Tag: social

  • Alejandro Flores

    Alejandro Flores

    Alejandro FloresThe most popular drink maker in Chelsea’s signature phrase is “Oh yes”. This jolly Bolivian is the bar manager at La Brasserie and invented a cocktail named after the television show Made in Chelsea. He is as passionate about Chelsea F.C. as he is about cocktail creation and when he’s around, there’s always a party.

  • Five of the Best: Hotel bars in New York City

    Five of the Best: Hotel bars in New York City

    Oliver Estreich selects his five favourite hotel bars in New York

     

    Oliver Estreich, the founder of the well-known social network theNativeSociety, is the man about town to know in New York. Here, he selects five of his favourite hotel bars (more…)

  • I’m out

    I’m out

    Duncan Bannatyne slices £100,000 off asking price of his former marital home

     

    Listed in June 2013 for £899,000 according to Zoopla and now reduced to £799,995, Duncan Bannatyne OBE’s troubles with selling his home near Middlesbrough were detailed in yesterday’s ‘City Diary’ in The Telegraph. (more…)

  • Messing about on the Mouette

    Messing about on the Mouette

    A houseboat in Chelsea for £795,000

     

    Ratty, Mole, Mr. Badger and Mr. Toad in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows lived by the belief that: “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”. Whomever purchases the M.S. Mouette, a converted former passenger ferry moored on Chelsea’s Cadogan Pier, is likely to be someone who’ll also live by this mantra. (more…)

  • Henry Wyndham

    Henry Wyndham

    Henry WyndhamA collector of English drawings and watercolours since the age of 14 and second to none as an auctioneer, Eton educated Wyndham hammered down Giacometti’s Walking Man sculpture for £65 million in 2010 and Rubens’ Massacre of the Innocents for £49.5 million in 2002. His glasses saved his sight in a shooting accident in Scotland in 2012 and as a result, he’s turned to raising funds for eye hospitals. Donations reached £579,000 by the end of September 2013 and given that he also just happens to be the model for the tall, distinguished auctioneer portrayed in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, it looks as if he’ll be raiding a few more coffers for this good cause yet.

  • Halpern gets a little more CHI

    Halpern gets a little more CHI

    WPP backed CHI&Partners acquires stake in Halpern

     

    The world of public relations can be fickle and few who work in it command the level of respect that Jenny Halpern Prince has built up since she founded Halpern on her kitchen table in 1992. Today, in an email newsletter, it was announced that a stake in her agency had been acquired by CHI&Partners, a company backed by Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP. (more…)

  • Hello, good evening and welcome

    Hello, good evening and welcome

    Sir David Frost dies

     

    With the death of Sir David Frost, a true great has passed. (more…)

  • Tamsin Lonsdale

    Tamsin Lonsdale

    Tamsin LonsdaleA Brit who redefined the concept of supper clubs in London, L.A., Miami and New York, Tasmin Lonsdale is the dynamo daughter of the jeans tycoon Tony Lonsdale and model Chekkie Maskell. An Edinburgh graduate who also does event planning, Lonsdale states that what makes for the best parties is a “great mix of people from different industries”. She’s a big fan of Montepulciano.

  • He’s not passed Go, he’s out

    He’s not passed Go, he’s out

    Anthony Marshall to be released from jail

     

    We featured the convicted and finally jailed swindler Anthony Marshall already once today. Sadly, now, we feature him again as it has been ruled that he will be paroled after serving just 60 days. (more…)

  • Don’t pass Go

    Don’t pass Go

    Anthony Marshall attempts to get out of jail

     

    Anthony Marshall is a man who plainly refuses to give up. Finally jailed in June this year following his 2009 conviction for stealing tens of millions from his famous heiress mother, Marshall has put in a cynically planned bid to get out of jail on the basis of being too sick to serve his sentence. (more…)