Before New York City suddenly became a mecca for swanky private members’ clubs (yes, I’m looking at you, San Vicente West Village, Casa Cruz, Chez Margaux, and Maxime’s), there was London. Given the more than 130 such institutions in that city, the Yanks have yet to catch up to their forefathers—and still have much to learn. Perhaps they can start by taking a page or two from Andrew Jones and Laura Hodgson’s The London Club. It’s a delectable tour of 46 clubs that span 300 years of architecture and design.
The book covers the venerable Boodle’s, Brooks’s, and White’s, all on St. James’s Street and dating back to the 18th century (the interior designer Nina Campbell remembers her father frequenting these), as well as Regency institutions, Victorian club buildings, early-20th-century haunts, postwar dens, and modern spots.
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