Category: Miscellaneous

The other side of St James’s

Our Chairman Simon Berry dips beneath the surface of St James’s, exploring a past that doesn’t quite align with the area’s upstanding reputation today In the last edition of No.3 I wrote about the theft of the old wooden till from the shop back in the 1970s. This provoked a certain amount of surprise. Surely […]

Manners maketh man

As the second Kingsman film, The Golden Circle, hits cinema screens, we talk to director Matthew Vaughn about the culture of Kingsman, working in London and why Berry Bros. & Rudd was the perfect location to shoot a spy thriller With his clipped British accent, unmatched manners, sharp one-liners and the ability to shoot his […]

Style in St James’s

With the arrival of the MR PORTER x Kingsman pop-up shop at No.4 St James’s Street, Alexis Self sat down with MR PORTER’s Managing Director Toby Bateman to talk cinema, style and the new era of product placement Westfield and St James’s Street represent a retail version of Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities – […]

How to make wine: white

The first in our mini-series examining exactly how wine goes from grape to glass, here Barbara Drew from our Wine School team explains the process for making white wine By their nature, white wines are more fragile than reds; without the antioxidant properties of tannins to protect them, the juice and wines themselves can quickly […]