or inexplicable shifts in attitude with
Ivana Lowell, Guiness heiress and barely a nod to her reasons, although her
troubled soul, has lived the kind of own ongoing battle with addiction must
life that certainly makes for eyebrow- presumably shoulder some blame. Her love
raising autobiographical material. for those close to her is touching and fierce
Born with aristocratic connections – her – her mother, daughter and men like Bo
grandmother was the Countess of Dufferin Silver and Lowell himself whose paternalistic
and Ava, the kind of person who held an kindnesses have offered some sense of stability
annual dinner for the Queen Mother and are passionately defended. She robustly
affectionately referred to her as “Cake” refutes claims of Lowell’s “selfish mostrosity”,
– and fabulous wealth, she nevertheless recounting instead his helplessness in the
grew up the victim of child abuse and face of bipolar disorder, his “tall, teddy-bear-
physical accident, at the mercy of her ish presence”, and evenings of domestic
alcoholic but much-beloved mother and peace whose “warmth and love” one gets
subject to a series of temporary father- the impression she’s spent a lifetime trying to
figures, of whom the most stable was poet recapture. Romantic relationships, on the
Robert Lowell. Along with looks, money, other hand, are mostly disastrous: boyfriend
and a sometimes crippling ongoing sense after boyfriend further abuses her ravaged
of lostness, she also inherited alcoholism, self-esteem, and her major emotional support
the “family disease”, and the book is is usually alcohol – at least it is reliably there.
punctuated by her spells in rehab, Ultimately, Why Not Say What Happened?
an environment whose stability is in becomes a powerful dissection of privilege
marked contrast to the lived reality – irrefutable evidence that neither wealth nor
Lowell describes. beauty can buy happiness or love.
The Good Psychologist The psychologist’s life is smooth, and
by Noam Shpancer ordered. By day, he practises his trade. By
Abacus, £11.99 night, he lectures an evening class. The
only “unsolved problem” is that of sex – his
Noam Shpancer’s The Good Psychologist consumption of porn a background, uneasy
is above all a profoundly odd book. secret. Yet there comes a point where his
Fascinating, erudite, well-written, ironic, professional and personal selves collide. A
telling and insightful, maybe, but odd promising student needs his help; a dancer
nevertheless. A best-seller in Shpancer’s client stricken with stage-fright appears
native Israel, it was originally written at his house after work and wants his
in Hebrew, and translated with careful attendance at her show; and his ex-lover,
attention to the dry humour and self- fellow therapist Nina, and their daughter are
satisfied sadness that characterises moving away with her husband. Gradually
its nameless protagonist. A good the unruffled surface of his life cracks, to
psychologist, as the narrator is well aware, reveal him just as capable of irrationality
does not emotionally involve himself with – and human feeling – as the clients he
his work. He (and the assumption seems can’t help feeling a little superior to. If that
to be that such people are male) does makes the psychologist sound unlikeable,
not hold onto dysfunctional behaviours he isn’t – there’s a wry wit in Shpancer’s
or neuroses from his past. He “aims to narrative voice that underlines the extent
be fully present” and “move correctly to which he, like the rest of us, is, after all,
about the inner space”. And yet, those simply human. Intelligent and surprisingly
unexpected human complications like engaging, The Good Psychologist may be
vulnerability and pain and desire keep odd, but in a charming, perceptive and
creeping in around the edges... ultimately peaceful way.
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February – March 2011
CULTURE: GUIDE
MUSIC Tuesday 15 February
Retrospect Trio; Julia Doyle (soprano):
Purcell Sonatas and Theatrical Airs
by Decade – 100 Years of German
Song: 1860-1870 – 7:30pm
Thursday 3 March
Wigmore Hall – 7:30pm Endellion String Quartet: Beethoven
36 Wigmore Street, W1 Wednesday 16 February and Brahms – 7:30pm
020 7935 2141 Miah Persson (soprano); Roger Friday 4 March
wigmorehall.org.uk Vignoles (piano): Schubert, Grieg and The King’s Consort: Trois Leçons de
Sibelius – 7:30pm Ténèbres – 7:30pm
The world famous concert venue has Thursday 17 February Saturday 5 March
a packed schedule of the very finest Scottish Ensemble; Alison Balsom Nash Ensemble – Chamber Ensemble
chamber music. Visit the website for (trumpet); Royal Academy Soloists: in Residence: Borodin, Shostakovich,
more detailed listings. Britten, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Prokofiev and Beethoven – 7:30pm
Macmillan and Tippett – 7:30pm Sunday 6 March
Wednesday 2 February Friday 18 February Luca Pisaroni (baritone); Wolfram
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano): Juliane Banse (soprano); András Rieger (piano): Schubert and Liszt
Private Musicke, Lettere Amorose Keller (violin): Kafka Fragments – 4pm
– 7:30pm – 7:30pm Royal Academy Soloists: Sturm und
Thursday 3 February Saturday 19 February Drang – 7:30pm
Arditti Quartet; Jake Arditti Doric String Quartet; Adam Walker Tuesday 8 March
(counter-tenor): Clarke, Ferneyhough, (flute); Brett Dean (viola): Brett Dean Wihan Quartet: Mendelssohn,
Fujikura and Paredes – 7:30pm Day – 11:30am Janácek and Dvorák – 7:30pm
Saturday 5 February Karen Cargill mezzo–(soprano); Jack Wednesday 9 March
Borodin Quartet: Myaskovsky, Liebeck (violin); Christopher Murray Jack Liebeck (violin); Gemma
Stravinsky and Borodin – 7:30pm (cello); Enno Senft (double bass); Piers Rosefield (cello); Katya Apekisheva
Sunday 6 February Lane (piano): Brett Dean Day – 3pm (piano): The Annual Jacqueline du
Atos Trio: Beethoven and Sunday 20 February Pré Charity Concert – 7:30pm
Shostakovich – 11:30am Arcanto Quartet: Britten and Debussy Thursday 10 March
Sunday 6 February – 11:30am Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord): Bach,
Alexander Janiczek (violin); Llyr Midori (violin); Charles Abramovic Handel, Rameau and more – 7:30pm
Williams (piano): Beethoven, Debussy (piano): Beethoven, Dean, Schubert Friday 11 March
and Janácek – 7:30pm and Franck – 7:30pm Razumovsky Ensemble: Mozart and
Monday 7 February Monday 21 February Brahms – 7:30pm
Renaud Capucon (violin); Frank Arcanto Quartet: Webern, Mozart Saturday 12 March
Braley (piano): Beethoven – 1pm and Beethoven – 7:30pm Pavel Haas Quartet; Danjulo
The Schubert Ensemble: Schubert, Tuesday 22 February Ishizaka (cello): Schulhoff, Prokofiev
Dvorák and Enescu – 7:30pm Alasdair Beatson (piano): and Schubert – 7:30pm
Tuesday 8 February Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Fauré and Sunday 13 March
Boris Giltburg (piano): Chopin, Dutilleux – 7:30pm Quartetto di Cremona: Shostakovich
Prokofiev and Ravel – 7:30pm Wednesday 23 February and Mendelssohn – 11:30am
Wednesday 9 February The English Concert; Kristian Monday 14 March
Marino Formenti (piano): Kurtág’s Bezuidenhout (director, forte piano): Igor Tchetuev (piano): Beethoven and
Ghosts – 7:30pm Mozart – 7:30pm Liszt – 7:30pm
Thursday 10 February Thursday 24 February Tuesday 15 March
Stephane Degout (baritone); Hélène Doric String Quartet: Haydn, Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio:
Lucas (piano); Debussy, Duparc, Mendelssohn and Berg – 7:30pm Beethoven, Ravel and Mendelssohn
Saint-Saëns, Chabrier, Hahn and Friday 25 February – 7:30pm
Ravel – 7:30pm Roderick Williams (baritone); Helmut Thursday 17 March
Friday 11 February Deutsch (piano): Wolf, Korngold, Viviane Hagner (violin); Nicole
David Coucheron (violin); Julie Mahler and Schumann – 7:30pm Hagner (piano): Schubert, Liszt,
Coucheron (piano): Kirckman Saturday 26 February Galante and Beethoven – 7:30pm
Concert Society Series – 7:30pm Nash Ensemble – Chamber Ensemble Friday 18 March
Saturday 12 February in Residence: Shostakovich, Alexandra Dariescu (piano):
Bampton Classical Opera: Arne Glazunov and Beethoven – 7:30pm Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize
– 7:30pm Sunday 27 February Winner’s Recital – 7:30pm
Sunday 13 February Anna Grevelius mezzo (soprano); Saturday 19 March
Danish String Quartet: Adès and Julius Drake (piano): Schubert, Pacifica Quartet: Mendelssohn,
Brahms – 11:30am Mendelssohn, Larsson and Shostakovich and Schubert
Emma Bell (soprano): Berg, Walter, Montsalvatge – 4pm – 7:30pm
Marx and Wagner – 4pm Faure Quartet: Mozart – 7:30pm Sunday 20 March
Zehetmair Quartet: Beethoven and Monday 28 February Kopelman Quartet: Haydn, Schubert,
Shostakovich – 7:30pm Tamsin Waley–Cohen (violin); Stravinsky and Shostakovich
Monday 14 February Piatti String Quartet: The Monday – 11:30am
Trio Mediaeval vocal ensemble; Platform – 7:30pm Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano);
Arve Henriksen (trumpet, vocalist): Wednesday 2 March Serouj Kradjian (piano): Komitas
Medieval Music and Contemporary Amanda Roocroft (soprano); Vardapet, Heggie, Berlioz, Viardot
Works – 7:30pm Malcolm Martineau (piano): Decade and Obradors – 4pm
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Emanuel Ax (piano): Schubert
– 7:30pm
Monday 21 MarchPurcell Quartet;
EVENTS
Dame Emma Kirkby (soprano); Asia House
Michael Chance (alto); Peter Harvey 63 New Cavendish Street, W1
(bass): Schütz, Biber, J C Bach and 020 7307 5454
Buxtehude – 7:30pm asiahouse.org
Tuesday 22 March
Paul Lewis (piano): Schubert 3 – 13 March
– 7:30pm Asia House Pan-Asia Film Festival
Friday 25 March You might not believe it from the
Lucy Crowe (soprano); Clara Mouriz scant coverage it gets over here,
(mezzo-soprano); Allan Clayton but there’s more to the Asian film
(tenor); Ronan Collett baritone; scene than Bollywood. Asia House
Joseph Middleton (piano): Colours has scoured screens from Japan to
Of Spain – 7:30pm the Phillipines, for a film-fest that’s
Saturday 26 March anything but predictable.
Hagen Quartet: Lutoslawski and
Beethoven Colony
– 7:30pm 8 Paddington Street
Monday 28 March 020 7935 3353
The Schubert Ensemble: Beethoven, colonybarandgrill.com
Dvorák and Enescu – 7:30pm
Tuesday 29 March 12 – 14 February
Ives, Rorem, Barber and Gerle Live Jazz & Blues
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor); Catch some live jazz and blues
Simon Lepper (piano) – 7:30pm at the popular bar and Indian
Wednesday 30 March restaurant over Valentine’s
Florian Boesch baritone; Malcolm weekend.
Martineau (piano): Decade by Decade
– 100 Years of German Song, Hellenic Centre
1870-1880 – 7:30pm 16-18 Paddington Street, W1
020 7487 5060
Monday 14 February Greece: images of an helleniccentre.org
The Royal Academy of Music Valentine Concert: English, French, enchanted land by Robert
Marylebone Road, NW1 German, Italian and Spanish love McCabe, Hellenic Centre
7 – 16 February
020 7873 7300 songs – 7:30pm Greece: images of an enchanted land
ram.ac.uk/events Wednesday 2 March It is difficult to tell with legendary
Academy Song Circle: A bicentennial photographer Robert McCabe
The Royal Academy has a large and celebration of the French, German and where photography ends and
varied programme of public concerts, Italian songs of Franz Liszt – 7pm poetry begin – all the more so
including many that are free of charge. Friday 11 March when his subject is Greece.
Check the website for full listings. Percussion Showcase:A colourful
and exotic programme of music from Sunday 27 February
Wednesday 2 February around the world using percussion Children’s Fancy Dress Party
Brahms: Vacation Inspiration instruments from every aspect of the Carnival celebrations for kids.
–7:30pm ensemble – 1:05pm Oldies can come too, but only
Thursday 3 February Monday 14th March with a child in tow.
Jazz Ensembles – 6pm The Music of Piazzolla – 7:30pm Tickets £7
Modern Instrument Baroque Wednesday 16 March
Ensemble – 6pm Academy String Orchestra – 6pm Monday 7 March
Friday 4 February Friday 18 March Kathara Deftera Lunch
Chamber Music with Harp – 1:05pm ‘Kommilitonen!’: the world premiere Traditional vegetarian lunch to
Academy Symphonic Brass: production of Sir Peter Maxwell celebrate the beginning of Lent.
Impressions in Brass – 7:30pm Davies new opera – 7pm Tickets £17 (£15 concessions)
Tuesday 8 February Wednesday 23 March
Brahms and the Clarinet – 1:05pm ‘Kommilitonen!’ – 7pm Royal Society of Medicine
Wednesday 9 February Friday 25 March 1 Wimpole Street, W1
Brahms and Personal Tragedy Academy Concert Orchestra: 020 7290 2900
– 7:30pm Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony – 1:05pm rsm.ac.uk
Fantasias – 7:30pm Barbirolli Quartet – 7:30pm
Friday 11 February Saturday 26 March Wednesday 16 February
Brahms: Heir to Beethoven, Homage Mozart Violin Concertos, including Leslie Howard piano recital
to Bach – 7:30pm the Sinfonia Concertante – 6pm Renowned concert pianist Leslie
Sunday 13 February Tuesday 29 March Howard performs works by Liszt,
Bach Cantatas – 12pm Academy Big Band – 7:30pm Schumann and Beethoven.
Tickets £28
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GUIDE
ART Until 27 February
A&D Gallery
51 Chiltern Street, W1
WILLIAM SELBY
020 7486 0534 Thompson’s Gallery
aanddgallery.com
Until February 15
Prints and Paintings about Love
and Stuff
About the only Valentine’s activity
that isn’t painfully cliched – a
lingering look around this lovely
exhibition will take in Andy
Warhol, Jim Dine and Kim Kyote.
1 – 31 March
S.M.S.
No, this is not an exhibition of text
messages – though it is surely not
long before someone puts one
on. This is American surrealist
William Copley’s collection of
prints, records, tapes, and a burnt
bow tie. Spanning a range of
cultural figures, this panoramic
shot of the 60s includes Marcel
Duchamp, Yoko Ono, and Man
Ray. A&D was lucky enough
to secure the complete series
from the estate of legendary art
collector and patron EJ Power.
Had they not, it is likely these gems
would be gathering dust around
the globe’s four corners.
Admission free
Mon-Sat 10:30am-7pm
Atlas Gallery
49 Dorset Street, W1
020 7224 4192 01
atlasgallery.com
16 February – 19 March 01 Kitchen Rose
Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours’’ by William Selby,
An exhibition in defence of Thompson’s Gallery
‘indecisive moments’ – as opposed 02 Stacked Chairs by
to the ‘decisive moments’ captured Nick Hais, Colomb Art
by Henri Cartier Bresson. These Gallery
photographic sketches bring out 03 ‘Sequentially Yours’ by
Elliott Erwitt, Thompson’s
the comic ironies of life in the same
Gallery
way children can laugh through 04 ‘I LOVE YOU’, A&D
their tears. Dog watches lady lay Gallery
flowers on a grave. She leaves, dog
rolls over and scratches his back.
Men recline in deck chairs in
Cannes. Men leave, wind flips deck
chairs inside out. The contrast is
funny, but meaningful too, as the
human condition is summed up in
the space of a snapshot.
Admission free
Mon-Sat 10:30am-7pm
02
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The Colomb Art Gallery RIBA
03
52a George Street, W1 66 Portland Place, W1
020 7487 5118 020 7580 5533
colombart.co.uk architecture.com
Until 28 February 24 February – 3 May
Gallery winter exhibition Unless your specialist subject is
Winter continues to reign inside Czech architecture, chances are
Colomb Art gallery – as indeed the Alfred Loos Season will be
it does outside. Delight in award- new to your calendar. This series
winning snowy scenes – or, for of talks and exhibitions promises
a more interior perspective, a fascinating insight into
a surprisingly interesting acrylic apartments, interiors, museums
of stacked chairs. and many other of Loos’
Admission free contributions towards Modern
Mon-Sat 9:30am-6:30pm architecture – before the sixties
came along and ruined it.
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Admission free
13-14 Cornwall Terrace, NW1 Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
020 7486 4348 (Tues 10am-9pm)
dajf.org.uk
Thompson’s Gallery
Until 11 March 15 New Cavendish Street, W1
Tokyo Story (after Hiroshige) 020 7935 3595
A photographic homage to thompsonsgallery.co.uk
Hiroshige’s greatest work, One
Hundred Famous Views of Edo. 9 – 27 March
Admission free Simeon Stafford
Mon-Fri 9:30am-5pm Thank goodness LS Lowry
shopped in Mrs Stafford’s
jaggedart greengrocers. Had he gone
28a Devonshire Street, W1 elsewhere, he might never have
020 7486 7374 discovered her talented son
jaggedart.com and encouraged him to paint.
Judging by this exhibition, we
9 February – 5 March would have been the poorer.
Patricia Swannell & Jude Tucker:
Marking Time Until 27 February
Books of Hours were illustrated William Selby
04 religious books whose meditative, From coal mining, to national
rhythmic ‘offices’ proved service, to engineering – Selby
enormously popular with medieval isn’t dull, and neither are these
readers. Inspired by these texts, depictions of his native Yorkshire.
Swannel and Tucker have imagined Admission free
their contemporary counterparts. Wed-Fri 10am-6pm
Sat-Sun 11am-4pm
10 March – 9 April 2011
Mila Fürstová: Poetry of Light Wallace Collection
There are not many artists who Manchester Square, W1
can claim to produce ‘layers of 020 7887 8998
meaning’ with as much authority wallacecollection.org
as Mila Fürstová: the experimental
etcher who has literally layered Until 27 March
her images to give this hackneyed A ‘Trifle’ Brought to Life: The
phrase a whole new meaning. Conservation of comte d’Artois’ Chair:
In this show, the juxtaposition of When is a chair not just a chair?
reality and dream creates works full When it’s been made for the cock-
of intrigue, all executed with sure brother of Louis XVI, after
a level of detail that insists you take he promised Marie Antoinette he
a closer look. could build a country home in 70
Admission free days. The result was the pavilion
Wed-Fri 11am-6pm Bagatelle – meaning trifle – of
Sat 11am-2pm which this chair, is a strikingly
beautiful memento.
Admission free
Daily 10am-5pm
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STYLE
STYLE
GUIDE
Clare Finney long ago gave up on her naive dreams of being a
fashion designer. But that didn’t stop her jumping at the chance
of spending a day at the American Intercontinental University,
learning hat-making from one of the world’s top milliners
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Around about the age of 15 – long
after we all stopped wanting to be
vets, but some time before alighting
on journalism – I decided I would be
a fashion designer.
I’d been to Oxford Circus. I knew
the score. And if anyone was going to
lead the next generation of cargo-
pant victims towards the bright lights
of Topshop, it was me – enthusiastic
art student and self-appointed stylist
of St Helen’s girls, Northwood.
If only I’d taken a closer look
inside that mannequin-filled window
along Marylebone High Street.
I’d have heard of the American
Intercontinental University. I’d have
seen the discerning fashion students,
their bulging notebooks and their
fabric swatches. And I’d have known,
without the embarrassment of DIY
distressed denim and tie-dying, that
there’s an awful lot more to designing
clothes than meets the eye.
Last week I finally found myself
inside the glass walls. Charged with
writing a feature-length guide to this
singular and unexpected presence
on Marylebone’s busiest retail street
– an international university – I was
painstakingly dressed (Topshop, head-
to-toe) and determined to discover just
what it takes to turn a hopeless fashion
victim into a fashion designer.
“A lot of what we do is very
cutting edge, very conceptual…
but underlying all of that are the
traditional skills and that’s very
much what we’re teaching – skills to
construct garments, but the ability to
work conceptually as well.”
Meet Dean Gill Stark, head of
fashion at AIU and the lynchpin
behind the department’s growing
reputation. Educated at fashion
schools here and abroad, Gill’s
passion for fashion first found its
home in the wonderful world of
underwear. “I owned a lovely lingerie
and nightwear company, that’s my
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STYLE GUIDE
Images: Tom Bradley
design area,” she explains, with a hats, Gill says, encapsulate what it silk georgette and then a jersey. You
sweetness of expression that well is about AIU that marks it out from can’t do that. The only time you can do
belies her rather saucy credentials. other fashion courses. that is when its black. Then you can use
Gill believes strongly that having “A lot of what we do is very the velvet, the georgette, organza, fur
tutors with industry experience cutting edge, very conceptual – as many as possible because it makes
is a crucial part of a well-rounded – but underlying all of that are the it look quite rich – but otherwise two
education and, as such, has gone out traditional skills, and that’s very fabrics maximum. OK?”
of her way to ensure her staff list is much what Prudence is teaching: The class nods sagely and I catch
peppered with professionals. traditional millinery skills, but from sight of Tom, my photographer,
“We all have experience working which you could produce something raising his eyebrows in disbelief.
in the industry, and a lot of tutors very conceptual, even wacky”. “And I thought velvet was velvet!” he
come in who are still working there,” Not all of this is moodboards and whispers. There follows a catalogue
she says. “They are good academics memory maps either. Downstairs in of names, numbers and directions
but also good industry people the tailor-made millinery classroom, for haberdasheries, rattled off at
– so students are learning what’s Prudence is taking a fresh-faced breathtaking speed.
happening in the real world”. fashionista through the materials “There’s a place called Ostrich
One such bigwig is the millinery she’ll be needing over the coming Feather Company near Old Street,
tutor Prudence, designer at the few weeks. The list of fabrics alone they’ve got real birds. If they don’t, go
renowned Prudence Millinery. While in astonishing, and that’s before to this fly fishing supplier and they’ll
Gill’s style of ‘brief’ has changed Prudence gets to the various ways in give you wings and lovely things like
somewhat over the years, Prudence is which you could combine them. that.” She scribbles frantically on the
still very much in the tailoring trade. “What you don’t want is to use the whiteboard. “For the capelin you’ll
Last year, she fashioned collections double silk georgette, then use the need the ground floor of MacCulloch
for Vivienne Westwood, Tom Ford velvet, then introduce another cotton & Wallis on Dering Street.” She pauses
and the Sex and the City movie. Her velvet with the silk velvet and another for a moment, but only for breath.
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“And if you don’t see any there then Prudence, somewhat predictably,
call this haberdashery in Luton and is less open to the idea of her students
tell them what you need.” starting life on the high street. “If
Given Prudence’s alleged aversion you get your first job in, say, Mango,
to technology (“I’m still getting my you can’t go up because it’s not
head around mobile phones,” she design-led,” she argues, with the
confides afterwards. “How do they same wrinkle of her nose she gave
work without cords?”) her rate of at the thought of fake bird feathers.
recall is not that surprising – after “Whereas if you start in couture and
all, she has been calling her suppliers decide to move to Mango then they’ll
“nearly every day for 20 years”. What suck you up in a minute.” There’s a place called
does surprise me though is the sheer Needless to say, the emphasis Ostrich Feather Company
quality of the materials she expects at the AIU is firmly on quality – of
her keen protégés to purchase. Is materials, work experience, staff and
near Old Street, they’ve got
£120 for real birds wings not just a of course, location. Chatting to the real birds. If they don’t have
little excessive? students over a much-needed coffee what you need, go to this fly
Not if you want to succeed, break, I find that for many of them fishing supplier and they’ll
argues Prudence. “There are other it’s not just the tutoring that makes
places, but they’re geared towards AIU the university of choice, but also give you wings and lovely
mass production and the quality is its setting inside the beating heart of things like that
terrible.” She points out that many Britain’s fashion-forward capital.
of the images the students showed “I went to school in California,
in class as ‘inspiration’ were hats studied in Arizona, went to Italy for
not bad in design, but in execution. a bit, and to the University of Kent –
“Bad quality hats end up looking too but I think this is really the first time
‘mother of the bride’, or they have I’ve had lessons from someone who’s
that ‘drag queen’ sort of look. And really on trend,” explains Jay Lewis,
I don’t even know any drag queen staring admiringly up at Prudence’s
who would want to wear that kind of contact-strewn whiteboard. For some,
hat. All the drag queens I know in it’s being surrounded by London’s
London are very into fashion.” shops and suppliers; for others, it’s The staff at the nearby Electric
It’s a bit harsh, perhaps, but then the proximity of the college to great salon, who are doing the hair,
name me a decent designer who isn’t. cultural institutions. “Last week agree, as do the Session School
Each aspirant who studies fashion at Pauline just said we should pop to the people who routinely help AIU
the AIU is being equipped with both Wallace Collection, where so many students with their make-up. Even
the skills and the experience to make designers go for inspiration – and Waitrose is involved, but then
a career with even the world’s most there it was, five minutes down the Waitrose is involved in most things in
respected fashion houses a justifiable street,” marvels Hilary Hanks. “That Marylebone. And with a fair number
ambition – from Primark right through would never happen in the States.” of the students having interned in the
to the heady heights of McQueen. Mulling things over in the Wallace village’s boutiques, each outfit bears
“We’re not commercial – we’re Collection is one bonus. Potentially the hallmark of Marylebone’s high
conceptual – but students can adapt bumping into Vivienne Westwood on fashion influence. “It is multicultural,
either way,” Gill explains amiably. Marylebone Lane is another. But it is yes, but with that strong tradition
“They can go to the commercial side at the AIU’s catwalk shows that their of very conceptual fashion. And
of industry if they wish, or they can Marylebone location really comes also they learn that fashion doesn’t
continue to work conceptually, because into its own. Next month will see just come from clothing it comes
they have the skills to do both.” the students join forces with various from music, film, clubs, seeing what
local businesses to support the Esther people are wearing,” reflects Gill,
LINKS Benjamin Trust – a charity in Nepal looking up at the blow up shoot of
that rescues children who have been last years photos in the AIUs front.
AIU London kidnapped and sold into circuses. “It’s wonderful to be in this area.”
110 Marylebone High Street “They don’t have celebrity backing, Following her gaze, I can’t help but
020 7467 5640 they’re not pushy at all. They’re just agree: I’ve seen the bright lights of
aiuniv.edu/London a wonderful charity who do amazing the fashion industry – and they’re not
work,” says Gill. shining from Topshop.
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What’s In?
THE JOURNAL’S REGULAR GUIDE TO WHAT’S HOT ON THE HIGH
STREET. FIRST UP, LUXURY LINEN FROM COLOGNE AND COTTON
01
Modern constructions are all very
well, but nothing says comfort
like a good old-fashioned blanket
– or, to be precise, a blue and white
houndstooth throw (02). Inspired
by grandma and made by Cologne
and Cotton, this covetable collection
of coverings offers a welcome respite
from cold modernism. When it first
opened 20 years ago, Cologne and
Cotton was one of the only pure
cotton purveyors on the high street,
and the enduring popularity of its
hero product, vintage bed linen
(05), is testiment to the family firm’s
commitment to quality – not to
mention good taste. Each design is
an exercise in less-is-more chic – the
hotel stripe bed linen (03) being a
very classic example – and is created
with a view to being comfortable,
warm and soft, like a pure lambswool
blanket (01). Even the candles (04)
are hand-made, using fragrances
such as jasmine and the mysterious-
sounding winter palace. All in all, a
forage in this Canaan of cozy seems
the perfect cure for that Febuary
feeling – especially if, like ours, your
heart secretly belongs in an Austen-
esque manor in the 19th century.
LINKS
Cologne and Cotton
88 Marylebone High Street
020 7486 0595
cologneandcotton.com
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03
04
05
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Gail Raymonde (centre) with daughter Holly and son Ben
GAIL Diary an insider trade publication – the
professional media must-have for the
FORCE communications industry. The driving
force behind it is owner/publisher Gail
Raymonde. When she first acquired
Gail Raymonde, proprietor of Diary back in 1986 from its original
one of the UK’s leading media founder, Peter Hope Lumley, it was
a one-man band and, as she puts it,
directories, talks to Jackie “a little booklet listing press launches
Modlinger about fashion, and events in the fashion industry”.
family and France “I paid for it with consultancy fees
to Peter over the year,” she says.
“Peter was around for advice and
gossip and he would proof-read for
me.” In those days the subscription
was £60 per year with a circulation
of 400. Today the subscription is
£700 and its circulation is 2,000.
Raymonde, a self-confessed
“information junkie”, has taken her
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predecessor’s concept and built on it, Clothes have always figured in
catapulting the publication into the Gail’s life, in various states of dress
21st century. or undress, either strutting her stuff
Diary is a monthly publication, or working as a backroom girl in the
offering instant updates and fashion industry. In her 20s she worked
information essential in the as a Bluebell girl in Paris for three
communication business. Its sister years, spent a year as a croupier at the
publication Diary Directory, or ‘Dd’ Playboy Club then joined the Casanova
for short, is published quarterly Club. It was here that she met fashion
and is a glossy A5 book which has retailer Peter Davis, who offered her a
become the professionals’ bible job as assistant buyer of his fashionable I’ll probably spend half the
for reference resources, covering Crocodile Shop on Beauchamp Place, year in France. It is just
fashion, beauty, lifestyle and affiliated where Gail would work for a decade.
industries; the place to go to find “Crocodile was probably one of
the kind of lifestyle that
contacts for magazines, newspapers, the first clothing chains – there was I like. I’ll be able to spend
photographers, stylists, models, hair Elle, Whistles, Joseph,” remembers my days wearing cut-offs,
and make-up artists and venues. Raymonde. But over-trading would linen shirts, flip-flops,
Raymonde is very much a self- prove Crocodile’s downfall. “We
made woman. Born in Bournemouth, acquired too many shops, going from tie my hair back, have a
the young Gail and her sister Linda just one to 26 virtually overnight – it basket swinging from my
were adopted by their stepfather just became a commodity and took shoulder. And Latin men
Ivor Pomeranz, a mid-European in all the joy out of it,” she says. Her love older women
the music business who changed his experience as a buyer led to her setting
surname by deed poll to Raymonde. up a publication called Women’s Wear
Gail left school at 16 with four O-levels, Resources, which she later sold to a
including needlework and cookery. large publishing company.
“I wanted to be a model,” she says. In 1983 Gail married Paul Buckley
“I used to have pictures of Grace a publishing director for Haymarket.
Coddington [the 60s model, now “I met him in the lift of a Poland Street
fashion director of US Vogue] stuck on garage,” she recalls. Which figures,
the wall of my bedroom.” And at 5’ 10”, since Gail is a car enthusiast and has
she certainly had the height. owned several Porsches. She would
Gai1 came to London to a flat-share have two children by Buckley, Holly
in Kensal Rise. A modelling course and Ben, before the couple split.
resulted in her first job as house model We meet at Gail’s local, Dinings, for
in Margaret Street, for which she lunch. Later we move next door, to her Green was bought by a developer
received £10 a week. “I got my second headquarters on Harcourt Street, one and we were deciding whether to stay
job as a model for Hardy Amies Ready- of the quietest, prettiest streets off the in that area or move into town – we
to-Wear, then worked for designer busy Marylebone Road. Diary’s offices opted for town. I found this house in
Gordon Luke Clarke,” she says. “I was are on the lower ground floor – three Cato Street, bought it and then the
always passionate about clothes. I once rooms and a pretty little patio garden. next door one came up, so I bought
spent my entire holiday money – all Coco, the 13 year-old standard poodle that, knocked the two together , then
£10 – on a pair of Levi’s 501s, a white rules the roost here, posing like a pro. got the one opposite, and moved the
t-shirt and white plimmies. I wasn’t Marylebone has always been office into it so that the kids and I
into pretty little dresses. I always significant for Gail, who both lives and could see each other when they came
liked boys’ clothes better than girls’. works in the area. The association goes home from school,” she says.
I thought I was so cool.” back a long way. “My parents split when Gail has now decided to take a back
I was five and my father went to live in seat from the business. “I have been
LINKS Bryanston Square with the entertainer working for 44 years, so I feel that it
Glenn Mason; they shared a flat. is time and I think that I deserve a
Diary So from a very early age, Marylebone break,” she says. “I intend to spend a
30 Harcourt Street has been familiar to me. I always bit of time in France.” She extracts her
020 772 7770 wanted to come back one day.” mobile phone and flashes up pictures
diarydirectory.com It was an ambition she happily of her newly acquired Gallic property,
fulfilled. “My house in Willesden a small vineyard in Grimaud, in the
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GAIL FORCE
south of France. “I’ll probably spend
half the year there. I speak French and
it is just the kind of lifestyle that I like.
I have always liked making jewellery
and I want to start making clothes. I
have bought myself a sewing machine
and I am packed and ready to go. I’ll
be able to spend my days wearing cut-
offs, linen shirts, flip-flops, tie my hair
back, have a basket swinging from my
shoulder. And Latin men love older
women – they’re close to their mothers
and grandmothers. It goes with a much
healthier regard for women; they’re
not regarded as sex objects.”
Would she ever consider selling the
business? “I always hoped at the back
of my mind that it would be something
that the kids would be interested
in, which is precisely what has
happened,” she says. In fact, she is now
handing over the business to the next
Images: Ben Coster
generation – Holly, now 25, and Ben,
22. While their peers may be having
problems getting jobs in the current
climate, these two are fortunate. Both
siblings have flown the coop this year,
finding homes of their own, but they’re So how does working together
now firmly ensconced at the office. pan out for the siblings? “Ben and I
“We used to be told to come in and get stroppy with each other,” admits
help stuff envelopes,” says new Diary Holly. “He thinks he knows it all and
editor Holly, a lofty 6’ 1” with a mane that he is the boss!”
of sunstreaked tresses, a younger Ben went to university to study
edition of her mother. “I would get economics but dropped out. “I didn’t
all the goodies and samples. At my really enjoy it, so I just left and came
secondary school, I took my lunch in here,” he says casually. “Growing up,
this multi-coloured Dior bag rather I was as interested in this as anything
than the usual carrier bag.” I was always passionate else; we were sort of brought up on it,
Holly earned a degree in fashion about clothes. I once spent always doing business-related things,
photography from the London phones on direct to Gail.”
College of Fashion. “I enjoy
my entire holiday money – Ben’s role is diverse – answering
photography but I am actually not that all £10 – on a pair of Levi’s calls, researching new opportunities,
keen on the fashion aspect of it,” she 501s, a white t-shirt and exploring new partnerships like Diary’s
admits. “The role of editor was kind white plimmies. I wasn’t into recent collaboration with Fashion
of always open to me – mum thought Press Week, a brand-new venture,
that I would be good at it – but I didn’t pretty little dresses – I always through which over 100 fashion
want to be working here just as Gail’s liked boys’ clothes better brands showcased their next season’s
daughter; that always worried me.” than girls. I thought that collections at the Saatchi Gallery.
Holly instead sought work experience I was so cool Obviously, it’s in the genes. “It’s great
with PR companies. “Then I agreed for me that they seem to enjoy it so
to come here for six months and try it much and are doing such a great job,”
out. I didn’t feel that confident at first, enthuses their mother. Lucky as well,
but was taught the ropes by the girl I seeing as how pretty soon she’s going to
worked under. She left 18 months ago be ensconced in a Gallic idyll. And the
and I took her position.” Diary isn’t going to write itself.
New showroom at 108 Crawford Street, Marylebone, W1H 2JA
Open 10am - 6pm Monday - Saturday
Tel: 020 7935 7632 www.mcglashans.co.uk
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WELL KEMPT
SECRETS
Two halves of a discreet
hair salon on George Street,
Fred Gielly and Shai Green,
talk to Clare Finney about
vanity, values and the finer
points of being a hairdresser
in England
Take a close look inside 42 George
Street. No, closer. See that plush
purple sofa with the velvet trim?
See those creamy ceramic sinks,
the leather massaging chairs, the
unmistakable sheen of a newly ‘done’
head? That, my friends, is Gielly
Green – beauty boutique, hair salon
and Marylebone’s best-kept secret.
Or at least it was. Having received
gleaming recommendations from a
friend some months back, I decided
to track this gem down myself.
Shai (left) and Fred
Immaculately-groomed girls don’t
lie (at least, not about hair) and
Gielly Green was no exception: my different. Both Fred and I believed were here. Then there are clients who
cut was right for my hair type, well that something in hairdressing had have stayed with us for a long time
blow dried and – more importantly changed, that there was much more – about 80 per cent of my clients I
– lasted me throughout the excesses focus on the celebrity hairdresser and have been looking after for 15 years,
of Christmas. I was thrilled and, with less on the client. Their clients might It does feel a little bit like a club, but
the interests of the Journal foremost like the cut, but they weren’t pleased I like that. I like the fact that it’s less
in my mind, I returned to interview with the service. So our aim was to about the big signs, more about the
the founders and write up their have a place that would be friendly to client and the job that we do.
salon. After all, it would have been sit in, where the music wasn’t too loud,
selfish not to. where it would feel more like a home So you’re still very much a hands-on
than a fancy salon, but that would still hairdresser?
In your brand blurb you describe yourselves look like luxury. SG: Well we spend the days focusing
as being of the “old school” of hairdressing on hairdressing – that’s the main
– what does this mean, and how does it Walking past the salon, the outside thing – and we’re now spending more
mark you out from the many, many other looks very understated – you’d miss it hours on the business side
hairdressers in Marylebone? if you blinked. Does this ‘need to know’ too, which takes us to late nights
Shai Green: Looking at the market marketing approach work? and meetings at strange hours.
we realised that whilst many big name Fred Gielly: We’re attracting about But everyone knows when they
hairdressers had been around for a 150-200 clients a month, and a lot set up their own business, you have
long time, the younger generation of new people who come in say, we to be 100 per cent commited to
wasn’t doing anything new or didn’t see you, we didn’t know you that businesss.
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Gielly Green was born right in the middle doesn’t always have to be about fixing Tell us about the new product range.
of the credit crunch. Did you ever feel you the big stuff. Just fixing the small SG: After so many years in the
were cutting it fine? stuff can make a huge difference, industry we had seen most of the
FG: When we first planned it, the and that’s the real joy of being brands available and felt we could
market seemed a bit more stable. a hairdresser. add something to it by producing a
Then we opened a year and a half more natural range. The whole idea
later and it was very different. Can the client have some input too, or is ‘the behind our range was that while most
So it was a difficult time, a more stylist knows best’ the general rule of thumb? shampoos and conditioners speak
challenging time – but in those times FG: I always say to my understudies, about the hair and the condition
people expect more too. And that it is a mixed relationship. Obviously of the hair, ours would treat the
was what we offered: high level of if you go to see someone you hair and the scalp at the same time
service, high quality cuts and colors. should trust that they have enough – because we believe that a healthy
So we survived and looking back I experience to make you look great, scalp will give you good hair. The
think it was the best time to open. but on the other hand they also clients were a big part of the venture
have to do what is right for you. I can because as we got the trial products
Why do you think a good haircut is so put your hair a certain way but if in we were testing them and they
important to people?` you’re not going to fix the hair that gave us feedback. When we finally
SG: Whenever I look at people way then it’s not going to look the launched the product all the clients
– whether its standing in line in a same. There’s no point going out felt involved in the process.
queue, going down in an elevator, of the salon looking amazing and FG: The idea of asking the clients
standing on a bus – the first thing never being able to do it again. So I to test products came from realising
they look at and fiddle with when they do think it’s a working relationship that people in England have really
catch sight of themselves is their hair. between the stylist and the customer fine hair – I would say about 80 per
People are always looking at their to achieve the best result – and the cent of our clients do. So if you use
hair, so it must be a great influence more you’re speaking, the better your the same shampoo here as in France
on how people feel and how they see relationship, the more likely you will you get different results
themselves. I look at my clients’ hair achieve the best results.
and I see periods in their life: they Hairdressers: artists or therapists?
might go really short at the new year, LINKS FG: Definitely artists! If the client is
go crazy after a relationship, be more happy you are an artist. If they are
conservative before a new job. Gielly Green unhappy you’re not even a friend.
FG: At the end of the day what you’re 42-44 George Street Ultimately this is a woman relying
really doing is fixing wellbeing. 020 7034 3060 on you to give them a complete head
People come in depressed and giellygreen.co.uk change. They trust you and if you’re
looking like crap – then their hair not here they aren’t too happy going
gets fixed and they leave smiling. It with somebody else.
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INTELLIGENT All they ask, Tricia says, is that you
know what you like.
“Just as food has changed
DESIGN
drastically over the past few years
as people are travelling and seeing
more of the world, so design has
changed as well. People’s tastes are
keener, they realise they can make
the house stimulating and exciting
for them and their family, and they
won’t be satisfied with just anything.”
For Tricia, this ‘just anything’
is undoubtedly beige, the “hotel
bedroom” chic that grates on her
palate almost as much as weak coffee.
“If you love it, it’s fine, but don’t just
do it because it’s safe,” she explains,
pointing out just how disappointing
it is when customers say they love
something but “they couldn’t
Tricia Guild, the creative force behind the Designers Guild possibly dare”.
interiors company, talks to Clare Finney about colour sense, “People are always worried they’ll
get fed up with a colour, and I think
global influences and designing for the Queen it really is such a shame,” Tricia sighs,
and plumps the Amazon-green
It’s 11 in the morning on Marylebone loved what I saw there – but Japan cushion next to her with feeling.
High Street, and Tricia Guild is was also an influence, and a different “My advice is that people just help
ordering coffee. “A cappuccino, please, one: clear, calming.” themselves by listening to their own
but with an extra shot. And less milk. Scandinavia’s on the list too – reactions, and thinking about what
Actually, maybe I should have one “It’s not all pine, they’re very in they like to look at.”
of those double macchiato things?” to colour over there” – and Italy, Doing so will lay the groundwork
Her colleague hovers expectantly, coat of course. That’s before she even for what Tricia calls your “colour
in hand. “No, cappuccino. A strong comes to the influences in her own sense” – the prism of personal
cappuccino, with half the milk and culture: opera, ballet, theatre, and associations through which you
the same amount of foam.” “exhibitions of wonderful paintings.” establish the shades which suit your
It’s a moment that sums up this “I think it’s more of a question of life. Does red make you angry, or
particular designer rather nicely being open and always searching,” passionate, or socialist? Does yellow
– fastidious, energetic and, as I am she says. “That’s my life. It’s what remind you of teddy? Was green
just about to discover, extraordinarily I do, whatever I’m doing. I don’t your school uniform?
cultured. Perching gracefully atop really separate work. It’s part of me.” If, like me, you find yourself
one of the store’s luscious velvet Indeed, one of the most defining somewhat blinded by Designers
sofas Tricia explains how she “really features of Tricia’s aesthetic is her Guild’s kaleidoscopic palette, these
only likes cappuccinos in Italy” – a emphasis on the individual, as are the sorts of questions you should
common enough opinion, but one opposed to the trend. ask. As the colour queen herself is
which carries considerable weight Established along the King’s Road keen to point out, “there are no hard
when you discover just how many over 30 years ago, Designers Guild and fast rules”.
countries Tricia has sipped coffee in. was one of the first furnishing stores “Collecting paintings, magazine
Her books alone have been to provide what Tricia defines as a pages, bits of things, seeing what
translated into seven different “lifestyle” approach to interior design. you really relate to and not being
languages, and when I ask her to cite Where others offered only fabrics or frightened by it – I think that’s a
her primary influences, there’s not furnishings, Designers Guild offered really good starting point,” she tells
a great deal to choose between Fifty the whole shebang – wall coverings, me, gesturing around pointedly at
Things To See Before You Die and upholstery, customisable furniture, the eclectic mix of jewellery, vintage
her own expansive response: “India a design service, even a cappuccino furniture and fabric hangings that
really inspired me – I loved it and I (although it won’t be an Italian one). adorn the shop.
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INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Last year saw the launch of her striking, bold prints. “It’s not quite
third Royal Collection, the elegant as sophisticated as the Royal, but it’s
array of fabrics and furniture inspired younger. It’s very trendy.” It has been,
by the Royal Palaces and personally Tricia smiles suddenly, a “complete
approved by Her Majesty herself. This joy” to work on.
year, it’s “young people” – teenagers, So what’s next for this
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BAKER’S
TREAT
Clare Sheppard’s career path has seen her progress from being the
“world’s worst secretary” to being the hugely respected culinary
force behind Le Pain Quotidien, as the company’s chief recipe
innovator. Shannon Denny discovers her recipe for success
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BAKER’S TREAT
Watching Clare Sheppard make Improvising, hatching solutions Stick with it she did, working in
cakes in her Marylebone kitchen is and generally winging it come easily the kitchens of a stately home and
exactly like watching a chef on a TV to this cosmopolite who grew up cooking for a wine bar before Sir
set – only there are no cue cards, no in Switzerland and Canada before Terence came calling again to say he
producers, no exasperated cries of a modelling career brought her to was reopening the Habitat café and
“Cut!” Clare works from memory London. When I ask if she trained as hunting for a cook. Delightedly, the
and instinct, chatting all the while a chef, “No, I lied!” is the grinning former secretary landed the coveted
and never missing a beat. Butter response. “I came from Canada so in job. “It was mine! This was mid-70s.
and sugar are helpless against the my first cooking jobs I just said, ‘I’ve We had big bowls of salad, lamb
whirr of her electric mixer, and she done a course in Canada and if you chops, a hot chicken dish, and loads
observes over the din, “I do cakes a like I could get the certificate… Sure of cakes and tarts.”
lot. My daughter says, ‘I don’t get it; if you want me to get it, I’ll get it.’” From Habitat, Clare opened
you cook all week, and then you come No one ever took her up on her offer her own restaurant in Kensington,
home and cook all weekend!’” to produce qualifications. But how headed up PR for the New Bond
In the week, Clare assumes the did she get away with it? “No problem Street bastion Asprey, and had three
title of chief recipe innovator for Le – I just cooked!” children – a résumé that proves the
Pain Quotidien. The company’s first She had made her initial sorties depths of her gift for multi-tasking.
location was in rue Antoine Dansaert into the kitchen at her parents’ house This gift would prove useful when a
in Brussels, where bread, simple growing up. “I did like eating; I mean friend called for a chat five years ago.
salads and tartines became favoured I was brought up in Switzerland “He said, ‘I’m thinking of bringing Le
staples among the city’s fashion set. where taste is very important,” she Pain Quotidien to London and you
Further sites opened in Belgium remembers. “I think I started to make are the foodiest person I know.’ I was
before the brand spread to New cakes because my mother didn’t like to the one who’d done the most on the
York’s Madison Avenue and onwards make cakes, and I saw you got a lot of food front so he talked it through with
to Los Angeles. Now with over 100 kudos cooking.” She worked her way me.” After sharing her thoughts and
global outlets, you’ll find the Belgian through all the family’s cookbooks, ideas, Clare found her commitment
bakery across the Middle East, teaching herself as she went along. suddenly deepening. “I said those
Europe and Russia. Here in England, Later, when she began modelling, fateful words: ‘If you need any help, do
every one of the 17 stores bears the pottering in the kitchen helped stave ring.’” In a few short months, she went
marks of Clare’s own practiced hand. off the boredom inherent in that line from confidante to full-time cook,
With each new season Clare creates of work. “I think making cakes was creating the menu and preparing
a range of new soups and new salads, like not eating them. You didn’t feel the dishes for Le Pain Quotidien’s
and she tweaks the menu according you had to eat it, and that was a good first UK branch, conveniently located
to customer tastes. The recipes she was to stay slim,” she laughs. on Marylebone High Street only
devises are carefully written up The move to London did nothing moments away from the Sheppard
with precise measurements and a to deepen her limited affection for family home. From her own domestic
host of photographs, and these are modelling, so she took a secretarial kitchen, she cooked up a storm to
despatched to all the locations in job with a hotel booking agency in supply the café with anything its
the Le Pain Quotidien realm. Clare Wigmore Street that was, she says, diners might need. “I made all the
and her team then visit each kitchen largely a disaster. Fortunately, an soups, I made the muffins, I made the
individually and teach the new dishes. admin role in Terence Conran’s biscuits – I made everything.”
She’s also frequently called empire was more fruitful, and in By now the marmalade cakes
upon by her head office to solve fact set her on her culinary path. are safely tucked up in the oven,
the problem of what to do with “Magically, this food business sort of and Clare flits between her three
excess ingredients, which is how the appeared,” she reveals. refrigerators assembling ingredients
recipe for the marmalade cake she’s “I worked at Conran’s and they for a cream cheese frosting.
cooking today came about. A gamine didn’t do any lunches. Every now and The proliferation of appliances is
figure in a berry red knit dress again they’d say, ‘Clare would you
and red flats with flawless lips and go out and get this for us?’ And I’d LINKS
manicure, she’s got to be the chicest say, ‘Well, I’ll cook it if you like.’ So
chef around. Her smart appearance then I began to cook, and they said, Le Pain Quotidien
mirrors her kitchen efficiency, and ‘You know, you are the world’s worst 72-75 Marylebone High Street
I get the feeling that for her no secretary but actually you’re a very 020 7486 6154
problem is too large and no culinary good cook – so why don’t you stick lepainquotidien.co.uk
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Did I train as a chef?
No, I lied! I came from
Canada so for my first
cooking jobs I just said,
‘I’ve done a course in
Canada and if you like
I could get the certificate…’
not the only evidence of her calling; When she arrived from Canada, daughter was still little she went to
a shelf threatens to give up under Clare remembers spending Waitrose. She didn’t have enough
the weight of a library’s worth of significant amounts of time in the money and they said, ‘Don’t worry,
cookbooks. These she refers to for area, “Which, I may say, was not quite when your mother comes she can
checking times and temperatures what it is today”. Not only was there pay the rest.’” She loves the village
when she’s writing a recipe, “because the ill-fated job in Wigmore Street, atmosphere where everyone recognises
I don’t even think about it; I do but she also took piano lessons in everyone, which seems unusual in a city
everything by sight and feel”. This is Harley Street and made a habit of as sprawling as London.
illustrated as she experiments with working her way through the entire At last the cakes have cooled,
adding orange zest to the frosting menu at Richoux. the frosting has been applied and I
and then – apparently with the help Once she and her Australian am no longer in danger of chewing
of some inbuilt taste barometer husband married, they first moved my own arm off in anticipation of
– deciding against the idea. into a home in Montagu Mews, sweet treats to come. “Shall we open
With Le Pain Quotidien continuing later relocating as their family grew. one?” Clare asks, perhaps sensing my
to expand, Clare now spends most of Thanks to all the embassies, their urgency. The cake is sweet and tart,
her professional hours training staff, group was quite an international luscious and moist, with a golden
visiting suppliers and running trials in one. The children all attended the crispness at the edges. I start with one
the restaurant kitchens. Consequently, local primary school, and their modest piece and then effortlessly
her home cooker sees less 9-to-5 service lives revolved around the tennis move on to a second.
these days. courts and jungle gym. “There’s a This kind of thing is clearly the
Her connections to Marylebone park which everybody goes to; our best bit of my job; but what’s the best
remain indelible. They date back to park life was the centre,” she says. “I part of Clare’s? “The relationship
before she was even born – Clare’s wouldn’t have survived motherhood with the staff,” she says. “I will always
parents met during the Second World were it not for all the other mothers.” love when I’m doing a new thing and
War when they were both working With her kids now grown, she no trying to teach it and getting them
at Bletchley Park. Her mother was longer frequents the jungle gym but enthused.” Getting them enthused?
billeted in the convent in Blandford does admit to spending a fair amount As long as she starts with a taste test
Square and the couple later married of time at Daunt, La Fromagerie and like I’ve just had, my guess is that
at St James’s on George Street, the Waitrose, where the staff all seem stimulating enthusiasm should be no
same church that Clare attends today. to know her. “One time, when my problem at all.
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THREE OF A KIND
THE PERFECT THREE-COURSE MENU FROM
IGOR TYMCHYSHYN, HEAD CHEF AT ORRERY
FOIS GRAS PARFAIT WITH Take the foie gras, chicken livers, eggs CITRUS SEA BASS
APPLE CHUTNEY and butter out of the fridge and leave at Serves 4
Serves 8 room temperature for 1.5 hour, ensuring
they are well covered. Ingredients
Ingredients 1kg sea bass, scaled, filleted, pinned and
500g foie gras Place the shallots, garlic, bay, thyme, cut into 4 pieces
500g fresh chicken livers port, madeira and armagnac in a pan Baby fennel
1kg unsalted butter and reduce to a glaze. Baby leeks
9 whole eggs
10g salt With a blender or hand blender, blend (For the candied orange zest)
10g ground white pepper the foie gras, the chicken livers and Zest of 2 oranges, sliced
30g pink salt the reduction, then slowly add the 200g caster sugar
3 banana shallots, sliced seasoning, then the eggs, then the 300ml white wine vinegar
2 cloves garlic, sliced butter, while blending continuously.
1 bay leaf (For the caramelised fennel)
1 sprig thyme Pour into a greased ceramic dish and 1 large fennel bulb
200ml port cook in a bain marie for 45-50 minutes 2 oranges
200ml madeira at 110C. The parfait should have a slight 1 grapefruit
200ml armagnac wobble in the middle once cooked. 1 bay leaf
Leave to cool at room temperature for 2 sprigs thyme
(For the apple chutney) 2 hours then refrigerate.
50ml vegetable oil (For the sauce vierge)
5 golden delicious apples, diced Wine match from Orrery sommelier 40ml olive oil
2 large onions, cut into small dice Shana Dilworth 40ml lemon juice
250ml white wine vinegar On the slightly sweet side, try the 1tsp crushed coriander
250g caster sugar Von Hovel Riesling Kabinett, Obermeller
125ml water Hutte, Saar, Germany 2007. Method
30g golden sultanas For a sweet wine, try the Larreyda Make the candied orange zest first
Pinch ground ginger Jurancon Mouelleux, France 2005 – blanch and refresh the orange zest three
times, add to the sugar and vinegar, then
Method cook until candied and not bitter.
To make the apple chutney, sweat the LINKS
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in a touch of clarified butter. Garnish with
orange and grapefruit segments and the
candied orange zest.
Mix the olive oil, lemon juice and crushed
coriander to make a sauce vierge.
To cook the sea bass, heat your non-stick
frying pan, then add 30ml extra virgin olive
oil. Place the fish skin-side down and fry for
1-2 minutes, then place it in a preheated
oven at 220C for 5-7 minutes.
Serve with the caramelised fennel,
candied orange zest, sauce vierge
and some baby fennel and baby leeks,
blanched for 2 minutes in boiling water.
Wine match from Orrery sommelier
Shana Dilworth
Terras Guada Albarino, Rias Baixas,
Spain 2009
PRUNE AND ARMAGNAC
SOUFFLE
Serves 5-6
Ingredients
200g prunes
10g roasted almonds
100ml armagnac
200g egg whites
100g caster sugar
7g lemon juice
Method
Marinade the prunes and almonds in the
armagnac for as long as you can – ideally
a week. Once marinated, blend into a
puree with a hand blender. This is the
soufflé base.
Whisk the egg whites and sugar until stiff,
then add lemon juice. Fold the soufflé base
into meringue mix, then fill into buttered
200ml soufflé moulds. Cook for 5- 7
minutes in the oven at 180C.
Wine match from Orrery sommelier
Shana Dilworth
For a sweet fortified wine with raisin
qualities, try the Domaine Cazes Muscat
de Rivesaltes, Rousillon, France 1996 . Or
for something really special, the Disznoko
Tokaji 5 Puttonyos, Hungary 2001
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FOOD: IN BRIEF
LANDAU HOPE
AND GLORY
The legendary Roux family are set to
make their mark on Marylebone with the Michel Roux Jr, left, and Chris King
opening of Roux at The Landau
Marylebone is set to gain another gained the brothers honorary OBEs, Starters will include such delights
glittering feather in its already with Jack Straw, then foreign minister, as lightly creamed white bean velouté
impressive culinary cap as two describing them as “two of Britain’s with aged manchego croquettes,
members of the legendary Roux finest ambassadors who together celery and pimentón de la vera,
family bring their world renowned have greatly enhanced Britain’s or seared Orkney scallops with
brand of fine dining to the area. gastronomic standing in the world”. Jerusalem artichoke and truffle.
Father and son Albert and Michel Roux protege Chris King has been For the main course, diners can tuck
Roux Jr. are working together for chosen as chef de cuisine for the into the likes of red wine glazed short
the first time in 19 years in a new new venture. Having completed his rib of beef with turnips, braised kale
collaboration with The Langham, apprenticeship at Le Gavroche under and horseradish crust, or roast wild
London. This new partnership Michel Roux Jnr, Chris cooked at sea bass with salsify and Norfolk
brings the Roux’s legendary culinary Thomas Keller’s Per Se in New York, brown shrimps. And for the dessert
expertise and creativity to the newly before returning to Le Gavroche lovers out there, pear william and
re-named Roux at The Landau. and then Roux at Parliament Square walnut soufflé with bitter chocolate
The family’s arrival signals the as sous chef. Michel Roux Jr says sorbet, and ivoire chocolate and
coming of genuine culinary royalty, of Chris: “A rising star, his menus vanilla mousse with hazelnuts and
to Marylebone. Brothers Albert reflect the Roux trademark style of praline are amongst the temptations
and Michel Snr. are regarded as the classically-constructed French dishes, on offer.
godfathers of modern restaurant blended with today’s tastes for lighter So it seems likely that even greater
cuisine in the UK. They put Britain choices. He has a modern approach throngs of happy gastronomes
on the culinary map and raised to combining ingredients, and a will soon be beating a path to
standards across the board through contemporary style of presentation.” Marylebone. The normal advice
their ground-breaking Michelin- would now be to get in quickly and
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their many books, and the unflagging for that has already passed – if
training and encouragement they Roux at The Landau indeed it ever existed – just phone
have provided to many of today’s top The Langham, Portland Place ahead instead, book a table and
chefs. Voted the UK’s most influential 020 7965 1065 contemplate an evening luxuriating
chefs by their peers in a 2003 poll, their rouxatthelandau.com in the magical world of an
profound impact on British cuisine extraordinary gastronomic dynasty.
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FOOD & ME Wales. Starters include steak tartare
and smoked haddock and caramelised
BARRY HIRST, CO-OWNER OF onion tart. We also do chilli salt squid
with lime dressing, because we just
THE GRAZING GOAT sell such a huge amount of it in every
venue. It’s something that people seem
to love. The Grazing Goat has a big
rotisserie and grill section. We buy
very good cuts of meat and fish. Our
philosophy is – simple as possible. We
Have you always been in the pub game? milk, so they used this particular area don’t want to add unnecessary things.
No, the other founding director of to graze goats so that she could have It’s good food, cooked simply.
Cubitt House, Stefan Turnbull, and milk without getting a rash.
I are property developers – that’s our And are you doing a Sunday roast?
main business. We both live in SW1, Describe the look and feel here. Yes, we are. With the rotisserie, we
where there wasn’t a decent pub, so You have to be sympathetic with the are doing rolled joints of meat for
we decided to buy the one at the end age of the building, which is over 160 twos or fours, giving it a real sharing
of our road, The Thomas Cubitt. We years old, so you can’t start introducing atmosphere. We bring the whole lot
bought it for a bit of fun, thinking we anything that doesn’t fit. Everything to the table and people can then dig
would be pulling pints, but it got a bit we’ve done is top quality joinery – solid in together.
too busy, so we were actually very much oak floors, solid tulip panelling and
managing it from behind the scenes. handmade tables. We left some of the I’m too stuffed to move, can I stay the night?
After that we were invited to take The original beams in, and it turned out to Yes, we have eight hotel rooms here.
Pantechnicon on Motcomb Street. Our have what I would call a country house, There are two penthouse suites and
third pub, The Orange, is on Pimlico hunting lodge feel. At night time it’s six smaller rooms. We are also doing
Road. And in December we opened absolutely beautiful, it just glows. It breakfast every day from eight o’clock.
The Grazing Goat. takes on a different personality.
Is owning pubs as good as it sounds?
Had you ever worked in a pub? How good is the selection of drinks? Yes, it is. We’ve now got the best part
Yes, I lived in Essex, for my sins, and Pretty good, but the plan is to start of 200 people working across the four
I worked in a pub called the Bridge introducing more eclectic world beers. pubs, and I love them. They’re great. If
House Tavern during my late teens. I want to offer a range of probably 20 you’ve got a good management team,
I loved it, and since then I’ve fancied bottled beers. If someone is spending a which we have, that takes away the pain.
having my own pub. Part of the reason good few hours in here, we want them
I wanted one is that I felt so let down to be able to look through the beer Who would you invite to your ultimate after
by bad service in British pubs. It is so list and find ones from different parts hours lock-in?
frustrating when you can’t get served of the world. Something that doesn’t Thomas Cubitt. I am constantly
or you don’t get service with a smile. It happen much in England is bar staff amazed, not only that he planned
seems crazy to me to have five deep at advising you about what beers go with such technical civil engineering and
the bar with people sitting there with what food. This is something we want estate planning, but mainly because
no drinks. If no one’s serving your to get into – pairing beers with food. he built such exquisite and detailed
customers then they’re not happy and We include our staff in all the food. houses on a grand scale at a time when
you’re not making any money. We There is no way they will serve you everything was produced by hand
have a mainly Antipodean team, who anything without having first tasted it and with no corners cut. A great man,
tend to relish good service rather than themselves. It’s the same with the wine. which is why we named our first pub
shying away from it. We’re one of the Our two sommeliers, Ryan Moses and after him – to celebrate the man and
very few pub groups that do total table Matt Cocks, choose the wines and his achievements.
service. You can go to the bar if you teach all the staff about them, and
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World of Wine
WINE CONSULTANT ROBERT GIORGIONE DISCOVERS A PLACE
THAT WILL CHANGE FOREVER YOUR PERCEPTION OF WINE BARS
Just suppose I were to utter the words Vinoteca – an authentic and convivial wine bars Juveniles and Willy’s Wine
“wine bar” to you – what would be place in Farringdon. What used to Bar. During 1999, Charlie spent time
the first image to spring to mind? be quite a dingy area of London in the southwest of France and later,
Perhaps a dark, dingy, crypt-like has recently been transformed by in 2000, in Langhorne Creek, South
tavern just off Fleet Street or under a growing group of restaurants, Australia. He studied wine marketing
the arches of London Bridge station bars and delicatessens. They have at Carcassonne and did a ‘stage’ in
containing many Keith Floyd-style put themselves at the heart of this Corbieres. Charlie and Brett first met
trenchermen with big red noses community and are energetically while working for David Gleave MW
glugging on claret and port? Or driving things forward. At the end at Liberty. They found the site for the
maybe a generic modern chain in the of last year, the pair opened their first Vinoteca in 2004 and it opened
City, containing lots of flashy bankers second venture, in Marylebone. Of its doors in 2005. The rest, as they say,
quaffing Bolly? course, this is a completely different is history.
These places do still exist, but area and location, with a different At the end of November last year,
they have been joined by a new clientele, market and demographic, I was invited to the opening of the new
generation of wine bars, which have but the recipe for success still Vinoteca, on Seymour Place. Vinoteca
been modelled on the European remains the same. is a quaint little pit stop, which serves
‘enotecas’ and American wine Both Brett and Charlie have vast the local community well. I had a chat
merchants. I sincerely believe that industry experience and have spent with Charlie and manager Willoughby
London now has a wonderful culture many years cutting their teeth with Andrews. In fact, I also made a video
of wine, galvanised by a handful of the great and the good. Brett spent blog, which is up on my website.
visionary people for whom wine will his formative years working his way Charlie in particular enjoys wines
always be the main focus. Many of around Australia and his native New from the southwest of France and has
these places have a charming identity Zealand before coming to England a passion for the Rhone Valley.
and are run by real people with real and working for the legendary Rowley They have continued their simple
passion and a sense of individualism. Leigh at Kensington Place. Charlie, formula of being friendly, relaxed
They are relaxed and convivial, with a Yorkshireman born and bred, and serving good honest food with
the wine taking centre stage without started out working for a brewery and
all the fuss. Most importantly, they studying hospitality management. He LINKS
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Robert’s blog
Michelin stars and all that guff, but and worked in France, the Channel
robertgiorgione.com
they successfully manage to make you Islands and the Caribbean. He first
twitter.com/robertgiorgione
feel comfortable, so you will probably caught the wine bug back in the 1990s,
return again and again. while working for the Tetley brewery Consultancy, advice and bespoke tastings
Two individuals who have put and at a place called Hanrahan’s robert@robertgiorgione.com
themselves at the heart of London’s in Sheffield. Possibly the two most
Vinoteca
wine bar scene are Brett Woonton influential people on his career path
15 Seymour Place
and Charlie Young. In 2005, after were Mark Williamson and Tim
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spending many years in the wine and Johnston, who he came across when
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restaurant trade, they established working in Paris at their legendary
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an accessible and interesting wine
selection. Many of the wines are
served by the glass and the range
changes twice a year. You can book
a table for lunch, but their strict
policy of no reservations for dinner
still remains. They also have a wine
merchant to sell wines at retail.
A couple of new features are the
prosecco on tap and the bag-in-box
wines. The latter are an interesting
range of white, red and rose wines
produced in the Loire Valley and are
great value for money.
The food at the new Vinoteca is
not too shabby either. The menu
changes daily and there are always
wine suggestions by the glass with
each dish. I love the hearty portions
of good, simple, honest fare. I have
already been back a few times and
stand out dishes for me are the
smoked eel and celeriac remoulade,
the potted shrimps, and the elegant
sounding crubbeens with watercress
and sauce gribiche. This dish consists
of tasty porcine morsels and is a very
flavoursome starter, great to enjoy
washed down with a crisp, dry and
aromatic white. They serve some
quirky wines at Vinoteca, such as
a Slovakian Muller Thurgau, an
Austrian Gruner Veltliner or fruity
white from the southwest of France.
As for main courses, I would whole-
heartedly recommend the brill –
a delicious fillet of white fish sitting in
a bowl containing an aromatic saffron
broth with clams and new potatoes.
If you prefer meat, the bavette is
great, especially if you enjoy a good
old-fashioned steak and chips kind
of meal. This would be great with the
flavoursome Hungarian Bull’s Blood
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One of my favourite dishes is the pie.
The flavour can vary, as from time to
time the chef will make a mutton and
oyster pie or middle white pork and
prune. However, one thing is always
consistent, which is the quality of the
produce, as it sits magnificently like
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HISTORY
THE LADY THIEF
HOW THE THEFT OF A PILE OF HANDKERCHIEFS
BY A LADY OF THE MARYLEBONE GENTRY LED
TO DISGRACE, DEBATE AND A FAMOUS TRIAL
BY TOM HUGHES
The theft of a good linen or silk wine merchants, tea & coffee dealers, to her to look in the stock case. In
pocket handkerchief was to the and booksellers of Baker Street. that moment of distraction, Mrs
villains of Victorian London what the In 1855, the premises of John Moule, Ramsbotham deftly picked up four
lifted laptop is today. Oliver Twist, a fashionable linen-draper, were at handkerchiefs and slipped them into
you may recall, was introduced to his 54 Baker Street, on the southwest her coat pocket. The watchful Welch
life of crime after seeing the many corner of Dorset Street. had seen it all. When the woman left,
glorious “wipes” arrayed in Fagin’s Mr Moule employed several shop Welch was sent off in hot pursuit.
lair. “Ah, you’re a-staring at the pocket- assistants, among them a young When Mrs Ramsbotham emerged
handkerchiefs, eh, my dear? There man named Samuel Welch, who from a nearby stationer’s, Welch
are a good many of ’em, ain’t there?” was at his post on 27 March 1855 was there to greet her. He said that
But the temptation to purloin these when Mrs Ramsbotham entered the Mr Moule had requested that she
colourful accessories was not confined establishment. It appears that some return to the shop, to which she
to the light-fingered filchers from the days previously, the clerk had reason replied, quite freely: “Oh, I have the
East End. When a nice old lady from to suspect that Mrs Ramsbotham handkerchiefs in my pocket.” Back at
Portman Square was prosecuted for had walked off with some fabric for Moule’s, Mrs Ramsbotham admitted
hoisting a handful from a Baker Street which she had not paid. Welch had swiping the handkerchiefs. Her
shop, it prompted a sensation. mentioned it to his employer and was husband would surely pay for them
Mary Ramsbotham was 50 told to keep a keen eye on her. and if Mr Moule might, this one time,
and the wife of one of London’s Watkins Moule, the owner’s son, overlook the matter, she would be
foremost obstetricians, Dr Francis waited upon Mrs Ramsbotham. deeply grateful. But the merchant
Ramsbotham. In 1855, the She purchased six yards of a lining was adamant – the police would be
Ramsbotham family resided at material at four-pence a yard and summoned. Mrs Ramsbotham was
7 Portman Square. Portman Square arranged for it to be sent to Portman rumbled off in a cab with the peelers
was then surrounded with the Square. After closing the sale, for Marylebone police court.
elegant homes of the wealthy and young Moule placed a small box of Mrs Ramsbotham was not the first
noble. Number 7 was on the east side cambric handkerchiefs before Mrs of her ilk. In 1843, in The Mysteries of
and was long ago lost to the office Ramsbotham for her inspection. London, the author declared: “The
block that now faces the square. She did not think they were of the fact is that many ladies will go into
From its doorway, it was but a step best quality. Moule quickly said a shop, purchase a hundred guinea
or two north to reach the milliners, he had better and turned his back shawl, and secrete an 18 penny pair
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THE LADY THIEF
“mercifully” handled. Broughton life when an important constitutional
would not relent and sent the case for change took place.” Hers was a life
trial, although he permitted of constant nervous excitement,
Mrs Ramsbotham bail of £2,000. hallucinations, and delusions. She
The Times pounced upon the had no intent to steal at all. Ballentine,
magistrate: how could any man in his the hero of many life-or-death
senses not see that Mrs Ramsbotham criminal trials, went so far as to say
was out of hers? “Hers is an instance of he never felt more anxiety about any
that not very uncommon monomania person he had ever defended.
which leads persons otherwise The presiding judge instructed
Hers is an instance of estimable and well-conducted to pilfer the jury to dismiss all talk of a trap.
that not very uncommon articles of trifling value in obedience Mr Moule was not on trial. The only
to the impulses of a diseased question was: did Mrs Ramsbotham
monomania which leads imagination. Everyone could probably mean to steal the handkerchiefs? After
persons otherwise estimable name a dozen ladies who have been four hours, the jury reported back
and well-conducted to pilfer notorious for abstracting articles of a hopeless deadlock – six to six with
articles of trifling value in trifling value from the shops where no hope for resolution. The jurors
they habitually dealt.” were dismissed with thanks. Mrs
obedience to the impulses Whatever one thought of the Ramsbotham was released and left
of a diseased imagination theory, it was hard to justify mercy court with her husband, to be greeted
when poor men and women with a somewhat mixed reaction from
were being sentenced daily for a “great concourse of persons”.
“abstracting articles of trifling value” The case of Mrs Ramsbotham
from shops far less grand than and the Baker Street linen-draper
Mr Moule’s emporium. Why should generated a lively debate. The
of gloves.” In the better families, the wife of a Marylebone physician “exceptional leniency” granted to
m’lady’s thievery was explained as receive any more consideration? her was contrasted with the average
an “amiable weakness”. Mr Moule Mrs Ramsbotham’s trial was held barrow-thief who had no highly paid
was not going to take it any longer. at the Guildhall. The prosecution counsel and would likely have been
He found an ally in the formidable insisted that Mr Moule took no given hard labour. One of the radical
Marylebone magistrate Robert pleasure in bringing charges but newspapers thought the “lady thief”
Broughton. Hearing the facts, he acted in the interest of his “brother would have benefited from “the
refused bail, telling the courtroom tradesmen”. Young Watkins Moule curative process of incarceration and
– including Dr Frank – that the law had a very unpleasant time of it at the the treadmill”.
must “rule irrespective of station hands of the wily Ballentine. Wasn’t it Menopausal kleptomania
or stage in life”. Mrs Ramsbotham true that the original handkerchiefs (brought on by “the change of life”)
throughout was described as “calm shown to Mrs Ramsbotham were became a frequently employed
and collected” and said nothing as not “French cambric” but an inferior defense. The pioneer English alienist
she was led to the cells until her next fabric? Did the clerk not know that Sir John Bucknill was not among
court appearance. Mrs Ramsbotham would likely reject the convinced: “Kleptomania is
Three days later she was brought them? He could then offer to show never urged as a defence for the
forward, now represented by the Old her something better and turn his delinquencies of the poor; but when
Bailey legend Serjeant Ballentine. back to her intentionally – all the ladies of respectable connection are
Press coverage had drawn a crowd while she was unknowingly under the detected in habits of shoplifting,
that spilled out into Marylebone observation of his lynx-eyed colleague the theory of kleptomania has been
High Street. Ballentine said Mrs Welch. It was a carefully baited trap. found exceedingly convenient.”
Ramsbotham had no interest in Ballentine asked the jurymen Mr Moule’s vigilance was
stealing such trumpery items (worth to believe that Mrs Ramsbotham applauded by his peers. The Times,
9s 6d.) When the clerk returned had suffered quite enough. The however, reported: “We know many
with the superior handkerchiefs for charge had brought shame to her ladies who dread to enter any shop
her inspection, she “absently” put distinguished husband and her at this moment on the account of
the others in her pocket. Mr Moule blameless children. What possible the state of mind prevalent among
had her address. A gentleman would reason had she to steal such “stuff”? shopkeepers once the Ramsbotham
have sent a clerk to Dr Ramsbotham In fact, she acted without reason: “She story got wind.” Any such “dread”
and the matter would have been had reached that point in a woman’s was, to be sure, short-lived.
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HEALTH
JOINT ACCOUNT
JEAN-PAUL AUBIN-PARVU FINDS
OUT ABOUT THE CAUSES AND
CURES OF OSTEOARTHRITIS
Our office is a hotbed for injuries Age and injury are not the
sustained in pursuit of sporting glory only factors linked to the disease
– and love. My editor Mark has twice – genetics also play an important
dislocated his knee on the football role. “There is quite a strong
pitch (he may never streak again), hereditary link, particularly down
while Donna’s bad back results from the female side,” says Dr Hall. Gender
years of kicking and throwing men is another factor, and for most joints
twice her size in martial arts classes and osteoarthritis is more common and
illegal bare knuckle fights. Viel would more severe in women. Obesity has
have been one of the West Indies’ a serious impact, particularly on the
fastest bowlers had it not been for his weight bearing joints. “So not only
right shoulder. He claims his injury is will the osteoarthritis progress more
the result of all those bouncers aimed rapidly if you are overweight, but that
at terrified batsmen, though I suspect joint will also be more painful.”
he did it falling out of a hammock. The ends of the bones that meet
And Clare, a long distance runner, was in a joint are covered by a layer of
recently hotfooting it across London gristle called cartilage. The cartilage
when she slipped and broke her ankle. cushions the joint and helps to
She wasn’t actually racing though – spread the forces evenly when
she was late for a romantic date. pressure is applied. The smooth,
Injury and trauma to joints slippery cartilage surface also allows
sustained through sport, for example, the bone ends to move freely. With
may make us prone to developing osteoarthritis that smooth cartilage
osteoarthritis as we get older. becomes rough and brittle, and the
“Osteoarthritis is the commonest type layer gradually thins. To compensate,
of arthritis and starts usually after the bone beneath thickens and
the age of 50,” says Dr Gerard Hall, spreads out, forming bony spurs
consultant rheumatologist at The known as osteophytes. There may
Princess Grace Hospital. “And about also be inflammation in the joint.
80 per cent of the population suffer The synovium swells slightly and
from a degree of osteoarthritis by may produce extra fluid, which then
the time they reach the age of 65-70. makes the joint swell. In severe cases
That equates to around eight million the cartilage can become so thin
sufferers in the UK, of whom about that it no longer covers the thickened
one million will seek treatment.” bone ends. The bone ends touch,
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rub against each other and start like an MRI scan or an ultrasound There have been studies
to wear away. The loss of cartilage, may be very useful in detecting early that clearly demonstrate
the wearing of bone and the bony forms of osteoarthritis,” he says.
overgrowth at the edges can alter the Both the medical and lay press
that by losing weight you
shape of the joint, forcing the bones frequently discuss the huge advances can actually prevent the
out of alignment, causing deformity. made in the treatment of arthritis, progression of osteoarthritis
The areas of the body where but these wonder treatments are
osteoarthritis typically occurs referring to the management of
include the small joints of the people with immune mediated
fingers, the base of the thumb, the arthritis, such as rheumatoid
neck, lumber spine, hip, knee and arthritis. “Osteoarthritis is essentially
the joints of the big toe. The classic a condition of cartilage degradation,”
symptoms are pain, stiffness of says Dr Hall, “and we aren’t very
the joint and swelling. “Usually the successful at reversing processes
pain occurs during activity,” says which are really degenerative.”
Dr Hall. “But if the patient has a more Therefore, the treatment of in as good health as possible. “So, for
aggressive form of the condition osteoarthritis revolves around example, a patient with osteoarthritis
then the pain will also be present at controlling the symptoms. Patients to the knee, we might send them to
rest.” In severe cases osteoarthritis may be prescribed oral pain killers or a physiotherapist to really get them
can be hugely debilitating, both anti-inflammatory drugs, which are to work on their quadriceps, to
physically and psychologically, and available both as oral treatments and strengthen the muscles to support
can threaten a patient’s quality of life as topical gels. Injections are another the arthritic knee.”
and very independence. method aimed at alleviating pain. It is vital that obese patients lose
Diagnosing osteoarthritis is “We inject things like Cortisone to weight. “There have been studies
usually relatively straightforward. help reduce inflammation,” says which clearly demonstrate that by
“About 95 per cent of the picture is Dr Hall. “Many patients return for losing weight you can actually prevent
really what the patient tells me in two or three injections per year.” the progression of osteoarthritis.”
terms of symptoms and what I see Hyaluronic acid is present in the Surgery may be considered
when I examine them,” says Dr Hall. synovial fluid, which acts as a nutrient where a joint has become seriously
“It’s a fairly clear cut diagnosis in the to the cartilage and also dissipates damaged. “In the worst case
vast majority of cases. There may be pressures and forces throughout a scenario, if the patient’s quality of
some additional tests, particularly for joint. But in osteoarthritis the joint life is sufficiently badly affected
patients with a much more aggressive produces a very poor quality fluid. then I refer them to an orthopaedic
form of osteoarthritis, where there is “We can actually produce a molecule surgeon,” says Dr Hall. “Hip and
actually more inflammation. Perhaps that is very similar to Hyaluronic knee replacements are the most
there is an overlap with some sort of acid,” says Dr Hall. “You inject this common, but we can replace other
inflammatory condition. Then we into the joint and it helps to ease pain joints, for example, the finger joints.”
might do some blood tests and x-rays. and improve mobility.” Is there anything we can do to
But x-rays are the main test we would Physiotherapy techniques are very reduce the likelihood of getting
look to do for osteoarthritis, firstly, to important in ensuring that all the osteoarthritis? “Given the fact that
confirm the diagnosis, and secondly, soft tissues supporting a joint – the most cases of osteoarthritis are
to give us a baseline for future muscles, tendons and ligaments – are genetically linked and age linked,
reference several years down the line you can’t really do much about that
to see how things have progressed.” LINKS unfortunately,” says Dr Hall. “So we
More sophisticated imaging are left with other techniques. For
techniques allow Dr Hall to identify The Princess Grace Hospital those patients who do have a genetic
cartilage thinning in its early stages. 42-52 Nottingham Place predisposition, it is important that
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ROOT AND BRANCH REFORM
VIEL RICHARDSON MEETS THE
MAN BEHIND A PLAN TO BRING
TREES TO EAST MARYLEBONE
It seems like such a simple idea – the look towards Marylebone High Street – it’s a public realm discussion about
area can always benefit from a bit of a as its centre. We are all looking west how the streets are going to evolve over
lift, everybody likes trees, let’s see if we – it is where the centre of our universe the next 25-50 years and our proposal
can plant a few. That was the thinking is, so to speak. The purpose was to had to take that into account, in fact
behind the W1W Tree Planting plant corridors of trees back to the be a part of it.”
Initiative for eastern Marylebone. high street. You may have differences Mark freely acknowledges the help
“I’m just a part of the chain,” Mark in architecture, but these avenues will of people both outside and inside the
Gazaleh project co-ordinator tells create a unifying theme going all the council who helped him to navigate
me over a coffee as Great Portman way back to the high street.” the local planning maze into which
Street bustles along on the other side In fact the idea for the initiative he was venturing. First he had to
of the cafe window. “My stated aim is came from some tree plantings in answer two questions. Do people want
to green east Marylebone, planting Harley Street, Upper Wimpole Street it, and how is it going to be paid for?
500 trees in time for the London and Devonshire Place. Of course The first was quickly addressed by
Olympics. Beyond that, the idea is to ideas are one thing, actions are quite large stakeholders such as the estate
green Marylebone for the betterment another, and it was going to take a landlords, local hospitals, medical
of everyone.” lot of action for this idea to rise from practitioners, residential blocks
Trees can really change the the drawing board. Westminster and residents’ associations showing
psychology of an area, Mark believes. City Council has a ‘My Westminster’ support for the idea.
He says that London is continually campaign through which residents “I managed to show that this was
evolving, and that the key to success can meet locals councillors and not a one man band but a broad cross
is local residents’ amenities – cafes, exchange ideas, so Mark raised the section of opinion, critically local
shops, local services. And if you can topic of trees. “You planted them businesses and amenity groups. But
create the right environment, the on Harley Street,” he said. “And it’s it only really got going when officers
facilities and the services you want fantastic. We’d like to plant some of Westminster City Council started
will come to you. more.” He was told that although seeing that there is something more
“The Howard De Walden Estate it was a nice thought, it was not in to this than just trees – things like
has achieved that brilliantly around Westminster’s immediate plans, but economic development. I have been
the central Marylebone area,” says Mark was determined not to let the leading this initiative, but I am a very
Mark. “Here at the eastern edge we are idea drop. “There are consultations small part of a much bigger picture.”
aspiring to have something similar. We on what is called Westminster Way Then there was the money. The
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ROOT AND BRANCH REFORM
Hilary Benn (centre), then secretary of state for the
environment, food and rural affairs, leads a ceremonial
tree planting on Great Portland Street in November 2009
initiative needed to develop a funding gave us a generous donation, enough “Paul Akers and Chris Callwell of the
model that would allow everyone to pay for a large number of trees. Westminster City trees section have
to participate. They arrived at a But it is more than just money – their helped us enormously here. The final
‘matched funding model’, by which wider support is invaluable.” choice had to tick several boxes. It had
the level of council funding would Trees do not come cheap. Each to not spread too far, not damage the
depend on the amount the initiative tree costs £300, including insurance pavement, not threaten foundations,
could raise elsewhere. It meant the and maintenance. “We have lost trees not disrupt underground services.
council, charities, and the W1W to vandals and vans,” says Mark, It had to blossom nicely, have foliage
Tree Planting Initiative would work “so the trees need to be replaced and for 11 months. It had to drop once a
together and share the funding. maintained by the council. That is why year so you only had to sweep up once.
“I also can’t overstate the value they cost so much. Think 500 trees at It could not drop fruit and not cast
of The Westminster Tree Trust £300 – that’s £150,000, of which the too much shade, so no-one loses any
becoming officially involved,” community’s contribution is £50,000.” light. All this and thrive in the city
Mark says. “It is a charity created The project’s first planting took environment. It’s not easy.”
with the aim of improving the place on Hallam Street. “It was an easy So after all this activity, what has
environment in Marylebone and it has choice because it was very residential. the reaction been? After all a lot of
very close council connections. They This was followed by Weymouth money has been invested on all sides,
also offered a third of the financial Street, and at present we are working for some very deferred gratification.
commitment, which was a huge on Great Portland street, Devonshire “The reaction has been great,”
moment for us.” Street, New Cavendish Street, and Mark enthuses. “We are hearing great
So on the basis of Westminster City Bolsover Street.” stories about how it is working. This
Council, the Westminster Tree Trust So what are they planting? After Christmas someone was about to cut
and W1W Tree Planting Initiative all, you can’t just plonk any tree into some branches off a tree for an office
working together and supplying one modern London. “We have settled decoration, when they suddenly found
third of the funds each, the project on the pear tree,” Mark informs me. themselves surrounded by a group
started in earnest, with some serious of leather-clad bikers telling them
fundraising. “I canvass the community LINKS in no uncertain terms to leave the
street by street to see if they are tree alone. It turned out the bikers
happy,” Mark continues. “That way W1W Tree Planting Initiative worked nearby and had paid for that
it is easier for people to connect with w1w.trees@live.co.uk tree themselves. In fact one of them
the project, to raise our third of the w1w-trees.spaces.live.com had planted it alongside secretary of
funds. If the money is not there we state Hillary Benn. That sort of local
can’t do it. Simple as that. The Howard engagement can happen – it is what
de Walden Estate has been very we wanted to create, and it is essential
supportive and very generous. They if the whole project is to work.”
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MY DREAM HOME
TIM FAIRWEATHER
Tim Fairweather has worked in property parties – just sheer living. One of the But, quite frankly, I like it the way it is.
since 1986. He joined Sandfords over reception rooms is slightly larger You have two good sized bedrooms
four years ago and is both a director and a than the other, so if you were keen on the back of the building, which
partner in the company. His dream home on entertaining you could easily fit are quiet and away from any road
is 14-16 New Cavendish Street a dining table big enough for noise. The main bedroom has an en
12 people. It’s a focal room. This suite shower and bathroom. It’s all
This dream property is a wonderful, flat actually reminds me of the one I in very nice, tip top condition with a
spacious flat in an attractive, small used to have in Bryanston Mansions walk in wardrobe for people who like
purpose built block at 14-16 New on York Street. I’d knocked two to collect clothes and shoes.
Cavendish Street. The flat is for reception rooms together to create It’s a really lovely, bright flat
sale at £1.5 million, and the main one 30 foot reception room. with a great ceiling height. The
reason I love it so much is because In the New Cavendish Street flat flat is in excellent condition, quite
of its location – it is literally 50 feet the reception rooms are next to a contemporary and ready to move in
from Marylebone High Street. It’s wonderful kitchen, so if you wanted to. As it’s so close to the high street,
so difficult to buy flats just yards you could always knock through into if you need anything then it’s literally
from the high street, which is where one of the reception rooms and really just a stone’s throw away. You haven’t
everyone wants to be at the moment. go to town on the entertaining front. got to jump in a cab. There’s no
The other real wow factor is the inconvenience – easy living.
way it’s been refurbished. Personally LINKS Why make life complicated?
I wouldn’t change a thing – in fact This is exactly the type of flat
that’s the reason I picked it. With Sandfords that Sandfords just love to get on
its two bay window reception rooms 6 Paddington Street the market, because they’re what
on the front, which together come 020 7224 4994 everyone wants – whether it be an
in at over 30 feet in width, it’s just sandfords.com individual, a couple or a small family.
perfect for entertaining and dinner It can work for pretty much everyone.
80-81 WIMPOLE STREET, MARYLEBONE W1
NEW OFFICE DEVELOPMENT TO LET 9,246 SQ FT (859.30 SQ M)
ELLIOTT STERN
020 7831 8311
elliottstern@richardsusskind.com
JONATHAN FRANKS
020 7831 8311
jonathanfranks@richardsusskind.com
Howard de Walden Management Limited and Richard Susskind & Company for themselves and as agents for Howard de Walden Estates Limited give notice that the particulars as set out are intended as general outline only
for the guidance of intending purchasers/lessees and neither Howard de Walden Management Limited nor Richard Susskind & Company nor Howard de Walden Estates Limited on whose behalf the particulars are provided,
accept any responsibility for any inaccuracies the particulars may contain. Any intending purchaser/lessee should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact but should satisfy themselves by inspection or
otherwise as to their correctness. All floor areas and other measurements are approximate. These particulars do not form, or form any part of, any offer or contract. Neither Howard de Walden Management Limited nor
Richard Susskind & Company nor Howard de Walden Estates Limited nor any of their employees have any authority, either orally or in writing, to make or give any representation or warranties in relation to the property.
Unless otherwise stated all prices and rents quoted are exclusive.
HANWAY PLACE,
FITZROVIA, W1
£2,050,000 ∙ Leasehold
A stunning, rarely available loft style duplex
apartment arranged over the top two floors
(with lift) of this converted school building.
Located in a quiet backwater just off Oxford
Street, this property benefits from double
volume ceilings and a large roof terrace which
offers fantastic views of the London skyline
2 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 2 Reception
Rooms · Private Parking · Double Volume
Ceilings · Large Roof Terrace
Marylebone & Regent’s Park
020 7486 6338
GREAT PORTLAND
STREET,
FITZROVIA, W1
£1,100,000 ∙ Leasehold
A second floor three bedroom flat in this
small building, located moments from the
many amenities of Oxford Street.The property
benefits from a delightful reception room as
well as a long lease and low outgoings.
3 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · Moments from
Oxford Street · Second Floor
Marylebone & Regent’s Park
020 7486 6338
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BENTINCK MEWS,
MARYLEBONE, W1
£895 per week ∙ Furnished/Unfurnished
A delightful, recently refurbished house spread over three floors in this
quiet cobbled mews. The property benefits from wooden floors in the
main areas, an eat-in kitchen and two bathrooms. It is within walking
distance to Marylebone High Street and Bond Street underground
station. Offered unfurnished or furnished via separate negotiation.
Available now.
Mews House · 2 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · Furnished or Unfurnished
Great Location
Marylebone & Regent’s Park
020 7486 6338
BRYANSTON PLACE,
MARYLEBONE, W1
£795 per week ∙ Unfurnished
A bright and contemporary two bedroom flat on the fifth floor
(with a lift) of this purpose built building with a porter. The property
benefits from wooden floors throughout, an intelligent surround sound
system, one bathroom and a separate kitchen. It is within walking
distance to Edgware Road and the fashionable Marylebone High Street.
Unfurnished. Available now.
2 Bedrooms · Wooden Floors · Fifth Floor · Lift · Porter
Marylebone & Regent’s Park
020 7486 6338
CRAWFORD STREET,
MARYLEBONE, W1
£695 per week ∙ Furnished
A bright and contemporary two bedroom flat on the fourth
floor (walk up) of this modern conversion. The property offers
an open plan reception to kitchen, two bathrooms, a Juliet
balcony and wooden floors to the main areas. It is close to
Baker Street underground station and Marylebone High Street.
Furnished. Available now.
Modern Conversion · 2 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · Juliet Balcony
Close to Baker Street
Marylebone & Regent’s Park
020 7486 6338
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WOODSTOCK
MEWS, W1
An attractive three storey mews
house with garage, located in
a cobbled cul-de-sac moments
from Marylebone High Street.
Reception room, kitchen/dining
room, master bedroom with
en-suite bathroom, 2nd bedroom
with en-suite shower room/WC,
guest cloakroom, garage.
LH £2,300,000
Marylebone 020 7479 1900
MONTAGU MEWS
SOUTH, W1
Situated within a cobbed cul-de-
sac, this freehold three storey
purpose built mid terraced
mews house has the potential for
modernisation and improvement.
Double reception room opening
onto a balcony, kitchen/dining
room, master bedroom with
en-suite bathroom, 2nd double
bedroom, single bedroom, family
bathroom, guest cloakroom,
garage with internal access
and terrace.
FH £2,250,000
Marylebone 020 7479 1900
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A truly remarkable Grade II*
listed mews house. This stylishly
presented and enviably located
property is situated within a
classically cobbled Marylebone
Village cul-de-sac. Potential for
further storey.
1st floor reception room, double
reception room, dining room,
open-plan kitchen, 2nd kitchen,
breakfast room, master bedroom
with en-suite bathroom, study,
patio garden, shower room and
guest cloakroom, garage.
LH £3,950,000
Marylebone 020 7479 1900
THORNTON
PLACE, W1
An impressive, light,
contemporary space,
incorporating many
bespoke features that
can only be appreciated
with an internal inspection.
Top floor dual aspect open-plan
kitchen/reception room, small
walk-on glazed roof balcony
master bedroom with walk-in
wardrobe, en-suite bath/shower
room with guest cloakroom,
4 further bedrooms, bathroom,
utility room, shower room/WC.
FH £2,999,995
Marylebone 020 7479 1900
www.lurotbrand.co.uk
+44 (0) 20 7724 4777
INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
WEYMOUTH STREET, MARYLEBONE, W1
On the third floor of a small 1930’s purpose built block superbly located in the heart of Marylebone Village (just off the High
Street) a spacious double-aspect one-bedroom apartment with an elegant reception room ideal for entertaining.
. . . . . .
The numerous retail, restaurant & leisure facilities of Marylebone Village are literally on the doorstep, and Bond Street
underground station (Central & Jubilee lines) is within easy walking distance, providing fast access to the City & Canary Wharf.
DOUBLE BEDROOM BATHROOM KITCHEN RECEPTION ROOM ENTRANCE HALL LIFT WOODEN FLOORS
Unfurnished £575 per week
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MONTAGU SQUARE, MARYLEBONE, W1
On the raised ground floor of a fine converted period house and having its own street entrance, a magnificent
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apartment extending to 2120 square feet with high ceilings and an elegant reception room, as well as three double
bedrooms. The numerous facilities of Oxford Street and Marylebone High Street are with easy walking distance.
3 DOUBLE BEDROOMS 2 EN SUITE BATHROOMS 3rd BATHROOM CLOAKROOM DRAWING ROOM KITCHEN/
DINING ROOM STUDY LARGE ENTRANCE HALL OWN STREET ENTRANCE ACCESS TO SQUARE GARDENS
Unfurnished £1,800 per week
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7 New Quebec Street London W1H 7RH +44 (0) 20 7724 4777
7 New Quebec Street London W1H 7RH 020 7724 4777
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PORTLAND PLACE,
LONDON, W1
£2,000 PER WEEK
UNFURNISHED
. bedrooms, two singles
Three further double
For further information please and three shower rooms.
call our Marylebone office on
020 7224 4994 . room double reception
Large
. A grand, six bedroom, with corner aspect
window.
apartment in a period
building.
. flooring and period features.
Benefits from hard wood
. walk-in bedroom with en-
Master . Regent's moments from
Located
wardrobe and Park.
suite bathroom.
PORTMAN MANSIONS,
MARYLEBONE, W1
£2,500 PER WEEK
FURNISHED/UNFURNISHED
. library/TV room, fully
Double reception room,
For further information please equipped kitchen.
call our Marylebone office on
020 7224 4994 . aOn the second after red
floor of
. spaciousrefurbished
A newly
highly sought
brick mansion block.
four bedroom
apartment. . and porter. wood floors
Benefits from
. three bathrooms (2 en-
Three double bedrooms, . High access andMarylebone
Easy to
Street the West
suite). End.
Regent’s Park Marylebone Village
213-215 Gloucester Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 6BU 6 Paddington Street, Marylebone Village, London W1U 5QG
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DEVONSHIRE CLOSE,
MARYLEBONE, W1
POA
LEASEHOLD
. bathrooms and four
Two bedrooms, two
SOLE AGENTS reception rooms.
For further information please
call our Marylebone office on . Extensively refurbished
and rebuilt.
020 7224 4994
. listed mews house. II
An outstanding Grade . Benefitsand garage.
garden
from a patio
. Arranged over three floors. . within onepositioned
Discreetly
of Marylebone
Village’s most desirable
mews.
UPPER MONTAGU STREET,
MARYLEBONE, W1
£3,850,000 . refurbishedand stylishly
Extensively
FREEHOLD retaining many
original features.
. Five bedrooms, four
For further information please
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020 7224 4994 bathrooms (two en-suite),
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An impressive
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. kitchen/diner, study, utility
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. arranged over fivehome . Multi-room media system,
room and gym.
A stunning family
floors.
patio and roof terrace.
Regent’s Park Marylebone Village
213-215 Gloucester Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 6BU 6 Paddington Street, Marylebone Village, London W1U 5QG
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MARYLEBONE
Wimpole Street, Marylebone W1
An elegant two bedroom apartment on the
preferred first floor of a grand period building
located on the corner of Wimpole Street and
New Cavendish Street. The property features
high ceilings, excellent natural light and large
reception space.
Accommodation comprises:
1 Reception room, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms,
Upper Floor with Lift, Apartment, Very Good
Decoration Throughout
£1,295,000 Leasehold
Marylebone 020 7486 8866
marylebone.sales@carterjonas.co.uk
MARYLEBONE
Mansfield Street, Marylebone W1
A beautiful two bedroom apartment set in one of
the most elegant mansion blocks in the heart of
Marylebone. The property benefits from a double
reception room with a separate kitchen. The
building has 24 hour porterage.
Accommodation comprises:
Double Reception room, Kitchen, 2 Bedrooms,
24hr Porter, Good Decoration Throughout
POA Leasehold
Marylebone 020 7486 8866
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MARYLEBONE
Queen Anne Street, Marylebone W1
Located on one of the most desirable streets
in Marylebone, this stunning two bedroom, two
bathroom apartment has just been completely
refurbished to the highest standard, with modern
fixtures and fittings through out the flat boasts
ample storage and light spacious accommodation
(1280 sq ft) including a reception room with
separate dining room.
Accommodation comprises:
Reception room, Kitchen, Two Bedrooms,
En-Suite Bathroom, Family Bathroom
£1,250 per week Unfurnished / Furnished
by separate negotiation
Marylebone 020 7486 8866
marylebone.lettings@carterjonas.co.uk
MARYLEBONE
Marylebone High Street,
Marylebone W1
A bright and most attractive three bedroom
flat in this wonderful location in the very heart
of Marylebone.
Accommodation comprises:
Reception room, Kitchen, Three bedrooms,
Bathroom
£750 per week Unfurnished / Furnished
by separate negotiation
Marylebone 020 7486 8866
marylebone.lettings@carterjonas.co.uk
Offices throughout the UK
Haselbury House, George Street, W1
A stylish well-presented 2 bed 2 bath apartment on the first floor of this new development successfully combining traditional features with the latest
technology gadgets, benefiting from high ceiling, lift, 24 hour porterage. The property has been tastefully decorated and would make an ideal pied-a
terre in Central London minutes away from all trendy shops and amenities of Baker Street, Oxford Street and open spaces of Hyde Park.
£1,600,000
Penthouse, Seymour Place, W1
Brand new bright and sunny penthouse apartment on the 4th floor, with a stunning surrounding perimeter balcony. Featuring 2 bedrooms
and 2 bathrooms, a modern fully-fitted kitchen, and a spacious reception with a 270 degree view from windows on three sides. Modern
stylings and wood flooring throughout, combined with a close proximity to local amenities and transport links, round off a rare package.
£2,150,000
Telephone: 020 7486 2321
104 George Street W1U 8PB • Fax 020 7224 0038
E-mail: info@lordestates.com • Website: www.lordestates.com
Bickenhall Street, Marylebone W1 Devonshire Place Mews, Marylebone W1
A recently refurbished 4 bedroom apartment with spacious accommodation, living room, A newly refurbished mews house with accommodation over three floors, living/dining
dining room, entrance hall with study area, eat-in kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 3 shower rooms room with gas fire, kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, study area, large terrace
£2,250 per week Unfurnished Furnished/
£2,250 per week Furnished/Unfurnished
Dorset Street, Marylebone W1 Bryanston Square Marylebone W1
A fantastic third floor apartment that has been refurbished to an exceptional standard with An elegant 1st floor apartment in an exclusive development, 24 hr porterage, living/dining
great storage, reception room, kitchen, 3 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms room, kitchen, 3 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, guest cloakroom, parking space by
£1,300 per week Unfurnished negotiation
£1,750 per week Unfurnished
New Cavendish Street, Marylebone W1 Chiltern Court, Baker Street, Marylebone W1
A contemporary 3 bedroom apartment in refurbished period building, large entrance hall, A 2 bedroom apartment on 4th floor of secure mansion block, dining hall, living
living room, dining room, kitchen, 3 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, air conditioning room, kitchen, bedroom with en suite shower room, double bedroom, bathroom
£1,300 per week Furnished/Unfurnished £725 per week Furnished
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A GRADE II* LISTED BUILDING ON A BEAUTIFUL LONDON SQUARE
fitzroy square, w1
Period features scope to redevelop arranged over 5 floors views over
Contact:
garden square 328 sq m (3,531 sq ft)
David Turner
dturner@savills.com
Guide £3.75 million Freehold 020 7578 5103
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KnightFrank.co.uk
Baker Street, Marylebone W1
Top floor 3 bedroom Marylebone apartment
Located on the 6th floor, this bright 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment benefits from KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone
a lift and porter. marylebone@knightfrank.com
Master bedroom suite, 2 further bedrooms, further bathroom, reception room / dining
room, kitchen, lift, porter. 110.46sq.m approx (1,189sq.ft approx)
020 7483 8349
Joint agent
Leasehold 982 years approximately
Harris Latner
Guide price: £1,200,000 property&harrislatner.co.uk
020 7224 5544
(MRY100108)
Portman
Square, W1
Cool and contemporary
A stylish and contemporary
seventh floor apartment in
a modern development on a
prestigious garden square.
Featuring a double bedroom with
fitted wardrobes and dressing area,
bathroom and open plan kitchen/
reception room, concierge, lift, air
cooling system and private terrace.
Approximately 62 sq m (667 sq ft).
Available furnished
£650 per week
KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings
marylebonelettings@
knightfrank.com
020 7483 8349
Devonshire
Place, W1
Beautiful lateral
A spacious and light first
floor lateral apartment in
Marylebone on a premier
street close to Regent’s Park
and all the amenities of the
Marylebone Village.
Accommodation comprises 2
double bedrooms, 2 en suite
bathrooms, large double height
reception room and a traditional
eat-in family kitchen leading to a
private terrace.
Available unfurnished
£1,500 per week
KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings
marylebonelettings@
knightfrank.com
020 7483 8349
KnightFrank.co.uk
Harrowby Street, Marylebone W1
4 bedroom penthouse apartment
A well thought out 4 bedroom apartment recently finished to a high standard in this KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone
popular Marylebone mansion block with 24 hour porter. marylebone@knightfrank.com
Master bedroom suite, 2 further bedrooms, further bedroom / study, reception room,
kitchen, 24 hour porter, lift, private parking. 109.5sq.m approx (1,179sq.ft approx)
020 7483 8349
Joint agent
Leasehold 989 years approximately
Sandfords
Guide price: £1,200,000 enquiries@sandfords.com
020 7258 5121
(MRY100070)
Newman Street, Marylebone W1
A West End Penthouse
A newly developed and impressive 4 bedroom duplex penthouse apartment in the heart
of the West End.
KnightFrank.co.uk/Marylebone
Master bedroom suite, further bedroom suite, 2 further bedrooms, further bathroom, marylebone@knightfrank.com
reception room, kitchen / breakfast room, roof terrace, lift. 191.3sq.m approx 020 7483 8349
(2,059sq.ft approx) Joint agent
EA Shaw
Leasehold 124 years approximately
lw@eashaw.com
Guide price: £2,500,000 020 7240 2255
(MRY100076)
SOLD SOLD SOLD
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£1,850,000 £2,750,000
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£2,750,000 £6,555,000 £6,950,000
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