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One thing that I love about the film is how it captures a very distinct social setting and milieu. Lunch at Rules. G&Ts at Mark’s. A champagne reception at Oswald’s. Pints in a Shepherd Neame’s pub in Westminster. Discussion of Black Velvets over oysters by the sea.

Robert Smith@bondhack.ft.com

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Matt Matthewman

@mattymattman.bsky.social

4 Sept

Big takeaway is the absolute state of the interior design of the gentlemen’s clubs they met in…one looked like the designer couldn’t decide on wallpaper, so just used all that was in stock in a Laura Ashley c 1994.

Robert Smith

@bondhack.ft.com

Haha. Oswald’s is very nice inside tbf and has a great art collection. It’s a shame they didn’t go to any of the Richard Caring clubs as a much wilder nouveau riche aesthetic. Makes me wonder if there’s a separate raft or donor wrangling happening around the less old money clubs.

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Matt Matthewman

@mattymattman.bsky.social

4 Sept

I have a very little knowledge of private members club. My sister is a member of Soho House which is very understated and ‘safe’ in its design. The other is a local social club, which took its inspiration from an early noughties BHS cafe…