Canary Wharf Magazine June 2019

Magazine June 2019

OUR BAUHAUS

The art and design movement turns 100

HELENA RUBINSTEIN Breaking all the rules of beauty

ETHICAL HEROES

EL CHEF DABIZ MUÑOZ

Treats for your body and the planet

Creating magic in his London eateries

DECADENT DECANTING

The story of a wine symposium

NICOLE KIDMAN

On working with her screen sisterhood and taking advice from her mother

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his issue we celebrate rebellion in all its guises. We have sought out many of the world’s bravest revolutionaries whose curiosity challenges the norm and challenges the status quo.

Nicole Kidman is one such example.

The actress never seems to play it safe and, with Big Little Lies, in which she both stars and co-produces, she has broken taboos, taken on Hollywood and triumphed.

We chat with David Muñoz, perhaps the world’s most ground-breaking chef. He explains how gastronomy should be both an intrepid and fun experience that results in taste combinations and restaurant experiences that are totally unique.

This year sees the centenary of the Bauhaus movement – arguably the single most influential modernist school of the 20th Century which united art and industrial design. On Page 77 Rob Crossan discusses two of its founder rebels – architects and artists Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy forerunners of the international style that is still evident in much of London’s early 20th century architecture.

Perhaps my favourite rebel in this issue however is the late, great entrepreneur Helena Rubinstein. As a polish immigrant, she arrived in Australia in 1986 with no money and little English.

She began selling her own hand-made moisturisers and, after enjoying some success, moved to London to form one of the world’s first cosmetic companies.

In 1941, when told she couldn’t buy an apartment in her New York block of choice - on account of her Jewish heritage - she stuck a proverbial two fingers up at the anti-Semitic residents and bought the entire building.

She was by then one of the richest women in the world – and one of its most generous philanthropists.

What a woman - and proof rebellion often succeeds..

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T HIS MONTH THE T EAM HAS B EEN . . .

DOING JURY SERVICE…

…judging Chelsea in Bloom for the best in art meets petals. For digital editor Mhairi Graham’s verdict see luxurylondon.co.uk

ENJOYING LE DOLCE VITA…

…and sampling some of the world’s best – and most talked about – fine wines at the romantic Lake Como setting, Villa d’Este.

ONBOARDING…

…and surfing the streets in our menswear shoot – who says the City is not the place for a surfboard accessory?

SPENDING TIME…

…Managing editor Richard Brown admired the finest timepieces and launches from Breguet, Harry Winston, Blancpain, Jaquet Droz, Glashutte Original and Omega at the Time to Move Swatch Group in Switzerland.

GOING AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 METRES…

...and enjoying the Streets Of The World exhibition on the billboards in and all around Canary Wharf.

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CONTENTS ISSUE NO. 167 – JUNE 2019

REGULARS 10

CONTRIBUTORS Introducing the faces behind this month’s issue

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THE AGENDA Everything you need to know this month

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FOOD & DRINK New season menus and dishes to see you through summer

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WHAT I KNOW ABOUT A cocktail masterclass with Plateau’s bar manager

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KIDS’ CLUB The summer social events with family-friendly activities

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HEALTH & FITNESS Summer fitness accessories, from bikes to bikinis

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BEAUTY EDIT Glastonbury-appropriate make-up and beauty hacks

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FASHION SHOOT Surf’s up: boarder chic for the city

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HER STYLE The best dresses for the British social season

FEATURES

THE REVOLUTIONARY NICOLE KIDMAN 18 The Big Little Lies star on sisterhood and #MeToo

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THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Meet Michelin’s enfant terrible, Dabiz Muñoz

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ROAMING ABOVE THE CLOUDS Popping corks at Lake Como’s annual wine symposium

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BEAUTIFUL HEROES The skincare saviours helping the planet

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THE WOMAN WHO INVENTED BEAUTY How Helena Rubinstein changed the face of beauty

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BAUHAUS IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET The German movement celebrates its 100th anniversary

1 0 4 NATURAL BY NATURE

The interior designers bringing the outdoors inside

TRAVEL

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TRAVEL NEWS Nab a ticket to one of Britain’s best festivals this summer

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LITTLE BRITAIN Barbados is a luxurious home from home – with decidedly better weather

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THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS Sunset safaris and spectacular sights in Zambia

PROPERTY

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1 22 HOT PROPERTY

A collection of contemporary townhouses in New Cross

Magazine

C ON TR IB U TOR S

CONTENT DIRECTOR

Dawn Alford

DEPUTY EDITOR

Ellen Millard

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

Richard Brown

DIGITAL EDITOR

Mhairi Graham

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Abisha Sritharan

CLIENT CONTENT MANAGER

Sunna Naseer

HEAD OF DESIGN

Laddawan Juhong DESIGNER

Ismail Vedat PRODUCTION MANAGER

Alice Ford

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Eren Ellwood

GENERAL MANAGER

Fiona Smith

COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR

Rachel Gilfillan

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORS

Samantha Lathan Danielle Thirsk

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

Madelyn Curnyn

BRAND EXECUTIVE

Angelina Villa-Clarke

Florian Renner

Josh Sims

Freelance writer Angelina has written for the likes of High Life Magazine and Forbes

Photographer Florian Renner specialises in men’s fashion photography and has worked for GQ and The Jackal

Josh’s writing has featured in publications such as Wallpaper* and the Financial Times

What have you been working on for this issue?

A look at the latest ecoaware beauty (p.50). It’s a passion of mine. I just love products which are kind to you and the planet.

What beauty item do you swear by?

Swipe Clean by BYBI has made the chore of cleansing enjoyable. I love the squeakyclean feel of skin afterwards.

What are you looking forward to in June?

A chilled glass of Whispering Angel rosé in the sun, and reading Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. Everyone seems to be talking about it.

Dom Jeffares PUBLISHED BY

What have you been working on for this issue?

The urban surfer fashion shoot on page 62.

What’s your dream shoot location?

I always love shooting by the coast, but sometimes you are granted access to special locations in the city that are usually shut to the public. That’s definitely some of the perks of being a photographer.

What are you looking forward to in June?

Long days, hot weather and iced lattes.

What have you been working on for this issue?

For this issue I’ve interviewed the Spanish chef Dabiz Muñoz (p.32).

What’s the best meal you’ve had in London?

The fanciest meal I’ve ever had was with Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester. But the fanciest isn’t always the most satisfying – chips from The Golden Hind in Marylebone work a treat.

What are you looking forward to in June?

More than three days of consecutive sunshine – well, maybe.

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Tower Bridge: History, Engineering, Design by Kenneth Powell This June marks 125 years since Tower Bridge opened.

Honour the occasion with this fascinating book exploring the history of the monument. The first official history published in association with Tower Bridge, this tome features original plans, architectural sketches and photographs, and shows the history of the development of the bridge, why it was required, its reception when it opened and the people who have kept it operational. £24.95, thamesandhudson.com

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Langham Cookery School Calling all budding gastronomes: Marylebone’s The Langham has launched a new cookery school with leading industry experts. Learn how to cook your favourite dish from the culinary greats – including the likes of Michael Roux Jr. and Chris King, who will share tricks of the trade and lead master classes at the hotel’s signature restaurant, Sauce. Ready, steady, cook.

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INTERVIEW

The revolutionary

NICOLE KIDMAN A S T H E M U C H - A N T I C I PAT E D RETURN OF BIG LITTLE LIES DRAWS NEAR, THE LEADING ACTRESS FOR CLOSE TO FOUR DECADES, NOW A PRODUCER AND DIRECTOR, DESCRIBES THE POWER OF HER A-LIST SISTERHOOD WORDS DAWN ALFORD

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hen Nicole Kidman accepted her best actress Golden Globe award for her role as Celeste Wright in the hit HBO series Big Little Lies, in her speech she thanked her mother, a nurse who wished she’d been a doctor, for never setting limits on what her daughters could be. “My achievements are her achievements,” declared the actress. Kidman also paid tribute to her female co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Zoë Kravitz, Laura Dern and Shailene Woodley, saying, “We pledged allegiance to each other and this is ours to share” – and praised “the power of women”.

Hollywood has been feeling the power of women in the form of #MeToo and the response to revelations about film mogul Harvey Weinstein’s behaviour – and Big Little Lies, which launched in 2017, was one of the catalysts in that process. The series not only highlighted a liberating shift towards female talent, and a move away from big-budget Hollywood studios towards TV cable and streaming, it also voiced the domestic and sexual violence that can lie under the surface of apparently successful women’s lives.

Kidman, who also scooped an Emmy for her role as the abused Celeste, said in her Golden Globes speech, “I do believe and I hope that we can elicit change through the stories we tell and the way we tell them. Let’s keep the conversation alive.”

Kidman is personally committed on that score. She has pledged to work with a female director at least every 18 months, to help address the fact that only four per cent of Hollywood movies are made by women. And she does not shy away from roles that open up debate. She took an Oscar for her 2002 portrayal of the troubled Virginia Woolf in The Hours, and followed that up in the space of a year with her appearance in Lars von Trier’s experimental Dogville, a role opposite Anthony Hopkins in The Human Stain that Rolling Stone magazine described as ‘mesmerising’ and the lead in Anthony Minghella’s 19

Cold Mountain. She is currently set to play Gretchen Carlson, the Fox News anchor who filed for sexual harassment against company chief Roger Ailes, in the film Fair & Balanced. In 2018’s Destroyer she was almost unrecognisable as tortured undercover cop Erin Bell. In the same year, Kidman played Atlanna in Aquaman, which, she says, is her children’s favourite (particularly the goldfish-eating scene).

The children she is referring to are Sunday Rose, 10, and Faith Margaret, eight, her young daughters with country music star Keith Urban. The couple were married in 2006 and live in Nashville, Tennessee, where, Kidman has said, the pace of life is similar to that of Australia, where she grew up. She was born in Hawaii to Australian parents and the family returned to Sydney when she was four. Brought up as a Catholic, she is still a church-goer, and says she has “never really been a party girl.” She was close to both her parents; she has described her late father, a biochemist and psychologist, as a “very gentle man with a really strong social conscience… he would always notice if you had told a funny story, or if you did something kind that helped someone out.”

She is discreet about her previous marriage to Tom Cruise, and about Connor and Isabella, the children she and Cruise adopted, both now in their 20s. “They have made choices to be Scientologists and as a mother, it’s my job to love them,” she told The Guardian in 2018. The relationship with Cruise ended in divorce in 2001, shortly before she took on the Oscarwinning role in The Hours (she said at the time, “I wasn’t really functioning. When I watched it a year and a half later, I could see 20

how raw I had been, probably the worst place in my life.”).

The Hours was made in Weinstein’s studios, as were other films Kidman has worked on. She says she never experienced harassment personally – as a teenager she was chaperoned closely on set and she was married young, at 22.

But, she told The Guardian, “I think it shows that there has been an awful lot of hidden violence against women, and that people have been sitting on these things.” A UN goodwill ambassador since 2006, she has worked on violence against women programmes in various countries and says “I know the patterns,” adding “I have certainly got friends who have experienced this, not just in this industry but in all industries. But still it was a massive eye-opener.”

Kidman is committed to championing women in other areas of her life, too – and in more positive lights. The actress has been a brand ambassador for Omega watches since 2005 and, in 2015 when she marked 10 years with the brand, she celebrated by holding an exhibition of a history of ladies watchmaking – the first of a number of events the horologer held in celebration of women.

It’s a similar story on screen.

Big Little Lies is a powerful vehicle for its female leads. As Kidman, 51, points out, it’s unique in that elsewhere “you don’t get to see six women in a show and follow all of their lives in a complicated and deep way. I don’t know another show that has six female leads.”

The second season of the hit series begins in June this year. “I cannot believe how Big Little Lies entered the zeitgeist,” says Kidman. “It’s really been a huge eyeopener for me on the power of television, the power of that particular story and how it connected. It was glorious, actually. While it was first being broadcast, people were coming up to me, saying: ‘What happens next?’ Audiences were obsessed.”

Given that success, it’s perhaps surprising that there was a question mark over the series ever going to a second season – and perhaps even that the first series was made. When Kidman and Reese Witherspoon first optioned the novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty, back in 2014, there was no #MeToo. Kidman has said that even getting the series made “felt like a coup.” Viewing figures were respectable; initial reviews weren’t wildly enthusiastic. Then Big Little

“I cannot believe how Big Little Lies entered the zeitgeist. It’s really been a huge eyeopener for me in the power of television”

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THIS PAGE NICOLE KIDMAN WITH THE STARS OF BIG LITTLE LIES (FROM TOP LEFT) ZOË KRAVITZ, LAURA DERN, SHAILENE WOODLEY AND REESE WITHERSPOON OPPOSITE PAGE NICOLE KIDMAN MODELLING OMEGA’S CONSTELLATION MANHATTAN WATCH, OMEGA.COM

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Lies took off and flew. There was no second volume to the original novel, so Kidman and Witherspoon asked Moriarty to write a further 200 pages that served as a template for the second season, scripted, like the first, by David E. Kelley. They also persuaded Meryl Streep to take on the role of Celeste’s mother-in-law.

“Meryl signed on without having read any script, which is a big support of us as a group of women,” says Kidman. “She was: ‘I want to be in the coven,’ and she’s definitely in it now. I was terrified,” adds this world-renowned star, disarmingly. “You’re acting opposite the great one. I get nervous anyway – but to be opposite her and not want her to think, ‘Who is this amateur?”

It’s not hard to see why Streep wanted to join the “coven”. The relationship between the women of Big Little Lies is clearly a powerful force. “The desire to spend time together again was a big part of the decision to do another season,” says Kidman. “We’ve now worked together for well over a couple of years and the bonds between all of us are deeper and stronger. We go out all the time, we talk, we help each other – it’s a very strong connection. We’re all so different, yet we complement each other.”

A decade ago, Kidman has said, she was on the verge of stepping away from her acting career. Again, she has her mother to thank for keeping her going. “I wasn’t being sent anything that was terribly interesting,” she recalled in an interview. “In this industry, they go, ‘You’re kind of past your date.’ I met an incredible man and had two children and was on a completely different path. It was my mum who persuaded me to keep my toe in the water. I am so glad I have a very opinionated, strong mother who’s very wise and I do listen to her.” And now? “It’s lovely at this stage of my life and career to be doing something that I’ve never done before. I’ve never been a part of something that reached so far, globally.”

FROM HER ACTING DEBUT AT 16 TO HER HIT TV SERIES, BIG LITTLE LIES, THIS IS KIDMAN’S LIFE IN FRONT OF THE LENS 1983-1989

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Nicole Kidman made her debut in a remake of Australian film Bush Christmas at the age of 16.

Her rise to fame however was a result of Phillip Noyce’s thriller, Dead Calm, four years later

Kidman married Tom Cruise on Christmas Eve. The two have an adopted son and daughter together

The actress gained worldwide recognition thanks to her role in Batman Forever

A starring role in Baz Luhrmann’s famous film, Moulin Rouge! saw the actress being nominated for her first Academy Award, as well as winning her second Golden Globe.

Kidman and Cruise also divorced in 2001, and the actress stated she was glad she could now wear heels again

Kidman won her first Academy Award for Best Actress in the film The Hours.

She was the first Australian actress to achieve this.

The same year, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT NICOLE KIDMAN AND SAM NEIL IN DEAD CALM (1989); WITH TOM CRUISE IN 1998; AS YVONNE IN THE UPSIDE (2019); AS DR CHASE MERIDIAN IN BATMAN FOREVER (1995), WITH VAL KILMER AS BATMAN; AS SATINE IN MOULIN ROUGE (2001); AS ERIN BELL IN THE DESTROYER (2018). OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM TOP WITH BIG LITTLE LIES CO-STARS LAURA DERN AND REESE WITHERSPOON; NICOLE KIDMAN AT THE 90TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS, 2018

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Kidman became the face of Chanel and the record holder for the most money paid per minute to an actor after she reportedly earned $12million for a three-minute commercial promoting Chanel No. 5

Kidman married country singer Keith Urban, just over a year after meeting him. She later stated that they didn’t know each other very well, and got to know each other during their marriage. The couple have two daughters

The actress starred in many prominent and successful films including the comedy Just Go With It co-starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Anniston, the animated hit, Happy Feet and the touching film, Lion

Kidman starred and produced the hit TV series, Big Little Lies.

The show also stars Shailene Woodley and Reece Witherspoon

Big Little Lies returns for a second season, and it has been announced that Kidman will star and produce Nine Perfect Strangers; a new TV series created by the brains behind Big Little Lies

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alking into Ibérica is like being transported to the Moorish region of Andalucía. Dark leather chairs sit atop rustic oak floors in this sepia-toned Spanish restaurant. With its painted exposedbrick walls and traditional tiling the resemblance to Spain’s vintage tapas bars is uncanny.

On a very hot day where London seems to be borrowing the Spanish sun, my friend and I seize the opportunity to take advantage of Ibérica’s outdoor Mediterranean garden for a drink before heading to the main restaurant to tuck into tapas.

Inside we are greeted by smiling staff who speak passionately about the food. The restaurant aims to bring only the best of Spanish gastronomy to the UK. The pork comes from acorn-fed Ibérico pigs who roam freely across 100,000 acres of open oak woodland, the waiter tells us as he recommends the Pluma: native Ibérico pork with rosemary potatoes and peppers.

As is tradition, we start with a Spanish cheese board made up of five different types of Manchego. Each variety has been cured for a different amount of time and the last two include seasonings of rosemary and black pepper. Complemented by a sweet jam and roasted almonds, the Manchego board is devoured within minutes as we eagerly await the tapas.

As our selection of dishes pile up on the table, I don’t know where to start, the aromas of each coaxing me to pick it first. We’ve opted for a range of classic tapas with a mix of Ibérica specials.

Tempura chorizo lollipops come with a moreish pear alioli and the croquettes are pockets of indulgent creamy cheese and serrano ham – one of the most popular Spanish tapas for good reason.

We also try an adventurous looking grilled octopus dish that comes served as a tenderly placed tentacle on top of crushed potatoes and sauce. If you’re a fan of calamari, you’ll love this dish. Openminded foodies should also give the squid ink rice a try – although it is advised to eat cautiously as it does temporarily turn your mouth black.

For vegetarian options, choose the crispy aubergine with honey sauce – a typical dish from Andalucía – and the delicious asparagus toast with Manchego, onion confit and truffle oil.

The desserts are highly encouraged, in particular the Gloria cheesecake with raspberry sorbet. It’s a brilliant way to end the meal with its light and airy texture which doesn’t leave you too full. In this relaxing atmosphere, with plates polished, the evening should end with an after-dinner drink, sat back in your lounge chair or at the bar downstairs.

The croquettes are pockets of indulgent creamy cheese and serrano ham

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Food & Drink SUMPTUOUS SUMMER DISHES TO ENJOY IN CANARY WHARF THIS MONTH WORDS ABISHA SRITHARAN

LETTUCE EAT Third Space’s newlyopened Natural Fitness Food in Canada Square is the latest hotspot for health-conscious individuals. The menu at Natural Fitness Food has been designed by a sports performance nutrionist and all food is freshly made each day. Delicious dishes include satay chicken

with jasmine rice, mushroom omelette with roast tomatoes, and tomato and basil soup. There are also plenty of healthy snacking options, such as egg wraps, protein pancakes and protein shakes, which are made fresh and can be customised to suit your tastes.

Natural Fitness Food, Third Space, Canada Place

DESSERT ISLAND Those with a sweet-tooth will relish the mini dessert platter at Roka. The dish comprises a range of Japanese desserts, such as dark chocolate and green pudding, cheesecake with robata grilled pear and cream cheese ice cream, as well as tropical fruit and sweet sorbets. Other delectable dishes on the new seasonal tasting menu include sake and avocado maki and yaki atsuage (grilled tofu with shitake mushroom). Itadakimasu everyone, or as we know it, bon appétit.

IT’S MEXCELLENT Let’s taco-bout Wahaca’s new menu; the Mexican restaurant has launched a series of tasty taco dishes. Choose from grilled chicken and avocado, accompanied by ancho rub, guacamole and a green tomato salsa; sweet ancho rubbed mushrooms and crispy grilled cheese; and a chargrilled steak option served with grilled cheese and guacamole.

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WINE DOWN Carluccio’s has launched a new Mediterranean-themed menu in time for summer. Dishes include grilled ciabatta bread with marinated cannellini beans, flaked tuna and spring onions, and spinach and smoked mozzarella arancini. Guests who buy two main courses from the new menu will receive a free bottle of pinot noir or custoza to enjoy with their meal.

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S H O W M A N MEET MICHELIN’S ENFANT TERRIBLE DABIZ MUÑOZ, T H E S PA N I S H C E L E B R I T Y C H E F B E H I N D M A D R I D ’ S F I R S T T H R E E - M I C H E L I N - S TA R R E D R E S TA U R A N T A N D M AY FA I R ’ S M A D C A P S T R E E T X O , T H E F I N E D I N I N G E S TA B L I S H M E N T LIKENED TO A CULINARY CIRQUE DU SOLEIL WORDS JOSH SIMS

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abiz Muñoz is not your usual chef. He doesn’t even look the part. Most three-Michelin-starred chefs mirror their status with a large helping of sobriety – many look like accountants once the whites are off – but here comes Muñoz with his sneakers, shredded jeans, mohawk and complicated earring arrangement.

“Sometimes looking like this is useful and sometimes it’s not,” he chuckles. On the one hand he gets stopped in the street for selfies in his native Madrid, where his celebrity – books, TV shows, documentaries, red carpet moments – has added punch through his marriage to one of Spain’s prime-time TV presenters, Cristina Pedroche. On the other hand, he recently discovered that his style gets him refused entry to clubs in London. He’s not saying which. “They told me that my look wasn’t ‘appropriate’,” he says, “which is incredible for a city like London these days.

Listen, I don’t really plan the way I look. I don’t dress for effect.

It’s just the way I’m comfortable. But not to be able to get into somewhere because of the clothes you’ve got on, or because of a specific haircut ...”

It’s in London where his latest venture, StreetXO (XO is a tricky Spanish pun on “show”), opened to acclaim, following the serious praise heaped on his three-Michelin-starred restaurant DiverXO in Madrid. The former might not have made much profit yet, but it has proved a testing ground for some fresh cooking. It’s been, by Muñoz’s own admission, a hard ride to get going, but it’s a stepping stone to the planned opening of another six or so restaurants – in the US, Asia and Dubai – over the coming couple of years. It could be the beginning of a global enterprise, if he’s ready for it, given that he’s only now just getting used to his celebrity status back in Spain.

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“It can get a bit boring – people trying to take your picture all the time,” he laughs. “But I also understand that that’s the world I’m in – not just through my relationship but because chefs are sometimes celebrities now. And the fact is that the more people know you, the more people are likely to want to eat at your restaurant. I’m here for the food – and it’s the food I want to be known for.”

That looks set to be a given. His brand – thanks not just to his cooking, or his sense of theatre but, it has to be said, his style and his attitude – is ripe for expansion.

Indeed, perhaps the only stumbling block might be Muñoz himself. Like many chefs, he’s a self-confessed control freak. And he’s only now learning to let go a little.

I have to do everything, I have to make all the creative decisions,” says the Spanish chef, who already works five days a week in Madrid, then each weekend in London. “That means I just can’t open everywhere. I like to be chef, to get the apron on. That feels right. And I feel very differently about the business now compared to a decade ago. I was very successful very fast and I was terrified all the time, wondering whether I could match customer expectations. And to be honest I had a really tough time with it then, dealing with the pressure. But I don’t worry about burning out now.

“In the past two years I’ve got much more comfortable with what I’m doing – in life, in cooking, in London – which is not an easy city in which to make a business despite the reputation it has for people eating out all the time,” he adds.

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back has made me realise that I didn’t.

There are just so many cultures here and you have to understand – and cook – for all of them. That’s a challenge. But I have to say I love what’s happening.”

What’s happening is the likes of Muñoz being compared to the second coming of Ferran Adrià, the pioneering Spanish chef who, it’s often suggested, invented molecular gastronomy, turning cooking into a kind of culinary science, building dishes on unexpected juxtapositions that create as much spectacle as, well, something to actually eat.

“Sure, being compared with Adrià is a compliment – he revolutionised gastronomy. But we’re doing something different,” says Muñoz, and one suspects he’s not mad on the comparison, most of all because he wants to be his own man.

What’s more, he doesn’t really think of his cooking as being especially Spanish, despite StreetXO’s tapas-style serving.

“I’m trying to make my own revolution.

Will that work out? Well, it’s too early to

restaurant where his parents liked to take him as a 12-year-old. (It was Viridiana that inspired him to take up oven gloves and go to culinary school, which was followed by spells at London’s Hakkasan and Nobu.)

“I’m trying to do the unexpected,” says Muñoz, a puckish figure in his Nikes (in Spain, he’s an ambassador for the brand, as well as for Mercedes). “That in itself isn’t difficult, in the way that just being crazy for its own sake isn’t. I’m trying to do it in a refined way, with combinations of foods not seen before. And it has to be delicious first – then we can talk about pushing the creative ideas. After all, these are not labs or museums but restaurants.

The dishes can sound like they should be a disaster but they work. Of course, sometimes I think a dish is just the best and customers think otherwise. And the line between delicious and disaster is set by the customers.”

The setting, the theatre, the tone and certainly the food chime with, Muñoz

“I lived in London when I was 20 and I thought I understood the city. But coming back has made me realise I didn’t” say. But I’m working on it.”

That’s apparent, in a way, in the look of his restaurants; all bold graphics, neon signs, whimsy, wonder and fiesta attitude, the staff wearing outfits not dissimilar to his own. His London enterprise has been described as a Cirque du Soleil of gastronomy, and were a staff member to cartwheel between the tables or deliver dishes via trapeze it wouldn’t be surprising. But, Muñoz stresses, “difference alone doesn’t make you better, even if I think customers really want to feel the soul of the place they dine in.”

Crucially, the revolution is apparent in his cooking, which is experimental without being scientific: crunchy pigs’ ears coated with strawberry hoisin sauce, dumplings of prawn paste with cheddar cocktails, wasabi ice cream with gherkins. Dishes are often delivered with friendly advice as to how they are best eaten.

It’s not fusion – a term Muñoz is not so keen on – and, it’s true, it’s only passingly Spanish. It’s a mash up of different cuisines and techniques, just like the cooking at Viridiana, the Madrid

argues, a new definition of luxury, too. It’s one Michelin itself seems to be coming round to, just a few years back having focused its attention largely on the French, the formal and the occasionally stiff.

“The idea of luxury you’d typically get with Michelin, well you won’t get that here. Here the staff are fun. They smile,” laughs Muñoz. “The real luxury is in the dishes, which should provide a mindblowing experience. And I’m good with that – because if a diner has great food, they’ll come back even if the service was a bit off. They don’t go back if the service was perfect but the food wasn’t quite so great. Of course, chefs sometimes want to challenge ways of eating. But that doesn’t always work. People don’t always get it.

And, you know what, that’s the chef’s problem not theirs. It means you have to refine the concept of the dish so that people do get it.”

Learning to listen – you have to be pragmatic, he notes – is something that has come with maturity, Muñoz suggests.

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accolades at such a relatively young age.

He concedes that he used to be “a lot more aggressive about everything I did and pushing it all forward. But now I’m better at respecting people’s opinions. And I accept that some people like what I do and some people don’t, which is what happens when you do something different.”

How long will the Muñoz proposition stay different? How well will Muñoz be able to sustain that difference as his business expands? He’s going to be working on it 24/7 until he finds out.

“I’m very ambitious,” Muñoz says, which is akin to saying that Everest is a tall mountain, or that Ferraris are quite fast. “I want to open these new restaurants and for them all to be crazily successful. And for me that means full bookings all the time. That’s the only real measure of success in this business, nothing else. Look around; there are plenty of Michelin-starred restaurants without full bookings.”

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CLOUDS IN ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ROMANTIC SETTINGS, T H E G R E AT A N D G O O D F R O M THE WORLD OF ELITE WINES G AT H E R T O D I S C U S S T H E PA S T, P R E S E N T, A N D F U T U R E OF THE NOBLE GRAPE WORDS DAWN ALFORD

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here is a yak roaming the cloud-covered hillsides in north Yunnan, south-west China, who’s set to be the talk of the finest dinner parties in London over the coming months and years. Because this yak – let’s call her Yasmin – has, in no small way, helped to create one of this year’s finest and most unusual wines.

Ao Yun is a new premium Chinese wine made by LVMH group’s Möet Hennessy Estates & Wines, which owns Dom Pérignon, Krug and Château d’Yquem, and is the first serious fine wine to come out of China. The name means ‘roaming above the clouds’ and is a reference to the landscape of the remote area where the grapes are grown, at the edge of the Himalayan mountains, not far from the city of Shangri-La. The 2015 vintage is rich, deep-coloured, with a spicy tang, hint of liquorice and a silky-smooth texture. It’s nearly 15 per cent alcohol and tastes truly unique.

Yasmin – and, to be fair, also her family and friends – helped create Ao Yun wines by pulling a plough across the high-altitude terroir. Moreover, the natural fertiliser produced by these longhaired bovines was used on the soil to help the vines grow. And yak fertiliser, I learned, gives the grapes an interesting and rare under-note.

I’m aware of Yasmin and her fellow yaks thanks to my attendance at a wine symposium at Villa d’Este on Italy’s Lake Como.

Should you be unsure, a yak is a long-haired bovine found in the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau. A symposium is a gathering of knowledgeable people who meet to discuss a matter of shared interest. The Greeks invented the symposium – and wine was frequently drunk throughout.

It is very apt, therefore, that Villa d’Este chose to call this annual gathering a symposium rather than a conference, fair, tasting or show. Held over three days in the autumn – when the throngs of tourists have left Lake Como and the autumn colours make the location even more stunning – the exclusive event has attracted the great and the good from the world of elite wines for 10 years, and hosts around 200 high-net-worth guests (think Davos with bottomless fine Burgundy).

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Wines at the tastings, lunches and dinners range from a few hundred pounds a bottle to many thousands of pounds. For the most exclusive wines, like the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti (DRC), there’s an extra price tag of up to £2,000 per tasting seminar on top of the attendance fee, which is approximately £4,000.

Breakfast, lunches and dinners are all open seating. Far from it being intimidating for a lone novice like me, conversations are shared between gracious and encouraging producers, experts, wine collectors and investors from all over the world.

Cards are exchanged between the symposium guests and arrangements are made to see them at the same time, same place next year. Firm friendships are formed and, in my case, there was an out-pouring of sympathy offered regularly from fellow guests that the UK is leaving the European Union.

The annual affair is not just for producers, buyers and restaurateurs – anyone who enjoys acquiring fine wines for their cellar is welcome. This makes for a special mix of enthusiasts who have a shared goal of discovering and enjoying the world’s finest wines.

Established and traditional production methods sit alongside new innovative scientific formulations on the programme of events and discussions.

Guests can sample fine wines and champagnes from worldwide producers every lunchtime and there are lectures, tastings and round-table discussions spread throughout the day. “The Villa d’Este Wine Symposium, created by our hotel and François Mauss, president and founder of the Grand Jury Européen, was born from the simple desire to create a global forum of reference for the principal actors within the world of fine wine,” explains Villa d’Este managing director Danilo Zucchetti. “It endeavours to be an exclusive and unique place for an international dialogue around wine. We have guests here from every continent and the 2018 event was very special for us as it was our 10th anniversary.”

One of the biggest shows came from Georgia and the country is widely recognised as one of the world’s earliest known vintners, producing wine on a large scale as early as 6,000 BC – a time when prehistoric humans were still reliant on stone and bone tools. And the country is still wine crazy more than 8,000 years later.

“The region’s wine culture has deep historical roots,” says David Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgian National Museum, who presented at the Lake Como event. “Large jars similar to the Neolithic vessels that were found in recent excavations are still used to make wine in Georgia today.”

Wine, he says, is to be regarded as “an essential and natural part of human evolution, history and civilisation. Wine was not only a beverage. We find evidence of trading and collecting wine from 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Wine was connecting people across countries and cultures. Georgia even started exporting wine around 2,500 years ago.”

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Symposium guest Guptal Singh, a lawyer and collector from Delhi, added: “Georgia is certainly leading the way in terms of quality and provenance, and the country has embraced its history as the founders of viticulture. I’ve tasted some superb wines here and I am certainly going to add them to my collection.”

A highlight for many was the DRC tasting, which started with a Vosne-Romanée before moving onto Romanée Saint-Vivant and Romanée-Conti, and ended with a 2003 Montrachet. DRC wines are widely regarded as among the best in the world and owner Aubert de Villaine led guests through the tasting.

The fact that wine greats like de Villaine attend the symposium is thanks to passionate French oenophile François Mauss, who devised the event and starts it every year by rather incongruously shouting “Yabba Dabba Doo!” “I am simply a great fan of the Flintstone family,” he told me. “I did this the first year and it has become a tradition.”

Among the guests was Justin Bonner, who runs a beer brewing company and was at the event for the first time. “I am a devotee of DRC and I also wanted to experience visiting Italy. The wine symposium offered me the opportunity to meet wine lovers from around the world and people that I likely wouldn’t come across in my everyday life.

“The DRC tasting was one of the highlights, as was the opportunity to experience new wines from less heralded wine regions. Great wine is most appreciated in great company and the environment must be welcoming and unpretentious – and without barriers.”

Villa d’Este certainly works hard to be welcoming and the longserving staff are warm and attentive, with plenty of personality, wit and charm.

The hotel and setting are breathtakingly romantic. Designed by the famous 16th-century architect Pellegrino Pellegrini, the villa was built as the Cardinal of Como’s summer palace and is considered to be among the most beautiful architectural works of its time. It is surrounded by a private park with centennial plants, and guests can admire works of art including Pellegrini’s Nympheum, the Hercules Fountain and the Telemachus Statue.

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The exclusive annual event has attracted oenophiles for 10 years, and hosts around 200 high-networth guests (think Davos with bottomless fine Burgundy) Caroline of Brunswick, queen consort and estranged wife of George IV, and was opened as a hotel in 1873. Villa d’Este is now one of Italy’s foremost grand hotels and has attracted a glittering list of celebrities, politicians and aristocrats, from Elizabeth Taylor to Frank Sinatra. George and Amal Clooney’s home is nearby and they often visit for dinner.

During her time at the villa, Caroline of Brunswick enhanced both the building and the local town, helping build roads in Cernobbio and establish its reputation as an exclusive destination. She was also known to have been fond of fine wines and, no doubt, would have thoroughly approved of the villa hosting such a celebrated symposium.

The Villa d’Este Wine Symposium offers an exclusive insight into the past, present and future of the noble grape and it is fascinating to see how wine continues to connect people across countries, cultures and centuries – sometimes joining the unlikeliest of dots. Even Yasmin the yak, with her contribution to the outstanding Ao Yun wine, shares an affinity for atmospheric landscapes with Caroline of Brunswick herself, who wrote in her diary that “Villa d’Este’s garden seems almost suspended in the air and forms a scene of complete enchantment.” From the world-class wines on offer to the exquisite setting, the Villa d’Este Wine Symposium will also leave oenophiles on cloud nine. villadeste.com

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P L AT E A U B A R M A N A G E R , SEBASTIANO GENNARO, SHARES HIS EXPERTISE AHEAD O F S U M M E R PA R T Y S E A S O N

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f you’re hosting a summer party, cocktails are a great crowd pleaser. For the perfect cocktail, taste does always come first, but don’t forget the style. When you present a cocktail in a beautifully decorated and garnished glass, it enhances the experience.

For the ultimate taste, opt for fresh ingredients and fruits that are in season; not only is it more affordable to buy in-season but the quality of the fruit will be much better. Mango and lychee will be popular flavours this summer as well as healthy cocktails that contain ingredients such as beetroot. In terms of alcohol, gin, vodka, tequila and citrus liqueurs are recommended options for the summer months.

The main spirit in your cocktail recipe should be around 60ml per drink, after this you can play with the balance of liqueurs and other spirits to make it up to 80ml. Cocktails are getting more and more experimental, so you can have fun with the mixers and infusions. At Plateau I’m experimenting with international flavours such as wasabi, soy sauce and a squid ink twist on a lychee martini.

Don’t forget the ice. People always complain about the amount of ice in a cocktail but it is an extremely important part. If you use

too little, the ice will melt quickly. With enough ice, you’ll get a refreshingly cool cocktail with ice that doesn’t water your drink down.

When it comes to decorating your glasses, use the leftover peels from the fresh fruit so that nothing goes to waste. To dust your glasses in sugar or salt, simply go around the edge of the glass with a piece of lime then dip the glass upside down into sugar or salt. Whilst the glass is still upside down, polish the inside with a tissue to remove any excess sugar or salt which prevents it from falling into the glass. I advise only decorating half of the rim so that people are not forced to drink the sugar or salt.

If you’re going to be serving food, make sure you save the stronger cocktails such as martinis for after dinner. Drinks high in alcohol are abrasive on the tongue and will impair your taste-buds.

For larger crowds, cocktail sharing bowls are perfect. I recommend creating one dry (martinis), one mixed (spritz) and one sweet (Tequila Sunrise and Piña Colada).

However, I advise not to drink too many different types of cocktail as the mix of spirits is tough on the body. Don’t forget to keep yourself hydrated in between drinks too – especially in hot weather.

Alcohol is very dehydrating so keep up your water intake and you’ll feel much better in the morning.

“At Plateau, I’m experimenting with wasabi, soy sauce and squid ink”

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Kids’ Club GET READY FOR THE SUMMER SEASON IN STYLE AND T U C K I N T O S O M E TA S T Y T R E AT S WORDS MORAG TURNER

SUMMER SEASON It’s never too early to introduce little ones to the fun of the British social season and there are lots of great family-friendly events taking place in June.

The Fever-Tree Championships at Queens, for example, is happy to welcome children aged five and up to watch the world-class tennis from the main grandstand (17-23 June, lta.org.uk).

Or treat your youngsters to a day of superb horse racing at Royal Ascot, where children can attend if accompanying an adult (18-22 June, ascot.com).

Elsewhere, entertainment company Sharky & George can be found at Chesterton’s Polo in the Park at the Hurlingham Club, where the Little Hooves Club will feature activities such as a bouncy castle, face painting, a soft play zone and a giant inflatable assault course. On the morning of Finals Day (9 June) there will even be a ‘pitch invasion’ with mini polo matches on space hopper ponies (7-9 June, polointheparklondon.com).

SNACK TIME THE SMART SET Summer is the time of weddings and parties, and if you are taking your children with you to a smart event then they will need some equally smart clothes. For a huge range of occasionwear head to Alex and Alexa (alexandalexa.com) for designer brands such as Chloé and Stella McCartney. On the high street, don’t look past Marks & Spencers, which has a whole section on the website dedicated to wedding style – think pretty tulle dresses for girls and pastel 44

colours shorts suits for boys (marksandspencers.com).

Or for something a bit different check out the Kidswear Collective (kidswearcollective.com), an online store selling pre-loved and past season designer fashion for children from 0 to 14 years. Items are sold at up to 80 per cent off their original retail price and brands include Il Gufo, MarieChantal, Bonpoint and Burberry.

Beautiful clothing perfect for those special occasions.

Kids are permanently ‘starving’ aren’t they? And therefore always hankering after something to yummy to eat. They would happily munch on crisps and sweets if left to their own devices but why not offer them a delicious, healthy snack from Munchachos? The brand’s nutritionists have created a selection of scrumptious treats, each one inspired by flavours from around the world and all made with natural flavours, no added sugar or salt. Each box has a combination of five snacks, which are ideal for lunchboxes or after-school hunger pangs and include crispy pitta bread dipped in creamy tzatziki and paellainspired rice cakes. Simply order as many boxes as you think your hungry little people will need. And maybe have a nibble yourself – they are seriously tasty. £4.99 a week, munchachos.com

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CULINARY DELIGHTS If you’re still in need of inspiration for this year’s family holiday, then the amazing Sani Resort in Greece has just made two weeks there even more appealing. As if the five-star facilities, kids’ clubs and beautiful beach location weren’t enough, the hotel has teamed up with children’s cookery author Annabel Karmel, who has curated a brand new baby and children’s menu. With lots of tasty, balanced meals to choose from across the resort’s restaurants – including vegetarian and vegan options – even the pickiest eaters will find something they like. The Young Food Explorers Menu includes colourful quesadillas, giant couscous salad and crispy baked cod. So while mum and dad enjoy their own delicious meal (we’ve been to Sani Resort, so we can assure you it will be), little ones will love their grub too.

PLUM TRAMPOLINE With a vast amount of experience in the outdoor play space, the trampolines from Plum Play are about the best in the business.

One of the brand’s flagship models is this 12 ft oval model complete with enclosure – great for kids of all ages. £499.9, John Lewis, Canada Place

RAZOR DRIFT RIDER The powerful 100-watt motor in this electric drift cycle packs a decent punch when you twist the throttle.

Bigger kids are sure to climb aboard for a quick blast. The caster wheels at the rear assist in sending this trike into an adrenaline-inducing spin. £249.99, argos.co.uk

FEBER SUPER PALACE This enormous playhouse has nine towers, right up there with real regal abodes. The front door has the classic castle look and there’s a door knocker for guests as well as an electronic doorbell – you may well struggle to get the little ones to leave.

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‘Outstanding’ isn’t a word that is used lightly – and certainly not when if comes to childcare. So when Bright Horizons Canada Square Day Nursery and Preschool on Canary Wharf was recently awarded the top rating following an Ofsted inspection, the staff were rightly chuffed.

It’s good to know that we have such an exemplar nursery right on our doorstep.

One of the most elite level GoKarts you can acquire, this GTS unit from BERG is built very much to last. Forward and reverse pedalling, superb suspension to tackle all manner of terrain, an adjustable seat and smooth steering – a top quality ride.

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Health & Fitness ALL YOU NEED TO GET FIT AND H E A LT H Y T H I S S U M M E R WORDS ABISHA SRITHARAN

MAKING WAVES As summer begins and the temperature (hopefully) climbs, what better way to get fit than with a few laps in your local lido? For swimwear, head to The White Company, which has a stylish range of figureflattering swimsuits and bikinis in a range of styles and fits.

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PINNACLE PERFORMANCE If you can’t face the morning Tube sweatathon, switch up your commute and take to London’s cycle lanes. Evans Cycles has launched a brand new line of its Pinnacle Arkose bikes, which now comes in two formats: Arkose Road and Arkose Dirt. Both options use the same frame and fork, allowing riders to simply choose the wheels and gearing most matched to their needs. The new versatile bikes are perfect for hard gravel roads as well as smooth pavements.

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As part of its SS19 collection, Adidas Sport Eyewear has introduced the Wire SPX Series. The new range features three innovative designs: Strivr, Exhale, and Xpulsor, all of which have high vision capacity and ultralight design – perfect for moving around under the sun. The unisex range comes in six stylish colours, including purple, silver, tan, and navy blue.

From £105, adidassporteyewear.com

LODGE OFF Unwind at The Lodge.Space; a wellness hub in Canada Water, which offers a mix of classes, including yoga, pilates, special breathing workshops and even hypnotherapy.

The wellness hub also offers massages, acupuncture, and unique holistic treatments, such as dragon healing, which is a form of Reiki combined with body psychology. In addition to this, the space includes a health food kitchen and cafe, as well as a zen garden for guests to relax outdoors. thelodge.space 47

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MANE SQUEEZE No one has time to wash their hair at a festival, so a dry shampoo is an essential accessory. Oribe’s Gold Lust dry shampoo leaves hair feeling and looking effortlessly clean. Enriched with watermelon, lychee and edelweiss, plus fragrance-retention technology, this hair care hero promises to leave your locks smelling gorgeous all day long.

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£47, oribe.com

T H E B E A U T Y E S S E N T I A L S T O PA C K F O R FESTIVAL SEASON – WHETHER YOU’RE G L A M P I N G AT W I L D E R N E S S O R WA D I N G T H R O U G H M U D AT G L A S T O N B U RY WORDS ABISHA SRITHARAN

CATCH MY EYE There’s no such thing as too much glitter at a festival, so what better opportunity to experiment with Chanel’s new Ombre Premiere Gloss eyeshadows? The glittering shades include Patine Bronze and Silver Pink, and can be worn alone or layered for a fun festival look. £26, Boots, Canada Place

LUSCIOUS LASHES If you can’t be OTT at a festival, when can you?

Swap your black mascara for The Controlled Chaos range by Shisedo; a colourful collection of voluminous mascaras in a range of bold shades.

The memory flex bristles on the mascara stick allows the brush to stay strong while the weightless mascara formula allows wearers to achieve the perfect balance of structure flexibility and glide.

SHIMMER AND SHINE Nars’ Orgasm blush has been reimagined in four products just in time for festival season.

The signature shade is now available as a limited edition lip tint, multi-use palette and highlighting drops, as well as the classic blush. Whether you’re heading to Glastonbury or Wireless, this glamorous range creates a shimmering look that’ll make you shine in any crowd.

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£25, shiseido.co.uk

NAILED IT You’re dressed up, made up and festival-ready, and then you realise you have chipped nail varnish. Enter London Grace, which has the perfect range of festivalinspired nail polishes, each named after a female headline act. You can have bright red nails à la Taylor Swift, glitter in gold like Rihanna, look pretty in pink like Britney, or opt for sky blue like Florence Welch.

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Beautiful H E R O E S FROM PLASTIC BOTTLES TO MICROBEADS, THE T H I N G S T H AT M A K E U S M O R E B E A U T I F U L A R E O F T E N M A K I N G O U R P L A N E T U G L I E R . B U T, T H E R E ’ S A N E W G E N E R AT I O N O F E T H I C A L B R A N D S EMERGING, IN RESPONSE TO DEMAND FROM C O N S U M E R S W H O N O T O N LY W A N T T O L O O K GOOD, BUT WANT TO FEEL GOOD, TOO WORDS ANGELINA VILLA CLARK

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hat does it all mean? Let’s face it, from ‘natural’ ingredients to ‘sustainable’ beauty – when it comes to the products that we put on our dressing tables, there’s a mass of confusion around what is to be truly ‘environmentally friendly’.

‘Cruelty-free,’ ‘vegan’ and ‘clean’ are just some of the labels that appeal to our consciences, but do we really know what boxes we should be ticking when we buy our daily must-haves?

On a mission to create the most effective, natural and sustainable products in the world, Beauty Kitchen – an independent sustainable beauty brand from Glasgow – offers a pioneering ‘Return. Refill.

Repeat’ program and is the first time a beauty brand has offered a zero-waste solution on a large scale.

Ultimately, you return your empty Beauty Kitchen containers to the brand and they will wash, refill and return them to you. The company’s award-winning founder, Jo Chidley, believes that it is packaging which is the biggest problem within the industry.

“It is estimated that 99 per cent of all beauty packaging is thrown out after just one use, with 120 billion units of packaging created by the global beauty industry each year,” she says. “But awareness of this and also of what ingredients are in our products, is on the rise. Recently, at Incosmetics Global 2019, one of the largest trade shows in Paris, there was a huge rise in natural and eco-friendly ingredients being shown. This has grown from less than 10 per cent to more than 80 per cent in the past few years and demonstrates that this trend is now here to stay.”

Being more environmentally friendly is easier than many of us think. Just by rethinking our beauty regime, for instance, we can do away with a whole tranche of products we once considered ‘essentials’. Face Halo’s Makeup Remover Pad (£7, Boots, Canada Place), is a good start. The high-tech, resusable face sponge deep-cleanses skin to remove make-up and grime. Needing just a small amount of water, it is equivalent to using 500 makeup wipes and removes the need for bottles of cleanser and toner. Meanwhile, the new Jinmee Hydrapuff (£6.50, Topshop, Canada Place), are eco-friendly, super-absorbant skincare sheets that allow you to use half your product for double the results. Simply soak them in a small amount of toner, serum and oil and the products penetrate deeper into the skin by up to 50 per cent. Read on for our essential guide to the latest eco beauty brands.

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NEALS YARD

Eco creds: One of the original pioneers when it comes to organic and sustainable beauty, having launched in 1981, Neal’s Yard is still showing imitators how it is done. From its micro-bead-free scrubs to offering customers free instore water refills across the UK – it trades sustainably and ethically and builds strong relationships with growers who use organic, sustainable and wildharvesting practices.

Must try: Frankincense Intense Lift Cream, £65 This ultra-nourishing face cream firms and restores and contains the Frankincense Phyto Complex, a sustainable zero waste ingredient created from what is left over from the frankincense distillation process.

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ETHIQUE

Eco creds: Recently-launched in the UK, this brand has been making waves in New Zealand, and beyond, due to its zero-waste philosophy.

Handmade solid beauty bars offer alternatives to traditional liquid shampoos, conditioners and even deodorants. Founder Brianne West comments: “Ethique is the only company in the world that is producing 100 per cent solid products in a full range with compostable packaging. Ethique is also a vegan, cruelty-free, palm oil free, sustainable and plastic-free. We are on a mission to rid the world of plastic waste and to date we have prevented more than 3.3 million plastic bottles from being produced and disposed of. By 2025 we hope to have increased this number to 50 million.”

Must try: Superstar: Face Cleanser and Makeup Remover, from £14. This cleanser uses cocoa butter, kokum butter, coconut oil and cleansing castor oil to leave skin clean and dewy. ethiqueworld.com 52

“We are on a mission to rid the world of plastic waste”

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Eco creds: Based on ancient Ayurvedic traditions, Mauli Rituals uses pure, natural ingredients which are free of nasties across its extensive wellbeing range. The founder, Nobel Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi, says he “envisions a world where every child is free, safe, healthy and educated” and in the company’s ‘give-back’ programme – £1 of each product sold on the brand’s website is given to a children’s charity each month.

Eco creds: This new organic brand offers deluxe anti-aging skincare and also replaces the use of water in many of its products (and thus the need for chemicals to kill harmful bacteria) with natural plant hydrosols. Also known as flower waters, plant hydrosols are the product of steam distilling botanic materials, such as lavender, witch hazel and rose. They also give natural fragrances, capture the therapeutic properties of plants and are more effective in caring for your skin.

Must try: Supreme Skin Rose Mist, £36 A natural and vegan botanical infusion containing turmeric and honeysuckle with steam-distilled rose water. Skin is left glowing.

Must try: Age Cancellation Booster, £42.78 This multi-tasker is packed with natural goodness – such as bamboo shoot and guarana extracts – to iron our wrinkles, improve firmness and hydrate.

Space NK, Cabot Place

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Eco creds: 100 per cent natural, organic and vegan, this Yorkshirebased company uses no added water or emulsifiers, no parabens or silicone, no sulphates, synthetic chemicals or artificial fragrance in its products. The result is a carefully crafted collection of products that it calls ‘treatments’, for women and men, which are bursting with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and plant extracts.

Eco creds: This British plant-based and cruelty-free skincare brand harnesses authentic and traditional Thai healing techniques. Products are free from synthetic fragrances, colours, paraffin, silicone and parabens. Based on the principles of ‘Metta’ – a Buddhist term for focusing on unconditional love for all beings – the collection combines healing ingredients with complementary fragrances, to create products that heal from the inside and out.

Eco creds: Sustainability is key with this London-based brand. The brand’s tubes are made from sugar cane and are biodegradable, glass is used instead of plastic and all packaging can be recycled. The range also has natural formulations driven by science, “because natural doesn’t have to mean basic”.

Must try: Facial Serum, £44 Made with eight essential oils to lift and tighten skin.

Must try: Fully Charged All Over Lotion, £20 Great for post-workout, this body cream keeps skin moisturised and aids muscle recovery. It contains Thai Plai – a powerful healing plant – as well as lavender and rosemary oil.

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Must try: Babe Balm, £18 A multi-purpose balm that can soothe dry lips, heal chapped skin and add a glow to your cheeks (due to its peachy hue from beta-carotene-rich carrot extract). bybi.com

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The woman who invented

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BY MERGING THE WORLDS OF SCIENCE AND B E A U T Y, H E L E N A R U B I N S T E I N R E V O L U T I O N I S E D T H E C O S M E T I C S I N D U S T R Y A N D B U I LT A N E M P I R E I N T H E PROCESS. AS HER LIFE’S WORK IS REMEMBERED IN A N E W E X H I B I T I O N I N PA R I S , A N A C C O M PA N Y I N G BOOK REVEALS THE LENGTHS THE ENTREPRENEUR WENT TO CHANGE THE FACE OF BEAUTY FOREVER WORDS ELLEN MILLARD

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n 1941, when Helena Rubinstein was told she couldn’t buy an apartment in her New York block of choice on account of her Jewish heritage, she stuck a proverbial two fingers up at the anti-Semitic residents and bought the entire building. When, some decades earlier as a teenager, she was made to leave school and spend the remainder of her youth looking for a husband, she ignored the pleas of her family and took up residence in her father’s shop. And, when her relatives grew tired of her disobedience and exiled her to Australia, she sought the seeds to start her cosmetics company, which later grew to be an innovative beauty empire with Rubinstein at the helm — and with the cash flow to buy an apartment block on a whim.

Rubinstein’s was a real rags to riches story, entwined with family fallouts, deaths and divorce — but it is her determination and astuteness, and the internationally-renowned beauty empire that was borne out of these traits, for which she is best remembered. It’s this that a new exhibition at the Musée d’art et d’historic du Judaism and an accompanying book, Helena Rubinstein: The Adventure of Beauty, highlights — that, and how a poor girl from Poland came to change the face of the beauty industry forever.

BECOMING HELENA Born Chaja to an Orthodox Jewish family in Krakow in 1872, Rubinstein adopted the moniker Helena when she moved to Australia, changing her name on her identification papers and wiping 10 years off her age in the process. Hoping for a new life, she found herself working in a shop in Coleraine, more than 200 miles from civilisation.

The female farmers she served, whose skin had wrinkled under the Australian sun, often admired her porcelain complexion and she began to advise them on their skincare routine, offering them her secret weapon: a beauty cream that a Kazimierz pharmacist had given to her mother.

Having seen the affects of the pharmacist’s creation, Rubinstein moved to Toowoomba in 1900 to study botany and science, teaching herself how to recreate this precious skin saviour. She sold her jars of cream on the streets and saved enough money to open her beauty institute in 1902 — the same year Australian women won the vote. Timing was everything; although female workers were still being paid less than their male counterparts, their position in society had changed and, after rent and food, they had money to spend on themselves.

“Beauty is power…” Rubinstein preached. “The greatest power of them all.”

BUILDING AN EMPIRE Having found success in Australia, Rubinstein travelled to Europe, visiting hot springs, spas and dermatologists in Berlin, London and Paris. She opened her second beauty salon in Mayfair in 1908.

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who she taught to apply make-up — and in the process banished the taboo that such products were just for prostitutes.

In 1909, she moved to Paris, where she opened her third boutique and her first laboratoryturned-factory, sparking the beginning of the industrialisation of beauty.

“I like different kinds of beautiful things and I’m not afraid to use them in unconventional ways” From here she moved to New York and conquered America, opening salons across the country. It was a tough market to tap into, made all the more difficult thanks to the competition from burgeoning beauty moguls Charles Revson and Elizabeth Arden, the latter of which was of particular nuisance to Rubinstein. As women of equal talent and with similar goals, the pair experienced a life-long rivalry, despite never meeting. As Rubinstein said: “With her packaging and my product, we could have ruled the world.”

While Rubinstein didn’t rule the world, she certainly experienced a lengthy reign in the cosmetics industry. In 1928, it seemed her rule was over when she sold her business to the Lehman brothers and made $7.3m in the transaction — but, when the stock market crashed a year later, she bought it back for $1.5m, cementing her place as one of the most rich and famous women in the world.

Helena Rubinstein: The Adventure of Beauty

by Michele Fitoussi, £30, published by Flammarion, editions.flammarion.com

LEAVING A LEGACY When Rubinstein died at the age of 93 in 1965, her empire spanned 14 countries and three continents, and employed 30,000 people across the globe. Her fortune was estimated at more than $100m.

Today, her legacy lives on in more than just fame and fortune — the cosmetics industry owes much to Rubinstein’s innovative ideas, not just in her ability to combine science and beauty but for her shrewd marketing and commercialization techniques, too.

Rubinstein knew the power of luxurious packaging, overpricing and celebrity endorsements.

In the arts, too, she made her mark. A keen social climber, Rubinstein rubbed shoulders with creative elites and endorsed their work, collecting canvases by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall and sitting for portraits by Salvador Dalí and Raoul Dufy. Her eclectic taste leaked into her wardrobe and she was renowned for wearing couture by the likes of Poiret, Balenciaga, Chanel and Dior.

It stands to reason that the woman who reinvented beauty also steered from convention in her personal life. Her style made tongues wag but, in typical Rubinstein fashion, she was not deterred. As she said: “I like different kinds of beautiful things and I’m not afraid to use them in unconventional ways.”

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT BEAUTY SALON AT 715 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, 1937, ©HELENA RUBINSTEIN ARCHIVES, L’ORÉAL, PARIS; “HELENA RUBINSTEIN’S NEW LIPSTICK COLOR JAZZ”, 1955, ©JÜDISCHES MUSEUM, VIENNA; HELENA RUBINSTEIN’S JEWELLERY, CIRCA 1965, ©HELENA RUBINSTEIN ARCHIVES/L’ORÉAL, PARIS; HELENA RUBINSTEIN WITH AN ELIE NADELMAN SCULPTURE AND THE PABLO PICASSO TAPESTRY CONFIDENCES, CIRCA 1955, PHOTOGRAPH BY ERWIN BLUMENFELD, ©THE ESTATE OF ERWIN BLUMENFELD; POWDER COMPACT FROM 1915-1930 ©PARIS, ARCHIVES HELENA RUBINSTEIN/L’ORÉAL; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; HELENA RUBINSTEIN, 1951, PHOTOGRAPH BY CECIL BEATON, ©ADAGP, PARIS, 2019; PORTRAIT OF HELENA RUBINSTEIN, 1939, CÂNDIDO PORTINARI, ©TEL AVIV MUSEUM OF ART; TAMA 2395; GIFT OF HELENA RUBINSTEIN, 1959; HELENA RUBINSTEIN IN HER LABORATORY AT SAINT-CLOUD, CIRCA 1930, BORIS LIPNITZKI, ©HELENA RUBINSTEIN ARCHIVES/ L’ORÉAL, PARIS

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COOL, CALM & COLLECTED A NEW LUXURY WELLNESS CLINIC OPENS ITS DOORS I N C A N A D A P L A C E , O F F E R I N G T E M P E R AT U R E C O N T R O L L E D W H O L E B O D Y R E J U V E N AT I O N

LE CHALET CRYO DIRECTOR LENKA CHUBUKLIEVA

We will provide you with clothing garments to protect sensitive body parts (facemask, earmuffs, gloves, socks, slippers). Unlike with nitrogen, there are no risks of getting frost bites or burns as long as you wear protective gear.

How long does a session last?

The treatment is usually 3-4 minutes long. The whole session can be completed in as little as 15 minutes including the five minutes it takes to change in and out of the protective gear we supply.

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hampioned by athletes and premiere clubs across the world for its ability to heal injuries and improve health, whole body cryotherapy is a treatment inside an electrically temperature-controlled room that uses cold, dry air to expose your body to temperatures as low as -90˚C, resulting in a number of health benefits.

Le Chalet Cryo, a brand new luxury wellness clinic in Canada Place, is bringing this revolutionary treatment, along with dry hydro massage, to Canary Wharf. The clinic’s Director Lenka Chubuklieva explains more.

What exactly is whole body cryotherapy?

Whole body cryotherapy originated in Japan in the late 1970s

by Dr. Yamaguchi who discovered that freezing the skin’s surface provided immediate relief to his patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Yamaguchi and his partner’s ongoing studies concluded that faster short term freezing of the skin’s surface while inside a cryo-sauna is much more effective than gradual cooling provided by other methods such as cold showers or ice baths.

Think of it as being inside a very efficiently air-conditioned refrigerator room. For three minutes you are inside this electrically controlled room which exposes your whole body to temperatures down to -90˚C. How does it feel to be inside the chamber?

You may catch your breath when you first enter the chamber which is expected due to the sudden change of temperature; however your body adjusts fairly quickly. The air in the chamber is extremely dry making it quite easy to handle - most people find it exhilarating in fact.

Is it safe to expose your body to such extreme temperatures?

Cryotherapy has already been around for more than 40 years and if you are in good health, it is perfectly safe as long as you are not wearing any jewellery or have exposed metallic clothing parts touching your skin.

What are the benefits?

While whole body cryotherapy’s primary use is for pain reduction, anti-inflammation and recovery of damaged cells after sports, it can also aid weight loss (by improving insulin sensitivity and burning up to 800 calories per three-minute session), relax muscles, promote the body’s natural production of collagen which improves skin rejuvenation, and improve hair and nails.

Mentally, the intense cold can stimulate a parasympathetic or mind-quieting response. This boosts energy levels during the day, improves sleep at night and increases longevity.

Should you have sessions long term?

While most people experience a boost of energy and fat burn over the first few hours that follow the session, the real detox takes place after several sessions. Eight to 12 sessions are recommended to see significant results.

Elite athletes often use it every day or even several times a day and most people who use cryotherapy for overall health and wellness receive one to two sessions a week. If you have an injury or inflammation, it is recommended to have two to four sessions a week.

What is dry hydro massage?

It’s a heated bed with a natural waterproof membrane on top and warm water jets underneath to massage you. Just like with manual massages, you can select an area you would like to focus on (upper body, legs or a full body massage), or choose a more relaxing setting and simply drift away.

Do your services help with weight loss?

By exposing your body to extreme temperatures, you are increasing your metabolic rate by up to 350%. The brain will tell the rest of your body to rush blood to your core and protect your vital organs. As such your body will start working on warming you up which burns energy and glucose to generate such heat, allowing you to lose up to 800 calories in a session depending on your body type.

Can you book in for cryotherapy and dry hydro massage on the same day?

Yes, in fact it is advised to warm your body up before cryotherapy to increase the benefits of cold therapy.

PROMOTION Whole Body Cryotherapy Receive your first session for just £49 (usually £89)

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LOOKING SHARP DRESS TO IMPRESS WITH SOCIAL SEASON SAVIOURS AND SUMMER SWIMWEAR SOLUTIONS

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MEETING BOARDER CHIC ATTIRE TO TAKE YOU FROM THE CITY TO THE SURF

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OPENING PAGE, FROM LEFT: Harry: Multi-coloured checked trousers, £840, Multi-coloured checked blazer, £1,660, missoni.com; Linen shirt, £175, orlebarbrown.com; Mustard-yellow T-shirt, €40, thesiltedcompany.com; Linen and silk tie, £75, brooksbrothers.com; Carril sunglasses, £125, oscardeen.com; Pink suede Wallabee shoes, £110, clarks.co.uk; Bremont ALT1-P2 on leather strap, £3,895, Bremont, Cabot Place; James: Ivory and blue silk blazer, £2,300, Wool trousers, £590, Monogram Dior Oblique vest, £730, Grey B24 trainers, £740, dior.com; Painted silk shirt, £375, danielwfletcher.com; Keystone sunglasses, £125, cubitts.com OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM LEFT: James: Regent fit linen jacket, £750 (for three-piece suit), brooksbrothers.com; Palm-printed shorts, €120, thesiltedcompany.com; Blue shirt, £170, geym.com; Palm Sk8 Bricolage LX hi-top trainers, £100, vans.co.uk; Pinto sunglasses, £125, oscardeen.com; Harry: White suit jacket, £399, BOSS, Cabot Place; Striped vest, £90, Boardies swim shorts, £95, danielwfletcher.com; Santiago shirt, £65, farah.co.uk; Sunglasses, £140, oakley.com; Suede espadrilles, £298, tods.com; Shark tooth pendant in gold, £110, alexorso.com; Chain necklaces, stylist’s own THIS PAGE, FROM LEFT: James: Deconstructed jacket with jaquard print, £1,315, Woven trouser with jaquard print, £890, robertocavalli.com; Ozzie cat shirt, £55, volcom.co.uk; Canvas and velvet high-top trainers, £465, lanvin.com; Emerson necklace, £130, alicemadethis.com; White vest and rope bracelet, stylist’s own; Harry: Black peak lapel jacket, £2,260, cerruti.com; Tiki mono shirt, £75, carhartt.wip.com; Black trousers with orange trim, €150, thesiltedcompany.com; Orange rubber dive boots, £395, loewe.com; Shark tooth necklace, £220, alexorso.com; Black and grey waist pack bag, £39.95, hexbrand.co.uk

THIS PAGE: Double-breasted jacket, POA, Stripe shirt, POA, Oatmeal trousers, POA, corneliani.com; Double track stripe tie, £89, brooksbrothers.com; Tarfaya sunglasses, £595, ebmeyrowitz.co.uk OPPOSITE PAGE: Navy tropical silk jacquard evening jacket, £1,895, gievesandhawkes.com; Navy and white Breton-striped T-shirt, £70, sunspel.com; White trousers, £119, BOSS, Cabot Place; Necklace, stylist’s own

OPPOSITE PAGE: Seishin suit in cotton seersucker, £795, Orange knitted polo shirt, £395, richard-james.com; Psych floral shirt, £55, volcom.co.uk THIS PAGE, FROM LEFT: Harry: Chino suit jacket, £259, Cotton graphic track jacket, £285, Polo Ralph Lauren, Cabot Place; White T-shirt, £27, prettygreen.com; Hat, £20, reef.eu; Terrex free hiker shoes, £170, adidas.co.uk; Shark tooth pendant in gold, £110, alexorso.com; Silver chain, stylist’s own; James: Watercolour flower shirt, €150, stussy.co.uk; Linen trousers, £160, basicrights.com; Paula’s bumbag, £395, loewe.com; Trainers, £55, converse.com; Pinto sunglasses, £125, oscardeen.com; Necklace, £115, alexorso.com

THIS PAGE, FROM LEFT: Harry: Lilac suit jacket, £1,790, lanvin.com; Red and pink striped long-sleeved T-shirt, APC x Kid Cudi, £108, farfetch.com; Highline Checker Arch 18” board shorts, £70, quicksilver.com; Pinto sunglasses, £125, oscardeen.com; Suede slip-on 46 V trainers, £57, vans.co.uk; Necklace and socks, stylist’s own; James: Lilac wool blazer, £800, Lilac wool trousers, £410, Blush red cotton and linen shirt, £215, Paul Smith, Cabot Place; Blossvale shirt, £60, dickieslife.com; Otis sunglasses, £125, oscardeen.com; Ivory Palm Bricolage slip-on trainers, £80, Vans, farfetch.com OPPOSITE PAGE: Grey Venezia suit, £1,350, canali.com; Shirt, £99, basicrights.com; Feeling Fine shirt, £55, quicksilver.co.uk; Large shark tooth necklace in silver and howlite, £175, oscardeen.com; Vest, stylist’s own

Models: James Crabtree and Harry Goodwin @ Select Grooming: Sven Bayerbach @ Carol Hayes Management using Harry’s Photography assistant: Joseph Petini Stylist assistants: Allegra Bartoli and Rosie J. Farnworth

MA N O N A MISS ION A limited edition capsule collection inspired by iconic looks of Secret Agent James Bond lands at Orlebar Brown, Jubilee Place

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dolised by men across the globe, British Secret Service Agent 007 is known for his suave looks and exotic adventures. Taking inspiration from outfits worn by Sean Connery, Roger Moore and George Lazenby, Orlebar Brown has released an exclusive collection following the successful launch of its limited edition Bond swim shorts in July 2018.

Referencing outfits seen in titles such as Goldfinger, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun and A View to Kill, the collection fuses Bond’s classic and refined style with Orlebar Brown’s resort wear in signature fabrics.

Available exclusively at Orlebar Brown, discover the range of swimwear, polo shirts, jackets and espadrilles at the brand’s Jubilee Place store. The capsule collection includes intricate details such as the labelling inside the towelling robe that reads: ‘The Property of Dr. Julius No, Crab Key’ – a nod to the memorable scene from Dr. No where James Bond and Honey Ryder find themselves imprisoned on Crab Key island in similar robes.

Clockwise from left: Towelling Safari Shirt, £195, Safari Jacket, £395, Pleated Shirt, £245

Piped Towelling Blouson, £295

In a recent interview, brand co-founder and creative director Adam Brown said, “Bond over the years has definitely played a part in my creative process. When I started Orlebar Brown, I had a picture of Sean Connery in Goldfinger in the blue onesie—it’s one of those pictures that appears on mood boards for many brands, I’m sure.”

“The styling is clearly one element of the personality of Bond – they’re beautifully styled films,” Brown said. “But the styling of Bond is also what he’s doing, what he’s wearing, who he’s with, what boat he’s in, what car he’s in, who he’s chasing, whatever he’s doing.”

Clockwise from left: Towelling Polo, £165, Capri Collar Shirt, £195, Espadrilles, £145, Setter Swim Shorts, £195

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Twisted Back Swimsuit, £45

Twisted Crossover Swimsuit, £39

Cross-over Square Neck Swimsuit, £45

DIFFERENT STROKES It’s all in the detail for COS’s SS19 swimwear collection. Simple onepieces and bikinis in flattering silhouettes are updated with asymmetric cuts, twisted back detailing and square necklines. Dive in.

Crossover Bikini Top, £25; HighWaisted Bikini Bottoms, £25

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Her Style Twist Side Bikini Briefs, £25

Ribbed Bikini Bottoms, £19

Knotted Bikini Bottoms, £25

SUMMER IS HERE AND WITH IT COMES CHIC S W I M W E A R A N D S O C I A L S E A S O N AT T I R E WORDS ELLEN MILLARD

SNOW WHITE Not to be worn near any red wine, lipstick or sticky fingers, the BOSS White Edition collection takes inspiration from the American social season, during which guests typically wear an all-white look.

Expect to find the best of BOSS – sharp tailoring and technical fabrications – all in a crisp blank canvas.

BOSS, Cabot Place

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Blazer, £399

Trousers, £139

Sequins are for life, not just for Christmas – Zara’s feather and appliqué A-line skirt, part of the label’s Limited Edition collection, is the best way to inject some sparkle into your summer wardrobe. £119, Zara, Cabot Place

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THE FINE PRINT Shrimps founder Hannah Weiland has leant her whimsical eye to Warehouse, where she has created a line of clothes, swimsuits and accessories decorated with her signature doodles and kitsch prints.

Summer wardrobe sorted.

Sadie Dress, £349, Hobbs, Canada Place

Daisy Stitch Shirt, £55

Jewelled Bucket Bag, £45

Daisy Stitch Shorts, £45

Check Mini Skirt, £49.99

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Playsuit Swimsuit, £60

What to wear to this summer’s sporting and cultural events

Warehouse, Canada Place

Dorothy Sail Print Dress, £395, L.K. Bennett, Jubilee Place

Alanza Spot Tiered Dress, £329, Whistles, Jubilee Place

Mango’s Violeta range is designed to dress women in sizes 14 to 22 in clothes that are comfortable, feminine and contemporary. The new range comprises dresses, blouses, skirts and trousers in floral prints and bright shades.

Mango, Canada Place

Esther Dress, £495, michaelajedinak.com

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So wrote, seemingly in something approaching a cold fury, Frank Pick, the chief designer for London Underground, back in the late 1930s in a letter to the architect Oliver Hill.

The object of Pick’s wrath was Bauhaus, the brand new architectural, design and fashion movement that was sweeping across mainland Europe in the pre-war years but, clearly not finding favour in this corner of the UK. The movement was the brainchild of Walter Gropius, a soldier from the German city of Weimer who had an especially traumatic experience in the Great War, being buried alive for three days and experiencing flashbacks of grenade explosions for the rest of his life.

Founding an arts academy back in his home city after the war, which he named Bauhaus (after ‘Bauhitte’, the name of the medieval stone masons guild which previously occupied the building that would become the first hub for the movement), Gropius’ influence was extraordinary.

With an emphasis on new materials and methods, his glass, steel and concrete constructions felt like modernist cathedrals. Factories, apartment blocks and civic buildings across Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands emerged with distinctive floor to ceiling glass windows, flat roofs and simple colour schemes of beige, grey and white alongside everyday items of furniture, from tubular looking armchairs to chess sets to tableware.

‘The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole’, wrote Gropius. ‘To reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.’

So is it true that Britain really was woefully reluctant to join in with this bright new future?

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Upon first glance, it would seem London would be a natural fit for this kind of thinking. Gropius himself was inspired by the late 19th-century Arts and Crafts movement which originated in the UK with its emphasis on hands-on design and craftsmanship.

But the accepted narrative, which holds to this day, insists that the movement stalled in the UK due to resistance from the likes of Frank Pick and a general lack of forward thinking among architects and designers during this period.

This somewhat frustrating theory has some enormous holes in it however; not least of which being the fact that Gropius himself spent time in the UK, moving to London in 1934 after the new Bauhaus HQ in Dessau was occupied by Nazi troops, who destroyed everything inside the building and turned it into an officer training school.

During his time in Britain, Gropius, along with his Bauhaus colleagues László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer, did manage to bring their aesthetic to these shores in the form of Impington Village College on the outskirts of Cambridge and the Wood House in Shipbourne in Kent.

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This country’s most famous Bauhaus creation however, was one that the trio actually lived in themselves for a time, even though they played no direct role in its construction.

The Isokon building in Hampstead was the very first structure in Britain to be built using reinforced concrete. It’s creator was Wells Coates, a British designer who, after a fact finding trip to Germany, collaborated with plywood salesman Jack Pritchard to create an entirely new (for the UK at least) type of residential flat in the Bauhaus style.

With Pritchard providing plywood furniture for the flats and with a laundry service and in-house restaurant, the striking look of minimal design but maximum functionality had simply never been seen before on these shores.

“All you needed was a rug, a vase and your favourite picture,” says Leyla Daybelge, co-author of a new book on the movement in the UK: Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain. “The furniture was built in, or Isokon would ­provide

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Agatha Christie was impressed. ‘A giant liner’ was her description of this vast white invader upon the rows of Georgian and Victorian houses which she would end up living in herself, alongside many of the infamous Cambridge spy ring.

Almost a century on from its completion and the building, now called the Lawn Road Flats, remains in operation. In keeping with the socialist politics of the movement (in the opening ceremony beer rather than champagne was smashed against the exterior wall) many of the flats are reserved for key workers, though the in-house restaurant has long gone.

A couple of miles away, London Zoo was also embracing Bauhaus, combining it with the aquatic to create a penguin enclosure complete with interlinked ramps of concrete and an elliptical pool. The construction was criticised by conservationists for appearing to encourage the penguins to parade along the ramps like catwalk models. The birds themselves didn’t seem to mind though; the zoo continued to house them there until 2004.

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building would be brief. Wanting to move further away from Nazi clutches, they had all taken relatively lucrative academic positions in the United States by 1937.

A century on from their exodus and although the physical presence of Bauhaus buildings for us to live, eat, learn, work and admire penguins around Britain are, admittedly, modest, the fashion and style arm of the movement would go on to become a colossal influence on some of Britain’s leading post-war designers.

For beginners, take a look at the still transcendent form of Ziggy Stardust.

The jagged thunder bolts, colour explosions and tight figure-hugging form of David Bowie’s ultimate alternative persona was designed by Freddie Burretti, who drew on the outfits designed for the Triadic Ballet, a costume ball that Gropius and his fellow Bauhaus designers regularly staged during the 1920’s.

By matching geometric forms with parts of the human body, the players in this surreal performance became themselves living, breathing Bauhaus designs.

The movement’s aesthetic demands of simplicity of form combined with ultraefficient functionality also rubbed off on designers for half a century; from Mary Quant’s clean and sleek 1960s fashion designs to Mary Katrantzou’s winter 2018 collection, which included prints that paid tribute to posters for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar, Germany.

Paul Smith has long spoken of his admiration for the work of the textile designer Anni Albers, one of the key Bauhaus designers.

“So many people look, but they don’t know how to see,” Smith once said when asked about the artist he readily admits to being his muse. “Anni really saw… The ideas they were playing with were so modern – all that lateral thinking. The rest of us are still struggling to catch up.”

But the biggest Bauhaus imprint on this country has undoubtedly been spearheaded by Sir Terence Conran and his Habitat stores.

“The Bauhaus was my favourite style,” Conran stated in a recent interview. “The school taught design for mass production, so people could afford their products... I look for intelligent design at a

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That sparse style, abstract shapes, clean lines and accessible designs that Conran brought into millions of living rooms across Britain is still evolving in brand new work from other designers, such as the geometric shapes of the new Bauhaus wallpaper, unveiled earlier this year

by Mini Moderns.

And then there’s the legendary Heals department store. After stocking Bauhaus designs way back in the 1920s, this year sees the launch of their Bauhaus 100 collection of accessories and lighting.

The dresses, tables, lampshades and jumpsuits that have emerged from the Bauhaus movement may hint at a sterility and coldness in their geometric purity. And perhaps it was this, erroneous, conclusion that stopped Britain embracing Bauhaus more than it has.

“Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life” For what really seems to shine through the intervening decades isn’t so much about labels and fashion as it is Bauhaus’ embrace of raw, new materials and how they were used not to intimidate or luxuriate but to genuinely improve our lives. As Walter Gropius himself wrote towards the end of his long life: “Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.”

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London Wetland Centre and the William Morris Gallery are joining forces for an indoor exhibition and some outdoor installation art to mark the centenary of Bauhaus. For more info go to walthamstowwetlands.com/artist-residence Bauhaus goes West by Alan Powers is published

by Thames and Hudson, £24.99 Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Leyla Daybelge is published by Pavillion Books, £25

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SOAK UP THE SUMMER AT SKY-HIGH

Perched high above the capital with unrivalled 360° views of London’s iconic skyline, Bōkan 39 offers an elevated drinking experience in the heart of Canary Wharf. Get up to the 39th floor and discover a laid back, open air rooftop bar and terrace – your ultimate hideaway from the buzz of the busy streets below.

As the days lengthen, soak up the summer sunshine on cushioned day beds and kick back with a cocktail in hand, accompanied by chilled DJ beats. With the City skyline sprawled out in front of you, enjoy expansive views of all London’s major landmarks, from The Shard and The Gherkin to The London Eye and the O2.

Explore an inventive drinks menu, with the bar at Bōkan championing premium spirits, local craft beers

and wines. Cocktails are shaken up by a team of the capital’s top bartenders, paying homage to the rich history of Canary Wharf with ingredients carefully sourced from countries that set sail in the 1800s to the West India Docks, South India Docks, North India Docks and East India Docks. Alternatively, sip on a selection of champagne and fine wines from those that sailed to the Royal Docks.

If you are feeling peckish, there is a fabulous selection of modern European snacks and sharing plates to tuck into with friends and family. The terrace is also bookable for those extra special occasions, that perfect venue in the sky for an office summer party, wedding reception, or to celebrate a birthday.

Floor 37-39, 40 Marsh Wall, London E14 9TP T: 020 3530 0550 E: hello@bokanlondon.co.uk

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LATITUDE, SUFFOLK Suffolk’s renowned Latitude festival returns to Henham Park to celebrate music, comedy, theatre and art. This year’s line-up will include headline sets from George Ezra, Snow Patrol and Lana Del Rey, while its diverse programme will also feature comedy from Russell Kane and Jason Manford, as well as theatre productions from companies such as Sadler’s Wells. Film screenings, live art performances and yoga classes will also be on offer.

18-21 July, from £77.50, latitudefestival.com STAY: TUDDENHAM MILL With its chic rooms and Italian furnishings, Tuddenham Mill is a great place to spend the night – however, it’s the food that draws the crowds. Tuddenham Mill’s elegant restaurant serves modern British classics, including afternoon tea and a good old Sunday lunch.

From £115 per night, tuddenhammill.co.uk

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THE BEST BRITISH FESTIVALS, HEADLINE ACTS AND HOTELS TO SEEK OUT THIS SUMMER WORDS ABISHA SRITHARAN

ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL, ISLE OF WIGHT The UK’s longest-running music festival returns to the Isle of Wight this month. Each year the event brings around 90,000 music fans to the island, and this year is set to be just as big with its Summer of ’69 theme. Look out for stars such as as George Ezra, Jess Glynne, Tom Walker, Lily Allen and Biffy Clyro. Great for families, the festival also includes a diverse programme of theatre, film, comedy, activities and games, stretching across four days.

13-16 June, £175, isleofwightfestival.com STAY: CAMP KERALA The onsite Camp Kerala is the perfect place for those who want to get the full festival experience. Check in for unlimited use of the pamper room and plenty of food to keep your energy –and dancing – levels up. The luxury boutique accommodation is located immediately behind the main stage, so you don’t even need to get out of bed to enjoy the show – although we suggest you do.

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CAMP BESTIVAL, DORSET PARKLIFE, MANCHESTER Parklife festival returns for its ninth year this June with a jam-packed agenda. The multi-genre music festival features artists such as Solange, Cardi B, Khalid, Chase & Status and Mark Ronson performing across eight stages over the course of two days. In addition to this, Parklife also features chill-out zones, funfair rides, installations and interactive art to make it a completely immersive weekend.

8-9 June, from £69.50, parklife.uk.com STAY: HOTEL GOTHAM The five-star Hotel Gotham sits in the heart of Manchester. Featuring 60 comfortable rooms – including five suites – a two AA Rosette-awarded restaurant and a roof-top private bar, this hotel is the ideal spot for Parklifegoers to enjoy a meal and a good night’s sleep after a day of fun.

From £130 per night, hotelgotham.co.uk

Camp Bestival is suitable for the whole family. Held at Lulworth Castle in Dorset, this award-winning event comprises four days of comedy shows, literature programmes, workshops, and of course, plenty of music. Musical acts this year include Jess Glynne, Nina Nesbitt and Sister Sledge. Altogether now: “We are family...”

25-28 July, from £55, campbestival.net STAY: BOUTIQUE CAMPING Camp Bestival offers a range of boutique camping options. A short walk away from the main stages, the campsite boasts hot showers, a dedicated car park and staff ready to welcome you and ensure you have a great experience.

From £530 for four nights, campbestivalboutique.frontgatetickets.com

BOARDMASTERS, CORNWALL

WILDERNESS, OXFORDSHIRE

This festival is unlike any other in the UK as it takes place on the beach. Grab your surfboards, sunglasses and sunscreen for five days of music by Florence & The Machine, Jorja Smith, Plan B, Rudimental and more, as well as an array of activities including surfing, yoga, silent discos, paddle-boarding and BMX-riding.

Wilderness is a hit with foodies, musical fans and wellness warriors alikes. This year the event features acts such as Tom Odell, Freya Ridings and Robyn, as well as an array of theatre performances, wellbeing workshops and an impressive food offering from the likes of Petersham Nurseries and Bao.

7-11 August, from £69, boardmasters.com

1-4 August, from £179.50, wildernessfestival.com

STAY: PORTHBEACH HOTEL

STAY: WILDERNESS BOUTIQUE

This beachside boutique hotel offers a relaxed and casual atmosphere with sea views, a manicured garden and comfortable rooms. The family-run hotel is perfect for those seeking some quiet time after a loud day at Boardmasters.

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arbados is a blissful destination for Brits – a marvellous mix of the familiar and the exotic. Cricket greens and Anglican churches in every village but with a balmy climate to die for. Add white beaches with clear azure sea, plus rainbow-hued hummingbirds and green monkeys in your hotel garden, and you are in paradise.

I am lucky enough to have visited many times, but this trip was a family affair. The cliche about making memories springs to mind. There were too many happy experiences to list.

We were lucky enough to stay in the Ixora, a handsome villa in the lush gardens of the Coral Reef Club. This otherworldly five-star resort has been run by the same family for more than half a century and really shows for the passion put into it.

Set on the west coast in a prime location just 30 minutes from the airport, the resort owes its stellar reputation to Brits Cynthia and Budge O’Hara. They arrived in Barbados in the 1950s; Budge was to be manager of a fledgling hotel on 12 acres of beachfront property. The couple turned the scrub-like land into gorgeous gardens, and arranged fresh flowers in every room.

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children and grandchildren, who insist on only the finest service. As we delightedly discovered, this is the jewel of the Caribbean crown.

Our villa had a large lounge complete with cable television, leading to a spacious patio and separate kitchen.

Tastefully decorated, the wooden balustrading, fretwork and shuttered windows are typically Caribbean. The master bedroom’s huge air-conditioned marble bathroom, luxurious bed and soft furnishings were sumptuous. And a second patio for a little privacy was the icing on the cake. The other three bedrooms were on the other side of the villa and my daughters adored them.

The large terrace, with comfy chaise longues, led out onto our own verdant private lawn and garden.

The grounds are so spacious that we had the luxury of feeling we had them to ourselves. A nearby full-sized swimming pool was practically ours alone and we spent many happy hours splashing around.

My youngest learned to swim independently in that nearby swimming pool and after completing a full width, celebrated with fresh fish and chips and a milkshake brought to her by the pool on a silver platter by one of the amazing team from room service. She declared it her “very best day ever” and it’s a memory I know she will remember forever.

Barbados is fantastic for foodies and the Coral Reef’s chefs are some of the best.

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A favourite pastime is snorkelling and the seas off the Coral Reef Club are sublime huge range of al fresco dining and a bar that whips up delicious tropical cocktails (and what we decided is probably the best rum punch on the island). We especially loved the beautiful breakfast spread in true Caribbean style, and became addicted to the fluffy banana pancakes with maple syrup and delicious local juices. In the evening executive chef Hance Bannister whips up masterpieces, taking Caribbean classics and giving them a twist.

All were mouth-watering and we agreed the baked fillet of Mahi Mahi and meltingly good tuna carpaccio were unbeatable.

The resort’s impeccably designed spa was a beautifully tranquil treat. The superior skincare brand Natura Bissé is a favourite and the body treatments make the most of fresh local resources. I felt like a new woman after the lemongrass and ginger massage. The spa features wellness retreats expertly tailored to guests and with a plethora of advice on how to continue after the holiday.

The only real problem we had was being spoilt for choice – for a small island, Barbados has so much to offer. We loved to wander along the shore and enjoyed the walk to Holetown and shopping at Chattell Village. The sheltered west coast – known as the Platinum Coast - is glorious for swimming and gentle sailing.

We didn’t go a day without a dip in the warm, clear water. Further east is where the sport becomes livelier with kayaking, surfing and kite-surfing. Boat trips out to swim with turtles are a no-brainer; these are magical. On dry land, the fun continues. Golfers are in their element with five PGA- standard courses. Hiking is a must as there are miles of undeveloped coastline and forest as well as go-karting and safaris, by jeep or Segway.

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Emancipation Day and spent it with what felt like the entire population of Barbados, at the horse races in Garrison Savanah. It was a party atmosphere with some of the most exhilarating racing we’d ever seen.

Possibly my favourite pasttime is snorkelling – and the seas near Coral Reef Club are sublime. There are plenty of reefs in Barbados. You don’t need an aqualung to see the gorgeous marine life. Whether snorkelling or taking a glass-bottomed boat, head for Folkestone Marine Park and Carlisle Bay where there are coral heads, and wrecks which will fascinate any youngster.

Barbados stages dozens of great sporting events every year. From May to December you can see local cricket matches played on pitches around the island, but the major competitions like the Test Series happen early, from January to May. Shopping, whether upscale boutiques or authentic Bajan stores, is pure pleasure and Bridgetown is the island’s retail therapy capital with Dacosta’s Mall in the historic Colonnade building, and famous department store Cave Shepherd.

But one of the finest features of Barbados is its tradition of friendliness and courtesy. The Bajans are warm, sociable and dynamic people, always with a smile.

There is a heavenly scent on the island which you just don’t seem to get anywhere else. A sweet blend of fragrant Frangipani and Bougainvillea mixed with a salty sea tang. If you could recreate this in a spray, you’d make a fortune.

But since we cannot yet buy Barbados in a bottle, we’ll just have to keep taking those trips.

GET THERE The award-winning Coral Reef 5* boutique hotel is recognised as one of the finest in Barbados. It has 88 rooms which include: Garden cottages for two adults starting at £399 per night, with patio or balcony.

Superior junior suites with sitting areas start at £458 per night. Ixora and other luxury plantation suites are priced from £1,213 per night; Wellness retreats will be held on 27 July – August 3 and 9 – 16 November 2019; coralreefbarbados.com British Airways flies directly to Bridgetown, Barbados is just over eight hours. Flights operate daily, ba.com.

FACT FILE For a small island, Barbados packs a powerful punch. Here are some fascinating facts about the Caribbean jewel:

Celebrities who love the island include pop star Rihanna, who was born there in 1988, and golf legend Tiger Woods, who married on the island. Simon Cowell visits every year, and Wayne Rooney has a fabulous £5 million villa there.

“Pride and industry” is the Barbadian national motto.

Holetown – originally known as St James Town – was named after King James I of England.

In Barbados it is considered good luck if a mongoose crosses your path.

Grapefruit is a hybrid fruit invented in Barbados.

Barbados has a literacy rate of 99.7%, ranking it third in the world.

Barbados produces the world’s oldest rum, Mount Gay, which dates back to 1703.

The island gets 3,000 hours of sunshine each year, with April the hottest month and January the coolest.

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The Smoke THAT THUNDERS WHEN MISSIONIARY DAVID LIVINGSTONE STUMBLED UPON THE VICTORIA FALLS IN 1855, THE SIGHT STOPPED HIM IN HIS TRACKS. MORE THAN 160 Y E A R S L AT E R , Z A M B I A H A S C H A N G E D D R A S T I C A L LY – BUT THE SEVENTH WONDER OF THE WORLD IS JUST AS AWE-INSPIRING AS EVER WORDS ELLEN MILLARD

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e’re hovering 600ft above the Victoria Falls, the world’s largest single sheet of falling water that already stands tall at 180m. Even with the noise of our plane’s propeller, the sound of the Zambezi river crashing against the craggy cliff face is tumultuous. From this height, the spray that engulfs the gorge in jets of water looks like billowing clouds of mist. No wonder the locals call this Mosioa-Tunya — the smoke that thunders.

I’m in a microlight aircraft, a bizarre bicycle/paraglide hybrid. Batoka Sky, the company in charge of my flight, has been rocketing terrified tourists to lofty heights since 1993 and, potential vertigo aside, offers the best way to understand the scale of this seventh wonder of the world. They say a microlight flight is the closest you can feel to flying like a bird and, as our aircraft dips over the Zambian border and into Zimbabwe, soaring above herds of elephants and pods of baby hippos bobbing in the water below, I wonder why a bird would ever feel the desire to land.

But land we do. My 15-minute whirlwind of a flight is over in a flash and we touchdown in Zambia with a gentle bump, my arms outstretched in my best Titanic impersonation at the request of

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the pilot — “To help me land,” he jokes.

Originally called Northern Rhodesia before it found independence in 1964, Zambia takes its name from the Zambezi River, which cuts through the borders of both Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Before that, the Victoria Falls had put the nation on the map, with thanks to Scottish missionary and explorer David Livingstone, who was the first European to cross Africa from north to south and the first to discover the waterfall in 1855.

He named it Victoria after the British queen and when he died his heart was extracted from his body and buried in Zambia, at his last request. Today, the Falls’ neighbouring town Livingstone is still named in his honour.

My base for the duration of my stay is just a 10-minute drive from this historic town. Avani Victoria Falls, located in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park, is an Instagram dream: a cluster of terracotta towers housing mosaic walls and chic bedrooms, decorated in colours and prints reflective of traditional Zambian style. As the hotel’s name suggests, its proximity to the Victoria Falls is its biggest selling point – it is just a five minute walk away and Avani’s guests have unlimited access. If you do make the 93

stroll, be sure to take a poncho; during peak season the spray can rise to 400m – and what goes up must come down...

Further up the Zambezi, before the waves meet the edge of the Falls, the water is calm and home to some of Africa’s best wildlife. We take a sunset cruise along the river, where slumbering hippos poke their heads above the water – just long enough to give us some serious side eye – and white-fronted bee-eaters flit about their nesting wall, moving so fast they look like rainbow streaks. We’re lucky enough to catch a lone male elephant tucking into his dinner on the riverbank, and later zoom past a crocodile dozing with his jaw locked open, each jagged tooth glistening menacingly in the last of the day’s sunlight. We pause on a small island to watch the sunset – but not before one brave guide ventures into the trees to make sure there are no snoozing animals about to get unwanted visitors.

If you’re more of an early bird than a night owl, a sunrise game drive in the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park shouldn’t be missed. Our jeep trundles across the bush, where we seek out giraffe and their young, spot baobab trees that have been gnawed by elephants and marvel at the elegance of the impala. The only sign of fellow human life comes from an assortment of derelict buildings, once home to game keepers and now serving as 94

We catch a lone male elephant tucking into his dinner and later zoom past a crocodile brick parasols for monkeys seeking shade.

Back at Avani, the safari continues. A sign on the balcony door of my bedroom warns of the hotel’s more devious residents: a troop of cheeky baboons, who, along with a menagerie of giraffe, zebra and a (baby) crocodile, live wild and free in Avani’s grounds. The giraffe, for the most part, steer clear from their human neighbours, although they can be spotted in their feeding zone a short walk from the hub of the hotel (the troughs on stilts are a bit of a giveaway). The zebra, too, are nonplussed, and will happily wander through rows of sunbathing tourists to take a sip from the voluptuous swimming pool-cum-watering hole, which curves through the centre of the resort. But the baboons are the ones to watch –

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mischievous and nimble-fingered, they’ll soon make away with your lunch if you’re not keeping an eye out.

And the food is worth holding onto. Meals combine international cuisine with local flavours and ingredients, and the variety is vast – and delicious. We dine at the somewhat cheesily named Theatre of Food, an immense buffet with flavours from around the world; at Teddy’s, a veritable pub where steaming bowls of pasta and wheels of pizza are served alongside ice cold Mosi lager; and at a Boma dinner, an al fresco dining experience under the stars, where we tuck into chunky game stews and salty barbecued crocodile while watching a traditional African drum show.

On our last night, we board the Royal Livingstone Express, a restored steam train that departs from Livingstone and chugs along the tracks through Mosioa-Tunya National Park and the Zambezi River Valley, while we dine on squash crème brûlée, braised lamb shoulder and dark chocolate torte. In between glasses of champagne, we make a pit stop at the Victoria Falls Bridge and catch a final glimpse of Zambia’s most impressive spectacle.

I’m told there’s a jovial rivalry between the Zambian and Zimbabwean people about which nation has the better view of the Falls. I can’t speak for the other side, but the view from Zambia is certainly spectacular. It is perhaps best summed up by David Livingstone himself, who, upon seeing the Falls for the first time, recorded his reaction in his journal: “The whole scene was extremely beautiful; the banks and islands dotted over the river were adorned with sylvan vegetation of great variety and colour and form…

It has never been seen before by European eyes; but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight.”

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LONDON MARRIOTT HOTEL CANARY WHARF FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS TO A GLOBAL EMPIRE, THE MARRIOTT HOTEL GROUP HAS A STORIED HISTORY WORDS ABISHA SRITHARAN

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all started with a root beer store in 1920s America, owned by J.Willard Marriott and his wife Alice.

Following the success of their first outlet, the newlyweds opened further food and drink shops across America, before branching into the hospitality sector and launching the world’s first motor hotel in 1957. Now the legacy of the Marriotts lives on in more than 7,000 properties across 130 countries – one of which is in Canary Wharf.

Located on the waterfront, London Marriott Hotel Canary Wharf comprises 348 spacious rooms and suites with floor-toceiling windows that showcase stunning views of the business district and West India Quay.

The hotel has a full-service business centre and 19 versatile event spaces, where guests can conduct work meetings, business discussions or leisurely events. The all-encompassing fitness centre means your workout regime doesn’t need to suffer during your stay, while the state-of-the-art sauna offers ample opportunity to relax.

But it’s the food offering that steals the show. J.Willard and Alice started their business with a passion for food and drink, and this is shown throughout the luxury hotel. The two dining options are open all day and are both perfect for a quick bite or a relaxing meal. The G&Tea Lounge is the sophisticated resident gin bar LU X U R Y L ON D ON .C O.U K

The G&Tea Lounge is the sophisticated resident gin bar featuring a whopping 180 gins featuring a whopping 180 gins, as well as handcrafted cocktails and international cuisine. This dining spot is also popular for its afternoon tea. The second restaurant within the hotel is the Manhattan Grill, a stylish, contemporary space famed for its indulgent steak dishes. Both eateries are worth a visit even you’re not staying at the hotel – no doubt the Marriotts would be proud.

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SUMMER FAMILY FESTIVAL Don’t get stuck inside this summer: come and explore the great outdoors at Canary Wharf. With something for every age, the Summer Family Festival is jam-packed with hands-on activities to keep you and your little ones entertained over the summer months.

FREE TO VISIT For more information please visit canarywharf.com

OCEAN WEEKEND

FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND

Lost from Sea! (Treasure hunt) Saturday 8 June, 12-3pm Jubilee Park

Minigolf (Sport) Saturday 15 June, 12-6pm Columbus Courtyard

The Bombardiers & Admirable Admirals (Theatre) Sunday 9 June, 1 & 3pm Jubilee Park

Father’s Day Drive-In (Movies/Workshop) Sunday 16 June, 11-4pm Canada Square Park

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Open House Families (Workshop) Sunday 23 June, 11am-4pm Estate-wide

Padel Tennis Family Event (Sport) Sunday 30 June, 11am-2pm Montgomery Square

DANCING CITY Saturday 29 June, 1-5pm Estate-wide The UK’s best-loved programme of outdoor dance will once again spirit its way through the public spaces of Canary Wharf; through the parks, across the squares, and all around the waterways and pathways of the Estate. With a captivating array of performances from the likes of Joss Arnott Dance, Jorge Crecis, Viadanse and Old Kent Road, including a brand new production from Talawa Theatre Company, this year proves to be the most exciting yet.

Dancing City is the UK’s largest and longest established festival of free outdoor dance, attracting large, devoted audiences every year. It is now inextricably associated with its Canary Wharf home, presenting leading international and UK companies by contextualising them in stunning architectural settings.

MOVIE NIGHTS Canada Square Park After a successful season screening your favourite 80s classics in 2018, Movie Nights are back. Step into a world of excitement, adventure and mystery as you’re transported away with a collection of films set in other worlds.

To kick off the season, you have the chance to choose between two films as part of our People’s Choice movie night: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (PG) or Guardians of the Galaxy (12A).

Date/s & Times: • People’s Choice, as above, Tuesday 11 June, 7pm • The Truman Show (PG), Tuesday 18 June, 7pm • Groundhog Day (PG), Tuesday 25 June, 7pm

JAMES BOND MOVIE NIGHTS WITH ORLEBAR BROWN • Goldfinger (PG), Sunday 16 June 5.30pm • Skyfall (12A), Monday 17 June 7pm FREE TO VISIT

MIGRATEFUL COOKERY CLASSES Tuesday 11 - Wednesday 12 June, 1pm & 6pm Crossrail Place Roof Garden Tickets: Lunchtime £10 (1 dish), Seated Dinner £20 (3 dishes). Ticket sale proceeds will be donated to the Migrateful charity Learn how to cook authentic dishes in an informal group cooking class with Migrateful, a social enterprise who empower and celebrate refugees and vulnerable migrants on their journey to integration. These classes are aimed at those who are interested in learning international recipes, practising a different language and meeting new people for a cultural exchange, as well as to those wishing to support migrants and refugees struggling to rebuild their lives.

Water will be provided with your meal - if you wish to drink anything else please BYOB. Please bring along tupperware if you wish to take home any leftovers.

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MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL Friday 21 June 12-10pm Saturday 22 June 12-9pm Canada Square Park Free to visit Lose yourself in a boho vibe with soothing live music, world street food and beautiful natural décor to celebrate the summer equinox. Create your own flower crown and bring your kids to the family-friendly Saturday event.

Tuesday 11 June Iranian lunch, 1-2pm 1 dish (may include meat or fish) Cuban dinner, 6-8.30pm 3 dishes (may include meat or fish) Wednesday 12 June Nigerian lunch, 1-2pm 1 dish (vegetarian) Ethiopian dinner, 6-8.30pm 3 dishes (vegetarian)

Audience space is unreserved and limited. Due to the popularity of events audience space can become full within a short amount of time. You may find the area closed on arrival due to reaching its audience capacity. You are advised to turn up early and be generous to others by not taking up unnecessary space. For everyone’s enjoyment, portable furniture is not permitted and for everyone’s safety, glass bottles and glasses are not permitted. In adverse weather the performance may be cancelled.

EXHIBITIONS LFA 2019 AT CANARY WHARF Part of the London Festival of Architecture 2019

LOBBY, ONE CANADA SQUARE Monday 10 – Friday 28 June Free, open daily

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DON’T WALK, WALK LBMV ARCHITECTS LBMV’s tunnel-like installation creates an architectural boundary between the workplace environment and the experiential space of the structure.

The title reinforces the nature of the boundary – should one walk through this structure, or is it prohibited? The hope is that people will divert from their usual course to walk through this alluring space.

Assembled on site from lengths of inexpensive wood, the project demonstrates how affordable it can be to create a basic shelter – a poignant message when housing is at such a premium. The simplest of structures can convey a powerful experience of space, light, shade and volume – the key principles of architecture. lbmvarchitects.com

Bethel School Burkina Faso. Photograph Grant Smith

ARTICLE 25: DESIGNS FOR A POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE TO POVERTY Architectural models, together with photographs by Grant Smith, showcase Article 25’s Designs for a Positive Alternative to Poverty. This architectural charity empowers communities to use design, engineering and construction skills that lift them towards a brighter future.

By combining skilled local workers with an unskilled local workforce, and channelling that community effort towards building schools, hospitals and homes in communities struck by disaster, conflict and poverty, Article 25 improves access to health, education and safe homes. “We change things with - and not to - these communities, to create a boundless legacy of better livelihoods. We dare to dream big, and we dare to ‘work small’, taking our detailed drawing board dreams towards real world problems and tackling them head on!” article-25.org

CABOT SQUARE Monday 10 June – Friday 12 July

THE QUINTESSENTIAL ENGLISH GARDEN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE NATIVE? Lily Jencks Studio Based on the design of Stourhead, Lily Jencks Studio’s temporary landscape features typical trees, shrubs and other plants found in that iconic garden - many of which are non-native, having been introduced during times of colonial expansion.

The installation challenges visitors to reflect and discuss questions driving identity politics around the globe: what does it mean to be local, rooted and originating in a place? In the human-made environs of Canary Wharf, this miniature Stourhead provides a communal space to gather and learn about the heritage of our political and environmental concepts and language, while enjoying a small urban landscape. lilyjencksstudio.com

LFA EVENTS Saturday 22 June 11am – 12.30pm and 2 – 3.30pm Discover the Inspiration Behind the Installations Two architectural tours to meet the people behind the projects that Canary Wharf Group is hosting as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.

4 - 6pm Architectural Photo Walk around Canary Wharf

PODCAST: BUILDING SOUNDS Canary Wharf Architecture Audio Guide by the LFA A specially-commissioned podcast will take you on a tour of the Canary Wharf Estate to hear from some of the architects from around the world who have helped shape this iconic skyline. The podcast is available to download from the LFA website.

Join photographer Grant Smith on a 2-hour walk through some of the most iconic buildings in Canary Wharf. This workshop is aimed at anyone interested in the built environment and how to photograph it. Bring your own digital camera or use your smart phone.

These four projects are just some of the fantastic events taking place as part of LFA 2019. For full details, visit londonfestivalofarchitecture.org

The events are FREE. Simply turn up at the starting point of Lobby, One Canada Square and speak to one of the event stewards on arrival. There is limited capacity for each event so please turn up early to avoid disappointment. See canarywharf.com for further details.

CROSSRAIL PLACE ROOF GARDEN Free, open daily

VISIONS FROM THE SHORELINE Until 27 June

Abandoning his camera, Alexander James Hamilton has turned to the early photographic technique of the Photogram to create evocative and enigmatic images using exposure to sun and moonlight. Working within the landscape of the Maldives, he has created striking compositions retrieved from the shoreline and detritus collected by free-diving the coral reefs. alexanderjameshamilton.com

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SUMMER COMPETITION

WIN A NIGHT OUT WORTH £250 WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE THE MOST POPULAR PERSON IN YOUR OFFICE? Winning this competition and a £250 bar tab to spend on any draught beer at The Grandstand Bar could mean a great night out for your friends and colleagues. How better to win friends and influence people – and make sure you are guaranteed a better-than-average Secret Santa gift at Christmas.

This year The Grandstand Bar, in partnership with Pravha, is larger, has double the staff and 32 beer taps to ensure quickfire service all summer long, in one of Canary Wharf’s most stunning locations.

Find The Grandstand Bar in Canada Square Park, open seven days a week.

Simply complete an entry form and the winner will be drawn at random on the 28th

June 2019.

To enter go to www.grandstandbar.co.uk/competition where you will find further terms and conditions.

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s part of World Environment Day, Wednesday 5 June, a sustainability themed popup will be opening in Canada Place mall where you’ll find an interactive vending machine to test your knowledge.

Take part in a quiz about sustainability and Canary Wharf’s Breaking The Plastic Habit campaign for the chance to win a whole host of great prizes. With 500 prizes to give away, participants could be the lucky winners of Beats headphones, Ray-Ban sunglasses and Amazon Fire Tablets as well as reusable water bottles,

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bamboo cutlery, metal reusable straws and bamboo toothbrushes.

In its latest sustainability report, Making Sustainability Real, Canary Wharf Group defines the city of the future as circular, positive, innovative, responsible and measured, and calls for greater collaboration as it acknowledges

the need for urgency to tackle the global challenges facing all of us. The report’s findings aim to inspire positive impact by creating places that are healthy, thriving, sustainable and future-ready.

To view the full report, please visit: sustainability.canarywharf.com

As part of Bloom 2019 – a summer programme of free theatre, music and entertainment, now in its fifth year – Early Bloom is a great opportunity for local performers to showcase their work and connect with other artists.

Taking place between Thursday 6 - Sunday 9 June, this community arts festival is set inside an intimate 70-seat amphitheatre within Crossrail Place Roof Garden and programmed by The Space theatre.

Open to performers of all ages and experience levels, applications are welcome from theatre, dance, music and spoken word artists. Performances should be suited to an outdoor performance space and be appropriate for all ages.

There are still slots available for any local performers interested in showcasing their work for Late Bloom in August. Details can be found on The Space’s website under The Roof Garden. www.space.org.uk

SCHEDULE Thursday 6 June: Theatre and Spoken Word Friday 7 June: Music Saturday 8 June: Performances for and by young people Sunday 9 June: Anything goes (comedy, dance, music & more)

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et touchy-feely with the bold design trend for all things textural this year, and welcome a wash of fresh, natural materials into your home. From stone or copper to concrete or granite, both interiors and gardens are having a tactile moment.

A key inspiration is nature itself. Designers are emulating its organic, wildly asymmetric forms, creating irregular textures that seem to have a life of their own and yet deliver a serene ambience to any space. A paradoxical meeting of minds between tough and stylish, practical yet beautiful.

“Textural complexity is akin to the natural world since there are few smooth surfaces in it,” says London-based furniture designer James Shaw. “I suspect my upbringing in Devon and the granite and twisted hawthorn I saw on Dartmoor has inspired me.

I like to celebrate materials in their raw form rather than bully them into a shape that doesn’t suit them.”

TURN TO STONE Textured and durable, stone lends itself to both indoor and outdoor designs. As a specialist in natural stone and porcelain, Stone Age’s managing director Gary Walters has witnessed a rapid rise in demand for natural stone due to its diverse colour spectrum. As with all materials, however, he advises that there are certain types better suited to particular areas in the home, depending on location and footfall.

“If you have a big, busy family with children and dogs running around, for example, you need the stone to be hard wearing, but not to show off every mark left behind,” he says, “so a stone with some natural movement and variation is best as there is relatively little maintenance involved.”

Lascar limestone is a distinctive stone embedded with small shells and fossils. It works well when used for patios and garden paths due to its hardwearing and low absorption properties. It also cuts a clean finish for a contemporary interior, especially when laid as large, space enhancing flagstones in exact lengths complete with hand-sawn finish.

Pietra serena is another stone that is widely used for exterior applications, says Walters. “Pietra serena is used extensively as paving in central Italy, and has also been used in English gardens with great effect for the past twenty years. The pale grey tones of the stone form the perfect background to traditional English planting and it is an ideal choice for landscaping, exterior flooring, as well as a reliable material for pools.”

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METAL MOMENTS From wallpapers evoking misty sea spray to furniture with intriguingly rough finishes, keywords on every designer’s portfolio this year are organic, sustainability and recycled. Interior designer Sarah Ireland believes 2019 will see a renaissance of the favoured metallic trend, but this time set amongst deep neutral tones and textures. Having done away with plain, harsh metals we instead welcome back warm soft reflective metallics, such as copper brass and rose gold, both ideal materials to furnish any interior.

“Copper’s versatility has really allowed our design team to experiment with a lot of new looks and in the past few seasons we’ve been moving designs on from just ‘pure’ copper to mixing it with vivid block colour and contrasting materials, such as wood and smoked glass,” says Ireland. “These create a variety of feels from mid-century cool to Scandinavian luxury. Copper, brass and brushed nickels are still highly desirable materials, and I don’t see any sign of their appeal fading over the next few years.”

Dark colours, crittal glass and nude earthy tones are also hot for 2019 interiors, with designer brands such as Ann Sacks, Mandarin Stone and DeVol Kitchens all embracing the trend.

“The textures and colours are best used in kitchens, covering large surfaces as statement pieces, but smaller items can perk up coffee tables, studies and bedrooms,” says Ireland, who suggests pairing metals with natural materials such as wood, marble and even concrete for an elegant effect. “Exteriors and landscaping can equally use such materials with a growing trend for wild planting set amongst strong, sleek structures in concrete and Crittall ironwork,” she adds.

MARVEL AT MARBLE Once associated with palatial pillars and ornate sculptures, marble has experienced a renaissance in contemporary interior design.

Often used for grand hallways, marble lends itself to more intimate unveilings too, particularly within bathrooms – areas that can cope with lighter stones as they are generally used less frequently.

“For 2019, we are experiencing a rise in demand for aged materials and marble, particularly in the bathroom,” says Walters.

“These have great colour variation and while colours of floors always tend to be neutral and natural looking, bathrooms give you the opportunity to have more of a wow factor.”

A dizzying array of new shades include the so-called ‘CocaCola marble’, named for its unusual ‘effervescent’ look, while Italian marble specialist Citco has experienced an increase in requests for grey, black and white marbles, all of which form part of many palette trends, as well as being “evergreen” colours.

“Marble is a unique material,” says Citco’s spokesperson.

“Every piece is different and it can be used in so many ways. It is this uniqueness, coupled with its versatility, that has led to a rise in the material being used in interior design schemes. The discovery of new sources for materials such as marble has also led to an increase in the types of materials available to us, and has pushed the boundaries of our creativity. Spurred on by these newfound materials and creativity, designers and architects are now more free to set new and exciting trends within the industry that have gained in popularity all over the world.”

From bluestone cobbles to metallic trims, the trend for bold, natural materials provides an enduring answer to chic design solutions that provide both style longevity and lifestyle durability.

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and walk in wardrobe. Modern Integrated Kitchen, Balcony, 24 Hour Porter by Harrods Estates, Residents Gymnasium, Swimming Price: POA Price:Bridge. £320,000 – £340,000 Pool, Lifts to all floors. Close to Local Shopping Facilities, Walking Distance to London

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ea2 are pleased to offer for let this very large 4 double bedroom 3 bathroom house ea2 are pleased to be able to offer for let this fantastic 2 double bedroom, ea2 are pleasedtop to be ableduplex to show you this bright 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment with stunning River views theornamental balcony oncanal. the second with superb viewsfrom of the This is afloor verywithin bright house with 2 of the 2 bathroom floor apartment in this popular West Wapping this sought Mews, afterTerrace, development.

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The apartment benefits from a generous fitted kitchen, second bedroom. floors throughout and has a separate cloak room.

24 hour concierge and use of residents gym.

Secure underground parking. the ground floor.

Fully fitted kitchen with a dining Separate lounge.Terrace on the wood floors, large and additional balcony.

Secure space.

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Underground Price: Secure £750 per Week parking space.

Price: £550 per Week Potential to extend into the loft subject to planning permission. Close to Wapping station and local amenities.

Waterman Way, Wapping E1W Spirit Quay, West Wapping E1W

£1,175,000

Torrington Place, West Wapping E1W

ea2 are pleased to offer for rent this 3 bedroom house within this very popular ea2 are pleased to offer to rent this Spacious 3 bedroom, 3 storey house within ea2 areside pleased to offer forofsale thisWapping. modern built 2 bedroom, storey house.

The property benefits from lounge, separate canal fully fitted kitchen, 3 pieceFitted kitchen/diner. Large canal development West Offering a Fitted2kitchen, reception, first this popular West Wapping side development. bathroom suite. Garden.

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Views canal. to Wapping and local floor bathroom and own garden. space. Within access toover ornamental Reception & Close Separate Study orstation additional singleamenities. bedroom. 2 bathrooms. Allocated Tudor Cascades House, Tower, Tower Docklands Bridge, SE1 E14 £500 £1,595,000 per week the City. Near to ‘Waitrose’ supermarket. parking space. Conservatory and large rear garden with storage shed. This 6th 2 double floor luxury bedroom, 2 Double 2 bathroom Bedrooms, 11th2 floor Bathrooms, apartment Open within Plan this Reception secure Room, modern large development. balcony.

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£795,000

Forest Ridge, BR2 £1,875,000 F/H

Beautifully presented detached family home, situated on one of the premier roads within the exclusive Keston Park private estate.

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Kemnal Road, BR7

Manor Way, BR3

Built circa 1920, this exceptional detached family home with additional detached pool house is situated on a plot of just over 1 acre.

Located on arguably the most sought-after road in Beckenham, is this stunning detached home finished to an exceptional standard.

£3,250,000 F/H

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Springhurst Close, CR0

St. Thomas Drive, BR5

The Oaks was constructed 20 years ago and offers 4,300 sqft of beautifully proportioned and well-presented living accommodation.

This charming, extended 1930s semi-detached home is offered in good condition throughout, perfect for a family.

£1,795,000 F/H

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Murray Avenue, BR1 £890,000 F/H

Well presented five bedroom family home, thoughtfully extended to provide superb open-plan living space.

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Western Gateway, E16 £965,000 L/H

An exclusive, brand new three bedroom, two bathroom apartment boasting a high end finish and amazing views.

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Ottley Drive, SE3

Westcombe Hill, SE3

This high specification, two bedroom, two bathroom apartment occupies a stunning top floor position and offers great views from a large wrap around private balcony.

Beautifully presented four bedroom, semi-detached Victorian family home, which has been lovingly refurbished and enhanced by the current owner. Located close to superb transport links.

£550,000 L/H

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Cedarhurst Drive, SE9

£865,000 F/H

A stunning and substantial four bedroom 1930s semi-detached home, only a short walk to the Sutcliffe Park Sports Centre and nature reserve.

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Wharf Street, SE8 £825,000 L/H

A stunning and unique three storey, three bedroom house located directly on the river front offering fabulous views.

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Crooms Hill, SE10

King George Street, SE10

River Gardens Walk, SE10

Impressive Georgian period home, set on one of the most prestigious roads in Greenwich.

Attractive four bedroom, Neo-Georgian town house with secure underground parking.

A contemporary, stunning apartment located on the seventh floor with direct river views.

£4,350 PCM

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St. Germans Place, SE3

Brookway, SE3

Stratheden Road, SE3

Rare to the market is this modern conversion apartment, occupying a second floor position.

Impressive, tastefully presented 1930s family house on Blackheath’s private Cator Estate.

Stunning top floor conversion flat within a Victorian mansion and close to great amenities.

£2,300 PCM

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Lyme Farm Road, SE12

A stunning apartment benefiting from a private roof terrace with panoramic views.

A well-proportioned ground floor two bedroom, one bathroom garden flat.

£3,200 PCM

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