Canary Wharf Magazine February 2013

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contents

Feature 10 PACKING A PUNCH

This spring, Canary Wharf’s glittering skyline will form the backdrop to new British movie, Welcome to the Punch.

EMMA JOHNSON gets the scoop

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TRUE COLOURS

Scarlett Johansson speaks candidly to Chris Beech about career and confidence

Collection 22 FAMOUS LAST WORDS

There is nothing more important than getting the ring right when you propose. As we approach one of the most romantic days of the year, Olivia Sharpe explores the top engagement ring services across London for those of you looking to pop the question this February.

Fashion 46 SPRING ROMANCE

Transitional style to take from winter to Spring with a touch of colour and class in our fashion shoot

interiors 58 DESIGNER: TOM DIXON

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THINKING BIG

Timebased Events is responsible for some of the coolest parties of recent years, including the GQ Man of the Year Awards.

Emma Johnson meets creative director Richard Dodgson

Travel 95 WHERE ELEPHANTS GO

Dave Waddell experiences an African epiphany in Tanzania

regulars 19 Watches + Jewellery

89 Food + Drink

41 Fashion

93 Travel

55 Health + Beauty

102 The Directory

57 Interiors

105 Property

72 Sport

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Creative genius Tom Dixon produces high end design from cast iron, wood, metal and brass with a bold industrial feel Screen Siren

Calibre 68 THE MAN BEHIND THE WHEEL

Having reported record-breaking sales last year, January 2013 saw Jaguar Land Rover announce 800 new jobs to support future growth. Richard Brown speaks to the company’s managing director Jeremy Hicks

Scarlett Johansson talks about being a damsel in distress in her new film

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fall in love in with colour, texture & tailoring from the new season’s collections

Fashion Shoot: A Spring Romance p. 46 Lime silk racerback top with embroidered neckline, £1,640, Gucci,020 7235 6707, gucci.com

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AIMEE LATIMER highlights the key people, places and events in February. As the cold weather thaws, the year heats up with a month of celebration and passion. Whether you are enamoured with another, fashion or the arts, get ready to fall in love with London all over again

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Deputy Editor

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Fashion Editor Lucie Dodds

Motoring Editor Matthew Carter

Collection Editor

annabel harrison

Property Editor Gabrielle Lane

Editorial Assistants Aimee latimer daniel engelsman

Why? Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s is a day that divides people like no other.

Whether you disdain it as a tacky excuse for consumerism, appreciate the nudge to show that person how much you care, or intend to spend it sobbing over a bridal magazine, it is unavoidable. Fortunately, across London there are spas, restaurants and hotels arranging flowers, creating menus and putting on treatments, doing all the hard work so you don’t have to. Chose something you and your partner both will enjoy, book ahead, and try to remember the heart behind it all. At least chocolate will be nearby.

Charbonnel et Walker, charbonnel.co.uk

When? The Oscars

The 85th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday the 24 of February. Competing for the covetable Best Film is the crowd pleasing Les Misérables and the controversial Django Unchained. Seeing whether first time host and Best Original Song nominee, Seth MacFarlane will be cruel or kind to the stars is viewing incentive enough.

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Sarah Connell

Brand Consistency Laddawan Juhong

Head of Design

What? London fashion week

London Fashion Week returns this month, showcasing the world’s leading designers’ Autumn/Winter 2013 collections. With the Olympics and London Collections, and Men’s Fashion Week beaming a spotlight on the country’s innovative style, expect the very best from the likes of Burberry Prorsum and Mulberry to fly the flag for Britain.

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Production Manager Fiona Fenwick

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Senior Property Manager Samantha Ratcliffe

Head of Finance Elton Hopkins

Managing Director Eren Ellwood

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What? The Barbican

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The Rain Room exhibition at the Barbican is a 100 square metre field of falling water that responds to your every movement, allowing you to control the rain you walk through. The unparalleled experience and free entrance has made it a must-see, so go early to avoid the queues before the installation closes on the 3 March. barbican.org.uk

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When? Chinese New Year

On Sunday the 10 February, Chinatown in the West End will be abuzz with dragons, parades and fireworks to welcome in the Chinese New Year and kick off The Year Of The Snake. Everyone is invited to come and experience the food, culture and celebrations. chinatownlondon.org

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“It is a film about London, but with the whole idea of gleaming chrome skyscrapers with different moods — a London that is a little cooler and slicker than what we are used to seeing on film.”

Celebrated British actor Mark Strong is talking about the setting for new film Welcome to the Punch, a gritty crime thriller set mostly in and around Canary Wharf and the City. Allowed unprecedented access to Canary Wharf over two nights for filming around the locale, the film has a high-rise, big city feel, and the setting itself looks impressive and imposing. Having worked in Canary Wharf for nearly four years I don’t know if I’ve ever seen the area look so sleek, the glass towers reflecting the action as a perfect mirror. It really becomes a financial, high-rise heart to rival Shanghai, Tokyo and even New York. Enjoy some of the first stills from the film on p. 10.

At the other end of the film spectrum, one screen siren takes on another in the new Hitchcock film, released on 8 February, as Scarlett Johansson plays Janet Leigh in the eagerly awaited biopic, which tells the story of Psycho from script to screen. The film provided Johansson with the opportunity to work with some British acting greats, including Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Helen Mirren; she talks to Canary Wharf about being grateful for her career thus far on p. 12.

Those of you who still have money leftover from bonuses or Christmas to spend on something special should make a beeline for p. 16, where we showcase some of the most outrageous and decadent ways to make a statement, in either the status symbol form of gold champagne buckets or diamond-encrusted phones worth a staggering seven figures. If Valentine’s Day has got you feeling ready to make a statement of a different kind, then our engagement rings feature is not to be missed; beware the man with the wrong ring. Make sure she won’t say no on p. 22.

As part of my new role here as editor on Canary Wharf, I’ve been in conversation with John Garwood, company secretary at Canary Wharf Group, to discuss the several new developments they are working on, both here and in the City. The exciting plans for Wood Wharf starting to take shape this year, the considerable developments on the Crossrail station building, (which many of you coming in on the DLR every morning will have seen taking shape over the past 18 months), and the timeline for the extension of the Jubilee Mall form the focus of his chat with me on p. 84.

February tends to be branded the month of love and Valentine’s Day certainly forms a handy halfway point. Throughout our fashion, food, drink, interiors, motoring, shopping and travel pages there’s plenty of inspiration for treating someone you love to something special. Or indeed, just treating yourself. Either way, enjoy!

Emma Johnson Editor

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Packing a This spring, Canary Wharf’s glittering skyline will form the backdrop to new British movie, Welcome to the Punch. Emma Johnson gets the scoop

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n aerial view of London, familiar landmarks flash by as the camera centres on the iconic image of Canary Wharf from the air. Down on the ground, a car comes careering around a corner, brakes squealing, tyres burning as they skid on the concrete. James McAvoy, shirt ruffled, gun in hand, jumps out of the car and stares into the lens. Behind him a vast expanse of glass and metal gleams in the moonlight. It’s Canary Wharf, but not as you’d know it.

As part of the explosive setting for new gritty British crime-thriller Welcome to the Punch, Canary Wharf is certainly enjoying the limelight.

The well-lit skyscrapers, wide streets and impressive backdrop are the perfect setting for everything from screeching car chases to quiet moments filled with taut, frantic dialogue.

The second film from BAFTA nominated Eran Creevy – a local boy, born and bred – the film explores the relationship between detective Max Lewinsky (McAvoy) and ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong), focusing on the moment Jacob’s son is involved in a heist gone wrong, forcing him to return to London from his Icelandic hideaway. This gives Max another chance to take down the man he’s always been after. With the two men set on an unremitting collision course, they come across a deeper conspiracy that they will both need to solve in order to survive.

To bring the film to life, Creevy and his team researched and shot Welcome to the Punch in some of London’s most incredible locations, including an opening sequence in the City, and a two night filming stint in Canary Wharf, gaining unprecedented access to the area. “We made it look pretty cool,” said producer Rory Aitken.

Fellow producer Ben Pugh notes that the film’s backdrop grew from Creevy’s appreciation of the area in which he lives. “Eran is pretty organic in the way he works, and because he lived on the Isle Of Dogs he set the film there. He’s used to walking through it every day and he realised no-one was really using this international part of London that looks like Manhattan or a huge city.”

It proved to be a great decision. The story of Welcome to the Punch unfolds against the glistening sky-high buildings that dominate the area around Canary Wharf and Isle of Dogs. A sleek, stylish part of town, Creevy has harnessed the area’s striking architecture to infuse his film with a bold visual style, and turned the attention of the world on London’s financial heart.

Actor Mark Strong also recognises the power of the location. “It is a film about London, but with the whole idea of gleaming chrome, skyscrapers, with different moods — a London that is a little cooler and slicker than what we are used to seeing on film.”

Welcome to the Punch is released in cinemas on 15 March

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TRUE Scarlett Johansson speaks candidly to Chris Beech about career and confidence

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feel lucky every time I do a movie, every time I get a film financed, every time I get cast in a production.”

For a child actor who grew up to be an international superstar and sex symbol, Scarlett Johansson is remarkably grounded.

“Thank you for saying I’m down-to-earth,” she says, laughing. “You really don’t know me.

I could be just a total prissy loser!

“To be fair, I think my head is screwed on pretty well; I just take it as it comes, I suppose. I think a lot of that depends on where you come from and what kind of family you come from. It’s all about your approach. When there’s a huge whirlwind and you’re pulled in different directions, you need to be able to go, ‘Oh okay, I can walk. It’s okay, I can get there by myself, thanks.’ You just try to keep a solid focus,” she says.

Scarlett, for all her refreshing philosophy, certainly accepts she has lived something of a charmed life, and she appears genuinely grateful for a run of films that have catapulted her to the top of the Hollywood A-list.

“I’m damn lucky,” she says, smiling. “I certainly know that I have a chance that’s one in a million and a job that’s very disposable, and I feel lucky that I haven’t been found out yet!

With every passing film you feel a little bit more that you know what you’re doing and maybe you do deserve a place at the table with all these greats.”

The 28-year-old – star of Lost in Translation, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Iron Man 2 and more – has hit on another undoubted success, playing Janet Leigh in the upcoming Hitchcock, a film which documents the legendary British director and the relationship he had with his wife, Alma Reville.

The first modern biopic on the master of suspense is set to feature that shower scene from Psycho – originally played by

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Leigh, mother of Jamie Lee Curtis. Unsurprisingly, Scarlett is a fan of Hitchcock, particularly his classic Strangers on a Train.

“I always liked that film,” she continues. “I think, as a child, I responded to the carousel scene. I like the way it makes you feel slightly disoriented. It takes you on a rollercoaster of suspense that Hitchcock was so good at manufacturing. It’s a classic.”

Playing a legendary actress in such an iconic role has not been taken lightly, although judging by the pictures that have emerged of her as Leigh, she looks strikingly similar. There’s a sense that Johansson would be perfect in a Hitchcock movie, playing a devastatingly beautiful, smart and quick-witted femme fatale, alongside Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart.

But then, you can see her in many roles. She admits that it probably feels like she’s “been around forever”. Despite only being 28, she’s had 18 years in the business. Yet what is noticeable about Johansson’s career is the range of genres she’s covered – action, thriller, comedy, drama. Is it intentional?

“Well I never want to do the same thing; it’s boring, I hate that. I’d rather do a different job. I think everyone wants to keep themselves fresh, and whether I’ve achieved that… whether I’ve made those decisions consciously or subsconsciously, it has been an important route for me to take.”

Quite often, she admits, a particular director will take her fancy – such as Woody Allen on Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Allen admitted that he wrote the role specifically for Johansson, although he kept it schtum.

“At first we were just having lunch and he didn’t say anything.

I said, ‘I hear you’re shooting in Barcelona with Penelope Cruz’. I just wanted to know if I could be of any help. Then he offered me the part. I was stunned. Any opportunity to work with Woody I would take in a heartbeat. We always have such a wonderful time and we have such a nice friendship,” she says.

The director described her at the time as being “sexually

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I think that it’s rare that you feel beautiful. I think that beauty is something that you see away from yourself, and always when you’re not looking for it

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overwhelming”. And she feels no embarrassment in being desired. “No, I’ve no problems with that. That’s not to say I think about it much, because I don’t see it, but I’d rather be desired than typecast, certainly!” And because that realisation enables Johansson to sample the other aspects of the celebrity trail – modelling, for one – having posed for Dolce & Gabbana, Mango and more.

“I’ve always found modelling interesting. Beauty is something that you recognise in someone else, rather than yourself, I think.

I mean, a lot of people feel sexy, maybe not all the time, but you put on an outfit or whatever and you think, ‘Hey, I feel sexy.’ But I think that it’s rare that you feel beautiful. I think that beauty is something you see away from yourself, and always when you’re not looking for it,” she says.

“I never turn to myself in the mirror and say, ‘I look really beautiful.’ I look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘Yeah, I look hot’, or ‘Yeah, that’s me again!’ And I think sometimes when you look at someone else it’s the flaws that make them so beautiful,” she adds.

Is she a romantic? “Oh yes, I’m a romantic. Absolutely! My mom is a romantic person and I think I inherited that from her.

She’s very thoughtful and I think there are many different ways that you can be romantic. There’s, of course, the romance that you have with your partner, your lover, and then there’s that thoughtfulness that you have with your children and the little games that you play, things like that, remembering what people like and what they appreciate and wanting them to experience it and enjoy it – that’s romantic to me,” she adds.

Yet considering she’s known for her fashion sense, always snapped on the red carpet, looking glamorous, she claims she dresses “conservatively” and “sensibly” – like “a New Yorker”.

“I do enjoy getting dressed up for films though, of course.

I’m a ‘girly girl’ anyway... I like clothes, fashion and all that stuff. It’s fun! And it helps us remain young, after all. I know I’m a long way from getting old, but I’ve lived a very full life and am excited by the future. I think the fact I’ve been able to sample such incredible experiences in such a short period of concentrated time is thrilling, yet also disconcerting. I have absolute faith in my own ability but you do sometimes wonder if all your luck has come at once.

“I guess for as long as I am working hard and putting everything I can into my career, I will be comfortable in the knowledge that there should still be interest in me.”

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The dollar idea

The ‘World’s Most Expensive’ list is a summation of unparalleled excess, material obsession and unattainable cost. Yet with the luxury market rapidly diluting, AIMEE LATIMER considers the thought behind luxury’s grandest gestures

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lthough hailed as ‘recession proof’, the luxury market is becoming increasingly vulnerable to its own success. Suffering from a Catch 22 of its own creation, the industry is constantly balancing between trying to optimise profits, while preventing the dilution of its brands to avoid the consequences of the kind of over-exposure that can pull a brand off the luxury pedestal and into the badly lit high-street.

According to research from private firm Global Industry Analysts, the luxury goods industry will exceed $307bn by 2015.

An increase in part due an expected rise in incomes as the economy stabilises. The result of this is a market with rapidly diversifying consumers who are shifting luxury’s demographic towards a less affluent majority with each diamante-encrusted perfume purchased.

This change may be wonderful for the consumer, but it is of serious consequence for the industry. Where watches still dominate the luxury market in terms of value – 17 per cent of it to be exact – cosmetics, for instance, are now the fastest growing segment.

While companies are set to profit from the bolstered sales of their

Experts predict the luxury goods industry will exceed $307 billion by 2015 Shawish, All-Diamond Ring, £43 million

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GoldVish, Le Million Piece Unique, €1 million

Produced in a similarly fairy tale fashion, the USB’s are hidden in diamond and ruby encrusted mushrooms perched on stems of gold and, costing up to £22,900, they are not to be misplaced in the office.

Other companies make their mark by taking ordinary luxury Van Perckens, Champagne items, such as mobile phones, and making them extraordinary.

Cooler, £457,000 Take, GoldVish’s Le Million’ Piece Unique, the most expensive mobile in the world made with 18 carat white gold mounted lower tier products, this accessibility invites the risk for middling with 120 carats of diamonds. The idea of hand-searing diamonds brands to lose their justification to charge high-end prices at all. onto a mobile phone that cannot even play Angry Birds seems Whereas some businesses combat the fear of losing the luxury title a thankless task, but the phone justified its creation with more by rustling up a limited edition range every anniversary than just the publicity it garnered for GoldVish – it sold or so, others defiantly walk a constant tightrope for an astounding million euros to a between stocking flash and exorbitantly priced items Russian businessman.

Shawish, Mushroom USB, £22,900 alongside muted, reliable sellouts. In this way, the More dedicated still are the brands and the buyer can have their cake and eat it small companies that exist solely too. While everyone gets the keyring, only very to sell only one or two deliriously few get the car. expensive products. For them It is this game playing that makes gold plating the pursuit of luxury transcends Lamborghinis understandable, if not in taste, in terms publicity; it is about shock value, of utilising publicity. If a brand brings out the world’s pride and unrelenting ambition most expensive version of anything, the story will rocket to be the best. For instance Van round the globe, side-lining any thoughts of vulgarity or Perckens, the creators of the world’s most expensive practicality under the weight of overwhelming curiosity.

Champagne cooler, which comes in at an impressive And it was this gasped reaction that met Shawish’s £457,000, move from one limited edition product world’s first all-diamond ring. to another keeping the scale of operations small It took a team of specialists both a year and and the attention to detail vast. The Champagne the creation of new laser technology to cut cooler, for instance, plays on Champagne’s age old through a 150 carat diamond transforming it into affiliation with celebration, which sees 20 karat a solid diamond ring with a suitably staggering gold glasses suspended from the cooler and a high £43m price tag. “The time and effort devoted gloss wood box for presentation. to accomplishing the successful production of The elaborate Champagne coolers, rings, and the ring, was worth all the hardship,” explains even the USBs, epitomise the prestige essential to Mohammed Shawish. “A ring made entirely of a perpetuating the ideal of luxury that runs through GoldVish, Illusion, Like Heaven, £119,000 faceted diamond has always seemed like a fantasy, every tier of the market. This fantasy both protects it seemed impossible, so we decided to embark the status of brands it champions and yet drives on the adventure of creating the perfect diamond increasing masses to purchase even the lowest tier ring that is the epitome of art.” The audacity of products. Yet the madness of the race to create the the project, artistic or not, embodies the almost world’s most expensive items is not to be taken romantic entwining of luxury and fantasy that lightly. Should the globe’s ultimate luxury items be defines the psychology of the industry and keeps it found lacking in innovation or aesthetics they risk so desirable. It is this playfulness and indulgence crumbling the whole industry under an Emperor’s of absurdity that perhaps explains why Shawish New Clothes style of disillusionment that no also make the world’s most expensive USB sticks. amount of diamonds could fix up.

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It’s a multi-walled, high-security cylinder capable of destroying drills, saws and anything else set against it, says Richard Brown; introducing, Döttling’s first travel safe

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his company, Munich-based safe-maker Döttling, has impressed us once again with a unique way of keeping valuables secure. Capable of housing, and protecting, six watches, in addition to jewellery, cash and important documents, the Guardian employs materials usually used to make bullet-proof vests and anti-riot shields to provide the ultimate travel safe. Stab it, smash it, burn it or blow it up; a hard-as-a-diamond carbide component means that the Guardian will make mincemeat of saws, drills, power-tools and even sledgehammers.

In short, the Guardian can only be illicitly opened by a code breaker with a lot of time on their hands – but this is time they won’t have, as the travel case is equipped with a GPS tracking device, meaning it can be located anywhere in the world. Tailor the cylindrical safe to your own taste by having its handle brackets engraved or customising the variation of fabric and leather on its cover. At 35 centimetres in length and 13.5 in diametre, the Guardian is small enough to fit in your suitcase but personally, we don’t know why you’d want to hide it.

Prices start from £7,900; doettling.com

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Cupid’s Arrow Creative genius Paul Flato was based in New York from the 1920s to the early 1940s and is widely credited as the first celebrity jeweller, his long list of Hollywood clients including stars of the silver screen Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Katharine Hepburn. Flato is celebrated for his often flamboyant designs and Art Deco jewellery and this Flato ruby and diamond bow and arrow brooch showcases his ostentatiously playful style. The piece, along with other exceptional Flato designs and those by the likes of Suzanne Belperron (ring, pictured), is available at Lucas Rarities, which specialises in rare pieces of period jewellery and objets d’art. lucasrarities.com

jewellery Jewels, gems, pearls and diamonds; the essential components of any lady’s jewellery collection

Cutting Edge Luxury jewellery company Maxim Voznesensky recently opened its first London boutique and the Elements collection has been inspired by the four basic principles of Earth, Water, Air and Fire

The Fire pieces are just one part of Maxim Voznesensky’s Elements collection. Featuring bright red rubies, scorching yellow diamonds and blackened gold, the designer vividly captures the element’s characteristics in these pieces

Fire pendant with rubies, diamonds and yellow and blackened gold, available with either a yellow diamond or ruby drop, POA All from the Elements collection by Maxim Voznesensky (maximvoznesensky.com)

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Roses are Red...

French jewellery house Cartier’s latest creations nostalgically look back to past designs and influences.

Following WW2, flowers (particularly orchids) bloomed bright and bold in the form of semi-precious colourful stones and the Caresse Pink Orchid ring, part of the Naturellement collection, speaks to classic design while offering a modern edge. Other heritage icons are parrots, love birds and the Cartier Panthère. cartier.com

My Valentine Joubi has collaborated with Kabiri to create two exclusive pieces. The first uses the signature Joubi Geometric ring as its setting but reinvented in 18-karat rose gold and adorned with pavé pink sapphires. For something more outrageous, the jeweller has designed a Croc ring, a crocodile design conceived of 15 carats of pink sapphires in an 18-karat rose gold setting.

Geometric ring, £4,000 Joubi, available at kabiri.co.uk

For the Love of…

Say ‘I love you’ differently this year.

To coincide with its launch at Harrods, Amedeo is offering an exclusive service whereby customers can create a bespoke portrait cameo. Go in with a photograph of a loved family member or even a pet and Amedeo can create the perfect likeness. The main collection in store includes key motifs of crowns, panthers, snakes and skulls. Amedeo, available at Harrods

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Tiffany & Co.

Famous last words As we approach one of the most romantic days of the year, Olivia Sharpe explores the top engagement ring services across London for those of you looking to pop the question this February

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or centuries, men have agonised over the ‘right’ way to propose when, really, this is the easy bit. While there are a million and one different ways to ask, from the clichéd rose petals scattered around the house to sky-writing the words ‘Will you marry me?’, there is one thing which unites them all together, and that is the giving of the ring. And this is where men can really fall into some strife. Having a bad proposal, albeit traumatic, can be forgotten but a bad ring is something your future wife has to live with for the rest of her life. As Kim Cattrall’s straight-talking character puts it in Sex and the City, “wrong ring, wrong guy”.

Knowing which ring will suit your bride-to-be best is the crucial test as to whether you truly know her: the Four C’s

– cut, clarity, carat and colour – should all be a reflection of her personality, and therefore be completely unique.

Although the choices may appear dauntingly endless, there is the right ring out there for everyone; you just have to know where to look.

“Wrong ring, wrong guy” - kim cattrall, sex and the city

Tiffany & Co. If you happen to pass a Tiffany store in the run up to Valentine’s Day, it would not be an unusual sight to see men queuing outside, all on the hunt for the same treasure: the precious little blue box. The timeless design of the Tiffany setting makes the perfect

backdrop for either the Lucida, a square mixed-cut diamond with a step-cut crown and a brilliant-cut pavilion, the Legacy, which captures the elegance and romance of the Edwardian era with its patented cushioncut centre stone and bezel-set diamonds, or the Novo, which shows how the jewellery house is always looking to innovate with its customised mounting of four sleek, tapered prongs and aligned facets. A recent addition to the repertoire is the Tiffany Soleste; launched in 2011, it features a cushion-cut diamond centre surrounded by a double row of round brilliant accent diamonds, all set in a platinum diamond band.

The company recently introduced an iPhone Ring Finder app, enabling its customers to view ring styles on an on-screen hand model if they can’t make it to the store. The hand’s movement showcases the rings from different angles, highlighting the cuts and designs. Never going out of style, a Tiffany ring can be passed down from generation to generation.

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David M Robinson

David M Robinson Situated on the ground floor of the Jubilee mall, under J.P. Morgan, suit-clad men can often be seen entering David M Robinson at lunchtimes in the search of ‘the one’ ring.

DMR, one of the few UK jewellery designers to have twice won the coveted Diamonds International Award, prides itself on its “you talk, we listen” bespoke approach and the varied range of styles available.

“Our designs are certainly different” says Sandy Madhvani, the showroom manager.

“It always surprises us how far people come to see the pieces that David M Robinson has designed himself.” Sandy also notes a couple of popular trends, one of which is the ripplecut; exclusive to DMR, it seems to appeal to our modern day concept of luxury: “There has been a move away from having a style of ring that a hundred others may wear”.

David’s workshops have also seen an increase in the popularity of diamond solitaires set in rose gold, as Sandy remarks how “customers are definitely getting more adventurous in their choice of bespoke design.” With cyclist Mark Cavendish having been recently spotted at the store collecting his engagement ring, David M Robinson is the champion’s choice.

David M Robinson, Jubilee Place, davidmrobinson.co.uk

Charles Fish

Charles Fish

Harry Winston

With its impressive assortment of precious diamonds, this is indeed a rare find in the capital’s second largest financial district.

Stocking all of its own signature designs, entitled Flamenco, Isis and Sophia, it was not a coincidence when Charles Fish nearly spelt out its last name (we're eagerly anticipating the ‘H’ design). Unique to the brand, each ring comes with a small pink sapphire, the signature seal of the company, subtly placed either on the inside or in a bubble on the side of the band. If you want it customised, the colour and position of the stone can be changed to suit your (i.e. her) own preferences.

Also available at Charles Fish is the CAD process. This lets you mock up your design concept in a resin sample so that you can see it in the flesh before the final version is made. Scott Donovan, store manager at Charles Fish, remarks that male clients have become very hands-on with the whole process. As a result, they are far more “clued up” when it comes to understanding all of the different elements which go into creating the perfect ring so nine times out of ten the CAD process is null and void.

With each of its designs having been named after powerful women in history, Charles Fish is for the business-savvy woman who knows a good find when she sees one.

Harry Winston has earned his stripes over the years as the King of Diamonds.

With the legendary Hope diamond, a magnificent fancy blue gem weighing in at an impressive 45.52 carats, being the company’s most coveted treasure, the woman who is true to Harry Winston isn’t afraid to express herself and be powerful while remaining feminine at all times.

Carrying everything from round brilliant-cut, square emerald-cut, emeraldcut, cushion-cut, radiant-cut, oval, pear, marquise and heart-shaped diamonds, the company knows that we all have our own idea of what constitutes the perfect ring. Rings can therefore be tailor-made to the individual to ensure each strong personality shines through. And you can be sure that there is no sparkle quite like a Harry Winston diamond, as each goes through a strict vetting process by an expert team of gemologists which evaluates them according to the Four C characteristics to guarantee they pass muster on both beauty and brilliance. At Harry Winston, only stones and not corners are cut, as quality, and not quantity, holds forth.

Charles Fish, Cabot Place, charlesfish.co.uk

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Chaumet

De Beers

De Beers

“The ring will forever remain the same, as much a part of her personality as a piece of jewellery”

Harry Winston may be known as the King of Diamonds but if this is the case, De Beers remains the supreme ruler, dominating the diamond industry. The romantic Adonis Rose ring, set in either pink gold or platinum, harkens back to the time of the Ancient Greeks, a civilisation to whom we owe the tradition of the engagement ring being placed on the fourth finger of the left hand (they believed that it contained a vein that led straight to the heart).

The Promise ring, with white diamonds and set in pink gold, is the perfect symbol of your love and makes the same promise as you do when proposing of remaining eternally loyal to the wearer. In line with the current tradition of the solitaire diamond, you could opt for the elegant, timeless Aura Cushion Cut platinum ring.

Also unique to the jeweller is the De Beers Iris; housed in each store, it provides clients with an objective way of seeing the beauty of their diamond through the eyes of an expert.

The De Beers woman is strong and independent while at the same time loyal and traditional; investing in both the girl and the ring is worth every penny. debeers.co.uk

A Chaumet ring is destined for the princess. The company’s origin dates as far back as 1780 when Chaumet’s founder, Marie-Etienne Nitot, was the official jeweller to the Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte. During the Romantic period, Nitot’s successors were inspired by the decorative arts of 17th century France and this was shown in their jewellery designs.

By 1880, Joseph Chaumet was establishing himself as the master of the Belle Epoque, attracting a predominantly royal and aristocratic clientele.

Consequently, aigrettes, tiaras and other such social status symbols became a large part of the house’s sales, producing more than 1,500 different models of tiaras. By the early 19th century, Indian princes were hearing of Chaumet’s genius, leading to a pair of pear-cut diamonds being purchased by the firm for the Maharaja of Indore.

Today, the luxury French jeweller prides itself on maintaining its strong sense of heritage. The Bee my Love engagement ring, exclusive to the house, hums back to the regal emblems of the Napoleonic Empire, while the Josephine recalls its long-standing tiara tradition. With more than 200 years of history in jewellery, your love story will have already begun before you place the ring on her finger.

Chaumet

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While it may still seem as though there are infinite possibilities available to you when choosing an engagement ring, at least you know that help is always close at hand. You may think that it is the act of proposing that clinches the deal, but remember that this is something that will naturally alter and become embellished over time, whereas the ring will forever remain the same, as much a part of her personality as a piece of jewellery.

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Lange’s Enlightenment

A. Lange & Söhne unveiled the latest incarnation of its iconic Lange 1 timepiece at the end of last year and Canary Wharf Magazine joined Lange CEO, Wilhelm Schmid, and 89-year-old company founder, Walter Lange, in snowy Dresden for the launch.

With a dial consisting of semitransparent sapphire crystal parts, the Grand Lange 1 Lumen reveals the ‘secret’ mechanism behind Lange’s famous outsized datedisplay for the very first time.

The best looking watch we’ve seen for a while, the Lumen comes with a 40.9 millimetre platinum case, a 72 hour power reserve and is limited to just 200 pieces. Expect this impressive timepiece to cost close to the £50,000 mark. alange-soehne.com

watches For treasured timepieces, horological heirlooms and modern masterpieces, watch this space...

One to Watch

Sandy Madhvani, Showroom Manager at David M Robinson in Canary Wharf, selects his watch of the moment

“Aesthetically, Patek Philippe’s 18-karat rose gold 5123r features the characteristic purity that defines the brand.

Mechanically, the watch’s Caliber 215 PS movement highlights the company’s dedication to innovation” 5123r, £18,060, Patek Philippe, available at David M Robinson, Jubilee Place

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as if By Magic When winter came, so the story goes, and the Swiss farmer-watchmakers left the fields for their workbenches, it was the delicate perfection of snowflakes from which they drew inspiration. In an example of reality mirroring legend, Corum’s latest creation has a similar magic.

Suspended weightless at the centre of its case by a sapphire mainplate at its base, the flying tourbillion within the Golden Bridge Tourbillon Panoramique appears to levitate.

Delivered with two hand-sewn crocodile leather straps (in black and brown) only 20 of this watch have been made, at £142,000 each. corum.ch

Return to Refinement Love or hate them, if you’re a true watch geek you can’t help but marvel at the mastery of Franck Muller’s inventions. It may not have as many complications as Muller’s other timepieces (the Aeternitas Mega 4 has 36) but Muller’s new 7-Days Power Reserve is surely one of the brand’s most elegant-looking.

Part of the Franck Muller Vintage collection, the watch comprises 213 components made entirely in-house and 27 rubies in its movement alone.

Well, this is Franck Muller, after all. franckmuller.com

Swiss movement, English heart

Bespoke Unitas 6497 hand-wound movement (Calibre JJ02) from master watchmaker, Johannes Jahnke / Each piece, of only 250, personally assembled by Johannes in our Swiss atelier / Supremely engineered, 43mm, 316L stainless steel case with full diameter transparent case-back / Unique serial number engraved on case and movement Premium Louisiana alligator deployment strap / 5 year movement guarantee

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blue

steel Strike a pose and embrace the colour of the deep sea and clear sky this season

1 Slim knitted silk tie, £105, Charvet, mrporter.com 2 Moon Machine, from a selection, MB&F, mbandf.com 3 Capeland 10065, £2,940, Baume et Mercier, thewatchgallery.co.uk 4 Crocodile card holder, £150, Santiago Gonzalez, mrporter.com 5 18-karat white gold cufflinks, £4,400, Breguet, breguet.com 6 Grained leather black poker set, £575, Thomas Lyte, thomaslyte.com 7 Paisley-patterned silk-twill bow tie, £95, Drake’s, drakes-london.com 8 Skull enamelled metal cufflinks, £125, Paul Smith, paulsmith.co.uk 9 Albemarle executive bag, £495, Thomas Lyte, as before 10 Woven wax-cotton belt, £280, Loro Piana, loropiana.com 11 Opus 12, from a selection, Harry Winston, harrywinston.com

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NEWS Canary Wharf Group appoints Landscape Architects for Wood Wharf Canary Wharf Group plc has appointed award-winning landscape architects Peter Walker and Partners Landscape Architecture (PWP Landscape Architecture) to landscape design the 20 acre mixed-use site at Wood Wharf, which sits immediately east of Canary Wharf and is one of central London’s most exciting future waterfront developments.

The firm has been selected to develop the landscape element of the Wood Wharf masterplan. PWP Landscape Architecture’s design brief calls for attractive new waterside parks accommodating a wide range of retail, leisure, cultural

and community uses, combined with European style-streets and squares, to complement the environmentally sustainable mixeduse buildings.

Robert Maguire, Project Director for Wood Wharf at Canary Wharf Group said: “We are delighted to welcome PWP Landscape Architecture on to the team to develop the landscape design for Wood Wharf. They will be working closely with architects Sir Terry Farrell and Partners to help realise our plans for this new creative district, which will contribute materially to the continued regeneration of inner East London.”

A helping hand for Christmas

Visitors to the Canary Wharf Santa’s Grotto over the festive period donated over £6,000 for sick, disabled or disadvantaged children, via collections for the Variety Club UK charity. Specially designed for Canary Wharf by Skye Stevenson at The Whimsical Cake Company, the Grotto was decked in candy canes, cupcakes, gingerbread men and towering piles of presents. It proved very popular with London’s children, who also took part in free art and craft workshops, festive face painting and a magical treasure trail.

Elsewhere over the festive period, Canary Wharf Group and UK Power Networks employees, together with representatives from the East End Community Foundation, delivered over 800 bags of Christmas goods to pensioners in Tower Hamlets.

During the effort, volunteers took time to stay and have a chat and a cup of tea with the senior citizens at the Sundial centre in Bethnal Green. Melanie Goldstein from Canary Wharf Group said: “It was great to see everyone working together for such a worthy cause. To be able to distribute the gifts to such grateful recipients was wonderful, and provided plenty of cheer.”

FINAL STEEL BEAM IS ERECTED AT 20 FENCHURCH STREET

The construction of London’s latest landmark, 20 Fenchurch Street, reached a major milestone recently as the last of 6,000 separate steel sections was put in place, joining over 8,200 tonnes of British steel which make up the unique flared structure of the building.

The installation completes the first phase of the tower’s superstructure on schedule and is a significant moment in the construction of the development, which is set to bring much needed new office space to a supply-constrained London market when it completes in just over 12 months. The occasion was commemorated by executives from joint venture partners Canary Wharf Group and Land Securities and the delivery team, who signed their names on the last ten metre beam at a ceremony on site. The milestone comes just eight months after the first column was erected in April; engineers have been working tirelessly to install remaining sections using the latest sophisticated computer modelling.

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how do i love thee?

let me count the ways Be it Italian or tapas, Japanese or Jazz, Canary Wharf’s restaurants provide for the perfect evening this Valentine’s Day

If you’re looking for something a little different this Valentine’s Day, Canary Wharf holds the answer. The idyllic setting for romantic brunches for two, exciting shopping, pre-dinner cocktails, fine-dining and live jazz, the area’s 240+ shops, bars and restaurants will mean you and your loved one are spoilt for choice.

Boisdale of Canary Wharf What better way to spend the most romantic night of the year than by listening to some of the most passionate soul music ever written?

Boisdale of Canary Wharf presents its Valentine Day special – The Spirit of Luther Vandross and The Gods of Soul: Fil Straughan. As the best Luther Vandross tribute vocalist in the world, Straughan has shared his Luther Show with audiences all over the globe, earning international applause from those who appreciate the heritage of Soul. Enjoy the Luther Experience alongside a special menu featuring foie gras, Wester Ross Scottish salmon and Aberdeenshire fillet of beef.

Boisdale of Canary Wharf, Cabot Place 020 7715 5818, www.boisdale.co.uk

Iberica Canary Wharf, Cabot Square

Iberica

Boisdale of Canary Wharf, Cabot Place

Showcasing the true flavours of Spain, and with two rosettes from the AA guide, Iberica Canary Wharf can’t fail to tantalise your tastebuds. Created by head chef Nacho Manzano, Iberica’s menu sees contemporary takes on tapas classics woven amongst more traditional dishes, like the time-honoured Spanish omelette. If you are looking for a contemporary and energetic environment in which to enjoy fine food with your loved one, then the restaurant’s unique take on tapas classics, along with its extensive selection of cheese and cured meats, which includes the famous Jamón Ibérico, is hard to beat. Visit on 14 February for special Valentine’s Day-inspired dishes. Salud!

Iberica Canary Wharf, Cabot Square 020 7636 8650, www.ibericalondon.co.uk

SHOPPING

Rocket Restaurant and Bar, Churchill Place

Obikà, West Wintergarden

Obikà Mozzarella bar Set in sleek, stylish, and modern surroundings, Obikà’s innovative contemporary design is as beautifully presented as the cuisine. The menu has been designed around their star product, Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP. Adding some soul to the Italian proceedings, Obikà will be hosting The Champagne Jazz Ensemble beiwteen 6.00pm – 9.00pm on 14 February. Having wowed audiences at festivals across the UK, Italy and Switzerland, renowned Italian saxophonist Tommaso Starace will be on hand to serenade dinners.

Obikà, West Wintergarden www.obika.co.uk

Rocket Canary Wharf If it’s a fun, lively and stylish restaurant you’re looking for, Rocket is the place for you. Downstairs, a ground floor bar serves fresh cocktails, wine, and Champagne, while upstairs Rocket offers sweeping views of the O2 Arena. This Valentine’s Day Rocket is offering a three course meal with an amuse bouche for £30 or the same deal with a glass of Prosecco or a Bellini for £35.

Rocket Canary Wharf, Churchill Place 020 3200 2022, www.rocketrestaurants.co.uk

Roka Overlooking Canada Square Park, Roka is a meeting place where food and drinks are shared with friends (Ro) surrounded by heat, warmth and all-embracing energy (Ka). The menu comprises dishes from a Robata grill, as well as from the restaurant’s main kitchen and a selection of sushi and sashimi. Roka’s renowned black cod and lamb cutlets are sure to appeal to even the most discerning of diners. Widely regarded as one of London’s best restaurants, Roka is jam-packed on ordinary week nights, so make sure you book in advance.

Roka, The Park Pavillion 020 7636 5228, www.rokarestaurant.com

Plateau Restaurant, Bar & Grill, Canada Place

Plateau Restaurant, BAR & GRILL Enjoy one of the best views of the towering skyscrapers by celebrating Valentine’s Day at Plateau which overlooks the glittering lights of Canada Square Park. A glass of Champagne will get your evening off to the perfect start before you sit back and enjoy Head Chef Allan Pickett’s stunning five-course menu, which draws on all his Michelin experience. The Valentine’s package costs £65 per person and includes a complimentary glass of Champagne.

Plateau Restaurant, Bar & Grill, Canada Place 020 7715 7100, www.plateau-restaurant.co.uk

Quadrato For a taste of Italy, reserve a table at Quadrato. Situated within the Four Seasons Hotel, the restaurant provides a stylish and inviting place where dinners can soak up stunning views of the River Thames. Start your evening in Bar Quadrato, a smart, warm cocktail lounge ideal for pre-dinner drinks, before sampling the rustic and vibrant cuisine of Northern Italy, prepared with the freshest ingredients.

Quadrato, Four Seasons London Canary Wharf, Westferry Circus 020 7510 1999, www.fourseasons.com/canarywharf

Roka, The Park Pavilion

Wahaca For a taste of South America, and Mexico in particular, make for the ever lively Wahaca. If it’s beer you’re in to, there’s an offering that’s different from anything else you’ll find in Canary Wharf. Alternatively, spice things up with an El Tesoro tequila, a drink that in Mexico is to be drunk slowly and savoured. Treat the street food selection of the menu like tapas and Wahaca will provide the perfect place to share your food with a loved one.

Wahaca, The Park Pavilion 020 7516 9145, www.wahaca.co.uk

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American Travel Holder £125, Aspinal Of London Cabot Place

Double Cuff Shirt £124, Alfred Dunhill Cabot Place

London Cufflinks, £45 Hackett, Cabot Place Albert Einstein Artisan Limited Edition pen £19,656, Montblanc Canada Place Heritage Zenith Watch £3100, Charles Fish Cabot Place

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Facial Fuel, £33 Kiehl’s Jubilee Place

to him

Pick the accessories he’ll love this Valentine’s Day, Travel Backgammon Set In Navy Pebble Calf, £250 Aspinal of London Cabot Place

whether it be watches and wallets or shirts and sound systems, canary wharf shops have it covered Channel Allure Homme Sport £51, Boots Canada Place Bourdon Double Zip Briefcase, £825 Alfred Dunhill Cabot Place

Westbury Box Calf Black, £370 Church’s English Shoes, Cabot Place

Saffiano Classic Belt, £75 Jaeger London Menswear, Cabot Place

Beoplay 8, £949, Bang & Olufsen 2-4 South Colonnade

SHOPPING

Blush Emerald in Fancy Pink £249.50, Carat* Cabot Place

Heart Lock Pendant £5,800, Tiffany & Co. Cabot Place

Pink Marc de Champagne Truffles, £22 Charbonnel et Walker Cabot Place

Russi Mesh Beaded Dress, £149 Ted Baker, Canada Place

Abigail Patent Leather Strappy Sandal, £295 L.K.Bennett, Jubilee Place

Veuve Clicquot Brut Rosé, £41.99 Waitrose Canada Place

Pink Flush Handtie From £40, Brown’s London, Canada Place

spoil her

Patek Philippe Rose Gold Nautilus 7010R, £22,070 David M Robinson Jubilee Place

From jewels and gems to chocolate and

champagne, choose gorgeous gifts to put a smile on her face Love Note White Sapphire Stud Earrings, £275, Links of London, Jubilee Place

Earl Grey & Cucumber Cologne, £38, Jo Malone London, Jubilee Place

Charm bracelet Pandora, see in store for details Cabot Place

Bijou Jewellery Box In Pink Lizard Print & Cream Suede, £175 Aspinal of London Cabot Place

In addition to over 240 shops, cafes, bars and restaurants at weekends and on Bank Holidays you can enjoy 3 hours’ free parking in any of the public car parks when you spend £10 at any shop, café, bar or restaurant in Canary Wharf. For a full list of Cafes, Bars and restaurants check canarywharf.com. www.canarywharf.com

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events

for the love of february laugh along with friends, reminisce at the cinema, and go back in time with a Valentine’s tea dance – plus a visual feast of sculpture and canvas

CANARY WHARF COMEDY CLUB Featuring* Hal Cruttenden, Mickey Sharma, Angela Barnes, Paul Chowdhry and Julian Deane Canary Wharf Comedy Club returns with five stars of the stand-up circuit! Hal Cruttenden, one of the top comedians working in the UK today, was nominated for ‘Best Club Act’ at the prestigious Chortle Awards in 2012. Angela Barnes, winner of BBC New Comedy Award 2011, brings her deftly crafted material along with Julian Deane who has been wowing audiences across the country with his genius punchlines and deadpan delivery. Joining them on stage is Channel 4’s Stand Up For The Week regular, and the UK’s number one Asian comedian, Paul Chowdhry, and your host for the evening, ex-professional cricketer turned comedian Mickey Sharma.

Tuesday 12 February 7.15pm (Doors 6.30pm) East Wintergarden, 43 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, E14 Tickets £12 Booking Information: In advance: Visit seetickets.com or call 0871 220 0260 (Booking fee applies) In person: On the door, subject to availability *Line up correct at time of publication Unreserved cabaret style seating, full bar, food & cloakroom. Only items purchased on the premises may be consumed

STARLIGHT CINEMA: THE BREAKFAST CLUB(15) They only met once but it changed their lives forever.

Five teenagers, each a member of a different high school clique – a brainbox, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse – are thrown together when they have to spend a Saturday in detention.

Wednesday 13 February 7pm (Doors 6.15pm) East Wintergarden, 43 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, E14 FREE* Director John Hughes, (1985); running time 97 mins *Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis Unreserved cabaret style seating, full bar, hot dogs & cloakroom. Only items purchased on the premises may be consumed

VINTAGE DANCE CLUB: VALENTINE’S TEA DANCE

Vintage Dance Club takes on a Venice Carnival theme for a Tea Dance with a difference!

Start the evening with a taster workshop and enjoy the dazzling displays of classic dances from Ragroof Theatre’s glamorous ladies and gents in gorgeous gowns and mysterious masks. Then take to the floor to waltz, tango and cha cha the night away with scintillating live music from the Berkeley Square Society Band.

Come early and enjoy tea, cakes and dainty finger sandwiches.

Partners are welcome but definitely not essential.

Thursday 14 February 6pm Workshop / 7.30 – 10.30pm Dance East Wintergarden, 43 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, E14 Tickets £12 (includes complimentary glass of bubbly on arrival) Booking Information: In advance: Visit seetickets.com or call 0871 220 0260 (Booking fee applies) In person: On the door, subject to availability

Unreserved seating, full bar, vintage teas & cloakroom

Canary Wharf Squash Classic The sensational Canary Wharf Squash Classic marks its ten year anniversary in 2013 so book your tickets early to secure prime seats at this PSA International 50 event and watch the world’s greatest players compete for the tournament title on the gladiatorial glass court inside the magnificent East Wintergarden.

This major competition presents a week of unbelievable action, sporting prowess and spirited rivalry with the thrilling grand final on Friday.

Why not spoil your friends, clients or colleagues and enjoy elite hospitality with fine dining and excellent wines on the gallery or, for a more casual approach, the VIP bar allows further exclusive views over the spectacular all-glass Pro Court and the enthralling world class action. canarywharfsquash.com Monday 18 – Friday 22 March East Wintergarden, 43 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, E14 Tickets from £15 Booking Information: In advance: Visit ticketmaster.co.uk or call 0844 847 2419 (Booking fee applies) In person: On the door, subject to availability

For more information visit canarywharf.com

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art Window Galleries The Art & Design galleries in Canada Place are open daily and showcase up-and-coming artists, designers and craftspeople. This month the galleries display:

Christiana Christoforou Christiana Christoforou’s work centres around the contrast between our public and private identities.

Leaving clay at strangers’ homes in London, she added a message inviting them to participate in her project by imprinting something of their identity into the material. Her final year college pieces consisted of multiple cast fragments of these collected identities from which she created unique jewellery. christianachristoforou.co.uk

Noor Abuissa

Noor Abuissa’s work stems from, but does not imitate, Islamic design, inspired by the balance achieved through symmetry in this geometric abstract form of art. Her practice developed while at college and she came to appreciate a more open interpretation of Islamic design by incorporating a spiritual form of abstract geometric art. Noor’s intention is to give the viewer a sense of calm and joy, similar to the feeling she experiences upon entering a mosque ornate with Islamic motif.

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Joana Laws

Joana Laws’ work ‘State’ was devised to capture the essence of change and transition. In doing so she questions the viewer’s preconceptions of photography: does it capture the real, or only the reality the photographer wants to project?

Joana wanted to capture matter that is in a state of flux; materials that are tangible but impossible to isolate, to freeze the moment and elevate the unrecognised and unseen instant. joanalaws.com

For more information visit canarywharf.com

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Nick Hornby & Sinta Tantra: Collaborative Works Nick Hornby and Sinta Tantra met at the Slade School of Fine Art, both graduating in 2003.

Since then Sinta Tantra, a colourist, has mainly worked on murals and installations and Nick Hornby has worked as a sculptor, until recently in monochrome, often in white, which shows the purity of forms. The difference in their sources and imagery gave them the impetus to experiment, coming together to make collaborative pieces. Tantra has introduced colour to Hornby’s sculptures, and Hornby has given form to Tantra’s colour schematic.

This exhibition is the first occasion on which these new, collaborative pieces have been shown. Honesty and mutual respect, together with individual strength of mind, are keys to their success in this venture.

Until 15 March Lobby, One Canada Square Canary Wharf FREE Tuesday 12 February 1.15pm – FREE Curator Ann Elliott tours the exhibition with Nick Hornby and Sinta Tantra.

Email visualart@canarywharf.com to reserve a place

Community Gallery: The Bengali East End Situated within Jubilee Walk, the link from Canada Place to the Jubilee Line, the Community Gallery is devoted to exhibiting work produced by local arts projects.

This exhibition was curated by Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives, charting and celebrating the history of Bengali people in the East End of London, and forms part of an ongoing project to fill gaps in its collections and ensure that the council’s archives reflect the histories of Bangladeshi residents. In partnership with the Swadhinata Trust, the exhibition was developed by Heritage Skills trainee Shahera Begum. This traineeship was one of thirteen placements coordinated nationally by The National Archives and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Until 6 March Canada Place, Canary Wharf FREE

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Kerry Darlington Exhibition – September 15th-23rd Kerry Darlington Exhibition – September 15th-23rd Personal Attendance –flux, September 15th 2pm-4pm With stock markets in a major state of and people experiencing poor or modest Personal Attendance – September 15th 2pm-4pm returns, many are looking for alternative investment angles. Acquiring art has long

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Gallery Rouge are the proud primary of Kerry Darlington in the representatives UK Here we explore the work of three artists who are worth keeping a careful eye on. of Kerry Darlington in the UK Hessam Abrishami Kal Gajoum Kal Gajoum paints in the style of French Impressionism, but with a modern feel. His crisp palette knife oil paintings are both compelling and powerful, conveying real depth and emotion. His skill is undeniable and it is little wonder that he is creating quite a stir.

Born in Shiraz, Iran in 1951, Hessam has been greatly influenced by the ancient history that surrounded him as a child.

His style is loose, vibrant and full of movement. Hessam describes his work as expressionistic, being influenced by the Italian masters.

Bill Mack

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Sculptor Bill Mack works in such a rare art form that there is nowhere to go to learn his art and no one teaches his technique. Combining low and high relief, incised lines, and elements in the full-round in sculpture works that are light enough to be hung on a wall, Bill Mack directly involves the viewer in thea 3-dimensional Year 2012,experience, Fine Artboth Trade Guild Awards textural and tactile, that is often startlingly real.

Artist of Artist of the Year 2012, Fine Art Trade Guild Awards

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fashion

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Carolina Herrera’s new collection celebrates one woman’s passion for the simple shirt that inspired a billion dollar empire, writes AIMEE LATIMER

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hen an established designer releases an entire collection based on a single item, it reveals a lifetime love affair that traces back to their very first fling with fashion. For Carolina Herrera, style always came back to the classic white shirt: “They have always been part of my life. When I don’t know what to wear I choose a white shirt. I love them, I find them fascinating. They can be part of so many different combinations. It is a safe bet.” With a personal legacy

as celebrated as her designs, Warhol’s muse and the woman who dressed Jackie Onassis, still unstoppable at 74, launched lifestyle line CH Herrera in 2008 as a softer sister for her eponymous label that boasts a staggering turnover of over a $1 billion a year. Launching this Spring, CH Carolina Herrera’s White Shirt Collection consists of eight shirts, each individual by design yet uniform in elegance, constructed from shining white cotton. With a new piece to be added each season, prepare to start your own love affair with this subtle statement piece.

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London Fashion Week February sees the return of London Fashion Week where breakthrough British fashion gets to share a global stage with the world’s most established designers. This year our eyes are on the achingly cool but wearable line Ant!pod!um. With previous collections inspired by everything from plastic surgery to robots, we look forward to seeing what has caught the eccentric eye of creative director Geoffrey J Finch this season. Expect colourful fitted silhouettes and tongue-in-cheek designs at the hotly anticipated A/W 2013 show on Saturday 16 February.

Get the look: Winter Wedding Phase Eight’s new online boutique has a section just for bridesmaids. Phase Eight Bridesmaid Dress, £120, phase-eight.co.uk, Aspinal Of London Clutch, £395, aspinaloflondon.com, John Lewis Court Shoe, £95, johnlewis.com

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style: her This season’s most wearable trends for the chicest woman about town

Look out for lucy

Lucy Choi is stepping a well-heeled foot out of uncle Jimmy Choo’s shadow with her own range of affordable shoes. Already known for her use of a shorter heel, she’s set for a bright 2013. lucychoilondon.com

Bright on the night

Expert tailoring is the secret behind the seeming simplicity of Goat’s playful and feminine designs. No wonder Victoria Beckham is a fan. From top: Rex Dress £395, Richmond dress, £395, both Goat goatfashion.com

Blazing neons and tropical animal prints lit up the Spring/Summer runways, suggesting that this spring, bright is beautiful. Aquazzura’s S/S 2013 collection is alight with candy colours, summer prints and foot friendly ankle buckles and chunky heels – great for comfort during those long summer nights. aquazzura.com

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ALL THE TRIMMINGS Staunton Moods was borne out of the culmination of the ponderings of an Aussie and a German. Deciphering the criteria of the perfect shirt for the working man led the duo to aspire to create it.

One year on, the newly launched website advertises something somewhat unique. Subtle and proper for the office environment, they conceal an animated zest underneath. Simply turn up the sleeves and button down after the day’s haul to reveal a sophisticated and colourful patterned trim for evening activity.

Conveniently low maintenance, they are noniron, machine washable and fashioned entirely of fine Italian cotton.

With an eclectic selection of limited edition patterns and various hues, in a classic slim fit button-down white shirt, they are an admirably aberrant concept. stauntonmoods.com

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three of the best... biker jackets

This season’s most wearable trends for the stylish man about town

Quilt Detail Leather Biker Jacket, Burberry Brit, £995, uk.burberry.com

CHINO CHAMPIONS

Bear Grylls may conjure up mental imagery of stagnant puddle water and acrid sheepskin, but he is also a beacon of endurance and durability for Dockers, of whom he has now been the face for a year. The leading premium quality chinos and khakis brand have released their S/S 13 collection. Conveniently neither smart nor casual, the chinos suit almost all occasions and are this season released in a full colour spectrum, facilitating coordination with that favourite shirt or pair of shoes. gb.dockers.com

spring preening Traditional, suave and naturally elegant; the new collection from Massimo Dutti employs natural tones punctuated with rich colour combinations that comprise an impeccable range. Quality abounds in their utilising of fine materials, such as cashmere blends, cottons and linens in their knitwear family. Moreover, sartorial trousers with new structures offer a wide array of colour and the outerwear range has introduced a new nylon/linen reversible parka jacket.

Renowned for their versatility and opulence, this new and inspired summery collection confirms this presumption, remaining functional, cool and perennial.

Knitted-back Leather Jacket, Lanvin, £2,430, lanvin.com

One Star Perfecto Leather Motorcycle Jacket, Schott, £980 mrporter.com

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Lilac fishnet cardigan, £460, Mark Fast markfast.net. Grey suit, £895, lilac shirt, £135 both Chester Barrie, 020 7439 6079 chesterbarrie.com. Lilac bow-tie, £55 and lilac pocket square, £26. Hackett hackettcom. Sunglasses, £617, Linda Farrow Luxe, lindafarrow.com

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Lime silk racerback top with embroidered neckline, £1,640, Gucci 18 Sloane Street SW1 020 7235 6707, gucci.com Pinstripe suit, £575, white shirt, £95 lilac pocket square, £26, all Hackett hackett.com. Imperiale stainless steel watch, £4,410, Chopard chopard.com xxxxxxxx 2013 CW 49

White cutout dress, £2,240, Hérve Léger 020 7201 2590. Sunglasses, £269, The Row by Linda Farrow, Linda Farrow Luxe, lindafarrow.com Grey houndstooth suit, £1,350, white shirt, £125 pink silk tie, £75, pink silk pocket square, £55 rose gold watch, £6,500 , all Dunhill, dunhill.co.uk

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White shirt, £95, Hackett, as before. Glasses £POA, Tom Ford, tomford.com. White and yellow silk shirt, £150, Jaeger, jaeger.co.uk. Enchanted lotus diamond earrings, £1,975, aura double halo diamond ring, £6,750, both de Beers, 50 Old Bond Street W1, 020 7758 9700, debeers.co.uk Mint fishnet dress, £540, Mark Fast, as before.

Cream nikita sunglasses, £198, nude leather Natalia handbag, £2,750, Tom Ford as before Hair & Make-Up: Enzo Volpe at HMS Creative using Nars Cosmetics

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Floris is delighted to announce the opening of a new Bespoke Perfumery Boutique at 147 Ebury Street, Belgravia, 282 years since Mr and Mrs Floris opened the doors to their first Perfumery at 89 Jermyn Street.

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Diorblush Cherie Bow Collection, £29.50 Boots, Canada Place

Damsel in Dior From Dior with love this Valentine’s comes the launch of the Spring Cherie Bow collection. Imprinted with Dior’s iconic houndstooth, the 5 Couleurs eye palette’s mix of pinks and slate grey balances daytime pastels with burning magentas for one stop transitioning from office to evening. Finish the look with a sweep of the Diorblush’s two harmonious shades. Focus the soft pink of the cheekbone and warm peach on the apple of the cheek for a natural contour and illuminated glow.

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get the look Treatment of the month Quick Fix Time consuming full body massages aren’t the only way to relax when, at 25 minutes, Reebok’s Spa’s Intensely Nourishing Hair Treatment is a renewing break you can fit into your lunch hour or slip in after work. As you lie in a private suite the lights blur purple as your scalp is gently massaged with rich essential oils. It is a soothing experience made comfortable by the professionalism of the staff and the knowledge that unlike with other massages at no point will your knots be joltingly worked out. Instead the focus is on pure wind-down escapism that leaves your head clear and your hair wonderfully soft. £39, Reebok Sports Club, 16 Canada Square, E14

1 Guerlain Shine Automatique Hydrating Lip Shine, £24.50, selfridges.com 2 Elizabeth Arden Ceramide Cream Blush £24, houseoffraser.com 3 Ellis Faas Mascara, £20, Space.NK Cabot Place 4 Benefit Fine One One Brightening Cheek and Lip Trio, £23.50 benefitcosmetics.co.uk 5 Dior Cherie Bow Collection 5 Couleurs £41, Boots, Canada Place

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STARCK. A CLASSIC REVIVED.

Sanitaryware, bathroom furniture, bathtubs, shower trays, wellness products and accessories: Duravit has everything you need to make life in the bathroom a little more beautiful. More info at Duravit UK, Milton Keynes, Phone 0845 500 7787, Fax 0845 500 7786, info@uk.duravit.com, www.duravit.co.uk

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No sofa is more iconic that the Chesterfield, writes emma johnson

THE CHESTERFIELD...

Legend goes that the Chesterfield sofa is so-called after a version of it was first made for Phillip Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield, in the 1700’s.

Mostly found in the homes of the aristocracy in the 1800’s and regarded as a symbol of luxury and wealth, its understated elegance was desired because it allowed people to sit upright, while still remaining comfortable. Today, this timeless piece, still handmade by a small selection of artisans and craftsmen in England, conjures up an image of a smart study or cigar room, and is a staple piece in many gentleman’s clubs, offices and private homes.

Pictured: Benjamin Couch, £1,295, Fleming and Howland, chesterfields1780.com

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the designer:

tom dixon

Typified by a bold, industrial style, Tom Dixon’s lighting and furniture is both striking and unique things as diverse as motorcycling and disco, pieces are crafted in cast iron, metal, stone, felt and plastic, and use a range of curved and boxy shapes to inspire and intrigue. In 2012, the company also launched its accessories collection, Eclectic by Tom Dixon. A new direction for the company, it features kitchenware, doorstops, Champagne buckets and scented candles amongst its striking range. tomdixon.net

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ighting and furniture from Tom Dixon is proudly and distinctly masculine. Industrial, earthy and raw tones are combined with sleek lines and high-end finishing to produce pieces which enhance and elevate a space from the mundane to the dynamic.

A British design and manufacturing company, committed to promoting and reviving the British furniture industry, the brand is inspired by the UK’s unique heritage. Finding inspiration from

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Flocked Daphne Indigo Floor Lamp by Johnny Egg, £770 Heals, heals.co.uk

Eichholtz Atlantic Floor Lamp in Nickel £1,235, Occa Home occa-home.co.uk

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Main Floor Lamp in Orange, £399 Bo Concept boconcept.co.uk

Colour and shape define the trend for statement floor lamps this season, with inspiration coming from fashion and travel

Tripod Floor Lamp £165, Lombok lombok.co.uk

Maschio and Femina Floor Lamps by Jean Paul Gaultier for Roche Bobois, £1,590, Harrods harrods.com

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Our approach embodies a positive attitude to life particularly in the children’s early years development stage, as they prepare to start a journey through school life. At My Nursery we believe that diversity is a strength, which should be respected and celebrated by all those who learn in, and visit the Nursery.

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This month, the tallest building in the European Union opens its doors to the public. With unparalleled panoramic vistas of London in its entirety, The Shard is no mean feat, writes DANIEL ENGELSMAN

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iercing the heavens, the iconic Shard appears somewhat alien as it protrudes elegantly into the haze. Thismonth sees the official public opening of The View From The Shard, and with most tickets for the coming weeks almost already sold out the newest view of London is in high demand.

Numbers are strictly limited, making this a relatively crowd-free and uncluttered experience for guests, while long opening hours mean you can enjoy sunrise, sunset and night views over the City with no time restrictions in the viewing platforms.

Visitors are greeted by jovial, comedic collages of renowned Londoners, before being presented with a photo opportunity prior to entering the lift. Internal lifts climb 68 floors in around 60 seconds, trivialising what may otherwise be a daunting ascent. Up on the viewing platforms interactive tell:scopes identify places of interest via a touchscreen, while further up at Level 72 the outdoor 360Ëš view is spectacular. The vast span of the city adjusts familiar structures to appear as perfect miniatures. The experience is immersive and succeeds in framing the city as a whole entity; grand, diverse and unique.

IN SEARCH OF GREENER PASTURES

Highgate Golf Club, in North London, is the nearest course to central London and one of the city’s hidden treasures. Segregated from the urban hum, this private members’ golf club sits in picturesque isolation, with a full eighteen holes meandering over undulating countryside. To label the club as exclusive would be an understatement: membership applications are a rigorous process that begin with a written personal appeal, recorded referees and a certificate of handicap. Vigilant examination will then determine the category of membership for which the applicant is eligible. Have celebrated its centenary in 2004, Highgate has a lengthy history of attracting top golfers to the club. Conveniently located within hitting distance of the centre of London, any avid golfer could not deny its alluring appeal.

Highgate Golf Club, 020 8340 1906, highgategc.co.uk

IN THE KNOW Be well-informed on the course, the track, the pitch and the street, with our essential guide

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PAPER PUSHERS TO PEDAL PUSHERS Cycle To, the organisation behind the fundraising event Cycle to Cannes MIPIM, have announced that they again have full sponsorship to go ahead with their annual, professional-style event. Departing London 7 March and landing riders in time for the Cannes MIPIM property conference six days later, the tour enables the amateur cyclist to ride like a true professional. Precise navigation of six individual stages, traversing over 1500km, will eventually place participants at their destination, relinquishing them of their physical hardship for some due rest and relaxation, and some ardent networking. The 2013 fundraising target is in excess of £200,000. The majority of funds will go to Coram, who have a history of brightening children’s lives for almost three centuries. cycle2cannes.org

An award-winning research and development department, meticulous engineering and attention to detail attest that the brand new Callaway X Hot and X Hot Pro irons look not only stunning but are also physically superior. A speed frame face constructed with borrowings from Callaway driver technology allows these irons to be even faster and generate explosive distances. Feel management technology promises greater comfort and dynamism with every swing. Each has different technologies to maximise user performance. Whether you are a seasoned professional or enjoy the occasional round on a Sunday afternoon, these sleek new clubs will assist with speed and overall distance optimisation. callawaygolf.com

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FRESH CONNECTION Locating sufficiently spacious coffee shops with free Wi-Fi is tiresome in the evenings. The solitude and the undersized table that barely fits an open laptop can be somewhat gloomy. Fortunately, UK pubs are recognising that, in the current environment, adaptation is the key to survival. They have since gone on to become multi-purpose establishments, offering hot drinks, food and very soon; a reliable internet connection. The introduction of speedy Wi-Fi will make them a viable alternative to overcrowded daytime coffee shops. Lackadaisical internet speeds will be a thing of the past and a cold beer will serve as a fresh alternative to that coffee you didn’t really want in the first place. Sizable adversary in the UK pub industry, Punch Taverns, along with Wi-Fi provider, The Cloud, will install free internet services across three thousand of its establishments. Increasingly securing deals, The Cloud will service over eight thousand pubs. Caution is advised for those participating in pub quizzes, which may never be the same.

GOLDEN SWING Feted for the craftsmanship of its handmade clubs, Japanese company Honma has introduced 550 limited edition sets to celebrate their 55th anniversary. Dedicated to making only the finest of products, with supreme quality in aesthetics and performance, it’s no wonder astronomic price tags have landed patronisation from the likes of Donald Trump, Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito.

Embossed monochrome and gold trimmings are met by a lightweight carbon, while the colour-complementary, cow and synthetic leather caddy bags complete the opulent collection. honmagolf.co.jp

MEET THE MORMONS The visionary creators of South Park and Team America: World Police, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have exported their award-winning passion project across stranger shores. The 25th of this month sees the opening of their controversial and highlyappraised Broadway show, The Book of Mormon. This laugh out loud comedy about an optimistic Mormon missionary duo stacked up nine trophies at last year’s Tony’s.

Parker and Stone, who received an Oscar nomination for ’Blame Canada’ from their South Park feature length film in 1999, have co-written the show with Avenue Q creator Robert Lopez.

The Prince of Wales Theatre, Feb 29-May 6 2013, bookofmormonlondon.com

TWO WHEELS GOOD Petrolheads of the helmet-toting variety will this month have somewhere exclusive to amalgamate – the all-new Carole Nash MCN London Motorcycle show, which takes place 15 – 17 February at ExCel, promises to be the ultimate celebration of everything in biking. The entire UK motorcycle industry will convene in the exhibition centre for a show with a throng of stages, numerous events and some of the world’s best-known riders. The exhibition area will proffer a plethora of purchasable accessories, merchandise and memorabilia from leading manufacturers and importers. Away from the cardboard displays and glossy debuting machines, Revolution, a live-action show, features stars competing in close quarters over an Enduro style obstacle course. A £20 on the door, £16 pre-ordered, entrance fee affords access to both the full exhibition and the live show. mcnmotorcycleshow.com

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GOLF’S ONLY HANDICAP The latest from Volkswagen sets new standards for the rest to follow. And that’s despite the way it looks, says Matthew Carter

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he trouble with the new Golf is that it’s a Golf.” As the speaker is the head of public relations for VW in the UK, I prepared myself for a business scoop. I could see the headlines: ‘PR Chief Slams Own Company’… or perhaps ‘PR Chief Resigns After Gaffe’.

Sensing my increased interest he warmed to his theme. But far from digging himself a deeper hole, he went on to explain the bleedin’ obvious. The new Golf is the seventh generation of a family that stretches back 38 years – since 1974, a remarkable 29 million examples have been sold all over the world.

And it’s quite clearly a Golf. What the PR man was trying to get across is that because the newcomer looks so similar to the model that went before… and to the one before that, right back to the Mk1 in fact – many people will dismiss it as merely more of the same. Which, equally clearly, it isn’t.

In fact this is probably the most significant

Golf since the original. It is genuinely all new, not a mild facelift or lightly warmed over rehash of what’s gone before.

It’s slightly larger than the Mk6, roomier inside, better equipped and safer. Normally making things bigger and then adding more standard goodies piles on the weight. Not this time. Despite the extras, the new Golf is up to 100kg lighter than its predecessor.

And that means less energy is needed to drag it around which, in turn, means better performance, better economy and lower emissions. It’s a win all round.

The key is VW’s new modular platform (MQB, or Modularer Querbaukasten for fans of strange German words) which makes extensive use of lightweight materials while new production techniques mean it’s simpler to produce.

The modular format not only means it can be shared with similar sized models from Audi, Skoda and SEAT – the Audi A3 is essentially a Golf in drag, for example – but also means the clever stuff previously

restricted to larger cars can now be used lower down the food chain. For example, with no re-engineering needed, economies of scale mean the new Golf has all manner of electronic trickery designed to make life within safer and smarter.

Trouble is, the PR chief is right. Look at the new Golf and you’d be forgiven for thinking it is just more of the same. Put the new one alongside the Mk6 and you will spot the differences, but even then it would help if ‘Golf’ were your specialist subject.

The new one is a little sharper, a little more angular but to the causal observer it’s just a Golf.

The real changes can be found inside and on the road. This is a car that’s a cut above the rest. It feels upmarket, a real quality car despite the price – the range starts at £16,285, which is less than the entry level Mk6 model despite all the improvements.

Naturally the range topper will be the GTI when it gets here. Until then the top model is the GT, which is powered by either

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a turbocharged 1.4-litre direct injection TSI petrol engine with 140bhp or a 2.0-litre TDI diesel with 150bhp.

Performance is very similar, though the diesel is more economical and produces less CO2 emissions. But the petrol unit is the more interesting and, arguably, the more rewarding to drive.

Showing how far we’ve come, this little four-cylinder engine bristles with new technology including cylinder deactivation.

When you’re coasting, so the theory goes, you don’t need all four cylinders in operation so the system cuts two out to save fuel and reduce emissions. Unless you’ve got a very sensitive ear, the only way you’ll know this is happening is when a warning light on the dash is illuminated. Press the throttle and instantly all four pistons are back in harness to give you the power you need.

It all works spectacularly well and will regularly help you to get 60+mpg. And while eight-and-a-half seconds to 62mph isn’t earth shattering, it’s more than enough for most driving conditions: it’s only got 1.4-litres remember.

But being petrol, the TSI is smoother and quieter than the diesel and almost as punchy.

It comes with a slick six-speed manual gearbox as standard though an extra £1,415 will get you the exceptionally good sevenspeed DSG dual clutch auto.

This drivetrain refinement is matched totally by the interior ambience. It might be a little soulless inside the cabin of the Golf, but my goodness is it efficient.

Every new Golf gets a 5.8-inch colour touchscreen for all the infotainment features, and it has proximity sensors to detect hand movements before you’ve even touched it. On SE models and above it includes buttons to alter the car’s settings: the ECO setting, for example, controls the engine management, air conditioning and ancillary systems to eke out the fuel a little more, while the Sport setting adds more weight to the steering feel and stiffens the dampers.

The GT gets all this and adds standard satellite navigation along with larger alloy wheels, sports suspension, Alcantara seats and parking sensors.

And then there’s the phalanx of electronic gizmos designed to make life safer. The cruise control, for example, locks onto the car in front and if it slows, so do you. City Emergency Braking scans the road ahead and if it ‘sees’ the traffic ahead has stopped before you do, it will apply the brakes on your behalf.

A Driver Alert System checks on how you are performing behind the wheel and when it detects a drop off in concentration will advise you stop for a coffee. And if you’ve had an accident, the Automatic Post-Collision Braking System will step on the brakes to avoid or minimise the possibility of a subsequent collision if you’d been knocked unconscious by the initial impact.

The Golf will even park itself. Optional equipment includes Park Assist which will steer the car into a parking slot while you just operate the throttle and brakes.

None of these systems are new but until now they’ve only been seen on high-end Audis, Mercs and BMWs. That they can now be found, mostly standard rather than as costly options, on a car of this class underscores how far VW has raised its game .

The PR man was right. To regard the car as just a Golf would be to do it a huge disservice. Roll on the GTI.

Car: Volkswagen Golf GT 1.4 TSI Price: £22,960 Engine: 1,395, 4-cylinder petrol, front-mounted

Power: 140 hp Performance: 131 mph max, 0-62 mph in 8.4 secs Drive: Front-wheel drive, six-speed manual

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We prefer not to be measured by dimensions.

Unless it’s a new dimension of accuracy.

No fewer than four exceptional mechanisms enhance the precision of the RICHARD LANGE TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite”: the tiny fusée-and-chain transmission, the delicate tourbillon, the ultra-thin Lange balance spring, and – not least – the patented stop-seconds device for the tourbillon which makes it possible to

set the watch with one-second accuracy in the first place. Never before has an A. Lange & Söhne watch been endowed with so many complications that simultaneously enhance its rate accuracy, settability, and readability. And so, this remarkable timepiece truly deserves the honorary attribute “Pour le Mérite”.

Arije 165, Sloane Street London • George Pragnell 5 and 6, Wood Street, Stratford-upon-Avon Hamilton & Inches 87, George Street, Edinburgh • Harrods 87–135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London Watches of Switzerland 16, New Bond Street, London • Wempe 43-44, New Bond Street, London Lange Uhren GmbH • Tel. +34 91 454 89 82 • www.lange-soehne.com

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THUNDER ROAD Speedy by name, topless by nature, says Matthew Carter

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’ve never quite understood why carmakers insist on trying to make their convertibles go as fast as possible. After all, aren’t convertibles more about posing, about being seen, than they are getting from A to B quickly? Besides, drive one rapidly with the hood down and you’ll only get whiplashed by your passenger’s long hair.

Still, that hasn’t stopped Bentley pulling out all the stops to develop the Continental GT Speed, launched in January at the Detroit Motor Show. They’ve done it for two reasons: one, to lay claim to making The World’s Fastest Four-Seat Convertible™ and two, because the company has buyers queuing up to spend the £165,000 or so it will be asking for the car.

Based on the GT Speed coupé, the soft top is powered by

Bentley’s twin-turbocharged 6.0-litre W12 engine developing 616bhp. Forget 0-60mph, zero to 100mph takes just 9.7 seconds.

Top speed is 202 mph. It’s quick.

To match its prodigious performance, it has uprated and lowered suspension, huge 21-inch alloy wheels, a close-ratio eight-speed automatic transmission and four-wheel drive. In keeping with the ‘Speed’ name, all the electronic systems have been recalibrated for sharper responses, yet the car is as luxurious as you’d expect from a car wearing the winged Bentley badge.

The hood, meanwhile, is a four-layer affair which, claims Bentley, guarantees high levels of refinement and a lack of extraneous noise when it’s up, making the car as, “practical a year-round proposition as its coupé stablemate.” So that’s me told, then.

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the man behind Having reported record-breaking sales across 177 international markets last year, January 2013 saw Jaguar Land Rover announce 800 new jobs to support future growth. With Jaguar’s and Land Rover’s UK performance up six and 24 per cent respectively, Richard Brown speaks to the company’s managing director Jeremy Hicks

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ecoming managing director of Jaguar Land Rover UK in 2011, Jeremy brought to the role a wealth of automotive marketing and sales experience. He began his career with Vauxhall, performing a range of roles including sales operations director and sales and marketing director for aftersales. He then spent a short period in automotive consultancy before joining VW Group UK, where he carried out a number of senior roles. In 2005 he took up the position from which he joined Jaguar Land Rover – managing director of Audi UK.

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the wheel You’ve just announced record sales. What has been the key to the company’s growth?

If you were asking me to single out particular models, then the Land Rover Evoque has been a great success. It’s not just the sales; I think Evoque has really helped the Land Rover brand. It’s made us relevant by making us a lot more contemporary. The Evoque has pulled in customers from all areas and from all brands. The bulk of our customers are new to the company, coming from a range of other manufacturers.

How do you plan to maintain Jaguar Land Rover’s performance?

We can’t continue to grow at that pace forever. As a company, we have big desires to grow our international footprint. If you go back to 2005, Europe took 60 per cent of global sales. Last year it was 41 per cent. What that says is that we are growing sales rapidly elsewhere. We’re still growing sales proportionately in Europe but we’re increasing in other markets too.

How much has the recession affected you? What did you do to combat the downturn?

Jaguar Land Rover was hit really hard. We had to re-evaluate the whole business – what we did and how we did it. You can’t rely on one vehicle. We are a manufacturer of cars, not a manufacturer of one car. You need to have a spread portfolio. We occupy different segments. That’s really been the focus. We’ve moved into what we call white space, areas in the marketplace where there is opportunity. That’s what we saw with the smaller-sized SUVs, an opportunity in the £30,000+ area. We went ahead and now we dominate that sector with the Evoque. Below that, the Freelander dominates the area of the market from £25k to £35k.

What goals have you set yourself as Managing Director of the company?

To continue to grow. To continue to be contemporary, to represent and appeal to a newer, younger audience. With high-end products, you often end up with a demographic profile that’s skewed towards older folks, which is great and they’re very important

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“People want to buy into a brand now, a strong brand, not just something to get you from A to B” Have cars become luxury products more than just vehicles?

People want to buy into a brand now, a strong brand, not just something to get you from A to B. Look at Burberry’s sales growth, for example. People are going to either end of the market, either the budget end or the luxury end. Firms in the middle can find themselves being squeezed.

to us, but we want to make sure we maintain a balance across age groups. I want kids to be berating their parents to buy the new F-type because that is the coolest car ever. That’s what’s happening with the Evoque, the opinion former of tomorrow, you’re telling people today that that is what you’ve got to be.

How important are the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China?

Very important. From a global point of view, what we have to do is affect a very good spread of sales across the world in a sensible way. That’s what happened over the last 12 months. China’s a great example. I think what we’ve learnt from China is that there’s a huge appetite in the East for British luxury.

How important is environmental sustainability to Jaguar Land Rover?

Very. At the moment we provide carbon offsets against all new Land Rover sales. Part of the customer policy is that we offset the CO2 on those cars for three years. We’re also looking to the future and asking ‘what do corporate and social responsibilities mean to us?’ There are two things. The first is improving knowledge and education. As one of the biggest motor investors in the UK, we continually need better qualified people and we want to pursue improving education. The second is improving people’s lives, something we can do with things like Land Rover’s association with the British Red Cross.

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How will the automobile industry change in the next five years?

Five years ago, pre-crisis, the car market was up, around two million units. During the recession that number became significantly reduced. Although corporate sales didn’t fall by such an extent, retail sales fell dramatically. I think the market will begin to rise; we should be up towards the 2/2.5 million mark over the next two to four years. I expect to see strong performance at the premium car end – particularly when it comes to small-engined vehicles, vehicles that will be more economical fuel-wise and produce less CO2.

What is the most exciting car in the current Jaguar Land Rover range?

There are two. Firstly, the car I’m currently driving: the new Range [Rover]. It makes me love my 50 mile journey to work.

Secondly, the new F-type Jag. We’ve not given it to the press to drive yet but believe me, it’s incredible. I think it will really challenge the way people think about sports cars.

What do you most love about your job?

I love, genuinely love, working for a British-based business.

There’s a warmth you get from people, plus an immediate type of genuine feedback. It feels like you are doing something for Great Britain PLC. I’ve been working in the car industry since 1984, so this feels like a reward.

What is the most frustrating aspect?

Not progressing at the pace you want to. We are constantly coming up with new thoughts and ideas that I wish we could implement immediately.

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he influence of American sports in Britain is growing exponentially, TV stations are battling for exclusive coverage of the sports, and radio stations and national newspapers give increasing coverage.

But, how long can this last? And, is there room for them?

It seems, with plans from the top to permanently settle American teams in London, that we may have to make room. On any given week one can choose to watch five live NFL matches, five live NBA games and any number of matches from college basketball and American football, Major League Soccer (MLS), Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Hockey League (NHL).

Sky Sports and ESPN UK are the channels that lead the way, but both BBC and Channel 4 show a live NFL match each, and Sky Sports’ red button customers can also access a live, as-it-happens NFL highlights show that lasts seven hours, uninterrupted by adverts.

Both the NFL and NBA have played in London since 2007, all of which have been sellouts, and most intriguingly of all, the NFL has expanded from one live game per season at Wembley Stadium to two.

With more than five million UK viewers expected to tune into Superbowl XLVII final on Sunday 3 February, it is safe to say that a gridiron fever is sweeping these shores. NFL UK says that viewing figures for the flagship event are up 154 per cent since 2006, and that they have an ‘avid fanbase’ of more than two million.

Next season will mark a hugely interesting year for British NFL fans and executives such as Roger Goodell, when Wembley hosts two live matches. According to the latest reports, one of the two games is already sold out and the second half-way there, an encouraging number considering we are eight months ahead of the events.

Perhaps the most interesting facet of this deal is that the Jacksonville Jaguars have signed up to play in London until at least 2016. The Jaguars are what American analysts call a ‘small-market’ team, a team with little success and a small fan base. With this move to

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play in London in at least the next four years, the clear message is that the Jaguars are the team that may end up in London permanently.

“We think this [London] has got all of the basics that we need to be successful,” said Goodell in the ESPN interview. “It’s got an advanced fan base, a strong media market, a great stadium. So all those things contribute, let’s make it work.”

The Jaguars’ new owner, billionaire businessman Shad Khan, is also on-board with the scheme: “I passionately believe the big growth now is going to come from overseas,” said Khan last year. “We’ve got to go where we can leverage and take advantage of some of those things. You’ve got to fish in ponds where you’ve got fish in there. We’re going to a pond where there are no fishermen. To me, we’re all in.”

If the London fans take to the Jaguars then it could be a match made in heaven, but there are still some obvious difficulties.

The first is the travel burden on the players – some may not wish to travel to an entirely different country every weekend, leaving behind family, wives and children.

The greater problem is the British fans themselves – many fans already follow a

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team passionately so may not take to the Jaguars, or any other franchise, if they were to move to London permanently.

And despite comfortably filling Wembley in its current format, if this were to increase to eight matches per season then the likelihood of that decreases. NFL fans in the UK are not solely London-based, many travel from the far corners of the British Isles to watch the game, making a weekend in London part of their trip. Fans from Edinburgh, Manchester, Glasgow and Belfast are much less likely to spend hundreds of pounds eight times per year than they would be just to watch a one-off match.

In mid-December, ESPN UK signed what was at the time an exclusive deal to show three live NBA matches per week, as well as extended coverage of the playoffs.

However, in early January Sky Sports – perhaps buoyed by good viewing figures and a sold out game at The O2 Arena on 17 January – announced they have also entered the NBA market, committing to show two games a week as well as extensive coverage of the playoffs.

And though NBA commissioner David Stern admitted it would be ‘difficult’ to

have a permanent team based in London, due to the league’s hectic schedule, there is a possibility of it in the more long-term future. “I think multiple NBA International teams,” said Stern in an interview with Yahoo! Sports. “For sure. In Europe. No place else.”

In a previous interview he said: “I don’t think having a single team in Europe is practical. What I’ve said is if we’re going to have an NBA presence here [Europe] in terms of the league it should be five teams.”

London has long been considered the favourite for a team, with Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Rome also in the reckoning. London, however, has had a game here every year since 2007, and the British and American basketball teams sold out all of their games at London 2012.

Again, the same problems as with the NFL, namely travel and the dedication of the UK fan base, would be the major stumbling blocks. But if the rate of growth of these sports continues as it has done in the last few years, added to the eagerness at an executive level for expansion into this country, it would not be too bold to predict a permanent American sports franchise in London within the next ten years.

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AIMEE LATIMER admires how lendwithcare.org is taking UK investment to a global scale

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he financial aftermath of the recession has highlighted the necessity of finding long term solutions to repair the global economy.

Lendwithcare.org, an initiative from international development charity CARE International UK and The Co-operative, invites people to lend micro-loans to entrepreneurs across six developing countries: Togo and Benin in West Africa, Ecuador, the Philippines, Cambodia and BosniaHerzegovina. The funding allows someone from even the poorest

areas to approach CARE-supported MFIs (Micro Financing Institutions) with a business plan to receive an initial loan and help with building an online profile. UK contributors can lend as little as ÂŁ15 towards reimbursing the MFI loan so that while the entrepreneur repays you, CARE can invest in someone else.

Once repaid you can simply withdraw the money or reinvest in another business. Long term solutions to poverty put people in charge of their own futures creating a ripple effect of confidence, opportunity and security for their families and communities that really can change lives.

Global exchange The world of foreign exchange has changed radically in the past two decades, with internet and property markets being two major contributors. Peter Ellis charts this dramatic progression

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n the early 1980’s the only real need most people had for foreign exchange was changing money before going on holiday – once or maybe twice a year. This, more often than not, would be in volumes where the quality of an exchange rate didn’t make too much difference and people were more interested in the convenience of a high street location or the security of traveller’s cheques. By the early 90’s the situation had changed somewhat, with a significant increase in small privately owned companies choosing to import and export goods, leading to a much greater demand for exchanging and transferring money internationally.

To facilitate this growing need, a popular high street travel agent employed a team whose role was to establish trading limits

for firms based on their audited accounts. In theory this was a good idea, but in reality it was fatally flawed as the travel agent appeared to be totally risk averse and the credit lines offered were woefully inadequate.

The real explosion in the foreign exchange market came in the mid-90’s when the European property boom led to hundreds of thousands of Brits seeking holiday or retirement properties in the sun. By this time, the banks had realised that foreign exchange was a fantastic additional profit stream as they could make significant margins from private clients (often in excess of four per cent) and really only had themselves as competition. At this time the internet was nowhere near as prevalent as it is today and many people didn’t ‘shop around’, leaving trust with their own bank.

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At this time I was working in the futures and options market speculative sector principally trading in FX and had a steadily increasing number of clients asking for assistance in buying currency. This wasn’t for speculation, but for physical delivery to purchase property and was those who were frustrated at being beholden to just one source.

In April 1995 I established Currencies Direct, an independent currency brokerage in the UK. The concept and mission was simple, to enable private individuals and SME’s the facility to exchange and transfer larger sums of money overseas in one simple, straightforward transaction (in a similar way to how people had been buying stocks and shares for more than a decade before) while benefiting from commercial exchange rates, which until now had only been available to large multi-national corporations, governments or the banks themselves.

By the year 2000, when I launched Foreign Currency Direct online, currency brokerages had become synonymous with international property and the currency specialists employed by them were regularly being quoted in the press for their specialist insight. In addition, with more than 15 million people in the UK already being connected to the internet (figure from royal.pingdom. com), there was less and less need to be in a city location.

The rise of the foreign exchange industry over the last two decades has given both private individuals and business owners the ability to take complete control over their foreign exchange requirements, even in the most volatile of times. Understanding the importance of seeking expert assistance from currency specialists should never be underestimated; but failing that, if you stick close to the simple rules below you shouldn’t go too far wrong.

Peter Ellis is the founder and chairman of Foreign Currency Direct currencies.co.uk

1 Get comparative quotes: recommendations by a third party could be biased and they could have a vested interest in your transaction.

2 Don’t speculate: naturally you want your currency at the best price, but don’t play the money markets.

3 Be wary of bogus companies: any company that offers to make international payments on your behalf has to be registered with the FSA. Make sure you check the company you choose to deal with has fully audited, up to date, published accounts.

4 Use a currency specialist that will also let you trade on the phone: while online trading might be slightly quicker and more convenient you are left with no ability to negotiate and the broker’s margin will be built into the price you are offered. Speaking to a personal currency broker on the phone allows you much greater control over the rate you will eventually achieve.

5 Research the currency market: read blogs such as poundsterlingforecast.com or newspaper articles about the economy or currency markets to give you a headstart when you speak to a broker.

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Timebased Events is responsible for some of the coolest launches and parties of recent years, including running the GQ Man of the Year Awards for 16 years, hosting the reveal of the new David Beckham range for Emporio Armani and launches for Fendi, TAG Heuer and Ralph Lauren.

Emma Johnson meets creative director Richard Dodgson

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Why do you call yourself a creative director rather than the MD? To let clients know that we’re a creative company and we’re selling creative ideas, not a business model. We don’t mind if you come to us and steal our ideas, because we know we can come up with a better one next year. Ideas to us are free.

When you approached Condé Nast and they offered you the GQ Man of the Year Awards, was that a big moment?

In hindsight, yes. At the time no; we didn’t know what it would be. The very first event we did was at Café de Paris, it was a tiny budget, there were no celebrities, we only had a video of David Beckham! It was literally a video and a party and that was it.

Do you think you’ve been instrumental in encouraging the growth of the GQ Awards to what they’ve become today?

Facing Page: Selfridges’ Emporio Armani & Beckham Billboard Reveal, 2009 Above: Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb launch at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, 2006 Below: Carlos Acosta Dance Foundation Fundraiser at Royal Opera House, 2012

They’ve always wanted it to get bigger, but I think the one thing I was instrumental in doing was not letting it get too big too quickly.

There was an option six or seven years ago to do it in a bigger venue broadcast on TV, but I think it would have reduced the quality of the event, leading to less celebrities, and those that were there wouldn’t have felt relaxed. Our show is a very real, live experience where all of these people can be natural and be themselves.

So, from a video of David Beckham to the UK launch of his Emporio Armani underwear range in Oxford Street – things have changed a bit then?

I have to say, the Selfridges David Beckham reveal for Emporio Armani was well up there with some of my favourite moments.

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We had three minutes to get David on stage, do an interview with him and Gaby Logan and reveal the banner while Oxford Street was closed. The most terrifying part was that we couldn’t rehearse it. So we had no idea if it would work – plus they had already done it in the States a few days before and the banner reveal hadn’t come down quite right. But ours came down perfectly. We had that as a benchmark; and we made it better. It was incredibly complicated on a 200 year old building and there’s a statue right behind the banner, which we had to offset. It was nerve-wracking. The biggest thing was doing the event in three minutes with 5,000 people on the street.

It sounds like big events with huge guest lists and huge celebrities has become your USP… It has become a lot of what we do. The initial goal was to do theatrical events; it just happened that those sorts of events attract big numbers and celebrities. And we are good at delivering big events, even in tricky circumstances. Last year we were asked to do three events for K.P. Singh in India. One of the events was a sit-down dinner for 450 people, on his front lawn around his swimming pool, another was for 1,000 people on his golf course.

It really was on a massive scale. For the dinner, for instance, we had clear roof marquees, on several different levels; he didn’t want the lighting to shine in anybody’s eyes, but we still had to light the space. So we had to use a lot of lights, rig them on top of buildings, and use mirrors, even putting lights in the trees. But for me, and the team, it wasn’t horrifying, it was exciting.

Have you ever had to say no to things?

We must have done. But I can’t think of anything right now! Most of the time we find a way. In 2006, we thought about saying no to

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around them, rather than the other way around. We have always tried to tailor the jobs to work for the people, so the people stay. A lot of the effort of running a business of this size goes into making sure people are happy.

You ran a couple of events at the London 2012 Olympics; was it important to be a part of that?

We knew we wanted to have one key event at the Olympics, but we ended up doing two. One for the USA, running their hospitality in London, and one for Jamaica running Jamaica House at the O2. It was a 1,000 people facility, free to attend,

flying a car across the Thames for Vauxhall. We had to close the river to fly the car in front of the journalists gathered there and there were logistical issues with the river and the tide. But we did it.

That said, the only event that made me cry was the event in India.

We had 1,000 people in this marquee on the edge of the 18th green of KP Singh’s golf course, it was unbelievable to have achieved that.

The event space was the size of a football pitch. We lit the entire golf course, all the trees, everything – it was absolutely beautiful and really was perfect. And we achieved that with a team of 13 or 14 there, relying mainly on the local Indian workforce. It was a struggle to get them to understand what we wanted, because they don’t have the level of detail we do, which is exactly why K.P. Singh got us over there to do it.

Do you think that you were somewhat of a trendsetter?

I think we’ve been lucky with our clients. Selfridges, for instance, have had very unusual ideas which has allowed us to do some fun things. A helter-skelter from the top floor down to the ground floor at Christmas, for instance. Or the Glaswegian performance artist that had to swim through five tons of glass, put hooks through his shoulders and drop through the atrium and then hang in the window with syringes in him. It was all very unusual. The brief of that one was ‘make sure the guy doesn’t die’. The reality of that in a department store is quite complicated…but it was all really logistics and being able to say: ‘Yes, I can do that and my team can make sure these things can happen’.

with Red Stripe on tap, Jamaican catering, bars and VIP areas for all their ministers and government officials. There was a stage area where we had bands on from 4pm till midnight, plus Olympic events on a screen six metres wide. The noise in there was fantastic. The night they won the three medals was amazing.

On the BBC News after the events, they said: ‘See you at Jamaica House’. And the upshot from that was we’ve already met with the organising committee for Rio de Janeiro 2016 to see if there is an opportunity to do work over there, and it seems that there is.

We’re trying to create a model so we can have local partnerships, where we design and manage an international event from London.

Where do you get your inspiration year on year to ensure events always offer something different?

By looking at contemporary culture, trends in fashion and art. Colour plays a huge part in it too. And when there was a real push towards sustainability across the country, we used felt furniture, in a way making a statement there. And we’re often inspired by venues. We did something for Viktor & Rolf fragrances in an artist’s atelier just off Tottenham Court Road recently. It’s a very narrow painting room with two huge canvases on either side. We built a table to go all the way down it and had 25 people for dinner there for the launch of Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb. We decorated the whole venue with the ribbon wrapping and candle-stamps of the bottle along the painting frames and had spilled paint down the sides with flowers.

Any dream venues you are yet to work in?

How do you put together your team?

I want to do the first event in space. And actually we’re working with Virgin Media at the moment, so there’s a good angle! We’ve also done some events for Richard Branson as well, and it would have to be with him involved, I’m sure.

When you advertise a job, you’re advertising what you’re looking to achieve. When you find the right person, you make that job fit

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Shape of things to come

The past two decades have seen growth and development in Canary Wharf at an extraordinary rate. And there’s lots more to come. John Garwood, group company secretary at Canary Wharf Group, shares with Emma Johnson his thoughts about building a city for the future

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CANARY WHARF was built as a reaction to a demand for space. At the time this demand

This year we’re focusing on the opening of the lower levels at Jubilee Place. The site

was coming from the financial services industry, which is why the buildings are very large with flexible space inside.

Nowadays, there aren’t as many big banks moving here – many of them are here already – so we’ve started looking at the telecoms, media and technology sectors, to make sure the space we offer is going to be attractive to them, which will give a new dimension to the area.

will open in March for people to walk through, and the retail units will open in November. In addition, we’re working on the plans for Wood Wharf – it’s not going to be ‘Canary Wharf: Mark Two’, but will be lower rise, a European style street pattern, with waterside parks and ground level retail – it will have a high street feel to it. We’re also really keen that people can live close to where they work, which is why Wood Wharf may be around two

Technology is such a key part of Canary Wharf that we will be opening a new initiative in March. Level 39, at

My favourite building changes. I like the Barclays Capital

There’s over 15 million square feet of development here.

The highlight of last year was, of course, the Olympics – it was a fantastic window for London. The eyes of the world were on London, and what was so amazing was how the spotlight was focused on East London – something we couldn’t have imagined ten years ago. That was very important to us.

We’ve been lucky enough to work with people such as Norman Foster to create what is here now. We want to have coherence without total similarity, so we’re trying to create feelings of a different style.

Although Canary Wharf looks like a series of similar big blocks from a distance, if you look closer, each of the three phases have a different feel to them. The first phase was lower rise with more brick cladding; the second phase was very high rise, and clad in metal mainly; the third phase is a mixture of cladding and glass.

One Canada Square, will be an office and social space for small businesses to create, test and market new technology products.

We want to identify and encourage the next generation of tech companies to establish themselves at Canary Wharf, especially those dealing with the financial services sector, which perfectly brings together the two key arms of our community here.

To put that into perspective, One Canada Square is one million square feet, and in terms of work still to do, there’s still 11 ½ million square feet to go, which also includes the Shell Centre and the Walkie Talkie buildings in the City, along with development on Wood Wharf, Heron Quay, Crossrail and North Quay. It’s a plan for the next 20 years or so, nothing stands still.

to build top down, rather than bottom up.

We put the floor in first, and build under that. It’s faster and safer to do it that way.

Building the station ourselves has also meant we are able to put four floors of retail above the station, which is exciting.

We’re planning on having things like a boutique cinema, a table tennis bar, and white collar boxing, amongst other things.

Then on top of that there’s going to be a rooftop park, with a wooden lattice roof, part open to the air, part covered.

thirds residential; we’re also planning a completely residential development at Newfoundland. This will be over 400,000 square feet, dedicated to residential space.

We worked really hard to bring Crossrail here, because we know it’s going to transform the way London works. Some of our more pioneering ways of working have ensured that the predicted £1 billion to build the station has been halved. We have an extraordinary piling machine which means we didn’t have to de-water the dock – saving time and money. We have also developed a way

building – one of the lower rise buildings – and the Norman Foster-designed HSBC building too. But it’s one Canada Square, where our offices are based, that remains a constant for me. Not only is it so iconic, but the steel cladding means it looks different in different lights – I used to work in the City and would look across at this building, and when the sun went down it was like this bar of gold. And as a building to have that sort of life, is unusual.

The future is exciting.

The building at 25 Churchill Place is nearly finished, which is very symbolic for us, as it’s the last building on the original Canary Wharf masterplan to be built.

But we’re certainly not finished! With the development of Heron Quay, North Quays and Wood Wharf, there’s a lot still to come.

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Love is complicated, but Valentine’s day doesn’t have to be, with a sophisticated night of tried and tested romance at the Four Seasons Hotel London at Canary Wharf, writes AIMEE LATIMER

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he potential to gain favour on Valentine’s Day is huge, creating a ‘remember when’ get-out clause for a year’s worth of future mishaps. Yet beware, a disastrous date of poor service and worse food is the surest way to the keep the labels on the lace underwear you so optimistically bought. Allow your head to lead your heart this year, by booking a foolproof day of romance at the Four Seasons Hotel London in Canary Wharf. Escape together with a spa treatment which includes a rose petal and milk foot ritual, a honey body scrub and a rose

and jasmine massage. Senses alight, wind down in the couples’ suite looking out on the captial’s lights from your own secluded spot. For dinner be tempted by the Foods Of Love menu at the Four Season’s celebrated northern Italian restaurant, Quadrato, where five decadent courses include a highlight of Colchester oyster salad and Prosecco jelly. Too full or amorous to leave? Why not spend a night in one of their luxury rooms?

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INSIDER TRADING DON’T MIND THE CLOSING DOORS It could not possibly get more selective than a one-night only, ticketed event with limited numbers. Forty auspicious diners will enjoy a unique soiree at the hands of executive chef, Nacho Manzano at Iberica, Canary Wharf on the 12 February. He will be presenting an exclusive menu from his double Michelin-star anointed restaurant, Casa Marcial in Spain. The private guests can expect no interruptions as the restaurant will be closed to other diners for the duration of the evening. The £100 ticket (per person) includes both dinner and wine. For the discerning foodie, this is one to mark in the diary.

Iberica, 12 Cabot Square

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WHAT’S IN THE BOX? While sharing may be caring, this is one of those gifts that, once received, may need to be rationed off, if shared at all. Hotel Chocolat presents ‘The Sleekster Love Collection’; a smorgasbord of exquisitely gathered and unique fillings that include sour-sweet fruits, caramels, deep chocolate mousse, melt-in-the-mouth pralines and cream truffles with a sparkling champagne centre. Amazing to look at, they taste even more remarkable.

SOME LIKE IT HOT When executive chef Navin Bhatia declares that a signed disclaimer is required before endeavouring to ingest the Bhut naga or Naga Jholakia, the hottest chili in the world, it is unclear as to whether or not he’s having us on. The curry and chilli festival at Dockmaster’s House explores the Indian mastery of an indigenously South American product. Some of the finest curries from different parts of India have been added to the menu for this splendid homage to the proficiency of chilli-rooted cuisine. Each curry is served with a complimentary bottle of Cobra beer to alleviate the taste buds.

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Emma Johnson enjoys authentic cuisine and an exemplary wine list at Spanish eatery Iberica

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ituated round the corner from Boisdale, the two floor, wood and tile-clad space at Iberica is modern in style but classic in inspiration, and everything from appetisers and charcuterie, to the staff and service, is unashamedly Spanish.

We kick off our dinner with a portion of padron peppers and a delicious glass of their excellent house Cava, a revelation of crisp fruit. We sip it happily while perusing the extensive and interesting menu. On offer, is a range of everything from croquettes, jamón cuts and cured meats to tapas and sharer plates, as well as family-sized portions of paella on Sunday lunches.

Head chef Nacho Manzano pops out to advise us on some of his favourite dishes, and he’s as charming as he is passionate about the menu. On his wise advice we start with ham croquettes – a wonderful, warming way to begin the meal – and follow this with asparagus toast, divinely drizzled in truffle oil.

While we decide what we want next, we turn our attention to wine. The first page of the wine list has an enticing selection of fine and rare wines, ranging upwards from £115, with a selection of some of the Riojas available. A little further down the list, a wealth of options include a 2005 Dinastia Vivanco Reserva, and the III A.C, Bodegas Beronia 2004 that we finally decide on – a wonderful, bold and smoky tipple, with strong fruit.

Next up food-wise is the (almost compulsory) cured hams section; the platter that arrives is resplendent with chorizo, pork loin, salchichon, cecina and, of course, Iberico ham – and it’s wonderful.

Spicy chorizo and pungent pork loin is well-matched with our delicious Rioja. We then select a few dishes from the ‘Sea’ and ‘Land’ sections. Black rice with cuttlefish, prawns and alioli is a classic dish well-executed, while pan fried scallops and cauliflower puree is an impressive rendering of a very much on-trend combination of flavours. In the meat section, we enjoy fabada, an Asturian white bean stew – a hearty, warming dish with bags of flavour – and crispy confit Segovian suckling pig, expertly cooked, and instantly moreish.

The atmosphere throughout our meal is lively and friendly, our ground floor seat affords great views to the mezzanine level; service is warm, attentive and well-informed. Iberica is a casual, relaxed place to dine, perfect for a mid-week bite or a weekend indulgence, and a godsend for anyone craving traditional Spanish fare.

t may only take a five minute walk from Canary Wharf’s underground to reach Amerigo Vespucci, but my shivering guest and I were delighted to enter the warm, cream interior. And we were not alone. By 8pm, every seat in the Italian restaurant was filled by a chattering clientele ranging from workers in office suits to first dates, many of whom were ordering with such enthused familiarity we presumed they must be loyal regulars. With a glass of Prosecco we helped ourselves to a board steeped with thick cuts of Italian breads which we dipped in the olive oil and balsamic vinegar found bottled on our table.

On asking the waiter’s recommendation, his praise of the fresh Pacific prawns, pan-seared with garlic butter starter was wellfounded. The prawns were plentiful and tender in this simple but effective sauce. Well-presented, they arrived alongside a finger bowl, warmed and fragranced with lemon and petals. My guest chose a starter of fine Parma ham, buffalo mozzarella and roasted red peppers, a dish which can be made or ruined by the quality of the ingredients, that was both fresh and flavourful.

The wine list ranged from a £20.50 South African Chenin Blanc to a £61 Brunello Di Montalcino with a choice of fine champagne available by the bottle. Kept in a cooler, our wine was attentively topped up by an abundance of waiters, which can often make a meal feel chaotic, yet their bustling energy was intoxicating. We felt comfortable to laugh and talk freely neither shouting across the table nor having to chat in hushed tones.

My main of fettuccine al salmone, though delicious, was overshadowed by my guest’s excellent special of a Dover Sole rubbed in pesto and lightly seared for a golden crispness. The service was fast, yet they didn’t mind when we dithered over desserts, even recommending a glass of Moscato d’Asti, a honeyed dessert wine, to sip as we chose chocolate profiteroles and torta di Amaretto, a light almond sponge with crunched amaretto biscuits. We stayed late, sipping coffee over a complimentary plate of Italian biscuits.

Italian food is done often and done well, but it is the atmosphere Amergio Vespucci has in abundance that explains why it has been serving happy customers for 17 years. Well-sourced ingredients served by utterly charming staff to an appreciative audience brings the vibrancy of Italian culture here to Canary Wharf.

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During the past 12 months, former investment banker Pavel Titov has become the chairman of Russia’s oldest sparkling wine producer, overseen the completion of a new project in Champagne and helped to promote the virtues of Russian gastronomy. James Lawrence meets the man who risked it all for wine and asks: would he ever return to the Square Mile?

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f one were to imagine the most likely candidate for heading up a sparkling wine house, former CASS Business School graduate Pavel Titov might, to put it mildly, not come very near the top of the list. Born in Moscow, Pavel spent his early years in Russia before immigrating to the UK and working for Merrill Lynch, where he specialised in the origination and execution of equity markets – hardly an obvious candidate to end up producing fizz.

However, Pavel, a long-time wine enthusiast, was presented with an opportunity to help revive the fortunes of ailing Russian wine estate Abrau-Durso, which his father Boris Titov, formerly a petrol-chemical trader, had purchased in 2008. Pavel explains: “Abrau-Durso was founded in 1870 on the shores of Lake Abrau in the Caucasus, initially set up only to serve the Russian royal family’s needs. After the Russian revolution in 1917 the estate became a favourite of Stalin, who was convinced that Champagne should be the people’s drink and set AbrauDurso on a mission to bring Russian Champagne to the masses. Sadly, after the Soviet Union’s collapse the winery was left to rot and production stopped.”

Boris Titov, nonetheless, saw potential in the dilapidated winery and dying vineyards, but he knew he could not go it alone. After some persuasion, Pavel Titov left his lucrative city career behind him and joined his father’s company Solvalub as the project’s financial director in 2009.

“The early days were largely uncertain,” Pavel admits.

“We needed to recuperate our investment quickly and the estate was a mess. I must admit, the thought that I

had made the wrong decision occurred to me more than once.” Ultimately though, the family stayed the course and oversaw the investment of over €20 million into the project, rebuilding the winery and adding a hotel and spa.

Their bold move has paid dividends: in 2011 they sold over 18 million bottles of their sparkling wines, which are now available in such prestigious locations as London’s Sketch restaurant and The Waterside Inn. Pavel now works in collaboration with Russian chef Anatoly Komm, the country’s rising star of molecular Russian gastronomy, to promote his wines on the world stage. Content to let his son run the show, Boris Titov retired in June 2012 making Pavel chairman of the board of directors.

Pavel’s success as a wine marketeer is impressive, however, he is not one to sit idly back and enjoy the spoils.

He also oversaw the purchase of a derelict Champagne house in July 2010, and recently completed the estate’s new winery. The Titov’s new brand of organic Champagne – Foliage – is selling well and they also plan to release a new ultra-premium brand of champagne – Chateau D’Avize – to rival the likes of Salon and Selosse.

So, the question remains, would he consider giving up his position and returning to the pleasures of investment banking? “It’s unlikely, simply because of the task I have set myself,” is the 28 year old’s reply. “My goals are to continue to raise the quality of our sparkling wines, find new projects to restore and for Abrau Durso to be the first Russian sparkling wine brand known across the world. It’s probably a lifetime’s work. And to be honest, I’d take wine over banking any day!”

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NOT JUST FOR GIRLS These days, spa treatments are not just reserved for women, and as if to prove this point, The Spa at the Mandarin Oriental in Singapore has launched a new series of face and body treatments designed specifically for men. Facial treatments, manicures and pedicures do everything from awakening the weary traveller to brightening the complexion, while the marathon three hour Alpha Male treatment is a tripletiered process beginning in the steam room, moving on to an exfoliating body treatment, a facial and finishing with a choice of two varieties of massage.

Gentlemen, don’t be shy: sometimes you have to man up to cool down. mandarinoriental.com

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Once sporadically frequented by partygoing backpackers, Koh Samui has since developed into an exclusive tropical retreat. Fringed by a surfeit of islands with the enchanting waterfalls and ancient rainforests which comprise Ang Thong National Marine Park, is the Vana Belle.

Suites all have private pools and endless ocean views, while two restaurants and an open air lobby lounge provide plenty of places to eat and drink. During the day there are Thai cookery classes or yoga classes, while the spa provides a varirety of locally-inspired signature treatments. luxurycollection.com/vanabelle

Beautiful TORQUAY On the northern side of the miniature Torquay peninsula is the tranquil and little-known Babbacombe Bay. Indented into the landscape and overlooking the bay’s sizeable beach is the Cary Arms, a quaint and charming luxury boutique hotel. Boasting the best of traditional gastro-pub dining, it has bright and spacious seaside-themed rooms which have been designed by Kathleen Fraser. The White Company paraphernalia lines the bathroom shelves, exemplary of the inn’s high standards, while activities such as coastal walks make for excellent daytime diversions. On returning to the hotel, the Cary Arms spa’s offering of hot stone massages will ease your aches and pains, even in the highly unlikely case that the commodious bed cannot. caryarms.co.uk

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Dave Waddell experiences an African epiphany in beautiful Tanzania

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lephant.” We stand stock still. I hear them – great tearing sounds, followed by a dull crush and then silence. I look up, in the general direction of the noise. At first, all I can see is forest and patches of sand, the odd palm, a dead tree, its uppermost branches three fingers against the skyline.

Then, as my eyes begin to behave themselves, I spot a black shape move through the green, and then another, and then they’re everywhere: elephants, a small herd, 25 odd metres away, browsing the trees. They haven’t noticed us.

We’re downwind and stood in a dry gully. All the same, we’re close, close enough to be a threat. If something does go wrong, there wouldn’t be much I could do. However, and strangely, I’m not afraid. This is the Selous, in Tanzania, one of Africa’s wildest reserves; I’m on foot, protected only by Hamze Mmole, my guide, and by our scout, the perfectly named Polycarp Pangani, who is carrying a very small looking rifle. I’m not anxious, or afraid. On the contrary: I feel well, truly alive and, dare I say it, like laughing.

If walking long distances, as the German film director Werner

Herzog would have it, has the power of revelation, a revelation more about the magic of creation than it is getting from A to B, or even finding something special on the way, then walking the Selous is, in my very unprofessional opinion, the ultimate in what in days gone by might be called making a spiritual quest. Now, to be sure: I’m not religious; and this is not my first experience of Africa, of the wild. I grew up in Kenya, and prior to arriving yesterday at the Selous’s Sands River Lodge, home for two short nights, I’ve spent an eye bogglingly fine week traversing much of Tanzania’s northern circuit, from super-dry Tarangire National Park, to the lush foothills of Ngorongoro Crater to the just greening plains of the Serengeti. I’ve driven through swamps teeming with grazers, slept to the sound of lion, crossed a Mara River jammed with the migrating dead and experienced firsthand the way a tsetse fly will suck your blood – life, beauty; death, pain; the whole shebang, in seven days.

Plus, nearly everywhere there has been elephant. I’ve seen a family gore the innards out of a Baobab tree, witnessed groups covered in dust, play in water, or appear as flickering blobs on a horizon obscured by heat. Once, near Lake Manyara, with my driver-guide-come-master storyteller, Masaa Kimaryo, I even

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Nothing compares to being out here, on foot, in the Selous. Nothing - not last week, not yesterday, not even last night found myself, our vehicle, in the middle of a herd, elephant crossing in front and behind. Initially a tad distracted by Kimaryo’s most recent tale, a somewhat frighteningly detailed account of the day he was circumcised, I began to pay the elephants due attention when one, instead of crossing the road, turned, flapped its ears (ever so slightly) and began to amble in our direction. In the time it took to wave its trunk, jut the air with its tusks, stamp and pass extremely close to me, I had forgotten how to breathe, think, be. Behold: the idiom ‘frozen with fear’ is hereby revived.

Nonetheless, nothing compares to being out here, on foot, in the Selous. Nothing – not last week, not yesterday, not even last night, the sun setting over the Rufiji River, sandbanks spotted with hippo, the prospect of one of Sands River’s legendary suppers in the offing, a most marvellous gin and tonic paving the evening’s way. Out here there is no past, no future. In an hour we will reach Lake Tagalala, where, under cover of a Borasis palm forest, we’ll breakfast (eggs, bacon, the works) and spot crocodile glide log-like through the pale water. This afternoon we will loll in hot springs, watch as 300 odd hippo squeeze into a pool-sized pond, enjoy the rarest of steaks at uber-luxurious Beho Beho. Tomorrow we arrive in Zanzibar, four days of sea, dhows, Stone Town and a beach lodge called Kilindi. It’s going to be great, really great, but right now, it matters not a jot. For now, beneath a vast white sky, surrounded by 54,000 square kilometres of a land without houses, towns, villages, normal human activity, it’s just us, our boots, the rocks, the sand, some trees, a weak morning sun. This is Herzog country. Anything could happen.

And it has – already. We have been walking for only two hours, from dawn to now, the grey light thinning, growing brighter. We’ve covered at most five kilometres. Distance-wise, Herzog would call this a jaunt, a magical loosening, small potatoes. Except, of course, I’m no walker, and the Selous is working on me in quick time. I’ve seen birds in colours I have no name for, a pair of giraffes ruminating, bones cleaner than a kitchen plate. I’ve watched as a handful of male impala, excited by the new day, the perfection of their young bodies, chase each other – madly, back and forth – within a rock’s throw of us. The air is hot, the land is something else, and now I am here, in this gully, a million miles from anything I could lay my finger on and say: I know what this is. We are among elephants. My legs ache. I am sweating. I think of nothing.

Mmole and Pangani exchange a couple of words. The elephants have disappeared. We move on up to the left of the ridge, single file. It’s steep. I can feel the ground slip beneath my feet. Up ahead, Pangani vaults a rock. We breast the ridge and make our way down the other side. Mmole kneels - tracks, lots of them, giant circles of flattened dust. He looks up. They went this way earlier, he says, pointing uphill, but circled back. Panagani waits, rifle loose by his side. I study the tracks. I can see how the elephants’ toes bite into the ground, the way the pads move, the direction they point. We look down, the other way. The land falls fast, into more forest, then a lake. Suddenly, Panagani points: ‘Ndofu’. The elephants have spotted – heard or smelt - us.

They’re streaking into the forest. They’re too far away to hear, but, for a second, I see them, clearly: trunks raised, their silent backs shrinking through the green. Then, they’re gone, the lot, completely gone. I watch the trees. Nothing, no sign. I smile, and laugh. Magic. Pure magic.

more information Dave Waddell’s trip to Tanzania was organised by Africa travel specialist, Journeys by Design, journeysbydesign.com / 01273 623 790. For a two week private safari through the wilds of Tanzania costs start from £5,200 per person, excluding international flights. Mainland Tanzania safaris can be combined with a trip to the island of Zanzibar to finish the holiday.

Flights with Kenya Airways: Return Economy to Dar from LHR - £597.29 including tax. Return Premier World to Dar from LHR - £2576.09 including tax. Reservations - 020 8283 1818 / www.kenya-airways.com.

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glasgow Edgy, brash and a product of its spotted cultural history – Glasgow is the city that bites back Where to stay – Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens Very much a home away from home, Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens, set in the chicer West End of Glasgow, is the perfect place for a getaway. The tree-lined Victorian exterior is a prelude to the luxurious and tasteful interiors, which are punctuated with traditional Scottish features and tartan flooring. A boutique hotel with 49 rooms, it can satiate pleasure seekers, offering the indulgence of a whisky room and cigar shack, as well as a wine and cocktail bar. Grand and traditional, it still caters to the modern guest with meeting rooms, gym and high-speed complimentary Wi-Fi. hotelduvin.com

Where to eat – Black Sheep Bistro Multicultural Glasgow boasts a wealth of high quality international dining but there also exists a genuine mastery of the Scottish cuisine. Black Sheep Bistro is a great example of honest, hearty cooking with generous portions that command an equally worthy appetite. Immaculately presented food, atmospheric and with attentive service, this is the place to sample infamous national delicacies such as black pudding and haggis, which are innovatively combined with other complimentary dishes. Elegant and mouthwatering dessert pairings like the sophisticated meringue and puff candy ice cream also exceed expectations.

What to do – Loch Lomond Beyond the urban noise of the city are idyllic watery landscapes and mountainous highlands. The vast, and seemingly untouched, Loch Lomond can expect snow-capped hilltops at this time of year. This tranquil expanse has held National Park status for over a decade and is the largest freshwater loch in the country, exhibiting over thirty individual islands. A sense of wanderlust and a joy for exploration are readily satiable due to the wide variety of indoor and outdoor pursuits. Loch Lomond boasts galleries, monuments and even a distillery and a safari park, making it a choice setting for a day out. Braving the

From top to bottom: City Chambers; Loch Lomond; Hotel du Vin; River Clyde and the Squinty Bridge; interior of Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum

cold is surely a small price to pay for the wondrous allure of this bountiful locale.

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Don’t miss – The art scene Glasgow is a vigorous survivor, having struggled through a troublesome past to come back out ahead. Recent courageous art projects have aided in the regeneration and revival of the city’s cultural life. Revamped theatres and classical architecture have melded the old and the strikingly new, creating a vibrant cocktail of culture. The city centre is now awash with performance artists, comedians, musicians, vegetarian cafes and warehouse nightclubs. The newly reopened Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum portrays an honest and uncensored insight into the past of the city through an objective perspective of both the joyous and challenging aspects of Glaswegian life. They are a proud and spirited people and this charismatic resilience is discernible throughout this cultural capital of Scotland.

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Cool runnings Can you ever really get from the desk to the slopes in a few hours?

Elle Blakeman flies from the City to Chambéry to find out

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his year you’re going to be more sensible.

No more lengthy trips in the first six months only to find that your holiday has run out mid-August, along with most of the bank holiday ones. We don’t even have a royal excuse for a day off this year either. No, this year you’ll be frugal. But you want to go skiing, naturally – no need to be frugal and boring, and you’ve only got a limited time to do it.

Wherever you go, the general rule is to write off the first and last days for travelling; endless queues, opening and closing bags and shamelessly stuffing your pockets full of everything that won’t fit in your carry-on before a perilous three- or four-hour drive up the mountains, usually with French or Austrian men that you are certain should have lost their licence at some point in the 80’s, and then finally collapsing happily on a sofa with a beer, or the reverse if you’re coming home.

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more information British Airways offers a three-night fly-drive to Chambery from £209 per person based on Feb/Mar 13 departures. This includes return flights from London City airport and Avis car rental. For reservations visit ba.com/ski or call 0844 493 0758.

Peak Retreats offers three nights stay at the Grande Hotel des Thermes on half-board basis from £94 per person per night in January. For reservations visit peakretreats.co.uk or call 0844 576 0123.

Prices for a three-day lift pass for Meribel start at £87 for children and £108 for adults. A three-day Three Valleys pass starts at £104 per child and £130 per adult. Happy Mountains, Sport 2000 provides ski and boot hire from £33 per child and £47 per adult based on seven days hire.

ESF (Ecole du ski Francais) offers group sessions from £115 for five lessons, or a 2.5 hr private session from £85 for a group of up to six people.

British Airways offers daily flights between London City airport and Chambery on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Customers benefit from a quick and easy service at London City Airport, with transfer from kerbside to airside just 15 minutes.

Check-in closes 20 minutes before departure. In addition to free hold and cabin baggage allowance, all fares include free online check-in, seat selection 24 hours before departure and complimentary food and drink on board.

However, Brides les Bains, a minuscule town at the foot of Les Trois Vallées with its handy ‘backdoor’ access to Méribel, provides a helpful compromise, allowing you to get a good half day ski on both arrival and departure dates, meaning that a long weekend will leave you feeling like you’ve had a proper winter holiday.

Flying from City Airport to Chambéry, BA’s big idea is to go from your desk to the slopes in under four hours, and despite an unfortunate experience with a French Sat Nav, we managed this with time to spare. Obviously we then sat down for lunch and simply skied later in the afternoon, but we could have been skiing by lunchtime if we wanted.

Getting up to the mountains is a 25-minute gondola away, which is the price you pay for an easier home-to-resort journey, however for a long weekend this is a worthwhile swap and will earn you more skiing time and an easier life in the process.

Once there, the three valleys is everything you could want in a skiing holiday: long, impressive runs with incredible views, and a fabulous mix of green, blue and red runs, with the odd sharp black thrown in for some serious fun (beware the ones in the shade, they hide huge patches of ice, usually around half way down). This range of runs means that pretty much anyone can go and enjoy themselves, whether you’re entirely new to the sport or you just missed out on qualifying for the winter Olympics. A lot of the greens filter gently into blues, which will push basic skiers quickly into intermediate level, while the pros can go higher, selecting whether they want to tour the long winding slopes of Val

Thorens, or the tree-lined ones of Courchevel. There are plenty of places to enjoy once you’re up in the mountain, take the gondola as high as you can and try Panoramic for lunch one day – the collective view out over the whole three valleys is incomparable and will leave you feeling like you’re on the edge of the world.

Another must-visit is the newly opened La Folie Deuce in Méribel, a fun and super-chic restaurant with Ibiza-style music, full of beautiful people and dancing on tables.

Brides les Bains itself is fairly relaxed; without the party-hard, après-ski mentality, it really is more of a place to rest up ready for the day ahead. A former spa town, a visit can actually be medically prescribed over the summer months for those looking to lose weight and get healthy (N.B it’s only French doctors who can do this, sadly no NHS GP will fund your trip over). The imposing Grand Hôtel des Thermes is joined onto the town’s Grand Spa des Alpes, a huge spa including sauna, aromatherapy steam rooms, vitality pool, massages and, best of all, two huge outdoor Jacuzzis where you can enjoy the breathtaking views surrounded by snowcapped mountains.

The town has retained a quaint, Celtic quality that has perhaps been lost by the more developed neighbouring ski towns, perhaps in part as it has only had access to the slopes since 1992 when the gondola was extended down to the area. You will not find a Cartier outlet here, nor a place to invest in designer clothing, however the people are friendly, generous and interesting and you will be welcomed back by name if you return; how many ski resorts can say the same?

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Belgrave Court, Canary Wharf E14

Port East Apartments, Canary Wharf E14

Anchorage Point, Canary Wharf E14

Guide price: £1,050,000

SOLD Dunbar Wharf, Limehouse E14

Guide price: £1,100,000

“ We have been very happy with Knight Frank’s management of the sale of our flat.

Andy’s initial contact regarding listing the flat as well as his responsiveness were top notch. The photographer was professional and the brochures were excellent. The sale would not have happened without Andy’s efforts, he was always very responsive and available.”

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Landmark East, Isle of Dogs E14

SOLD City Harbour, Isle of Dogs E14 Guide price: £650,000

Guide price: £765,000

SOLD

Guide price: £1,700,000

“ Thank you so much for the excellent service you have given us-we were both so impressed with your knowledge of the area and the way you stuck to the brief yet used your imagination and offered us a great selection of properties. You were by far the most professional and organised person we met during this process and we have met several!”

LJ

Guide price: £600,000*

SOLD Chinnocks Wharf, Limehouse E14 Guide price: £635,000

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Concordia Wharf, Isle of Dogs E14

Pan Peninsula, Canary Wharf E14

Ocean Wharf, Canary Wharf E14

Guide price: £535,000

Guide price: £297,000

Guide price: £370,000

* sold above asking price

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West India Quay, Canary Wharf E14

Dundee Wharf, Limehouse E14

Discovery Dock, Canary Wharf E14

Guide price: £1,550,000

Guide price: £1,150,000

Guide price: £875,000

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Boardwalk Place, Canary Wharf E14

West India Quay, Canary Wharf E14 Guide price: £415,000

Guide price: £500,000

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Dunbar Wharf, Limehouse E14

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Elektron Tower, Isle of Dogs E14

Galaxy Building, Isle of Dogs E14

St Davids Square, Isle of Dogs E14

Guide price: £500,000

Guide price: £380,000

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Bartholomew Court, Blackwall E14 Guide price: £250,000

Guide price: £625,000

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Tafalgar Court, Wapping E1W

Lovely river views

A beautifully presented apartment in this great development on Wapping Wall.

Master bedroom with en suite shower room, second bedroom, bathroom, reception room, open plan kitchen, porterage, a secure car parking space and a private balcony with lovely views of the River Thames. EPC rating F.

To Let Furnished Guide Price: £585 per week

KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings wappinglettings@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5369 (ASP153133)

Cordage House, Wapping E1W

Brand new apartment

A smart second floor studio apartment to rent in the brand new Ballymore 21 Wapping Lane development. Furnished to a very high standard the property comprises a modern shower room, fully fitted kitchen, separate sleeping/dining area with a pull down bed, stone floors, a private balcony and a concierge service. EPC rating C.

To Let Furnished Guide Price: £295 per week

KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings wappinglettings@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5369 (ASP171144)

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Spectacular development A brand new stylish studio apartment to rent in the award winning NEO Bankside development in SE1. Separarte fully fitted kitchen, contemporary bathroom suite, reception room with a pull down bed, interior designed furniture package, comfort cooling and a 24 hour concierge service. EPC rating C.

To Let Furnished Guide Price: £450 per week

KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings wapping@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5369 (ASP173531)

Cinnabar Wharf, Wapping E1W

Outstanding views

A well presented apartment in this popular development in west Wapping. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (1 en suite), reception room opening onto a large balcony with spectacular views to Tower Bridge and the Shard, open plan kitchen, 24 hour porterage and parking. EPC rating B. Approximately 110 sq m (1,176 sq ft).

To Let Furnished Guide Price: £765 per week

KnightFrank.co.uk/Lettings wapping@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5369 (ASP172200)

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Reception room ø kitchen ø 3 double bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø 2 balconies ø porterage ø 149 sq m (1,605 sq ft) ø EPC = C

Reception room ø kitchen ø 2 bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø new build ø 117 sq m (1,260 sq ft) ø EPC = B

Guide £2.4 million Share of Freehold

Guide £1.3 million Leasehold

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Savills Docklands zjames@savills.com 020 7456 6800

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WEST INDIA QUAY, e14

2 reception rooms ø kitchen ø 3 bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø parking space ø concierge ø 224 sq m (2,415 sq ft) ø EPC = D

Reception room ø kitchen ø 3 bedrooms ø 3 bathrooms ø parking space ø 24 hour concierge ø 166 sq m (1,792 sq ft) ø EPC = B

Guide £1.549 million Leasehold

Guide £1.2 million Leasehold

Savills Canary Wharf juprowse@savills.com 020 7456 6800

Savills Canary Wharf wdickenson@savills.com 020 7531 2500

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BERKELEY TOWER, e14

DISCOVERY DOCK, e14

Reception room ø kitchen ø 3 bedrooms ø 3 bathrooms ø 2 parking spaces ø balcony ø concierge ø 156 sq m (1,680 sq ft) ø EPC = C

Reception room ø kitchen ø 3 bedrooms ø 3 bathrooms ø terrace ø parking ø 152 sq m (1,641 sq ft) ø EPC = C

Guide £1,299,950 Leasehold

Guide £1.2 million Leasehold

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QUEEN'S COURT, e14

MILLHARBOUR, e14

Reception room ø kitchen ø 3 double bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø w.c ø parking ø rooftop terrace ø 152 sq m (1,641 sq ft) ø EPC = D

Reception room ø open plan kitchen ø 3 bedrooms ø 3 bathrooms ø terrace ø study ø balcony ø 2 parking spaces ø 127 sq m (1,373 sq ft) ø EPC = C

Guide £1.05 million Share of Freehold

Guide £1 million Leasehold

Savills Canary Wharf wdickenson@savills.com 020 7531 2500

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BELGRAVE COURT, e14

HANOVER HOUSE, e14

3 bedrooms ø 3 bathrooms and 1 cloakroom ø balcony with river views ø 24hr porterage ø communal gardens ø EPC = C

2 bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms ø balcony with river views ø 24hr porterage ø allocated parking ø communal gardens ø EPC = B

£1,200 per week Furnished

£645 per week Furnished

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SEACON TOWER, e14

WEST INDIA QUAY, e14

2 bedrooms ø 2 bathrooms (1 en suite) ø roof terrace with panoramic views ø 24hr porterage ø communal gardens ø residents leisure facilities ø EPC= C

1 reception room ø 1 bedroom ø 1 bathroom ø 24 hr porterage ø allocated parking ø EPC = C

£595 per week Part Furnished

£475 per week Furnished

Savills Canary Wharf ssaul@savills.com 020 7531 2500

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BELGRAVE COURT, e14

HANOVER HOUSE, e14

3 bedrooms ø 3 en suite bathrooms ø porterage ø allocated parking ø communal gardens ø EPC = C

3 bedrooms ø 3 bathrooms ø terrace with river views ø allocated parking ø on site leisure facilities ø EPC = C

£1,350 per week Unfurnished

£1,100 per week Furnished

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BALTIMORE WHARF, e14

BASIN APPROACH, e14

1 bedroom ø 1 bathroom ø balcony with dock views ø 24hr porterage ø residents leisure facilities ø EPC = B

1 bedroom ø 1 bathroom ø balcony ø allocated parking ø porterage ø EPC = B

£415 per week Furnished

£335 per week Furnished

Savills Canary Wharf ssaul@savills.com 020 7531 2500

Savills Canary Wharf ssaul@savills.com 020 7531 2500

Landmark East, E14 - £349,950 - Leasehold

Landmark West, E14 - £350,000 - Leasehold

• Luxury development • 11th Floor stunning Views • One Bedroom • 24hr Concierge & gym

• One bedroom • Luxury development • 527sqft • Investment opportunity

Artemis Court, E14 - £560,000 - Leasehold

Landmark East, E14 - £639,000 - Leasehold

• Two bed, two bath • Gated development • Pool, gym, concierge • Allocated parking

• Two bed/ two bath • 20th floor stunning views • Allocated parking • 24hr concierge & gym

11 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf, London, E14 4HE

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Aqua Vista, E3 - £260pw

SpacE1, E1 - £290 pw

Aqua Vista, E3 - £340pw

• Brand New Apartment • One Bedroom & Balcony • Concierge Service • Langdons Park DLR

• Brand New Apartment • One Bedroom & Balcony • 12 Hour Concierge • Langdons Park DLR

• Two bed/ two bath • Terrace • Concierge Service • Langdons Park DLR

Landmark East, E14 - £380pw

Hamilton House, E14 - £410pw

Dundee Wharf, E14 - £425pw

• One bedroom • Luxury apartment • 19th floor views • Canary Wharf Jubilee/DLR

• Two bed/ two bath • Balcony with dock views • Parking & Concierge • Westferry DLR

• Luxury Apartment • Two bed/ two bath • Concierge service & gym • Westferry DLR

Landmark West, E14 - £530pw

Canary Riverside, E14 - £685pw

Canary Riverside, E14 - £1,200pw

• Two bed/ two bath • Luxury development • Gym and 24 Hour Concierge • Heron Quays DLR

• Two bed/ two bath • Prestigious development • Two balconies • 24hr Concierge & Parking

• Riverside Apartment • Three bed/ three bath • Parking & 24hr concierge • Westferry DLR

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AGENT SPEAK London’s best agents give an overview of the market in our areas

Lauren Ireland, head of sales at Savills docklands & canary wharf, comments:

Zak James, sales negotiator at savills docklands, comments:

Canary Wharf offers buyers very good value for money where they can purchase high quality specification and size for a fraction of the price in the West. Notably, here at Savills in Canary Wharf, there has been an increase in buying activity in the over £1m price band since the summer of 2012. Many of our buyers originate from overseas and accounted for nearly 80 per cent of our transactions last year, and have come back in full force in 2013. Another interesting trend we’ve noticed is the resurgence of the buy-to-let market at the top end, with transaction levels on the increase in prime developments.

Whilst nearly half of our market is from Asia, we are also still seeing an increase in European buyers, including those from Greece, France and Italy as the wealthy look to move their assets out of sinking economies. It is here that Savills’ global reach comes into its own as we are able to target those buyers from overseas whilst retaining a local knowledge of the area from our office on the ground.

One development in particular which has seen a huge amount of interest from buy-to-let investors is Pan Peninsula. Out of around 750 original units, only three Premier apartments are remaining which are likely to generate rental yields of up to six per cent. The development continues to be popular with the international market due to the fantastic facilities which include a private cinema, gym, swimming pool, spa, residents’ cocktail bar and concierge which guarantee some of the largest rental yields possible for the area.

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Here at Savills Docklands we have seen a positive start to 2013.

There seems to be a number of good buyers looking at properties in the mid-to-upper market categories. For example, we have recently taken on a substantial three bedroom warehouse conversion of around 1,800 sqft in Gulliver’s Wharf, which during the first three working days of January we arranged over six appointments on.

Unlike Canary Wharf, UK buyers make up the majority of our market in Wapping. These are mainly buyers who would have previously bought in traditional investment areas such as Clapham, Fulham and the West of City fringes such as South Kensington.

Many of these have been priced out of the market there and have started to move east looking for better value for money. The influx of interest is not confined to one price bracket; rather we have seen increased activity across the board, particularly in the popular City fringe areas such as Spitalfields and Bermondsey. Indeed there seems to be very positive market sentiment. This may be due to the agreement in the US with reference to the fiscal cliff having a knock on affect to the FTSE100 which hit a six month high at 6000 points in the first week in January, the highest since June 2011.

It’s difficult to give any direct property predictions at such an early stage in the year but with the markets in Wapping gathering lots of attention from a number of new build schemes, it certainly seems 2013 has started off on a sound basis to progress in a positive manner in the first quarter. n

Savills Canary Wharf www.savills.co.uk 020 7531 2500

Savills Docklands www.savills.co.uk 020 7456 6800

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very attractive two double bedroom apartment on the third floor of a super riverside development has become available. One of only 13 in the building, the property extends to approximately 1,959 sqft and offers fabulous river views and a balcony.

Accommodation comprises a master bedroom suite with a dressing area and bathroom, and a generously sized second bedroom with an en suite shower room and large built in wardrobes. The kitchen has been recently refurbished to an excellent standard and has a lovely breakfast area with views of the river and Canary Wharf while double doors lead to a very attractive split-level reception room with fabulous far-reaching views of the river and the Canary Wharf skyline and a balcony. The flat also has a guest WC and a utility room and is being sold with allocated covered parking. n

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a voice from the country Tom Hudson of Middleton Advisors explores the importance of philanthropy in the year ahead and explains why their chosen charity, Camp Mohawk, is so vital

‘They learn to cook, build and to care for the forest around them’

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t’s the time of the year to look into the crystal ball and make wise pronouncements.

Well, here’s the only prediction that I’m willing to make this time round: 2013 will bring yet more unpredictable behaviour in the property market.

For every trend in 2012, there was a countertrend. Exceptions failed to prove or disprove rules.

For advisors such as ourselves, the good thing that comes out of such a turbulent world economy is that our advice becomes even more important. There is no prevailing wind that is simple to spot and easy to follow, so expertise becomes more specific and every transaction has its own dynamic.

So, rather than stray beyond the one undeniable fact — that this year will be as unpredictable as the last — we’re going to do the same with this column as we’ve done with a percentage of our profits this year, and hand it over to Middleton’s chosen charity for 2013, Camp Mohawk.

Camp Mohawk is a multi-functional day centre for special needs children, set in five acres of beautiful Berkshire countryside. The centre provides activities, facilities and natural space to encourage children with a variety of special needs to play, socialise and learn in a secure and caring environment.

The day centre has its roots in a Scout group —

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which started, in 1973, to take disadvantaged children from the East End of London on trips away from the ‘concrete jungle’. In the woodland outside Wargrave, where Camp Mohawk now sits, they learn to cook, build and to care for the forest around them.

Wonderful experiences for both the Scouts and the children evolved into a registered charity and the current camp, which provides holiday activities for special needs children and a venue for special needs support groups and schools in term-time. There is an outdoor swimming pool, playrooms, sensory rooms and garden, a camp fire circle, an adventure playground, art room and a wildlife area.

If you would like to know more about Camp Mohawk and get involved in their activities, you can read about it online (www.campmohawk.org). With running costs of £200,000 per year and no direct government funding, despite providing special needs care across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire, support from companies and individuals is always required. n

‘A voice from the country’ is a series of articles by Middleton Advisors, who act on behalf of private clients looking to purchase country houses and estates in the UK (01235 436 271; www.middletonadvisors.com)

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State of the market REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

MARKET CONFIDENCE IS HIGH

ALASDAIR CARPENTER, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF

JAMES BEARRYMAN, DIRECTOR AT FRANKLYN JAMES

LOURDES ESTATE AGENTS, COMMENTS ON THE STATE OF

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THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY MARKET

residential property market

At the beginning of each New Year, surrounded by a renewed spirit of optimism and resolve, I always like to take stock of the property market and look ahead to what we can expect in the next twelve months. Since the onset of the financial crisis and global economic turmoil it has been a challenge, particularly at this traditionally quiet period of the year, for estate agents to find reasons to be cheerful. But this year is different for the following reasons: Firstly, the Battersea Power Station development has shown that the London property market is very much alive and kicking for residential sales and potential lettings alike. The response from owner occupiers and investors to the development has been a phenomenon across the entire range of units from one bed studios to £6m penthouses.

Secondly, there is mounting evidence that the funds for lending scheme, which initially had a disappointing take-up from the banks, is starting to support increased lending at more competitively priced deals.

Thirdly, UK economic fundamentals look at least to be stabilising despite the government’s austerity measures. Interest rates remain historically low and the prospect for higher rates in the near term seems as remote as ever.

Fourthly, property prices have experienced only marginal growth over the last few years which offers up more affordable property and the enticing prospect of future capital gains.

With this background I am confidently predicting a good year for both residential sales and lettings in the East London property market. Owner occupiers and investors should both take advantage of the improving outlook for the property market. And here’s another prediction...by the middle of 2013 my prediction will still look reasonable whilst the majority of people’s New Year’s resolutions have long since bitten the dust! n

Lourdes Estate Agents 020 7538 9250 www.lourdes-estates.com

Docklands homebuyers are starting their new year property search with renewed confidence according to a recent Home Buyers Survey conducted by Franklyn James. Around 50 per cent of those questioned said property prices are at an affordable level and 65 per cent say there is good mortgage availability which will encourage them to move up the property ladder, undertake first time buy-to-let investments and even add to their portfolios.

Adding to this confidence, one in three think property prices in Docklands will increase this year while more than a quarter (26 per cent) are confident that prices will rise by more than two per cent and almost 15 per cent of those surveyed anticipate up to five per cent growth. Around a quarter of those surveyed (26 per cent) expect prices to stay the same.

Franklyn James has already seen an extremely confident start to the sales market in 2013. As we reported last month, our sales turnover is up over 200 per cent from the previous quarter and there is no sign of this accelerated growth letting up. We would however urge sellers looking to take advantage of these anticipated price increases and market optimism to still price their property sensitively so as to encourage early offers.

First time buyers are likely to come to the Docklands market in 2013 in greater numbers than in recent years, but the major areas of increased demand has been in the investment/buy-tolet sector. High end professional relocation has a very positive impact on both the sales and rentals market. Professionals in Canary Wharf work such long hours that the immediate Docklands property market is an obvious choice to avoid the commute time which they simply do not need. n

Franklyn James Estate Agents Docklands, Limehouse & Bow 020 7005 6080 www.franklynjames.co.uk

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Belgrave Court, Westferry Circus, E14

Brightlingsea Place, Limehouse, E14

• Two double bedrooms • Prestige apartment

• Freehold House • 3/4 bedrooms

EPC – 84,86 - 96, 98

• Excellent location • Direct River views

£1,250,000

• Underground parking • Desirable location

EPC – 53,54 – 52,52

£1,100,000

Cascades Tower, Westferry Road, E14

Tradewinds, Royal Docks, E16

• Two double bedrooms • Immaculate condition

• Two double bedrooms • En suite

EPC – 84,84 – 81,81

• Concierge • Close to Canary Wharf

£429,999

96 Three Colt Street, Limehouse, London, E14 8AP

EPC – 77,81- 75,78

• Close to DLR • Gated development

£259,999

lourdes-estates.com 020 7538 9250

Limekiln Wharf, Limehouse, E14

Victory Place, Limehouse, E14

• One bedroom • Fully furnished

• Split level apartment • Two double bedrooms

• Warehouse Conversion • Private Balcony

EPC 56 – 73, 65 - 64

£325 per week

Towerside, Wapping, E1W • Two double bedrooms • Fully furnished

EPC - TBC

• Two bathrooms • Additional third room

EPC 71 – 75, 73 – 78

£425 per week

Berglen Court, Limehouse, E14

• Private balcony • Direct river views

£450 per week

• Penthouse apartment • Three double bedrooms

EPC 70 – 73, 68 - 69

• Two bathrooms • Private terrace

£695 per week enquiries@lourdes-estates.com

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Beautiful one bedroom apartment set on the upper ground floor of this central development.

Bathed in natural light this property has a contemporary open-plan lounge with plenty of room for dining. Lanterns court has 24hr concierge and use of a resident’s gymnasium.

Extremely spacious 826sqft one bedroom apartment set within the Mosaic development.

The property has a large open-plan kitchen/ reception with plenty of space for dining. There is an L-shaped balcony of the lounge, communal gardens and a secure underground parking space.

£360,000

Lockesfield Place, Isle of Dogs, E14 £469,995

Berglen Court, Limehouse, E14

Three bedroom terraced house located just moments to Island Gardens DLR station. This property has a spacious reception, large kitchen and a private well-proportioned rear garden. This wonderful house offers plenty of storage space and secure allocated underground parking.

Boasting direct views over the marina is this spaciously appointed 821sqft two bedroom, two bathroom apartment. The property is in excellent condition throughout and features a full width terrace, floor to ceiling windows and a secure allocated underground parking space.

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Lockview Court, Limehouse, E14

£415,000

Well-presented two double bedroom apartment set on the first floor of the highly desirable Lockview Court. The property offers views of the river, marina and canal from its large private balcony and benefits from two bathrooms and a fully fitted kitchen.

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Lloyds Wharf, Bermondsey, SE1

Wonderful four bedroom townhouse set within one of Limehouses finest developments. The property has a modern kitchen/diner, spacious reception room, three bathroom suites and comes with secure underground parking.

Residents have access to communal gardens.

Excellent split-level warehouse conversion comprising of two double bedroom, two bathroom suites and two separate reception areas. The property comes with secure allocated parking and is located within walking distance to Tower Bridge and local riverside bars.

Fabulous three bedroom penthouse sprawled over two floors offering magnificent views of iconic London landmarks. Boasting two balconies and a 640sqft roof terrace this property is perfect for hosting and alfresco dining. This property really does have it all.

Bow 020 8983 2930

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Canary Wharf 020 7005 6080

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£370 PW

Pan Peninsula, Canary Wharf, E14

£525 PW

Beautiful one bedroom third floor apartment in excess of 700sqft. The property comprises a modern fitted kitchen, stylish bathroom suite and a private balcony off of the lounge with partial river views. Secure parking and 24 concierge is offered on-site.

Set high up on the 17th floor is this gorgeous one bedroom apartment. With a contemporary feel and interior this property has an open-plan fully integrated kitchen with a balcony off the lounge.

The development itself has a 24hr concierge and a fully equipped resident’s gym.

Amazing two bedroom apartment on the 11th floor of the prestigious Pan Peninsula tower. The property boasts fabulous views of the River and has two luxury bathrooms. Residents have use of a pool, gym, cinema room and a 50th floor cocktail bar.

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Berglen Court, Limehouse, E14

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Featuring breath taking views over the River Thames is this stunning two bedroom 17th floor apartment. The property has floor to ceiling windows throughout for maximum natural light, two stylish bathroom suites and an impressive wrap around balcony.

Luxury two double bedroom, two bathroom 19th floor apartment. The property has a large open-plan living space with floor to ceiling windows and a modern fully integrated kitchen.

Added benefits include 24hr concierge, allocated parking and use of leisure facilities.

Luxurious two bedroom apartment situated in the highly desirable Baltimore Wharf. This property has been finished to a high standard with a stylish fitted kitchen, two marble bathroom suites and quality furnishings throughout. Located close to South Quay DLR and Canary Wharf.

Orion Point, Isle of Dogs, E14

Roneo Wharf, Limehouse, E14

The Landmark, Canary Wharf, E14

£850 PW

£995 PW

£1,250 PW

Fantastic two bedroom duplex penthouse apartment set within the highly sought after Odyssey development. The penthouse boasts panoramic views across the Thames and Canary Wharf from a private terrace as well as two bathrooms, a spiral staircase and parking for two cars.

Stunning three bedroom duplex penthouse apartment. Ideally located on the popular Narrow Street the apartment enjoys direct view across the Thames from a private balcony. The property has exposed brick work, two bathrooms and has been furnished to a high standard.

Flooding with glorious natural light is this truly amazing three double bedroom, two bathroom apartment set high up within the prestigious Landmark East Tower. This property boasts floor to ceiling windows throughout, high spec interior and a balcony overlooking The Thames.

Canary Wharf 020 7005 6080

Bow 020 8983 2930

Limehouse 020 7791 1777

www.franklynjames.co.uk

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Sales • New Homes • Lettings • Property Management • Valuations

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FOREST DRIVE, KESTON PARK BR2 Presenting an imposing detached residence situated on Forest Drive in the exclusive Keston Park development. Accommodation is spacious and well appointed featuring an impressive through reception, kitchen/ breakfast room, dining area, study, shower room and utility room to the ground floor. There are five bedrooms with the master boasting walk-in wardrobe. Externally the house offers off street parking, double garage and carriage way drive. Energy Efficiency Rating D.

ÂŁ1,895,000 F/H Please contact our Locksbottom office for more information: Tel: 01689 882 988 Email: locksbottom@langfordrussell.co.uk

BUCKNALL WAY, BECKENHAM BR3 A quite fantastic detached house on the edge of this impressive development. Accommodation comprises entrance hall, drawing room, dining room, conservatory, family room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, cloakroom, galleried landing with four bedrooms, two of which enjoy en-suite facilities and a top floor bonus room. Further benefits include a lawned rear garden, double garage and off street parking.

Energy Efficiency Rating C.

ÂŁ1,250,000 F/H Please contact our Beckenham office for more information: Tel: 020 8663 4433 Email: beckenham@langfordrussell.co.uk

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Hamilton House A splendid country house in London

Viewing Weekend 23rd & 24th February By Appointment Only

West Grove, royal GreenWich, london se10 An opportunity to purchase a prime and historic residential property in the heart of Royal Greenwich, London, just a short walk away from the centre of a World Heritage site. Listed as Grade II* by English Heritage this quintessentially elegant 18th Century home offers grand proportions and exquisite period features throughout. C. 7150 square feet of classically presented accommodation including seven en-suite bedrooms and Housekeeper suite.

A delightful South facing walled garden of some 90 feet affords privacy and seclusion whilst the front elevation facing East takes full advantage of natural light.

Panoramic views of modern day London, Canary Wharf and the River Thames offer an exciting contrast to the period elegance and peaceful setting of this splendid retreat. Full photographic brochure available on request.

Price on Application Chislehurst Office 7a High Street, Chislehurst, Kent BR7 5AB

Tel 020 8378 1222 Email enquiries@uniquepropertiesuk.com Web www.uniquepropertiesuk.com

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Baltimore Wharf, Canary Wharf, E14 • Studio suite • Furnished

• One bathroom • Leisure facilities

Seacon Tower, Canary Wharf, E14 • Two bedroom • Furnished

• Two bathroom • Close to transport

£325 per week • 4th Floor • Available now

£540 per week • Balcony • Available end of Feb

LETTINGS

Baltimore Wharf, Canary Wharf, E14

£400 per week

• One bedroom • Dock views

• 4th Floor • Available now

• One bathroom • Balcony

The Grainstore, Royal Docks, E16

£600 per week

• Three bedroom • Grade ll listed warehouse

• Recently refurbished • Available February

• Two bathroom • Close to transport •

Henry Wiltshire Estate Agents 1 – 2 Laybourne House, Admirals Way, London, E14 9UH

LETTINGS | SALES | M A N A G E M E N T | V A L U A T I O N S

SALES

New Providence Wharf, Canary Wharf, E14 • One bedroom • Balcony

• Leisure facilities • Spectacular views

Neutron Tower, Canary Wharf, E14 • Two bedroom • Balcony

• Two bathroom • Chain free

£319,995

• 8th Floor • 24 Hour concierge

£595,000 • 19th Floor • 6.1% yield

Pan Peninsula, Canary Wharf, E14 • Studio suite • Stunning views

• Shower room • Chain free

£324,995 • 30th Floor • 24 Hour concierge

Pan Peninsula, Canary Wharf, E14 • Two bedroom • East tower

• Two bathroom • 24 Hour concierge

£649,995 • 31st Floor • Leisure facilities

Henry Wiltshire Estate Agents 1 – 2 Laybourne House, Admirals Way, London, E14 9UH

LETTINGS | SALE S | M A N A G E M E N T | V A L U A T I O N S

River Habitat RiverHabitat.co.uk

Property Brokers

D CE DU RE

Belgrave Court, Canary Riverside, E14

£425 pw

West India Quay, London, E14

£475 pw

Chinnocks Wharf, Narrow Street, E14

• One bedroom apartment • Situated on the 5th Floor • Balcony with direct river views • Available Now

• One bed luxury apartment • Open plan living space • Fully furnished • Available Now

• Three bedroom apartment • River facing aspect • Close to Limehouse DLR • Available 15th March 2013

Contact Carter Graham on 020 7791 9645

Contact Kim Jong on 020 7791 9833

Contact Aziza Shah on 020 7791 9646

Quayside House, Westferry Road, E14

£625 pw

Discovery Dock East, London, E14

£650 pw

Belgrave Court, Canary Riverside, E14

• Two bedroom apartment • Open plan living space • Close to Canary Wharf • Available Now

• Two bed apartment • Large open plan living space • Balcony with river views • Available Now

• Two bed, two bath apartment • First floor with Juliet balcony • Close to Westferry DLR • Available Now

Contact Aziza Shah on 020 7791 9646

Contact Taru Dave on 020 7791 9649

Contact Julian Jarvis on 020 7791 9641

Lanterns Court, Millharbour, E14

£340,000

SeaCon Wharf, London, E14

£383,000

Zenith, Commercial Road, E14

• One Bedroom Apartment • 9th floor with balcony • Close to Canary Wharf • Investment Only

• One Bedroom Apartment • 2nd Floor with Balcony • Close to Canary Wharf • Investment Only

• Two bedroom apartment • 6th floor with balcony • Secure parking • Close to Limehouse DLR

Contact Kim Jong on 020 7791 9831

Contact Taru Dave on 020 7791 9649

Contact Julian Jarvis on 020 7791 9641

www.RIVERHABITAT.co.uk The Suite LG, 655 Commercial Road, Limehouse, London, E14 7LW Tel: 020 7791 9830 Email: info@riverhabitat.co.uk

£525 pw

£600 pw

£450,000

£1,250,000 Leasehold

£435,000 Leasehold

£1,250,000 Leasehold 3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | stunning river views | terrace | concierge | exceptional transport links | beautifully 3 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | stunning riverinterior views |designed terrace | concierge |

£435,000 Leasehold| period features | fully 1 bedroom | 1 bathroom | superior specification | moments from tube 1furnished bedroom||concierge 1 bathroom | superior specification | period features | fully

exceptional transport links | beautifully interior designed

furnished | concierge | moments from tube

£425,000 Leasehold 2 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | private terrace | immaculate condition | 24hr concierge | superior specification £425,000 Leasehold

2 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | private terrace | immaculate condition | 24hr concierge | superior specification

£600 per week 1 bedroom | 1 bathroom | balcony | exceptional specification | prestigious development | 24hr concierge | residents gym | moments from City

£600 per week 020 7582 7989 | exceptional 020 7476 0125 | prestig1 bedroom | 1 bathroom | balcony specification ious development | 24hr concierge | residents gym | moments from City

£380 per week 1 bedroom | 1 bathroom | stunning views | exceptional specification | 24hr concierge | residents gym | moments fromweek Tube/DLR £380 per

1 bedroom | 1 bathroom | stunning views | exceptional specification | 24hr concierge | residents gym | moments from Tube/DLR

£875 per week 2 bedrooms | 2 bathrooms | fully furnished | peaceful courtyard aspect | moments from Victoria Station & Buckingham Palace

£875 per week 02028446 9524 | 2 bathrooms |020 224 | peaceful courtyard 020 8896aspect 9990 | bedrooms fully8692 furnished

moments from Victoria Station & Buckingham Palace

Times Square, E1

Leeward Court, Wapping, E1W

Price: £499,999

Price: £349,995

Tamarind Yard, E1W

Tradewinds Court, E1W

Price: £419,995

Price: £375,000 Leasehold

2 Double bedroom apartment within this sought after modern development. Positioned close to Tower Hill. Rented out until 09/06/13.

3rd Floor. Balcony. Must be viewed.

West Wapping location. Within this gated secure development. 2 Double bedrooms. 2 Bathrooms. Fitted kitchen. Reception. Timber flooring.

Close to Tower Hill and Tower Gateway. Within easy access to the City.

Garage.

Situated within this sought after West Wapping development is this 1 bedroom modern 6th floor apartment, south facing with stunning views.

Fitted kitchen, reception, bathroom & balcony. Parking. Close to the City and within easy access to Canary Wharf.

Modern 1 double bedroom apartment with reception room, kitchen & Bathroom. Situated in West Wapping within very popular secure development with parking. Short stroll to vibrant St Katherine’s Dock and City amenities and within easy access to Canary Wharf. Good condition throughout. Porterage on site. Must be viewed.

ea2 Estate Agency Heritage Court | 8-10 Sampson Street | Wapping | London E1W 1NA t: 020 7702 3456 | f: 020 7702 9168 www.ea2.co.uk | property@ea2group.com

THOMAS MORE STREET, wapping, E1W

Sanderling Lodge, E1W

Rental Price: £500 PW

Rental Price: £795 PW

Swan Court, St Katherine’s Dock, E1W

Teal Court, E1W

3 double bedroom duplex apartment situated very close to the City and Tower Hill. ‘Waitrose’ Super market is opposite. Completely refurbished property which includes a new kitchen, new bathroom suite, new separate WC suite, wooden flooring, new double glazing, re-painted throughout. Benefiting from own garden. Must be viewed.

Unique opportunity to rent this 6th & 7th floor penthouse apartment within the most prestigious location of the historic St Katherine’s Dock, West Wapping. 3 Bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, reception, fitted kitchen. All rooms have a terrace or balcony. Superb views over the Yacht marina. 24 hour concierge. Secure parking.

Rental Price: £1,750 PW

Wapping’s most prestigious St Katharine’s Dock location. 2 double bedroom apartment offers fantastic water views from this 4th floor luxurious development. Boasting 3 balconies and a bright reception. 24 Hour concierge and secure underground parking. Situated within walking distance to the City.

Situated within the historic St Katherine’s Docks, this superb 2 double bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment. Offering a double aspect reception room with wooden floors and overlooks the Marina. 24 Hour Concierge.

Situated within easy access to the City and Canary Wharf.

Rental Price: £800 PW

ea2 Estate Agency Heritage Court | 8-10 Sampson Street | Wapping | London E1W 1NA t: 020 7702 3456 | f: 020 7702 9168 www.ea2.co.uk | property@ea2group.com

VA N E T P R O P E R T Y A S S E T M A N A G E M E N T 3 7 b M i l l h ar b o u r , A b i l i ty P l a c e Canary W h ar f, Lon d on , E 1 4 9 T X “The first thing we build is trust”

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Roya l Do cks – Pri ces f rom £199,999 · · · · · · · ·

Selection of 1 & Bed Apartments New Build Development Buy-to-let Opportunity Tenant Secured Sizeable Balcony 24-Hour Concierge Gymnasium Royal Docklands, E16

1 Bed, 1 Bath • Canary Central • Furnished/Unfurnished • Parking Space • 24-Hour Concierge • Leisure Facilities • Canary Wharf, E14

2 Bed, 2 Bath • Fully Furnished • Private Balcony • Marina Views • 4th Floor • Next to Limehouse DLR Station • Limehouse, E14

2 Bed, 2 Bath • Parking Space • Fully Furnished • Large Balcony • Communal Gardens & Driveway • Very Spacious Unit • Wimbledon, SW20

Re du ce d

Gordon Court – £475,000

Re du ce d

Zenith Building – £440,000

Re du ce d

Lowry House – £275,000

New Providence Wharf - £399,950

Lanterns Court – £320,000

Millharbour – £320,000

2 Bed, 2 Bath • On-site Leisure Facilities • 24-Hour Concierge • Integrated Appliances • 5th Floor • Lift Service • Canary Wharf, E14

1 Bed, 1 Bath • Fully Furnished • 7th Floor Close to South Quay DLR • Great Transport Links • Opposite Tesco’s • Canary Wharf, E14

1 Bed, 1 Bath • Fully Furnished • Stunning Dock Views • Concierge Service • 3rd Floor • Integrated Kitchen Appliances • Canary Wharf, E14

Tel: +44 (0) 207 042 0032 fa x : + 4 4 ( 0 ) 2 0 7 6 8 1 3 3 6 8 info@vanet.uk.com w w w. v a n e t . u k . c o m

LE T T I N G S

Ability Place – £365pw

Prospect House – £330pw

Times Square – £410pw

Studio Flat • Fully Furnished • Very Close to the Station • 13th Floor • On-site Leisure Facilities • 24-Hour Concierge • Canary Wharf, E14

1 Bed, 1 Bath • Bermondsey Spa • Balcony • Fully Furnished • Modern & Spacious • Brand New Complex • Bermondsey, SE16

1 Bed, 1 Bath • City Quarter Development • 24- Hour Concierge • Fully Furnished • Balcony • Private Water Gardens • Tower Hill / Aldgate, E1

Zenith Building – £420pw

Millharbour – £435pw

Constable House – £330pw

2 Bed, 2 Bath • Fully Furnished • Marina Views • 2 Bathrooms • Very Spacious • Large Balcony • Integrated Kitchen Appliances • Limehouse, E14

2 Bed, 2 Bath • Private Balcony • Fully Furnished • Concierge Service • Communal Gardens • Excellent Location • Canary Wharf, E14

1 Bed, 1 Bath • Canary Central • Development • Fully Furnished • Gym, Sauna & Swimming Pool • 24-Hour Concierge • Canary Wharf, E14

O nta rio To we r , E1 4 - £ 3 20pw · · · · · · ·

Studio Apartment Riverside Development Fully Furnished 24-Hour Concierge Leisure Facilities Fully Fitted Kitchen Canary Wharf E14

FIELD & SONS Surveyors, Valuers & Estate Agents Est. 1804

Queen of Isle Apartments, E14 Two bedrooms, reception room, open plan kitchen, two bathrooms, half a mile to Canary Wharf. £285,000, Leasehold

Fort Road, SE1 One bedroom, reception room, kitchen/diner, bathroom, private garden. £250,000, Leasehold

Queen Street, EC4A One bedroom, reception room, fully fitted kitchen, bathroom. Minutes from Mansion House tube. £435,000, Leasehold

White Horse Road, E1 Two bedrooms, reception room, open plan kitchen, bathroom. Available immediately, furnished. £400 per week

Indescon Court, E14 Two bedrooms, reception room, open plan kitchen, two bathrooms. Available immediately, furnished. £390 per week

St Dunstans Mews, E1 Two bedrooms, reception room, separate kitchen, bathroom. Available immediately, furnished. £320 per week

City & East Office 020 7790 9832

www.fieldandsons.co.uk

FIELD & SONS Surveyors, Valuers & Estate Agents Est. 1804

“We’ve been here longer than this bridge”

London’s Oldest

Independent Estate Agents 020 7790 1111

www.fieldandsons.co.uk

Hays Galleria Apartments Battlebridge Lane London SE1 A rare opportunity to live in one of London’s most historic addresses.

Located adjacent to London Bridge Station and on the banks of the River Thames, Hays Galleria is one of London’s most impressive and vibrant mixed use developments. The apartments benefit from a host of retail outlets, restaurants and café’s on their doorstep. The development, along with 24 hour security and a Day Concierge service, has easy access to The City, Canary Wharf, The West End as well as the restaurants, bars, café’s and shops of London Bridge, Bermondsey Street, Borough High Street and Shad Thames.

Available now on a furnished basis.

1 bedroom apartments from £450 per week 2 bedroom apartments & 2 bedroom duplexes from £715 per week

112 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3TX Tel 020 7378 0644 info@madleyproperty.com www.madleyproperty.com

P R O P E R TY S E R V I C E S

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THE DISTILLERY CRESCENT

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APARTMENTS* ★ Service charge paid.

• Choice of luxurious new 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments.

★ Ground rent paid.

• 3 communal roof terraces.

★ Maintenance costs paid.

• Completions from Summer 2013.

★ Management costs paid.

• Development includes new Staycity Hotel providing short or long term stays.

THE GREENWICH GROWTH ZONE

FROM

£235,000 MILLHARBOUR VILLAGE

CANARY Lincoln PLAZA

WHARF

LONDON E14

• Luxurious 1 bed suites, and 1, 2 & 3 bed apartments.

• Exclusive health spa, sauna, gym and pool.

• Private cinema and snooker suite.

• 22nd level sky lounge and roof garden.

• Secure underground parking.† • 24 hour concierge.

FIRST TIME ADVERTISED ★ SELLING NOW OFF PLAN ★

THE CANARY WHARF LIFESTYLE

FROM

£282 ,500 Red Lion Court TEMPLE LONDON EC4

• An exceptional lifestyle opportunity adjacent to Fleet Street in the heart of London’s legal and financial district.

• Exclusive specifications throughout, including comfort cooling and surround sound technology.

• Imposing listed façade.

• Immediate occupation.

TWO ONLY REMAINING

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020 7620 1500 www.galliardhomes.com

APARTMENT 1023 sqft. £1,400,000 £1,150,000 £250,000

2 BED APARTMENT 817 sqft. £775,000

Galliard Homes Marketing Suite

sales@galliardhomes.com * Available on selected apartments only. † Parking is at additional cost.

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Your reward for all the late nights in the office.

New Show Apartment Now Open Nestled beside the Barbican and just moments from the nightlife, Michelin starred restaurants and culture of the Square Mile. The Residences at Roman House boast boutique style interiors, 24-hour concierge, gym and access to the beautiful St Alphage Gardens.

Call: 020 7920 9920 or email: romanhouse@berkeleygroup.co.uk Luxury Studios, 1, 2 & 3 bedroom residences from ÂŁ565,000 Roman House, Wood Street, London, EC2Y 5BA

www.roman-house.co.uk Proud to be a member of the Berkeley Group of companies Selling Agents

Our vision for your future

Details correct at time of press. Computer Generated Image depicts typical interior and is indicative only.

Roman House - the epitome of Boutique City Living

Heritage location and a whole new lifestyle

2 and 3 bedroom apartments available from £299,950.

Apartments available for immediate occupation

For more information call 020 8331 7130.

Sales and Marketing Suite and Show Apartments open daily 10am to 6pm (until 8pm on Thursdays).

www.royalarsenalriverside.co.uk The Berkeley Group invests in the skills that keep Britain’s heritage alive.

Up to 140 traditional craftsmen have helped refurbish Royal Arsenal Riverside Our Vision. Your Future.

Proud to be a member of the Berkeley Group of companies

Prices and details correct at time of going to press.

Photography depicts Royal Arsenal Riverside.

Royal Arsenal Riverside is a 76 acre mixed use regeneration scheme on the banks of the River Thames in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, just a short distance from National Rail and DLR stations. On-site benefits include 24 hour concierge, residents’ gym, Young’s pub and dining, Tesco Express, a proposed forthcoming Crossrail station, health and wellbeing studio and Zipcar car share club.

homes & property

HOMEs OF THE MONTH CURLEW STREET, SE1 £2.2M FREEHOLD

Anderson Rose www.andersonrose.co.uk

020 3324 0188

Representing a unique proposition for the Shad Thames area, this is a superb five bedroom freehold property with integral garage and roof terrace. Constructed in the style of a warehouse conversion The Tent House was originally purchased as a shell by the present owners who, with the help of a highly rated local architect, designed the interior to their specification. They have created a living space that combines the edgy, industrial style of an urban warehouse conversion with the practicality of a five bedroom house. It has a magnificent top floor, open-plan living space which has a beamed, cathedral ceiling and a floating staircase leading to a secluded roof terrace which provides fine views of The Shard.

The Tent House is located in the highly fashionable area of Butlers Wharf which is just next to Tower Bridge and the largest complex of Victorian warehouses in London. The area, on the banks of the Thames is very close to the City of London is now one of London’s top residential addresses.

ST PAUL’S PLACE, N1 £1.775M freehold

Knight Frank www.knightfrank.co.uk/islington

020 3641 6138

St Pauls Place is a charming residential turning made up of mostly Grade II listed buildings. This house is at the end of the terrace facing west and backing on to St Pauls Shrubbery, a delightful local park. The house itself has been beautifully refurbished, blending contemporary touches and period originality to create a striking, modern, yet inviting interior.

There is a bright kitchen opening on to a conservatory/dining room at the rear of the house, and bedroom four, with an en-suite shower room, is to the front. All finished to exacting standards.

There is a double reception room on the raised ground floor with two feature fireplaces, ornate ceiling cornicing and stripped wood flooring.

The first floor is occupied by a generous master bedroom, en-suite with a free standing bath and marble tiling. There are two bedrooms and a further bathroom on the second floor. The garden is paved with mature shrub borders. There is planning permission for a garden room at the very back of the garden.

WEST GROVE, SE10 £POA

Unique www.uniquepropertiesuk.com

020 8378 1222 146

Hamilton House is situated on a quiet leafy grove in the heart of Royal Greenwich, just a short walk away from the centre of a World Heritage site. This elegant 18th century, Grade II listed home offers approximately 7150 sqft of classically presented accommodation with many wonderful period features throughout. Four receptions on the ground floor include a wonderful dining room with windows affording panoramic views of modern day London, Canary Wharf and the River Thames. On the lower ground there is a stylish fitted kitchen, breakfast room, office and a housekeepers’ suite with shower room.

The upper floors present seven bedroom suites which are all individually themed. Externally a delightful south facing walled garden of some 90 ft affords privacy and seclusion whilst the front elevation faces east and takes full advantage of natural light.

There is parking for several vehicles at the front and rear of the property.

Stay close, live E1

STYLISH LIVING IN STEPNEY GREEN, E1 Live VIVO from £240,000 READY TO OCCUPY MARCH 2013

vIvO IS A STYLISH COLLECTION Of 1, 2 & 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS, JUST AN 8 MINUTE WALK fROM LIMEHOUSE DLR

– High specification including integrated Bosch appliances, composite stone worktops and underfloor heating

– Landscaped communal gardens

– Private balconies or gardens to all apartments

– 4 minute walk from the, Central, Distict and Hammersmith & City underground lines

– Excellent investment potential – EPC rating: B

STAY CONNECTED AT vIvO STEPNEY GREEN

MILE END 02 mins

WHITECHAPEL 02 mins

LIMEHOUSE 08 mins

LIvERPOOL STREET 09 mins

BANK 15 mins

MARKETING SUITE & SHOW APARTMENT OPEN MON-SUN TO BOOK AN APPOINTMENT CALL 0203 069 2073 OR REGISTER ONLINE TODAY AT vIvOLONDON.COM/CW Price is correct at time of going to print. Travel time source: www.tfl.gov.co.uk and walkit.com

LONDON BRIDGE 16 mins

KING’S CROSS ST PANCRAS 18 mins

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