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It is our great pleasure to present you with the inaugural edition of The Belgravia Residents’ Journal, which has been conceived entirely with the local resident in mind. We hope you find this a useful resource for local news and enjoy the luxe format. We open with a feature on a Belgravian household name, quite literally, in Thomas Cubitt (page 4) and look at the legacy of this architect, who was highly revered by the royals of his époque. He would surely have been involved in Belgravia’s Jubilee celebrations, and it is to this that we turn our attention in The Calendar (page 10). Have a coffee break, and perhaps even a cigar, whilst enjoying our interview with one Belgravian entrepreneur who owns shops peddling both the aforesaid (The Belgravian, page 15). We hope you thoroughly enjoy the read.
Photography: Andreu Doz / Runwild Media
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Is that a Corbusier?
No it’s a Cubitt Alice Tozer reflects on the architectural legacy of some of Belgravia’s boldest buildings
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here’s a well-known pub down Elizabeth Street in Belgravia that goes by the name of The Thomas Cubitt. Any pub, it could be construed, is in effect honoring the object, animal or limb that inspired its title; from The Red Lions out there to The Kings Arms, notwithstanding The Royal Oaks, The Swans and The Crowns among them. But there’s something quite splendidly singular to the ring of The Thomas Cubitt, named to single out London’s legendary master architect and builder of the early to mid-1800s. A stroll around Belgrave Square and Eaton Square (look to the north and west sides of the latter) will acquaint you with Cubitt’s architecture if you’re not already in-theknow. The Norfolk-born builder, whose work centered
around London but also popped up across the country, was commissioned by Richard Grosvenor, Second Marquess of Westminster, and created a domino effect of edifices in Belgravia in the 1820s. This, it is widely believed, was his greatest achievement in the capital city. The architect Philip Hardwick also contributed to the architecture of Belgrave Square. Between 1825 and 1847, the previously undeveloped area essentially metamorphosed from cesspit to one of London’s most fashionable districts. Prior to the makeover, it was an uncultivated, marshy spot between London and Knightsbridge called The Five Fields and deemed a dangerous zone for the presence of highwaymen. To effect the transformation, one crucial move was
the filling of the marshy ground with rubble from excavations in the Docklands area. Cubitt had a knack for draining London’s soggy spots, making them into the road-lined, edifice-endowed areas we now take for granted. Take Cubitt Town, or the south-eastern part of the Isle of Dogs, so-dubbed in honor of its extensive developer. Cubitt embanked the riverfront and laid out the main streets there during the 1840s and 50s. Gathering momentum with his success, he kept acquiring land in the area to build on. Under the terms of his third agreement, which was for 99 years dating from March 1852, the initial rent of the zone was a mere £140 per annum. He spent £5,000 on a five-year improvement scheme which involved raising the level of the ground, draining, fencing, making roads and erecting buildings. Elsewhere across London Cubitt made his mark with purpose, building the east front of Buckingham Palace and nearly a kilometre of the Thames Embankment. This man, who was incidentally the greatgreat-great grandfather of Camilla Parker Bowles, was a fervent supporter of conserving open space and some say Battersea Park owes its existence largely to him. Beyond the M25, Cubitt’s legacy lives on notably in two of the country’s trendiest spots; Brighton (specifically, Kemptown) and the Isle of Wight (Osborne House). The quirky fact about Osborne House, situated in East Cowes and built as a summer getaway for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, is that the Prince designed it himself. He wanted it to replicate the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo. Cubitt was perfect for the practical job as his style was characterized by the incorporation of simple classical lines of the Italianate school (as can be observed on many of his London terraces). The legend goes that Cubitt’s reworking of his two-dimensional street architecture into this freestanding mansion for the royal couple in 1845 inspired a freefall of Italianate villas throughout the British Empire. Back in England though, Cubitt was already on a royal roll for it was also for Victoria and Albert that he built the main façade of Buckingham Palace in 1847. In fact the royal seal of approval was confirmed in 1855, upon Cubitt’s death, when Queen Victoria only had good words to say about the man. ‘In his sphere of life,’ she said, ‘with the immense business he had in hand, he is a real national loss. A better, kindhearted or more simple, unassuming man never breathed.’ Next year it will be 225 years since Cubitt was born. Belgravia residents are privileged in that they retain some of the architect’s most revered domestic works. The Regency style which he executed displays four-square solidity, giant order spanning two storeys and the odd impressive central Ionic colonnade (a visit to Polesden
Lacey in Surrey provides the exemplar supreme of Cubitt’s take on the latter). The beauty of a building − when we choose to notice it − can fill us with inspiration, putting a stride in our step on the most unpromising of spring days. Yet Alain de Botton in his book, The Architecture of Happiness, is quick to flip the coin: ‘The noblest architecture can sometimes do less for us than a siesta or an aspirin.’ True enough, even Buckingham Palace is unlikely to snap us out of our most melancholy of moods. But we could try to use architecture in a more therapeutic manner than we tend to, if only we put our minds to it. De Botton puts this fact into perspective with the help of John Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. Writes de Botton: ‘Those who have made architectural beauty their life’s work know only too well how futile their efforts can prove… John Ruskin acknowledged that few Venetians in fact seemed elevated by their city, perhaps the most beautiful urban tapestry in the world. [Ruskin observed that alongside St Mark’s Church] they sat in cafés, read the papers, sunbathed, bickered and stole from one another as, high on the church’s roof, unobserved “the images of Christ and His angels looked down upon them.”’ We can all take our surroundings for granted. Perhaps the next time you are having coffee opposite a Cubitt original you will endeavor to marvel at the wonder of the curvilinear balusters as you sip, even raising your cappuccino cup to this kindhearted man and architect who contributed to making Belgravia residents’ everyday surroundings above and beyond the ordinary.
‘Cubitt had a knack for draining London’s soggy spots, making them into the roadlined, edifice-endowed areas we now take for granted’
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The Notebook
Who and what is moving and shaking in Belgravia this June? We keep you up-to-date
Webber and Saunders both busying away Belgravia residents Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jennifer Saunders have been undertaking new projects, respectively. Webber, who was recently presented with a fellowship by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors at the Ivor Novello Awards, has just donated £125,000 to helping theatres in need of renovation. As part of this charitable scheme, venues across the country will be able to apply for funding of up to £5,000. Lloyd Webber has also recently caused a stir in announcing the shock casting of BBC radio’s Chris Moyles as King Herod in a revival of Jesus Christ Superstar to be staged at the O2 Arena in September. Meanwhile, AbFab legend Saunders has been continuing work on her horse riding documentary series, The Saddle, due to be aired on ITV in August. The 53-year-old, who has ridden horses since she was a child, has been training daily as part of her energetic Illustration: Russ Tudor efforts. The series will feature some filming with Princess Anne who Saunders met when she visited the Gatcombe horse trials. The documentary will reveal a new, more serious side to the comedienne, though ITV insiders confirm there will be the odd quip. Saunders, who last year spoke out having highly
underplayed her recent breast cancer scare, has also been working on Ab Fab: The Movie. A much-anticipated double dose of Saunders to come then.
A thousand easy pounds? Belgravia estate agents, Henry & James are inviting local residents to pop into the Motcomb Street location and enter a competition. It’s not straight-forward though. Interested parties will have to pick up a Henry & James baseball cap from said branch, then set about obtaining a photo of a local celebrity or ‘dignitary’, as the advert says, wearing one of the caps. All in a day’s work? Well, set to it, as £1,000 is up for the taking in the prize draw that will ensue. Evidence must be presented in the form of a photo delivered by hand or by email to alex@henryandjames.co.uk. Uptakers have until 1 September to have a flick through their address book. The criteria for winning? ‘The most famous person to be snapped’. That could open up a whole new debate...
Have a Jubilee flutter alongside Boisdale of Belgravia Boisdale of Belgravia, the lively Scottish restaurant, is advertising its enclosure at this summer’s Derby to be the most prestigious. The Derby will be the first event of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations with guns away on Friday 1 June and spanning the Saturday. Tickets to the Queen’s Stand have already sold out but, as we go to print, the Boisdale Package remains an option for those keen racegoers among you looking to access the stand and celebrate the Jubilee, equine style. Worthy of mention within the substantial Boisdale package is the private terrace overlooking the finish line and the sumptuous three-course meal that involves Scottish lobster and, to quote the menu, ‘the very finest dry-aged Aberdeen Angus fillet of beef accompanied by exceptional white Burgundy and Claret’. A toast to the Queen has never been made easier! 01372 460 460 www.boisdale.co.uk/belgravia/events
Grosvenor goes industrial
New face on the block
Grosvenor property group (majority stakeholders of our beloved Belgravia) has made its foray into industrial property. Grosvenor, owned by the Duke of Westminster, controls some £12.5 billion of property on this planet but is to diversify into this new area, through putting major funding into Industrial Ownership. As well as its Mayfair and Belgravia estate, Grosvenor owns the Liverpool One shopping complex, the luxury London residential development 3-10 Grosvenor Crescent, and the residential tower Westminster Terrace, in Hong Kong. It will be interesting to see how this new move develops.
Rumour has it that Belgravia’s residents can look out for a new famous face in the area. Whilst you might not recognise him in person, Christopher Flowers has been successful enough in his private equity investment career to deserve some serious recognition. Flowers had his big moment a decade ago when he made huge dividends after scooping up Japan’s failed Long Term Credit Bank. He’s had his ups and downs since, and his role in the financial crisis was portrayed in the 2011 film Too Big to Fail. According to sources close to Flowers, he has just made a permanent move from New York to London and has a new home lined up in Belgravia. Having never lived outside the US, Mr Flowers might take some adjusting to our British ways but he couldn’t have picked a better area to settle into. Welcome Mr Flowers!
Winning prizes? What scandalous behaviour!
About our resident artist We are thrilled to have Russ Tudor illustrating his way through The Belgravia Resident’s Journal. We asked him for a short bio, to which he suggested: ‘Russ Tudor was found in a shoe box in 1903. Gifted from an early age he decided to start at the bottom and work his way down. His scribbles can be seen in many magazines and periodicals including The Wall Street Journal, The Sunday Telegraph and The Pig Farmers Gazette. Now in his twilight years he continues to deface popular magazines. His hobbies include expensive wine and cheap women.’
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Steven Moffat has received a Bafta for his writing of A Scandal in Belgravia, the first episode of the second series of the BBC crime drama series Sherlock. Named after our neighbourhood because of the prominent role of Buckingham Palace in the script, the episode was loosely inspired by A Scandal in Bohemia, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story. In the episode, a palace official reveals that a dominatrix has been taking compromising photographs of herself and a female member of the royal family. First broadcast on 1 January this year on BBC1 and dubbed ‘sexier Sherlock than ever before’ by The Independent, the whole series is rather popular with our American friends who have recently had the episode aired, putting Belgravia on the map with them if it wasn’t there before.
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Food for thought We bring you this month’s foremost culinary news from the Belgravia area
Macarooning about Since the start of the year and for one year only, pastry chef Pierre Hermé has been coming up with a new macaroon (or rather, macaron) for his shop, Pierre Hermé Paris. The collection is entitled ‘Les jardins’ and Hermé says he approached the challenge ‘in the same manner as a perfumer, with particular focus on fragrance’. The delicate offering awaiting us in June is the Macaron jardin du paradis, an homage to aniseed and saffron. Says the label: ‘The alchemy between fragrant saffron and aniseed is subtle: their flavours flower, unfold and linger on the palate. Eventually, the taste of saffron fades while that of aniseed remains.’ Hermé continues: ‘It is Ariadne’s thread which I pursue, a set of creations named ‘Sous le signe de dature’ which perhaps transmits our need to escape, to dream and our need for pleasure...’ Quite a tall order for a macaroon but why not pop in and treat yourself to one, see where the sugared delight takes you? £1.85 per macaroon, with gift boxes starting at £15 for a 7-piece box 13 Lowndes Street 020 7235 3741 www.pierreherme.com
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Terrace time
Belgravia’s notorious pub, The Thomas Cubitt, is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee any which way it possibly can. Sure to be decked in bunting and flying the flag, it will also be screening the Jubilee pageant live in the ground floor bar. Worry not about not getting a seat, since additional outdoor seating (with street-party classic wide trestle tables) will abound. The Thomas Cubitt will be turning back time and trying to stand out from the crowd at the same time, with the revival of the ‘street bar’ concept. Not seen in honour of a Diamond Jubilee for 115 years, they say, it will be laid on for a traditional British street-party feel. The nation’s annual Big Lunch falls on the same Sunday, making this particular occasion a double community knees-up.
The Terrace at Knightsbridge has re-opened, considering it summertime and timely for us to indulge in summer luncheons and afternoon teas. We can happily go along with that, especially when offered a revitalized menu that’s sure to satisfy the taste buds. Seating eighty people for a fully al fresco affair, so really coming into its own now it is getting warmer (we hope), The Terrace is to be found just in front of the Sheraton Park Tower hotel. The tables are shaded by elegant parasols but provide an optimum vista for people-watching and footresting post Knightsbridge shopping spree. New for 2012 is a range of freshly baked pizzas, sharing platters and pressed juices.
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The Terrace Sheraton Park Tower, 101 Knightsbridge Open seven days a week, weather permitting 020 7235 8050 www.sheratonparktower.com
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Alice Tozer samples hotel lunching at its most discreet and Omega-3 rich at a very conveniently situated destination
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t’s a bit odd going for lunch in a hotel where you’re not staying the night. A shuffle away from Knightsbridge tube and a merry skip from Harvey Nichols, entering One-O-One restaurant you hardly notice, however, that you’re also on the ground floor of the Sheraton Park Tower hotel. The soothing atmosphere in this restaurant is just the tonic to the outside rush of the Brompton Road; easy-on-the eye mint greens, browns and creams form the foundation of the safe and simple decor. It is immediately apparent that One-O-One, voted sixth best restaurant in Britain in last year’s The Sunday Times Food List, appeals to both the businessperson and the leisure class, with a bias towards the former. Wine appears as much a concern here as fish, with the most expensive bottle on the list eating its way into the £2,000 mark. The sommelier over-bubbled with viticultural insights, as I noticed on the wine list a decent selection of half bottles and the possibility of champagne by the glass. At One-O-One, they have essentially re-invented the fish tapas repertoire with the petits plats menu. Adiós to calamaris fritos, beer-battered prawns and whitebait; healthier fish ensembles are possible as a lunchtime snack. My guest and I eat our way through ‘Farm Turbot Pan-Fried with Saffron, Pea and Coquillages Risotto’ alongside (deliciously pink) ‘Wild Cornish Maquerel Fillet grilled with Aioli Rouille, Bruschetta of Red Pepper Biscayenne and Fennel Salad’. On the side, zingy seaweed butter (with tomato foccaccia) was a clever attention-to-detail on the piscine theme. Next up was ‘Wild Norwegian Red King Crab’ (which head chef Pascal Proyart is widely credited as having introduced to the UK), ‘Wild Manx Queenies’ (divinely gratined) and ‘Wild Silver Mullet’. Award-winning, Brittany-born Proyart is the brain behind the artistry. At One-O-One since 1998, his formal training was interrupted by military service in Africa where he experimented with new flavours. All the better for the beneficiaries of his recipes; vibrancy and a bold approach to flavour are what rocks this particular fish boat. But he doesn’t stop there. The petit plats lunchtime menu features dishes sourced only from fully sustainable fish stocks.
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Proyart feels diners should make more informed choices about the fish they eat and wants to give them the opportunity to diversify their fish tastes within species that can be sustainably sourced. Impeccable service at One-O-One does all this justice. Fish, the belle of the ball, never seemed so effortlessly prepared into palate-sized portions, oozing vibrant colours and multiple tastes. One unnerving departure into red meat territory came with ‘Roasted, Leg Confit of Gressingham Duck Breast with Ginger Carrot Compote, (mini parcel of mouthwatering) Pack Choy, Orange Sauce’. Beautifully tender, it went down as naturally with the fish as my red wine (a pinot noir so-recommended for being a lighter red for us philistines who insist we don’t drink white even with fish). Beware though; two plates each from this menu suffice at lunchtime, despite how the waiter may guide you. It remained to try the petit plat of cheese, delightfully tempered by walnut dressing quince jelly and (for a happy change) toasted hazelnut raisin bread. The final sweetener, highly artistically presented English rhubarb, turned out to be more about its accompaniments of (jellied) grenadine syrup, vanilla bourbon panacotta and (creamy as heck) minted white chocolate ice cream. But that was fine; after all, jelly and ice cream is all any adult really wants for dessert. To drink, try: Mont de Joie Sauvignon Blanc by Henri Bourgeois, 2010, Loire, France, £8 by the glass Pinot Noir Williamette Valley Vineyards, Oregon, USA, 2008, £10.50 by the glass Two petits plats per person cost £17; three per person are £22 101 Knightsbridge 020 7290 7101 www.oneoonerestaurant.com
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The Calendar
We bring you the status quo for the most appealing organised events in Belgravia this June
... at Chester Square There will be a Diamond Jubilee garden party in Chester Square on Thursday 31 May hosted by The Reverend Prebendary Charles and Mrs Marnham along with the staff and members of St Michael’s Church. Whilst we’re all hopeful for a heatwave special that weekend, there’s always the church as a back-up if it does go all English on us and bucket down. The event will be held between 6.30pm and 8.30pm. 020 7730 8889 office@stmichaelschurch.org.uk www.stmichaelschurch.org.uk
Get the Jubilee bug... There are plenty of locally organized events celebrating Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee either before, during or after the Jubilee weekend (the first in June in case you’ve been in hiding all year). Jubilee fervour is set to hang around all month, but make sure you do your research ahead of time so as not to miss out on events arranged specifically with Belgravia residents in mind. The Grosvenor website’s news pages cover the best Belgravia haunts to eat, shop and party in the streets during this momentous Bank holiday weekend.
The variety of events taking place on the Grosvenor Estate highlights the village atmosphere that is prevalent in Belgravia Giles Clarke, Executive Director, Grosvenor
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... on Motcomb Street Belgravia’s Jubilee pièce de résistance sounds very likely to be Motcomb Street’s planned vintage vehicle display; a traditional take on the Jubilee. A gala evening, classic cars and fashion and flowers unite in this Traders’ Association-supported event. Sponsored by Messila Residential, it all kicks off along our favoured cobbled haven on Wednesday 30 May from 5.30pm and wraps up at 8.30pm. You can expect a fashion exhibition featuring a model styled per decade from the 1950s to the present day, each in a vintage car, dressed by luxury Belgravia brands Louise Kennedy and Hervé Léger and with hair done by Errol Douglas MBE. To act as a precursor to the planned Jubilee events in Belgravia, hairstylist Douglas (who appropriately has over three decades working with royals) has already united with famous faces, top photographers and floral couture master and Belgravia neighbour, Neill Strain. The result was a photographic tribute to this year’s Diamond Jubilee. Dressing Royally celebrated the Jubilee with impeccable taste, as can be seen from the image on the left. Douglas said: ‘The British monarchy is an integral part of [London’s] very solid creative platform, and receiving my MBE personally from The Queen remains the highlight of my career.’ As if the Jubilee weren’t enough, Motcomb Street will return to host its 25th summer street party on the 27 June, simultaneously raising funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund. There will be celebrity action, an auction, a so-called tree of life (the mind boggles), and a selection of entertainment acts. www.motcombstreetparty.co.uk
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Special Jubilee deals
The Pimlico Road Association invites revellers to its Jubilee Party on Tuesday 29 May at 6pm. This one’s by invitation only, so send an email enquiry to enquiries@thepimlicoroad.com beforehand. It is happy to be sponsored by Moorfields eye charity.
Over the Jubilee weekend, benefit from Belgravia retailers’ good moods and subsequent celebratory offers. The Errol Douglas Salon has created a ‘Dressing Royally - Belgravia Blow Dry’ package for £80, which includes a free luxury manicure and a ‘treat suite’ chocolate trio and hot chocolate from Motcomb Street’s Rococo (we hope he’s not anticipating rain). To book, telephone 020 7235 0110 and mention ‘Dressing Royally.’ Meanwhile, at the Flower Lounge down the road at West Halkin Street, Neill Strain Floral Couture is selling limited-edition Diamond Jubilee Bouquets for a mere £45. The fun will all be over on 30 June though. Make sure you don’t miss out this time round. Few of us can count on having another sixty years to play with!
... and on Elizabeth Street Elizabeth Street is having its summer party on 13 June. Organised by the Belgravia Traders’ Association and sponsored by Knight Frank, all proceeds will go to The Kids Company charity. Retailers and restaurants will be opening stalls on the street offering visitors a variety of gifts and delicious gourmet delights whilst children can run riot on the bouncy castle, have their face painted and dabble in the art of break-dancing. www.elizabethstreetlondon.com
Murder Juul wrote Belgravia Books will be hosting Denmark’s foremost literary author Pia Juul who will be reading from her new novel The Murder of Halland (Peirene Press). The blurb? ‘Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles. For Bess, bereavement marks the start of a journey that leads her to a reassessment of first friends then family.’ It is translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. This event is free, with wine and nibbles provided but book before by emailing: jimena@belgraviabooks.com. 14 June, 6.30pm 59 Ebury St 020 7259 9336
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Escape to Hispanic lands (for 90 minutes)
Daylesford, the organic farm and wellbeing empire, host a supper club on the last Thursday of every month at its Pimlico Road shop and June will be no different. A social event, it is also a chance to discover the best of the season’s produce from the Daylesford farm (then perhaps locate it in the shop for future purchase since tills will, alas, be closed). This three-course evening menu, ‘from farm to fork’ as they say, costs £35 (excluding wine) and goes on a merry three hours between 7.30pm and 10.30pm. A wonderful way to meet locals, why not swap the rigid restaurant routine for an eating event where rain is guaranteed not to stop play? Booking is a must. Be there 7.30pm for 8pm. Expect Prosecco and nibbles.
We are spoilt for choice with film screenings at the Spanish Institute (Instituto Cervantes) this month. It all begins on 1 June with ‘Esas no so penas’ (These Are Not Sorrows), an Ecuadorian film, and wraps up on 29 June with Uruguayan special ‘La perrera’. ‘Familia Tortuga’, The Sugar Curtain and The Violin fill the intervening weeks. If you’re all Jubileed out, this is a good place to discover something new this month.
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Art Focus Out and about on the Belgravia art trail, we found these hidden gems for June
Horse play at The Osborne Studio Gallery Elie Lambert’s first solo show brings together fifty of his colourful and humorous racecourse paintings. Working in Deauville, Normandy, a city that has attracted such artists as Toulouse Lautrec and Degas, Lambert paints from his apartment overlooking the famous racecourse. Having studied at the Academie des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Lambert proceeded to dedicate his life to equestrian pursuits. Beginning as a ‘gentleman rider’, Lambert worked as a trainer, a columnist for Paris-Turf and Sporting Life, and as a bloodstock agent for fifteen years before turning his hand to painting. Lambert has found a spiritual home in Britain and considers it the world leader in racing; his success at auction here proves that our feelings are mutual. Seven years ago he brought his work to Tom Rooth, head of sporting art at Christie’s, who calls him a ‘great painter’ with a ‘vibrant quality’.w Rooth sells roughly four or five Lambert works a year and suggested he compose a large canvas depicting Glorious Goodwood to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee. Respected by those in the art and racing worlds alike, he has been praised by renowned horse racing commentator Sir Peter O’Sullevan for bringing ‘a fresh perspective’ to the racecourse. June 18 - July 8 2 Motcomb Street
‘To the Gallops, Deauville’ (43x55cm) by Elie Lambert
‘Newmarket Race Course’ by Elie Lambert
‘Still Life 2001’ by Elie Lambert
(Stamp) duty to celebrate the Jubilee
Plus One Gallery is currently exhibiting Dutchman and wood-sculptor Diederick Kraaijeveld’s 9p and 3p stamps just while all the Jubilee excitement lasts. Diederick’s ongoing series of Royal Mail stamps in a variety of colours featuring the iconic silhouette of The Queen have found huge popularity worldwide, spawning commissions of rare stamps such as the One Penny Black. Could collecting stamps be making something of a comeback? As the gallery exclusively exhibits hyperrealist, photorealist and realist art, these pieces form part of that collection and are for sale. Though Kraaijeveld’s pieces hang like paintings they are considered sculptures. The Gallery will be holding a solo show for Kraaijeveld in September and October this year too, which will feature all new pieces by Diederick. Make a note, if you like his style. From left / ‘3p Queen Stamp’ and ‘9p Queen Stamp’ by Diederick Kraaijeveld; both coloured salvaged wood, 100x85cm
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Local artist Benjamin Hope strolls into a Belgravian commercial gallery dedicated to hyperrealism and asks whether these artists really are the ultimate in painting virtuosi that some claim
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n recent years hyperrealist painting – a style of work that resembles high-resolution photography – has come to dominate major events, such as the BP Portrait Exhibition. The reception by some has been cool to say the least, with the likes of Brian Sewell claiming to be ‘heartily sick’ of it even in 2007. If ever such an opinion is to be reassessed, Pimlico Road’s Plus One Gallery – the leading specialist in modern photorealist and hyperrealist art – seems a fine place to start. The immediate impact of this kind of realism is in that moment you ask yourself: ‘is it really a painting?’ The technical skill involved in pulling off such a trick is undeniably astounding. And yet this does not stop plenty questioning the point; surely a camera does a fine enough job of capturing reality in a fraction of the time? This concern might have been more aptly aimed at hyperrealism’s precursor, photorealism of the 1960s. However, since then there has been increased digital manipulation of the reference images (i.e. Photoshop) which has sparked more unusual and imaginative compositions. One is struck by the break from traditional compositional forms: here they express the bustle of American suburbia – see the acrylics of Rudy Sparkuhl and Tad Suzuki – or the interplay of order and chaos in a world increasingly strewn with manmade objects. The acrylic work of Tom Martin and Cynthia Poole and the oil paintings of Pedro Campos and Daniel Harding all heavily feature the garish and the artificial: items rendered with extraordinary precision to reveal the textures and surfaces that characterise everyday consumerism. For hyperrealists, the topic of ‘light’ is about much more than the macro effects that more painterly figurative works tend to capture. Gazing deeply through glass or into water reveals an intricate dance of reflection and refraction which modern technology allows painters to explore in ways that were previously impossible. Hyperrealists deliberately emphasise the complicated distortions they
observe, and nowhere else is this more apparent than in the sheen of an Andrew Holmes tanker or in a Steve Smulka glass bottle. In part, hyperrealist artists pick up on these effects to reflect how the modern world has embraced new materials. They also do so to convince the viewer; the absence of a reflection on a coke can – or its poor execution – would give the game away. You get the impression that much of the artistic importance in hyperrealism lingers in the relationship between the original and its own photographic reproduction. The artists even seem to play on a sort of austere form of aesthetic appreciation to be found in walking up to the surface of a hyperreal piece, finally to resolve evidence of the human hand. Up close, some hyperrealist works are more ‘painterly’ than others. Cynthia Poole’s work, for instance, is remarkable precisely because, up-close, the reveal is relatively easy. The nudes of Juan Cossio, on the other hand, require more effort. Most hyperreal work is quite large and certainly greater in size than many reproductions. This considerably increases the impact when seen across a room on a clean white wall (whilst no doubt also allowing a little more wiggle-room for the artist’s brush). The same cannot be said for the paintings of Stéfan Nandancée. Hiding away on the lower floor of Plus One, these effortlessly exquisite miniatures must be seen to be believed. For example, ‘Terrarium’ (20 x 25cm, acrylic on board, and above), which features the artist’s wife standing on a rough stony plateau, is so small and utterly real that it becomes eerie to the point of making one shudder. If Sewell has a point, it is perhaps that hyperrealism is not best suited to capturing the human face; a subject matter where less intricate brushwork might best express the emotions. @twitter.com/BenHopeArtist Above / ‘Terrarium’ by Stéfan Nandancée (20x25cm); acryclic on board Left/ ‘Life Through a Lens’ by Simon Hennessey (66x86cm) Below/ ‘A Little Bit of Allium’ by Glen Semple; (120x120cm); both acrylic on canvas Right/ ‘Flour and Eggs’ by Benjamin Hope, (50x40 cm) oil on canvas
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Alice Tozer spends time on a roof with Tom Assheton, owner of Tomtom Cigars and Tomtom Coffee House
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om Assheton is wheeling a dishwasher in through the back door of his cigar shop on 63 Elizabeth Street. His fine-boned lurcher, Maggie, is poorly and stumbling around his feet, not helping with the operation. Tom seems very concerned about her. Nevertheless, she is booted out and we settle ourselves into his underground office. Formal chat lasts all of five minutes: ‘Don’t suppose you’d like a cigar?’ ‘Why not?’ I smile. We grab a couple of Romeo y Julietas and are soon seated on the rooftop of the Boisdale jazz club round the corner, me a somewhat cackhanded novice trying to light the thing for the third time and him, well, looking somewhat more the pro. Tom is the owner of Tomtom Cigars, Belgravia’s first-stop shop for the cigarette’s elder brother. Not that we’d want to go comparing the two in front of a connoisseur. ‘I wouldn’t want to do down cigarettes; I’d rather play up cigars,’ Tom says. He was, in any case, a cigarette smoker before he discovered the cigar; a moment that changed his life. ‘I used to be a soldier, then I had a spell in the country. In the mid 90s I smoked a cigar and I liked it.’ Some fieldwork in Cuba followed and Tomtom cigar shop opened for business in 1997. ‘I went to Cuba and looked at cigar factories. What I really liked was the little shop at one, where people drank coffee and kept their boxes of cigars’. The combination of coffee and cigars was brewing, but it wasn’t until 2008 that the second boutique in the Assheton emporium erupted: Tomtom Coffee House at 114 Ebury Street. Eton-educated Tom does not provide WIFI at his café (‘so that people talk’) and the communal coffee table inside had a former life in his dining room. Born and bred in Chelsea, it can’t have been a great shock to land on his professional feet in Belgravia. ‘Everyone knows someone with a connection here, even if it is that person who brought their laundry here fifty years ago.’ Home, though, is Stockwell; like many of Belgravia’s retailers, he lives outside the bubble.
Calm, fun, and modest, Assheton shows sparkles of eccentricity. There was the Chelsea boat phase during which he slept with an umbrella over his bed because of a leak - ‘that got rather tiring’ – and there was the decision to learn the ukulele; ‘I thought I’d have a chance with an instrument that only has four strings.’ It must get tedious being constantly mistaken for a car navigation system, though. He claims to have been well-established before the Dutch company took a hold on the automobile world and confused the names. ‘I thought they might pay me,’ he laughs. The poesy of cigar smoking the Assheton way certainly appeals. ‘There are three phases to cigar smoking,’ I am educated. ‘Take off, cruising altitude and the off the planet. You don’t want to enter the latter.’ Why the appeal over smoking a cigarette? ‘It gives you a long, slow enhancement of how you feel; it puts a gloss on the moment whereas a cigarette gives you that massive hit.’ Finding it tricky to maintain conversation without looking like I have a soggy stick wrestling with my mouth, I let him wax lyrical a little longer. ‘I think cigars are rather lovely, actually. You Illustration: Russ Tudor only have to look at an old Bogart film and observe the choreography; people fiddling around with a cigar in hand, doing nothing much beyond smoking it. Sadly I suppose this has been replaced by mobile phones on screen.’ Tomtom Cigars has skirted the smoking ban with an exemption, in the name of needing to sample a cigar before buying, clearly the case when you could spend £50 on one and £1,000 on certain boxes of fifty. Are all of his clients elder gentlemen? ‘Cigar smoking is something you grow into, rather like olives or coffee. We do have people in their late twenties and early thirties but they are mostly men. I don’t think women feel cigar smoking would be attractive, a bit like downing a pint. And no-one has really cracked the art of making it appeal to them.’ Now there’s a window of opportunity.
‘Cigar smoking is something you grow into, rather like olives or coffee’
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That was
Then
Hollywood starlet Vivien Leigh resided in two Belgravia locations alongside Laurence Olivier; Lowndes Square and 54 Eaton Square. Olivier rented the Lowndes Square house from January 1957 until October 1957, at a rent rising from twenty guineas a week to twenty-five
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uring the rehearsals [of Titus Andronicus] Vivien started to go a bit mad. Or, as Olivier put it, the crash came. He was trying to master an unknown part when the familiar trials and tribulations were renewed. She invited the younger members of the company back until three in the morning but would be up again by five. He could never allow her to wander too far from his sight. The River Thames ran through the bottom of the garden, and beyond that fast cars would blind down the road. He asked himself: “With only two hours of sleep, how in God’s name have I any hope of committing to memory the unfamiliar myriad of words in this huge part?” In desperation he took her to see Dr Freudenberg. She agreed to go but put on a convincing performance of a sane, normal woman: “Poor Larry, he’s over anxious, that’s all; it’s easy to understand when you think of all the terrible dances I have led him, but, you see, I’ve never really been or felt better.” To Olivier’s horror Freudenberg did not think more treatment necessary. “The only thing I could
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think of,” wrote Olivier, “ − and it was not a very enlivening thought – was that I might get as mad as she and be taken away and locked up. As for Vivien, she gave a really splendid party that night and I didn’t even get my usual two hours. I was drained of everything.” [Noel] Coward thought Vivien was on the verge of another breakdown, talking wildly at supper, her voice shrill and her eyes strange. Larry came and talked to him when she had gone out, and was distraught. “Their life together is really hideous and here they are trapped by public acclaim, scrabbling about in the cold ashes of a physical passion that burnt itself out years ago... She, exacerbated by incipient TB, needs more and more physical satisfaction. They are eminent, successful, envied and adored, and most wretchedly unhappy.” An extract from ‘Olivier’ by Terry Coleman; pp 273-74, chapter entitled ‘Richard III and the Ménage à Trois’; published by Bloomsbury (2005)
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Streetwise
We take a stroll around the lanes of Belgravia and note retail news of the month
Belgravia’s
shop of the month
Lab work to do
COUTURELAB, has opened a ‘concept store’ on our doorstep at 32 Grosvenor Crescent Mews. It is situated amongst predominantly residential dwellings and entering the cobbled mews building gives one a sense of stumbling upon a secret destination. And it is a real find indeed; a treasure trove of rare and unusual products from around the world. The Grade II listed building was, in fact, the last working stables in Belgravia, renovated in the 1990s by Andrée Putman for Connolly, the leather experts, and as such has a rich and varied history. COUTURELAB has been a virtual and retail concept since 2006, previously in Fulham and then in Davies Street. But it has now relocated to Belgravia where the shop is open from Monday to Friday from 10am ‘til 6pm, and offers a unique selection of expertly curated products which tell an inherent story of craftsmanship, tradition and skill, expressing intrinsic value. A refreshing change from your average designer conveyorbelt then; you can even be part of your own creations by ordering objects especially made for you. No need to go to a Hong Kong suit-fitter or battle through Indian markets to get personal about your clothes making. Just pop over to the Lab and experiment. 020 7499 7082
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Standing out from the rest in the boutiques currently are...
RULE BRITANNIA
In celebration of the Jubilee and the Olympics, David Linley has created two limited-edition boxes adorned with the Union Jack. The Britannia jewellery box and Britannia humidor are limited to just thirty pieces each. Each box is constructed using walnut, lined in red suede and inside features sterling silver plaques bearing the year of the Jubilee, perfect for engraving a personal Limited edition Britannia humidor & jewellery box message or initials. (both £3,900)
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DOG TREATS Pet-accessory store Mungo & Maud sources and creates well-designed accessories for the most stylish of Fidos and felines to complement the contemporary home and lifestyle. Husband and wife team Michael and Nicola Sacher use durable, natural materials to provide everything from cotton beds to organic treats for pets who expect the best.
Mungo & Maud Bauhaus collar (£79£81) and lead (£89£102) in camomile slate
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Mungo & Maud weekend bag in safari (£90-£115 depending on size)
Mungo & Maud double wooden dog bowl (£145)
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Four walls. Our only limitation. Coote & Bernardi creates outstanding interiors that exceed expectations, no matter what the budget. Visit us at our showroom to discuss your interior design requirements.
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BESPOKE FURNITURE
59 Pimlico Road, London SW1W 8NE T: 020 7259 0960 cooteandbernardi.com
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Residents’
Culture
A West Side Story classical special To mark the 50th anniversary of the classic musical West Side Story a unique event is taking place at the Royal Albert Hall. Fifty years after its release the MGM re-mastered film is being screened with an accompaniment from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jayce Ogren. Ogren is widely regarded as one of the finest young conductors to emerge from America and has conducted the BBC Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the New World Symphony. The Royal Philharmonic also has a revered history of working with cultural icons like Burt Bacharach, George Benson and Stevie Wonder. The acclaimed musical was the winner of ten Academy Awards including Best Picture and remains one of the great movie musicals. Screenings will take place from Friday 22 – Sunday 24 June. 22 June, 7.30pm 23 June, 2.30pm and 7.30pm 24 June, 2.30pm £25 - £65 020 7589 8212 www.royalalberthall.com
The Residents’ Journal’s Book Club: Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt The latest offering from bestselling author and poet Siri Hustvedt is a complex but entertaining collection of essays, exploring the concept of who we are and how we came to be this way. Never one to shy away from difficult or controversial topics, the provocative author of What I Loved and The Summer Without Men draws directly from her own life in order to consider the answers to deep questions regarding the self, reigniting the age-old dialogue of the human condition. A challenging and thought-provoking read that will keep you debating long after the book club has finished. Email us your review of the book and we may print it next month: culture@ residentsjournal. co.uk ‘Living, Thinking, Looking’ by Siri Hustvedt is out 7 June, £17.99
Write to us What is concerning you about life in Belgravia at the moment? Good or bad, we’d love to hear from you. Please email your ‘letters’ to the Editor, for possible publication, with name and profession to: letters@residentsjournal.co.uk
The Residents’ Journal Film Club: Red Lights Red lights is a film exploding with electricity. Acting heavyweights Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver team up with one of the industry’s hottest directors of the moment, Rodrigo Cortés (a Sundance Film Festival phenomenon thanks to his 2010 film Buried), for a paranormal thriller, with a beautifully constructed script that will leave you guessing until the end. Psychologist Margaret Matheson (Weaver) and her ambitious assistant (the brilliant Cillian Murphy) study paranormal activity, using science and logic to expose hoaxes to awaiting sceptics and believers alike. Their work leads them to investigate blind psychic Simon Silver (De Niro), a world-renowned expert that Matheson had carefully avoided for years. His announcement that he is leaving retirement after thirty years to go on tour offers her the opportunity to finally challenge her greatest adversary, but forcing her to face her own fears and faith, or lack thereof. The performances are fantastic, from the self-possessed De Niro to the aggressively ambitious Murphy, and leave the viewer in a constant state of debate until it reaches its inevitable dramatic climax – a must-see for summer. Email us your review of the film and we may print it next month: culture@residentsjournal.co.uk Red Lights is out nationwide from 22 June 2012
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Planning &Development Keeping you in the know aboutxxxxxxxxxxxxx important street plans in the Belgravia district
Jubilee
updates
3 June - Big Jubilee Lunch / Street Parties Piccadilly will be pedestrianized from 11.30am to 6pm for the Piccadilly Big Jubilee Lunch street party. 3 June - The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant Due to a number of road and bridge closures, motorists are advised to avoid central London for all but essential journeys, and a number of bus diversions will be in place.
Progress on the Victoria Coach Station front The Victoria-station end of Elizabeth Street has long caused local residents a headache. Grosvenor has been shouldering the burden of needing to develop the area, which suffers from the haphazard placing of arrivals and departures either side of Elizabeth Street. Victoria station is the busiest transport hub in London. It’s not the station per se that causes all the bother (far from it; it’s highly convenient for residents) but the coach station specifically, a location that causes a great degree of confusion. The coach station essentially sits at the wrong end of Victoria station for Belgravia’s residents. Grosvenor Estate and the Urban Land Institute last month re-examined the ongoing issue of what to do with the Victoria Coach Station ‘problem’. Grosvenor has written a dozen reports over the last decade that have all led to nothing, but there is a sense in the air that stones are turning. After a week long study, the ULI made a presentation at The Grosvenor Hotel to local residents, lobbyists and businesspeople. In the best possible of worlds, Victoria Coach Station would be moved and the area entirely revamped, perhaps with the addition of a square and play area for children, capturing the community spirit. A less dramatic move, and one being considered, would be to combine arrivals and departures into one, releasing the arrivals area for a phase one of development.
4 June - The Diamond Jubilee Concert and National Beacon Lighting Big screens showing the concert will be in Hyde Park, St James’s Park and the Mall. 5 June - Service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul’s Cathedral There will be a carriage procession from the Palace of Westminster to Buckingham Palace. The route is on the Diamond Jubilee website (www.thediamondjubilee.org). It will also be shown on big screens in Hyde Park, St James’s Park and Trafalgar Square. St. James’s Park and The Mall road closures To enable the build for the Diamond Jubilee Concert venue there will be a number of road closures in the coming weeks. They are: Monday 14 May - Sunday 13 June Mall west of Marlborough Road plus Constitution Hill and Queen Victoria Memorial are closed. Monday 21 May - Saturday 9 June Birdcage Walk eastbound and Spur Road are closed. From 1st June and over the Diamond Jubilee weekend All St. James’s Park roads closed for ceremonies and the Diamond Jubilee activities. Monday 27 May - Saturday 9 June Hyde Park road North Carriage Drive will be closed.
PLANNED ROAD WORKS AND CLOSURES IN JUNE STREET Basil Street Bloomfield Terrace Bressenden Place Bressenden Place Bressenden Place Bressenden Place Brompton Road Cadogan Square Groom Place Harriet Walk Kinnerton Street Knightsbridge Lowndes Square
PLANNED WORK Piping 11.5m in carriageway and 8.1m in footway Water pipe upgrade work Phone line upgrade work Works for the Victoria Circle line Preventative cleaning of subways for Olympics Lane 1 Victoria Train Station works Hoarding build (until 31 Oct) Excavation in CW to repair blocked gully Highway services: works for road purposes Excavation in CW to repair blocked gully Water pipe upgrade Piping - Grosvenor place to The Lanesborough Hotel Excavation in CW to repair blocked gully (outside 46/47)
DATES 15 - 19 June 8 - 14 June 30 May - 7 June Jan - 30 June 6 - 7 June May ‘12 - May ‘13 1 June - 31 Oct 30 May - 7 June 7 - 12 June 18 - 22 June 7 - 13 June 16 May - 13 June 6 - 12 June
WORKS OWNER Fulcrum Pipelines Limited 0845 6413010 Thames Water 0845 9200 800 British Telecommunications 0800 800 150 Transport for London 0845 305 1234 Transport for London 0845 305 1234 Transport for London 0845 305 1234 Transport for London 0845 305 1234 Kensington and Chelsea 020 7361 3000 City of Westminster 020 7641 2000 Kensington and Chelsea 020 7361 3000 Thames Water 0845 9200 800 National Grid Gas plc 0845 605 6677 Kensington and Chelsea 020 7361 3000
Chelsea Barracks Update Chelsea Barracks, the 12.8 acre military site, is to undergo extensive redevelopment to reconnect it with Belgravia and the surrounding area. An entire residential neighbourhood featuring houses, apartments, shops, restaurants and a public sports and fitness facility has been approved by Westminster City Council. Not everything will be brand spanking new, though. The former Garrison Chapel, recently given listed building status, will be adapted to create a multi-purpose community and cultural centre at the heart of the new neighbourhood. And true to its claim of being a ‘garden setting’, five acres of squares, streets and green space will provide plenty of opportunity to wander around. The new public garden squares will be among the first to be developed in Central London for more than a century. Over one hundred new trees will be planted, public art will be displayed and the landscaped areas will include vegetable patches, reflecting Chelsea’s earlier history as London’s market garden. However, the jury is still out on whether residents can don their gardening gloves and engage in a spot of communal topiary when the mood takes them. The development will be carried out by Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company through its wholly-owned subsidiary Project Blue Ltd. The developers have held thirty public consultation events including an open day attended by nearly six hundred local people, whose conflicting views have resulted in a ‘masterplan’ which they call economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. Sadly though, the foundations of the barracks themselves are soon to be no more: they are to be excavated to make way for the development. Images above © Project Blue (Guernsey) Ltd
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Property
Squared
Rebecca Ross and Melanie Backe-Hansen discover the origins of Belgravia’s most prestigious postcodes that are magnitudes more desirable than other locales
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oday’s Belgravia of elegant, sweeping terraces and neatly manicured gardens imbues its environs with a sense of quiet confidence, an aura more than earned by the fact that this corner of Mayfair remains a resolute bastion of soaring property prices in an uncertain market. But it was not always so. The seeds for modern Belgravia were planted with the marriage of Sir Thomas Grosvenor to young heiress Mary Davies in 1676. Sir Thomas brought titles and power to the union, and Mary brought extensive property holdings across Mayfair and Pimlico as well as a large area of swampy marshland. This would become Belgravia. As well as being rather boggy underfoot (though useful for growing asparagus and watercress) the area was indeed dangerous, filled with the threat of highwaymen. The open ground was also a favoured site for duelling, as well as bear-baiting and dog-fighting. Travellers would gather at Hyde Park Corner and walk in groups. Eaton Square, meanwhile, was built for grandeur and elegance, deriving its name from Eaton Hall, the Grosvenor family country seat in Cheshire. Its slightly odd shape is due to it being divided by the King’s Road - formerly a small
footpath created for Charles II for the sole use of the King and his family to travel to Hampton Court Palace (anyone else wishing to use the road required a token). However, holding the cache of being the most desirable street in the country (the average property price is £6.6 million) is Chester Square, one of the three squares designed by Thomas Cubitt for the Grosvenor family. Named after the northern city where Grosvenor’s Eaton Hall is situated, Chester Square was originally laid out as streets, but was later redesigned as a square, with most houses completed by the 1840s. Another square that has changed much from its origins is Lowndes Square, which was originally a wooded area. According to a record of 1746, Lowndes Square was ‘once a coppice, which supplied the Abbot and Convent of Westminster with wood for fuel’. Just as Lord Grosvenor used Cubitt to develop his lands, William Lowndes also sought his services and Cubitt set about building Lowndes Square between 1838 and 1849. And so the ground was prepared, quite literally, to create squares, crescents and avenues whose enduringly elegant aesthetics and beauty would last for centuries.
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The Belgravia
Directory A compendium of the area’s key establishments
Estate Agents Ames 80 Ebury Street 020 7730 1155
Ayrton Wylie 16 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 4628 Best Gapp & Cassells 81 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 9253 Harrods Estates 82 Brompton Road 020 7225 6506 Henry & James 1 Motcomb St. 020 7235 8861 John D Wood 48 Elizabeth St. 020 7824 7900 Knight Frank 82/83 Chester Square 020 7881 7722 Savills 139 Sloane Street 020 7730 0822
Food & Drink BARS
Amaya Halkin Arcade, Motcomb St. 020 7823 1166 bBar and Restaurant 43 Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7958 7000
Hyde Park Corner 020 7259 5599 Tiles Restaurant and Wine Bar 36 Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7834 7761
Il Convivio (Italian) 143 Ebury St. 020 7730 4099 Olivo (Pizzeria) 21 Eccleston St. 020 7730 2505
CAFÉS
Belgravia Coffee Bar 4 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 3738
Tinello (Italian) 87 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 3663
Bella Maria 4 Lower Grosvenor Pl. 020 7976 6280
Zafferano (Italian) 15 Lowndes St. 020 7235 5800
Caffe Reale 23 Grosvenor Gardens 020 7592 9322
PUBS
The Green Café 16 Eccleston St. 020 7730 5304 ll Corriere 6 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 2087 The Old English Coffee House 1 Montrose Pl. 020 7235 3643 Patisserie Valerie 17 Motcomb St. 020 7245 6161 Tomtom Coffee House 114 Ebury St. 020 7730 1771 Valerie Victoria 38 Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7630 9781
The Antelope (Classic) 22-24 Eaton Terrace 020 7824 8512 The Belgravia (Classic) 152 Ebury St. 020 7730 6040 The Duke of Wellington (Classic) 63 Eaton Terrace 020 7730 1782
020 7235 3092 RESTAURANTS
Ken Lo’s Memories of China 65-69 Ebury St. 020 7730 7734 Mango Tree (Thai) 46 Grosvenor Pl. 020 7823 1888 Nahm (Thai) The Halkin Hotel, Halkin St. 020 7333 1234 Salloos (Pakistani) 62-64 Kinnerton St. 020 7235 4444 The Sekara (Sri Lankan) 3 Lower Grosvenor Pl. 020 7834 0722 11 Pimlico Road 11 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6784
The Nag’s Head (Classic) 53 Kinnerton St. 020 7235 1135
Apsleys, a Heinz Beck Restaurant The Lanesborough Hyde Park Corner 020 7259 5599
The Pantechnicon (Gastro) 10 Motcomb St. 020 7730 6074
Petrus (French) 1 Kinnerton St. 020 7592 1609
The Thomas Cubitt (Gastro) 44 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 6060
Koffmann’s (French) The Berkeley, Wilton Pl. 020 7235 1010
The Wilton Arms (Classic) 71 Kinnerton St. 020 7235 4854
La Poule au Pot (French) 231 Ebury St. 020 7730 7763
TRADITIONAL BRITISH FARE
Noura (Lebanese) 16 Hobart Pl. 020 7235 9444
ITALIAN
The Garden Room (Cigar) The Lanesborough Hyde Park Corner 020 7259 5599 The Library Bar (Wine) The Lanesborough
Como Lario (Italian) 18-22 Holbein Pl. 020 7730 9046 Da Scalzo Art Brasserie (Pizzeria) 2 Eccleston Pl. 020 7730 5498
Bumbles Restaurant 16 Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7828 2903 Motcombs Private Town House 23 Motcomb St.
Roussillon (Vegetarian) 16 St Barnabas St. 020 7730 5550
Daniel Galvin Jr 4a West Halkin St. 020 3416 3116
Howe 93 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7987
Mark Ransom 62-64, 105 Pimlico Rd. 020 7259 0220
Errol Douglas 18 Motcomb St. 020 7235 0110
John King Antiques 74 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 0427
Odyssey Fine Arts 24 Holbein Pl. 020 7730 9942
Belgrave Dental Practice 42a Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7834 4312
Gianni and Claudie 22 Motcomb St. 020 7235 7275
Keshishian (Carpets) 73 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 8810
DIY
The Beresford Clinic 2 Lower Grosvenor Pl. 020 7821 9411
Motcomb Green Hair and Beauty Salon 11-12 Motcomb St. 020 7235 2228
Lauriance Rogier Lamps 20a Pimlico Rd. 020 7823 4780
Health & Beauty BARBER
Giuseppe D’Amico 20 Eccleston St. 020 7730 2968 DENTISTS
James Hull Associates 2 Eccleston St. 020 7730 4948 Motcomb Street Dentist 3 Motcomb St. 020 7235 6531 The Wilton Place Practice 31 Wilton Pl. 020 7235 3824
Moulson Davern 85 Bourne St. 020 7730 6818 No 10 Hairdressing 10 Holbein St. 020 7823 6037 MEDISPA
Bijoux Medi-Spa 149 Ebury St. 020 7730 0765
DOCTORS
The Belgrave Medical Centre 13 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 5171 The Belgravia Surgery 26 Eccleston St. 020 7590 8000 Dr Kalina 109 Ebury St. 020 7730 4805
SPAS
earthspa 4 Eccleston St. 020 7823 6226 Glow Urban Spa 8 Motcomb St. 020 7752 0652 True Beauty 39 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 3220
Michael Garry Personal Training 54b Ebury St. 020 7730 6255 Yogoji (Yoga) 54a Ebury St. 020 7730 7473
Sanaiy 57 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 4742 Tomasz Starzewski Home 229 Ebury St. 020 7730 8886 Turkmen Gallery 8 Eccleston St. 020 7730 8848 ARCHITECTS/ DESIGN
Clifford Tee + Gale 5 Eccleston St. 020 7730 9633
FINISHING TOUCHES
Frame Designs (Framer) 57 Ebury St. 020 7730 0533 L&B (Exclusive bed linen) 6-7 Motcomb St. 020 7838 9592 Luke Irwin (Rugs) 22 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6070 Paint Services Company 19 Eccleston St. 020 7730 6408 Pullman Editions (Posters) 94 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 0547 Rachel Vosper (Candles) 69 Kinnerton St. 020 7235 9666 Ramsay (Prints) 69 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6776
Anno Domini Antiques 66 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 5496
Marston & Langinger 194 Ebury St. 020 7881 5700
Sebastian D’Orsai (Framer) 77 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 8366
Anthony Outred Antiques 72 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7948
Paul Davis + Partners 178 Ebury St. 020 7730 1178
Zuber 42 Pimlico Rd. 020 7824 8265
Travis Perkins (Builders) 61-63 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6622
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ANTIQUES
HAIR SALONS
Bennison 16 Holbein Pl. 020 7730 8076
Colin & Karen Hair Design 39 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 7440
Hilary Batstone 8 Holbein Pl. 020 7730 5335
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Rose Uniacke 76-78 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7050
Blakes of Belgravia 5-7 Kinnerton St. 020 7235 2166
Donald Insall Associates 19 West Eaton St. 020 7245 9888
GYM/ FITNESS
The Light Centre Belgravia (Yoga, pilates etc.) 9 Eccleston St. 020 7881 0728
Nicholas Gifford-Mead 68 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6233
Blakes of Belgravia 7 Eccleston St. 020 7730 2999
Ciancimino 85 Pimlico Pl. 020 7730 9959
ARTEFACTS
Joss Graham 10 Eccleston St. 020 7730 4370
The Dining Chair Company 4 St Barnabas St. 020 7259 0422
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Hemisphere 97 Lower Sloane St. 020 7730 9810
Ahuan Gallery 17 Eccleston St. 020 7730 9382
Jamb 107a Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 2122
Eleven 11 Eccleston St. 020 7823 5540
Lamberty 46 Pimlico Rd. 020 7823 5115
Gallery 25 26 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7516
Linley 60 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7300
Gauntlett Gallery 90-92 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7516
B+B Belgravia & Studios@82 64-66 Ebury St. 020 7259 8570
Lloyd Loom Showroom 20 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6574
Gordon Watson 28 Pimlico Rd. 020 7259 0555
Belgravia Hotel 118 Ebury St. 020 7259 0050
Mark Wilkinson Kitchens 10 West Halkin St. 020 7235 1845
John Adams Fine Art 200 Ebury St. 020 7730 8999
Cartref House 129 Ebury St. 020 7730 6176
Julian Simon Fine Art 70 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 8673
James House Hotel Bed and Breakfast 108 Ebury St. 020 7730 5880
RESTORATION
Humphrey-Carrasco 43 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 9911 Paul Hahn 5 Lower Grosvenor Pl. 020 7592 0224
Hotels B&Bs
Michael Reeves Associates 30 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 3009 Nicholas Haslam 202 Ebury St. 020 7730 0445 Ossowski 83 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 3256
The Osborne Studio Gallery 2 Motcomb St. 020 7235 9667
Lord Milner Hotel 111 Ebury St. 020 7881 9880
Plus One Gallery 89-91 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7656
Lynton Hotel 113 Ebury St. 020 7730 4032
INTERIOR DESIGN
Morgan Guest House 120 Ebury St. 020 7730 2384
Patrick Jefferson 227 Ebury St. 020 7730 6161
Chester Designs 9 Chester Sq. Mews 020 7730 4333
Promemoria UK 99 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 2514
Coote & Bernardi 59 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6064
Westminster House Hotel 96 Ebury St. 020 7730 4302
Westenholz 80-82 Pimlico Rd. 020 7824 8090
Jane Churchill Interiors 81 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 8564
Astors Hotel 110-112 Ebury St. 020 7730 0158
Joanna Wood 48a Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 5064
The Belgravia Mews Hotel 50 Ebury St. 020 7730 5434
Leonie Brown Interiors 2 St Barnabas St. 020 7730 4433
Belgravia Rooms 104 Ebury St. 020 7730 1011
Living Interiors 57 Ebury St. 020 7730 0545
The Diplomat Hotel 2 Chesham St. 020 7235 1544
GALLERIES
88 Gallery 86-88 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 2728
The Rubens at the Palace 39 Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7834 6600 The Sloane Club Lower Sloane St. 020 7730 9131 Tophams Hotel 24-32 Ebury St. 020 7730 3313 LUXURY
The Berkeley Wilton Pl. 020 7235 6000 The Goring Beeston Pl. 020 7396 9000 The Grosvenor 101 Buckingham Palace Rd. 0845 305 8337 The Halkin Hotel Halkin St. 020 7333 1000 Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel 21 Lowndes St. 020 7858 7223 The Lanesborough Hyde Park Corner 020 7259 5599
Services BANKS
BOUTIQUE
Soane 50-52 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6400 Talisman 190-192 Ebury St. 020 7730 7800
Lime Tree Hotel 135-137 Ebury St. 020 7730 8191
Barclays Bank 8 West Halkin St. 08457 555 555 Duncan Lawrie 1 Hobart Pl. 020 7245 1234 NatWest 141 Ebury St. 0845 303 0933 Royal Bank of Scotland 24 Grosvenor Pl. 020 7235 1882
Coral Racing 67 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 6516
Nikki Tibbles for Wild at Heart 30a Pimlico Rd. 020 7229 1174
William Hill 12 Buckingham Palace Rd. 08705 181 715
Woodhams 45 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 3353
William Hill 18-20 Elizabeth St. 08705 181 715
BOOKMAKERS
Poilane 46 Elizabeth St. 020 7808 4910
Y B Patel 25 Grosvenor Gardens 020 7834 0579
CIGAR SPECIALISTS
PERFUMERY
Tomtom Cigars 63 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 1790
Amouage 14 Lowndes St. 020 3031 9872
LIBRARY
CONFECTIONARY
Victoria Library 160 Buckingham Palace Rd. 020 7641 1300
Peggy Porschen 116 Ebury St. 020 7730 1316
Annick Goutal 20 Motcomb St. 020 7245 0248
MOTORING
Pierre Herme 13 Lowndes St. 020 7245 0317
CHARITIES
British Red Cross shop 85 Ebury St. 020 7730 2235
Belgravia Garage 1 Eaton Mews West 020 7235 9900
CLEANERS
Belgrave Dry Cleaners 8 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 9978 Buttercup Dry Cleaners 49 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 2912 Byblos 18 Eccleston St. 020 7730 4545 Ebury Cleaners 63 Ebury St. 020 7730 4430
Masterpark Knightsbridge Kinnerton St. 0800 243 348 POST OFFICE
Post Office 6 Eccleston St. 08457 223344 PRINTING & COPYING
Printus 115a Ebury St. 020 7730 7799 TRAVEL
Elias Cleaners 3 Motcomb St. 020 7235 2920
Bravo Travel 6 Lower Grosvenor Pl. 0870 121 3411
EDUCATION
Celestial Travel 1 Lower Grosvenor Pl. 020 7828 3311
Miss Daisy’s Nursery Ebury Square 020 7730 5797 St Peter’s Church of England Primary School Lower Belgrave St. 020 7641 4230 Thomas’s Kindergarten 14 Ranelagh Grove 020 7730 3596 FLORISTS
Diplomat Travel 12 Eccleston St. 020 7730 2201 Steamond Travel 23 Eccleston St. 020 7730 8646
Specialist shops BAKERIES
Judith Blacklock Flower School 4/5 Kinnerton Pl. South 020 7235 6235
Baker & Spice 54-56 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 3033
Neill Strain Floral Couture 11 West Halkin St. 020 7235 6469
Ottolenghi 13 Motcomb St. 020 7823 2707
Les Senteurs 71 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 2322 PET ACCESSORIES
Rococo Chocolates 5 Motcomb St. 020 7245 0993
Mungo & Maud 79 Elizabeth St. 020 7022 1207
DELI
PHARMACIES
La Bottega 25 Eccleston St. 020 7730 2730
Keencare Chemist 6 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 8747
GREENGROCERS
Walden Chymist 65 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 0080
Charles of Belgravia 27 Lower Belgrave St. 020 7730 5210
POLISHERS
The Market Quarter 36 Elizabeth St. 020 7824 8470
F Bennett and Son 9 Chester Square Mews 020 7730 6546
JEWELLERS
STATIONERS
Carolina Bucci 4 Motcomb St. 020 7838 9977
Grosvenor Stationery Company 47 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 4515
David Thomas, Master Goldsmith 65 Pimlico Rd. 020 7730 7710
HR Stokes 58 Elizbabeth St. 020 7730 7073
De Vroomen 59 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 1901
WINE
Jeroboams 50-52 Elizabeth St. 020 7730 8108
Erickson Beamon 38 Elizabeth St. 020 7259 0202 Kim Poor 53 Elizabeth St. 020 7259 9063 NEWSAGENTS
B E L G R AV I A R E S I D E N T S J O U R N A L
Mayhew Newsagents 15 Motcomb St. 020 7235 5770
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1 A WELL PRESENTED GRADE II LISTED BELGRAVIA TOWNHOUSE eaton terrace, sw1 3 reception rooms ø kitchen/breakfast room ø master bedroom suite ø 3 further bedrooms ø 3 further bath/shower rooms ø gym ø wine cellar ø terrace ø 305 sq m (3,284 sq ft) Guide £6.5 million Freehold
Savills Sloane Street
Savills Knightsbridge
Richard Gutteridge rgutteridge@savills.com
Lucy Blythe lblythe@savills.com
020 7730 0822
020 7581 5234
savills.co.uk
1 STUNNING TOWNHOUSE BORDERING KNIGHTSBRIDGE AND BELGRAVIA wilton place, sw1 Entrance hall ø dining room ø sitting room ø drawing room ø kitchen/breakfast room ø master bedroom with dressing area and shower room ø 4 further bedroom suites ø utility room ø cloakroom ø patio garden ø terrace ø 374 sq m (4,032 sq ft) Price on application Freehold
Savills Knightsbridge
Savills Sloane Street
Barbara Allen baallen@savills.com
Richard Gutteridge rgutteridge@savills.com
020 7581 5234
020 7730 0822
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1 BEAUTIFUL FOURTH FLOOR LATERAL PENTHOUSE eaton square, sw1 Entrance hall ø reception room ø dining room ø kitchen ø 4 bedrooms (3 en suite) ø family bathroom ø guest cloakroom ø balconies ø lift ø porter ø 227 sq m (2,441 sq ft) Guide £9.5 million Leasehold, approximately 161 years remaining
Savills Sloane Street
Savills Knightsbridge
Richard Dalton rdalton@savills.com
Alex Christian achristian@savills.com
020 7730 0822
020 7581 5234
savills.co.uk
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LUXURIOUS ACCOMMODATION IN THIS SUPERB MEWS HOUSE belgrave mews south, sw1 4 bedrooms ø 2 reception rooms ø kitchen ø 4 bathrooms ø guest cloakroom ø garage ø 353 sq m (3,800 sq ft) £7,950 per week Flexible furnishings
Savills Sloane Street
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Simon Fernandes sfernandes@savills.com
020 7824 9005
AN EXTREMELY WELL ARRANGED FOUR BEDROOM HOUSE whittaker street, sw1 4 bedrooms (all en suite) ø entrance hall ø 2 reception rooms ø eat-in kitchen ø patio garden ø private parking for 2 cars ø 260 sq m (2,804 sq ft) £3,300 per week Unfurnished
Savills Sloane Street Adam Simmonds asimmonds@savills.com
020 7824 9005
Chalfont House, SW1X
ÂŁ1,450,000 | Leasehold
A well proportioned two bedroom flat (double and single) on the ground floor of this popular apartment building in Chesham Street. The apartment has been recently modernised and is beautifully presented with an eat-in kitchen. The reception room is a light room with windows facing south and west, and has a large square bay window overlooking a courtyard. There is a porter during daytime hours. The heating and hot water is communal and therefore the cost is included in the service charge. Due to its convenient location and the good management of the building this would make an ideal rental investment. Reception room, Double bedroom, Single bedroom, Kitchen/breakfast room, Bathroom with shower
1 Motcomb Street, London, SW1X 8JX 020 7235 8861
belgraviaoffice@henryandjames.co.uk henryandjames.co.uk
Chesham Street, SW1X
ÂŁ1,595,000 | Leasehold
A beautifully presented two bedroom flat in this popular street in the heart of Belgravia. Situated on the third floor (with lift) it is bright and airy and well-proportioned. There are two double bedrooms both en-suite and a good-sized reception room with ample space for a dining area and a well-equipped kitchen. The building has been well maintained and has an attractive stucco façade. Nearby are a plethora of world-class shops, restaurants and entertainment venues, and there are excellent transport links with Sloane Square and Knightsbridge Underground stations within easy walking distance. Reception room, Kitchen, Two double bedrooms, Bathroom and Shower room, Lift.
1 Motcomb Street, London, SW1X 8JX 020 7235 8861
belgraviaoffice@henryandjames.co.uk henryandjames.co.uk
Lowndes Square, SW1X
ÂŁ750 per week | Furnished
A lovely newly refurbished pied-a-terre on the raised ground floor of this prestigious portered building, located on one of the finest squares in London just a few moments from Motcomb Street. The property has been interior designed throughout and furnished in a contemporary style. The property comprises kitchen open-plan to the reception room, a double bedroom, a shower room. Available immediately for a long term let. Double bedroom, Bathroom, Open-plan-kitchen to reception room, Porter, Newly refurbished.
1 Motcomb Street, London, SW1X 8JX 020 7235 8861
belgraviaoffice@henryandjames.co.uk henryandjames.co.uk
Knight Frank
Eaton Square, Belgravia SW1
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Exceptional two bedroom Belgravia apartment A stunning, newly refurbished raised ground floor apartment located in one of London’s most prestigious garden squares. Master bedroom with en suite shower room, 1 further bedroom, 1 further bathroom, reception room, kitchen, dining room, communal garden. Approximately 1,455 sq ft (135 sq m) Leasehold 123 years approximately Guide price £4,950,000
(BGV120012)
KnightFrank.co.uk/Belgravia belgravia@knightfrank.com 020 7881 7722
Knight Frank
Belgrave Mews South, Belgravia SW1 Immaculate private mews house
An exquisitely refurbished unassuming mews house available for rent in Belgravia. The four bedroom property is situated in a quiet location, with two impressive reception rooms, luxurious fixtures and furnishings, private roof terrace and garage. Master bedroom with en suite bathroom and dressing room, three further bedrooms with en suite bedrooms, reception room, open plan kitchen and dining area, guest cloakroom, roof terrace, garage. Approximately 353 sq m (3,800 sq ft) Available furnished ÂŁ7,950 per week (156052)
KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings belgravia@knightfrank.com 020 7881 7730
BOURNE STREET, SW1 A wonderful 2nd floor apartment enviably located overlooking Orange Square and Pimlico Road with its designer galleries, food shops, restaurants and weekly Farmer’s Market, situated close to Sloane Square. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, reception room. Furnished £1,050 per week
EBURY MEWS, SW1 A charming two storey house in a cobbled mews just to the south of Chester Square, situated just around the corner from the restaurant, shopping and bar facilities of Elizabeth Street. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, reception room. Furnished £995 per week
BELGRAVIA 020 7824 7900 belgravia@johndwood.co.uk
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4 bedrooms, dressing room, 3 bathrooms (2 en suite), drawing/dining room, reception room, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom, lift, garage, private communal square gardens.
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BELGRAVIA 020 7824 7900 belgravia@johndwood.co.uk
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www.ayrtonwylie.com +44 (0) 20 7730 4628
LYALL MEWS, SW1
In one of Belgravia’s most prestigious mews, between Eaton Place and Chesham Place, this mews house (1,936 sq ft / 180 sq m) gives the buyer the opportunity to modernise and rearrange to their own specification and budget.
FREEHOLD £3,650,000
ACCOMMODATION AND AMENITIES
Drawing Room • Dining Room • Kitchen • Master Bedroom with en suite Bathroom • 3 further Bedrooms • Bathroom • Study • Guest Cloakroom • Garage Off Street Parking (subject to Grosvenor licence) • Use of Belgrave Square Gardens (subject to annual fee).
16 Lower Belgrave Street, Belgravia, London SW1W 0LN
www.ayrtonwylie.com +44 (0) 20 7730 4628
Belgravia, Knightsbridge, Chelsea
EATON PLACE, SW1
Situated in the heart of Belgravia, this Grade II Listed ground and lower ground maisonette (2,442 sq ft / 227 sq m) enjoys the benefit of an attractive south-facing patio garden.
LEASE 92 YEARS
ACCOMMODATION AND AMENITIES
Large Entrance Hall • Drawing Room and Dining Room (interconnecting) Kitchen / Breakfast Room • 3 Bedrooms • 2 En Suite Bathrooms • En Suite Shower Room • Study / Bedroom 4 • Shower Room / Utility Room • Cloakroom Patio Garden.
£4,650,000 sales@ayrtonwylie.com
SLOANE STREET, Knightsbridge, SW1
This fabulous three bedroom family apartment (1,980 sq.ft/183.9 sq.m) currently part of a larger unite, is located on the third floor of this small discreet, purpose-built, mansion block with resident caretaker, lift and security. The accommodation includes a wonderfully proportioned double reception room with an abundance of period features, a large kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, guest WC and utility room. Situated on the corner of Sloane Street and Basil Street, the entrance of this 19th century, period building is located on Sloane Street, moments from Harrods, Hyde Park and all the world-class amenities that Knightsbridge has to offer. Leasehold 135 years For Sale: £4,950,000 subject to contract
BROMPTON PLACE, Knightsbridge, SW3
This very charming one bedroom freehold terraced house is arranged over two floors and boasts a rear patio located off the dining room. Upstairs the bright well proportioned bedroom benefits from built-in wardrobes with a large ensuite bathroom. Located discreetly off the Brompton Road, Brompton Place is ideal for the fabulous amenities Knightsbridge has to offer and is within moments walk of Harrods, Hyde Park and Sloane Street. The property would make an ideal pied-a-terre and a secure underground parking space within the Harrods car park with valet service which is located at the end of Brompton Place is available for an additional £150,000. For Sale: £1,595,000 subject to contract
Freehold
M.S. MOUETTE, CADOGAN PIER, Chelsea, SW3
Built in Germany just before the outbreak of WWII, this purpose built steel-hull diesel motor boat was commissioned as a passenger ferry on the Swiss lakes, and was in service approximately 60 years. Now fully restored and retaining most of its original features, M.S. Mouette occupies a prominent mooring on Cadogan Pier, which is accessed via a gated entrance on Chelsea Embankment. Currently used as a pied-à-terre, the vessel comprises approximately 1,380sq ft (128.2sq m) of internal area and a further 700sq ft (65sq m) of external recreational decks. There is also substantial storage in the hold. For Sale: £1,000,000 subject to contract
Freehold
NICHOLAS.SHAW@HARRODSESTATES.COM
T: +44 020 7225 6509
EATON SQUARE, Belgravia, SW1
This spacious, three / four bedroom lateral apartment is situated on the second floor across two substantial stucco-fronted buildings on the preferred north side of London’s most exclusive garden square. Refurbished to the highest standards, the apartment benefits from generously proportioned, high-ceilinged reception room and bedrooms with direct views of the private square gardens. The apartment also benefits from a resident porter, lift, security and access to the square’s gardens and tennis courts. For Sale: £10,950,000 subject to contract
Leasehold: 63 years
BASIL MANSIONS, Knightsbridge, SW3
This lower ground apartment (724 sq ft/67.3 sq m) is located in a very well managed mansion block on Basil Street, moment away from Harrods and Sloane Street. Well presented with 2 double bedrooms, there is also access to a communal patio from the reception room. Basil Mansions benefits from resident caretaker, lift and security. The property would make an ideal pied-aterre or rental investment. For Sale: £1,175,000 subject to contract
Leasehold 990 years
PONT STREET, Knightsbridge, SW1
A fabulous one bedroom apartment on the ground and lower ground floors of a substantial red-brick building set back from Pont Street. This property boasts a large reception room with high ceiling and a resident porter. Situated on the southside of Pont Street the property is ideally situated for the amenities of Knightsbridge , Sloane Street and Sloane Square. This would make an ideal pied-a-terre or rental investment. For Sale: £1,500,000 subject to contract
Leasehold 61 years
HASSAN.BASMA@HARRODSESTATES.COM
T: +44 020 7893 8044
WEST EATON PLACE, BELGRAVIA SW1 A splendid and individual period office building to let with the rare amenity of a south facing courtyard garden
Substantially re-modelled by the distinguished architect Oliver Hill in 1913. The three storey building is approached through the garden via distinctive wrought iron gates and is quietly located within a short walk of Sloane Square. The net internal floor areas are: First floor 1,005 sq ft Ground Floor 989 sq ft Lower Ground 1,030 sq ft Total 3,024 sq ft /280m2 All with good natural light and sunshine. To be let on a new full repairing and insuring lease for a term to be agreed.
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AMESBELGRAVIA PROPERTY CONSULTANTS
T: 020 7730 1155 www.amesbelgravia.co.uk
Christopher Ames 07769 558152 ca@amesbelgravia.co.uk
Property Consultants, Estate Agents & Chartered Surveyors
Jonathan Stern 07880740511 JStern@mellersh.co.uk
ESTATE AGENTS,SURVEYORS AND PROPERTY CONSULTANTS 81 Elizabeth Street, Eaton Square, London SW1W 9PG Tel: 020 7730 9253 Fax: 020 7730 8212 Email: reception@bestgapp.co.uk www.bestgapp.co.uk Over 100 years experience in Belgravia
EATON SQUARE SW1 A most impressive recently refurbished ground and garden floor maisonette on the south side of this most prestigious Square in Belgravia. The apartment has high ceilings and a south facing reception room opening on to a patio garden and use of the communal gardens and tennis court. (by separate negotiation.)
Leasehold 38 Years
ÂŁ2,775,000
* Reception room * Kitchen/Breakfast Room * Master Bedroom Suite * 2 Further Bedrooms * Shower Room * Separate WC * Garden * Porter
Chelsea Fulham & Parsons Green Kensington & Holland Park Knightsbridge, Belgravia & Mayfair Notting Hill & Bayswater West Chelsea & South Kensington
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St Michael’s Mews | Belgravia | SW1 2,422 sq ft (225 sq m)
A contemporary 3 bedroom townhouse with a large integral garage and roof terrace, within the secure gated Belgravia Place development. Entrance hall | Reception room | Drawing room | Kitchen/breakfast room | Three bedrooms Two bathrooms | Roof terrace | Private underground garage ÂŁ4,850,000 Freehold
Knightsbridge 020 7235 9959
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Royal Court House | Knightsbridge | SW1 1,923 sq ft sq ft (177.5 sq m)
A rare first floor laterally converted apartment overlooking the stunning communal gardens of Cadogan Place. Reception room | Dining hall | Kitchen | Four bedrooms | Three bathrooms | Study/Library Cloakroom | Utility room | Three balconies | Lift | 24 hour porterage Asking price ÂŁ5,950,000 Leasehold
Knightsbridge 020 7235 9959
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Wilbraham Place | Knigtsbridge | SW1 Short Let
A owners own home located in this impressive mansion block moments from Sloane Square and Knightsbridge. Drawing Room | Kitchen | Cloakroom | Master Bedroom with En Suite Bathroom Two Further Bedrooms | Bathroom | Lift ÂŁ6,000 per week Furnished
Knightsbridge 020 7235 9959
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A new batch of potential buyers has just arrived. As Knightsbridge and Belgravia remain the prime destinations for overseas property investment, it continues to attract a wealth of international buyers. In the last six months, 75% of our registered buyers and tenants were from overseas. If you want to market your property now or would like to talk about how we can help you, do call either Charlie Willis, head of sales or Nina McDowall, head of lettings. 66 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SH. Call 020 7235 9959 or email Knightsbridge@struttandparker.com today
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