Annabel’s is considered the most famous English nightclub. It was founded in 1963 by entrepreneur Mark Birley and named after Lady Annabelle Wayne-Tempest-Stuart, who became his wife.

Topic: Maximization and boho-chic

Annabel's peculiarity is that here, as in an elite English club, they were able to serve the chosen clientele in the person of the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornish or Princess Anna. Cheer with chic, but easy, "family-like." In 2003, the British Queen also looked into this sample of irreconcilable British snobbery.

The "garden of miracles" of Martin Brudnicki begins with a unicorn soaring under the ceiling.

About Annabel's 60-70s, which became the symbol of British glamor, wrote that here you can meet the most beautiful girls in the most expensive clothes. The dress code was strictly observed: the ladies had to wear skirts, and the men had to come in jackets and ties. And there were no exceptions - even for Mick Jagger.

The outdoor terrace “closes” with a glass sliding roof designed by Wagner Biro. Each floor is based on the idea of ​​a garden: on the ground floor there is an Asian garden, a basement with a dance floor is “Eden” (“I thought about the fall of a man,” Brudnitsky laughs).

By the 90s shine began to fade. Older members of the club complained that they were noticing the unacceptable doping, and the young joked that they did not want to go where they could run into their dads who entertained their mistresses.

On the evening of June 5, 2007, an institution in an old Georgian mansion on Berkeley Square was acquired by billionaire Richard Karing, who owns profitable restaurants, expensive real estate, and various assets in the fashion industry (at one time Karing even thought to buy Prada House).

Cocktail Brudnicki: lamps from floor to ceiling in the form of palm trees, prints with a tropical bestiary, leaves and roses, cranes in the form of golden swans, marble, velvet, antique mirrors, panels in egoliz technique. The furniture is covered with leather and a variety of fabrics, decorated with fringe and tassels. Gents dressing room with a fireplace, bears and squirrels.

Annabel’s was destined to tweak the image and undergo an ambitious reconstruction: the repair cost $ 90 million. Karing invited architect Martin Brudnitsky, with whom he has been working for more than ten years. The interiors originally designed by Birley along with designer Nina Campbell needed to be changed.

“You may not want this at home, but it's nice to have dinner here,” says Brudnitski.

Provocative maximalism from the Martin Brudnizki Design Studio is a bet on the two main passions of the foggy Albion elite - collecting and gardens, including zoological ones. The economist of the first education, the master of comfortable luxury, Martin Brudnitsky, is no stranger to mathematical analysis: “my final goal is the space that has always seemed to be here”

“Richard loves Labradors and gardens, it’s in English,” says the designer. “So I decided that Annabel’s will focus on animals and gardens, flora and fauna.”

Located on an area of ​​8,000 square meters. meters, on four floors, with four restaurants (one of which has the largest collection of tequila and mezkala in the world), with seven bars, two private dining rooms and a cigar lounge, the club now also has one of the largest open terraces in London.

“Annabel’s main thing is fantasy. People come here not for reality, but in order to be transported to unfamiliar, amazing places. ”

Everything here has become the territory of a bohemian paradise. The walls are lined with corrugated pistachio silk, bunches of “confectionery” plaster hang from the ceiling, glittering crystal pendants gleam above the mantel clock ...

Gypsum plaster - the work of experts in their field, the masters of George Jackson and Jan Berry.

But Annabel's makes exclusive interiors not super-scale and unrestrainedly fancy decor Brudnitsky: here from the walls, as in the best museum, priceless masterpieces of Modigliani, Chagall and Picasso look at the visitors. One of the works - a small portrait of Maria Theresa Walter, made by Picasso in the same year as Guernick, causes the most scandalous responses. The owner of "Annabels" Richard Karing, buying a canvas in 1937 for several tens of millions, changed his name: "Girl in a red beret with a pompon" became ... "Annabelle."

Tigers, elephants, gorillas, crocodiles, birds of paradise appear everywhere and everywhere - on carpets, walls and mirrors. Birley appealed to eccentric, high-ranking hedonism, Caring - to the modern generation (laptops and smartphones are allowed here), which wants to change the "frame" and check out Instagram. In the center of the pink women's toilet is a two-meter statue of 1900. Picasso. Portrait of Maria Theresa Walter, 1937, renamed Richard Karing in Annabels.