The Arts Club

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The Arts Club Hotel

Welcome to one of London’s finest luxury boutique hotels, situated above our world famous private members’ club, which was founded by Charles Dickens in 1863 and is privileged to have HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, as its patron.

The elegant rooms and suites offer a discreet escape in the heart of Mayfair for Members and their guests, allowing access to all the facilities of the club during your stay.

A Memorable Stay at The Arts Club Hotel, Mayfair

Visual stimulation abounds here – and continues in the Club’s rooms and suites.

The Arts Club boasts three restaurants, two bars and a nightclub, as well as an extensive events programme.

Upcoming must-attends include an evening with Sir Michael Parkinson, Alexandra Shulman (British Vogue Editor in Chief) in conversation with Alexa Chung and a Studio 54 party with superstar DJ Nick Saino.

My tour included a visit to the Penthouse suite – a feast for the senses with its generous lounge area and the pièce de résistance – a delightful roof terrace with views across Mayfair rooftops.

The Arts Club has a well-stocked humidor and its very own Cigar Sommelier, 24-year-old Manu Harit.

The Arts Club - Wikipedia

The Arts Club is a London private members club founded in 1863 by, amongst others, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and Lord Leighton in Dover Street, Mayfair.

The Arts Club was a hub of the arts during the 19th century and, although a social venue, it was known to be a place where influence could be exerted and careers developed.

As early as 1891, James Whistler, one of the Arts Club's leading members, broke away to found the rival Chelsea Arts Club.

The Arts Club has continued to provide a forum and meeting place for those involved in all the arts.

However, a number of clubs outside the UK of similar character and prestige have reciprocal arrangements, including the Cercle de l'Union interalliée in Paris, The Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, the St. Botolph and Algonquin Clubs in Boston, the Cosmos Club in Washington DC, the Arts Club of Chicago and the Arts Club of Washington DC, and the Century Association, The Coffee House, National Arts Club and Salmagundi Club in New York.

The Arts Club. Do you have to be a member to join? | The Food Judge

I’d been a member at Home House for much the same reason, but was a bit fed up with never being able to get a seat in the evening and the food was no great shakes either.

And yet and yet…another confidence-sapping place, with impossibly good-looking glamorous and thin women in short spangly dresses (see my piece on Hakkasan) but here the stick -thins are the guests, not the staff and they’re generally about 30 years younger than the men they’re with.

Nothing here is subsidised for members, in the old London club tradition.

A good place to take clients who haven’t heard of it/don’t want to pay for it/want to stay up drinking till late/who think I’m a boring cow who never does any of those things – Inhabited by people who seem totally unaware that there is a global financial crisis.

So I will use this throughout the year, in an effort to feel slightly less guilty about the membership and then I’ll look for somewhere a little bit more me.

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Since its birth in 1863 for those professionally involved in the Arts, literature or science, the Arts Club has been no stranger to A-list celebrities - Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope were once members and Churchill use to hang out here.

The Arts club has everything from a Oyster Bar, Cigar garden, brasserie, restaurant and quite possibly the coolest live music basement bar that hosts hot parties and guest performances but its all a bit hush hush and members only.

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The Italian job: Dimore Studio creates Leo's for The Arts Club, Mayfair

You will however need to join The Arts Club on Dover Street to enjoy Leo’s supper club and nightclub, which opens tonight in the basement of the Mayfair members club.

Gary Landesberg, chairman of The Arts Club, commandeered the in-demand designers to give the subterranean space, which was already popular with members of the private seven-storey club for its live-music and DJ sets Thursday through Saturday nights, a total overhaul with - according to Moran - a “very generous budget”.

Discussions began in the spring, with Landesberg travelling to Milan, where Dimore's work can be seen in the apartment-like Dimore Gallery, a series of rooms housed in an 18th-century palazzo where visitors can immerse themselves in the studio's beguiling world of interiors.

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Leo's restaurant review - London, UK | Wallpaper*

Savvy impresarios have long realised that few things lift the mood more than the prospect of an evening of bubbles, supper, music and dancing.

All the more reason to applaud the arrival of Leo’s at London’s The Arts Club.

The Milan-based designers Dimore Studio have orchestrated a fantasist lair – apparently inspired by the Riviera clubs of the 60s – swatched with greens, purples, pinks and reds; finished with brass, brushed steel, leather, Guatemalan marble, pink velvets and floral prints; and styled throughout with a Orient-lite touch by way of Wong Kar Wai’s Shanghai noir classic In the Mood for Love.

This leads onto the nightclub, whose parquet floor is set off by a shimmering curtain of bamboo beads hand-painted with white and pink lotus flowers, black-lacquered Knoll Saarinen chairs and, curling sinuously along the wall is a set of capacious brass-trimmed booths lit by lantern lamps.

Consider our mood duly lifted.