Conversations with Christie’s in collaboration with JW MARRIOTT GROSVENOR HOUSE creative direction SHINI PARK photography assistance SIMON SCHMIDT ‘Mother used to collect bags’, I remember, as the ceiling momentarily flashes a shade of red as a bus rattles by, catching the first light on a Tuesday morning. ‘Whatever happened to those, I wonder…’. The suite looks somewhat bigger in the morning, warmer. I’d been hoarding the covers again last night, his pillow lays at the far edge of the Queen bed, defeated, out of reach. He doesn’t mind, just like he doesn’t mind that I’m not a morning person. He sets off to explore Hyde Park on a jog as I scramble out of the sheets. When you peel the blinds and crane your neck just right, you can see the dog walkers on Park Lane. • It’s five past four in the afternoon, and the lobby is blissfully empty, […]

180 Strand, London WC2R 1EA

Michelin House, 81 Fulham Rd, London SW3 6RD

Hunter Regent Street 83 – 85 Regent Street, W1B 4EW

Mayfair, W1J – closest tube: Oxford Circus, Green Park, Bond Street

Convent Garden, WC2

Regent’s Park Road, NW1; Closest tube: Chalk Farm

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Sake No Hana; 23 St James’s St, London SW1A 1HA

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298-299 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 9HA, London (Nearest tube: Bethnal Green)

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