Members' Houses since 1995
Come in. The fire is already lit.
A private home for people who make things. Painters, editors, directors, songwriters, the woman three seats down who scored the film you cried at. Long lunches, a candlelit bar, a rooftop pool you forget is in the middle of the city. The door is small on purpose.
We started above a restaurant on Greek Street, with a sofa nobody wanted to leave and a rule that the work could wait until after lunch. The idea was simple: a room where creative people could be off duty together, where what you made mattered more than what you earned. Thirty years on, the Houses have multiplied and the fires still burn low. The sofa, more or less, is the same one.
The Houses
A room waiting in every city
Eight of ours, with more opening. Each one its own building and its own crowd, the same low light and the same welcome at the door.
London, Greek Street
Where it began. Five Georgian floors above the old restaurant, worn soft by thirty years of company.
New York, Meatpacking
The rooftop pool above the cobblestones, a screening room downstairs, and a Cowshed that smells of bergamot.
Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Canyon light through the windows by day, a low amber hum at the bar by night, hills going pink behind you.
Berlin, Mitte
A former department store with high ceilings and louder opinions. The rooftop sees the whole city.
Paris, Pigalle
An old hospital turned warm, with a courtyard for slow mornings and a bar that keeps later hours than it admits.
Mumbai, Juhu Beach
The Arabian Sea on the doorstep, a pool that meets the horizon, and dinners that run long past the sunset.
Istanbul, Beyoglu
Two restored buildings on a hill, the Bosphorus in the distance, and a hammam underneath it all.
Rome, Piazza dei Cinquecento
A 1920s palazzo with frescoed ceilings, a Cowshed in the cellar, and a rooftop made for the long Italian evening.
Inside the House
Rooms, not amenities
A House is a home before it is a venue. Here is some of what is behind the door.
The bar
Low light, a long counter, a bartender who remembers your order and a Picante that arrives without much fuss. The room where most evenings quietly decide to keep going.
The screening room
Deep seats, the lights down, sometimes the person who directed it sitting two rows back. Premieres, old prints, and the occasional Sunday film for members and their children.
Cowshed
The spa we built because the days are long. Massages, facials, a steam room, and our own products that have been quietly going home in members' bags since the start.
The rooftop pool
Warm water, a drink within reach, the city laid out below and politely ignored. Open early for the swimmers, later for everyone else.
The Library
A quieter room of books, deep chairs, and a fireplace. For the afternoons when you need somewhere to think, or somewhere to disappear.
Long lunches
Seasonal kitchens that change with the markets, tables that hold for hours, and no one watching the clock. The meal is the meeting.
Bedrooms
Rooms above the House for the nights that run late or the trips that run long. Cowshed in the bathroom, a record player in the corner, breakfast whenever you wake.
Ways to belong
Three ways in
Membership is annual and by application. Choose the shape that fits your life. The welcome is the same at every door.
Local House
For members who keep to one House and one city, the one that feels most like home.
- Full access to your home House and its rooms
- Member rates on the bedrooms above it
- Cowshed treatments and the spa
- The members' app for booking tables, events, and rooms
- The screening room, the Library, and the rooftop
Annual membership, billed once a year. A reduced rate applies for members under 27.
Every House
For the ones who travel, and want the same low-lit bar waiting in every city.
- Access to every House, everywhere we are
- Priority on bedrooms across the collection
- Cowshed and spas at all locations
- First invitations to House events, screenings, and dinners
- Bring guests, within reason, wherever you go
Annual membership, billed once a year. The most common way in for people who live between cities.
Friends of the House
For founding members and the long-standing few who helped shape the rooms.
- Every House privilege, held open at all hours
- A standing table and a name the staff already know
- The first word on new Houses before they open
- Quiet extras we prefer to keep between us
By invitation. We will find you before you find us.
How one joins
Membership is by application, considered by a committee of members from your field and your city. We are not looking for the most successful room in the world. We are looking for people who are interesting to sit next to: generous, curious, working at something they care about. Two members put your name forward, the committee reads it, and we write back. Some Houses have a wait. The good ones usually do.
- 01Find two current members to propose and second you.
- 02Tell us who you are and what you make, in your own words.
- 03The local committee reviews applications a few times a year.
- 04We write to you when there is a place, and the door opens.