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The Sydell Group founder on weaving magical hospitality experiences

One pop-up restaurant, one top-grade hotel and two floral spectaculars in Chelsea Barracks.

A re-imagined, state-of-the art service will widen up the house’s already broad tailoring repertoire

Those buying into the forthcoming luxury development will have The Queen as a neighbour

“A gentleman uses his butter knife,” as one old adage goes, “even when he’s dining alone”, and this rallying call to inconspicuously elegant living certainly applies to all things sartorial: truly stylish men show as much discernment when it comes to their lesser-seen garments as they do their shirts, jackets and trousers. That includes not […]

Hublot ambassadors including contemporary artist Richard Orlinski and tattoo artist Maxime Plescia-Buchi joined the house’s CEO, Ricardo Guadalupe and other VIP guests, at the official inauguration of an exhibition presented in the Harrods Brompton Road windows and the Fine Watch Room Atrium. The focal point of the occasion was Orlinski’s vast Green Wild Kong with […]

Oliver Brown’s Jonathan Loe gives the low-down on a thorny menswear issue

If walls could speak, as the saying goes, Jermyn Street’s lichen-pocked edifices could dictate a wonderfully rich tome about the city in whose dead centre it resides: for this is one of those thoroughfares where stuff, for whatever reason, just happens. Home, over the years, to tailors, cheesemongers, parfumiers, milliners and shirtmakers (including James Bond’s […]

Let’s be honest: London’s Thai food scene took a nosedive when pub-goers started regularly ordering pad Thai, instead of pie, with their pints. What started off as a well-executed ruse at The Churchill Arms near Kensington Palace soon degenerated into an insult to a distant nation’s fine culinary tradition, once any hipster who’d spent a […]