Take a trip down the famous stairs of Annabel’s...
was the nightclub you saw from a distance. From its opening in 1963, the entrance on London’s Berkeley Square was crossed by streams of beautiful people vanishing down the stairs. Frank Sinatra was one of the earliest members; Diana Ross, The Rolling Stones and Ella Fitzgerald played private sets; John Wayne once rolled in so drunk that he broke three cigars trying to light them. By 2003, the Queen was dropping by for dinner. There are no candid photographs of any of these events.
The heart of clubland was historically in St. James’s, and pockets of Mayfair; Regent Street marked the eastern border. Beyond that, you were in Soho, where people always had the vulgar habit of being bohemian, theatrical, unmoneyed and wild.
Upstairs, the influence of the Soho House model is bold. On the second floor there’ll be a large, rectangular room, Latin American-themed, with refreshments a little less heavily priced than elsewhere in the club. This space is where the younger crowd are supposed to stow themselves away and type. You imagine open sofas, warm colours, broad tables; but you wonder quite who the people will be.
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