Esquire Townhouse | Esquire Townhouse

12–15

October

10–11 Carlton House Terrace,
London

Britain’s most stylish magazine brand comes to life over four days at London’s most exclusive pop-up members’ club. Interviews, performances, masterclasses, drinks, supper clubs, fitness sessions and more, from style to sport, tech to travel, food to film and beyond.

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Every ticket gives you access to The Esquire Club – an entire floor of the Townhouse where you can relax in our bar and lounge, enjoy our complimentary in-house spa and coffee shop, explore a sensory experience with Dior and experience the dedicated LG SIGNATURE space to discover the latest in household tech. It’s your very own pop-up members’ club.

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THE ESQUIRE CLUB

ENJOY OUR POP-UP MEMBERS CLUB

You don’t have to buy a ticket to enjoy Esquire Townhouse – simply check in at reception to enjoy the range of complimentary experiences at the Esquire Club.

THE ESQUIRE TOWNHOUSE BAR AND LOUNGE

Relax with a San Miguel or try out a signature Martin Miller’s Gin, our lounge bar is the perfect place to meet friends after work and will have Djs playing every evening. Our bar menu offers sharing platters, bar snacks and more.

SAUVAGE BY DIOR

Immerse yourself into an authentic and unique Fragrance experience with Sauvage. This is a call for the Wild at Heart.

ESQUIRE TOWNHOUSE SPA

Book a complimentary haircut, beard trim, facial, neck and shoulder massage, and other treatments at our in-house spa from Ruffian’s, who will also be putting on barbering masterclasses.

THE LG SIGNATURE LOUNGE

Specially designed in collaboration with Patrick Grant, the LG SIGNATURE Space is an immersive experience space where you can discover the best in luxury tech for your home.

TEST DRIVES WITH LEXUS

Experience the Lexus LC500 in the best way possible: from the driving seat. Accompanied by a member of Lexus’ Pro Drive team, discover exceptional power, handling and control during a 30-minute test drive. Simply book in with a Lexus representative in the reception area of Esquire Townhouse when you arrive to confirm your time slot.

LEON COFFEE BAR

LEON coffee is triple certified, organic, fairtrade and world land trust. It is also served with milk from 18 Welsh herds, that roam family run farms or with coconut milk. We are offering a range of coffees and tea or steepers, all served into our compostable cups. It’s not just our LEON food that is naturally fast. Served daily from 9am-7pm, by our baristas who are full of sun.

SHOE SHINE WITH THE JAUNTY FLANEUR

Don’t miss out on our in-house shoe shine from The Jaunty Flaneur who’ll be offering standard polishing services, as well as mirror finishes. There will also be demonstrations of a bespoke patina service, which can be used to give old shoes a new lease of life.

SATURDAY FITNESS

From 9am-12pm on Saturday 14th October, Esquire Townhouse is turning into the ultimate fitness destination with a programme of classes, challenges, expert consolations, and nutrition curated by Esquire’s Health and Wellbeing Editor Tom Macklin. Pre-book a complimentary 15-mins consultation in The Esquire Clinic with some of the most sought after experts in the capital; prevent injury with Third Space’s Luke Worthington the UK’s only qualified Postural Restoration expert, nutritionist Sarah Ann Macklin and elite PT Andy Vincent. We are also offering free consultations with Megan Rossi, better know as @TheGutHealthDoctor, in collaboration with LEON. Esquire’s resident PT Harry Jameson challenges you to the Esquire Challenge; a killer body weight challenge not for the faint hearted. Can you top the leaderboard? A special winners package awaits the male and female champions. For the second year running, Adidas are hosting their ever-popular run club at Esquire Townhouse as part of our Saturday Fitness Morning. Suitable for all levels of runners, join us on a scenic 5k route around the nearby London landmarks. Simply click here to reserve your spot. Drop into The Esquire Kitchen and enjoy complimentary protein shakes, snacks and drinks from PRESS, Neat Nutrition, Pulsin and Acaí Berry. Afterwards feel free to relax and soak up the ambience in The Esquire Club; an exclusive space spanning the ground floor for guests to eat, drink and relax.

speakers

Christoph Waltz

Vince Vaughn

Photographed by Sam Jones

Cillian Murphy

Russell Brand

Charlie Brooker

Mark Cavendish

Armando lannucci

Rick Edwards

Rick began his career on the standup circuit after graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. He now works as a journalist, presenter and screenwriter.

He actively campaigns for youth engagement in politics and voting and, in Summer 2014, delivered a hugely successful TEDx Houses Of Parliament talk offering some solutions to get more young people to vote. His first book, None Of The Above, was subsequently published in March 2015 by Simon & Schuster. In it he describes the basics of the political process in the UK, gives an overview of the issues facing the country, and explains the power of your vote.

Rick hosts the podcast Science(ish) alongside Dr Michael Brooks which delves in to the science behind popular culture. The series has proved such a hit that the duo have been commissioned to write a book of the same name for publication in Autumn 2017 by Atlantic.

As a broadcaster Rick has most recently made a foray in to the world of quizzing as the host of BBC1’s daytime show !mpossible which aired its first series in January 2017 followed quickly by its second series aired in May 2017. Rick will be filming the third series later this year. Amongst his other numerous presenting credits are: ITV2’s comedy roast Safeword, BBC Three’s live current affairs debate show Free Speech and Channel 4’s Paralympic Breakfast Show. As a writer his original film Burger Van Champion was commissioned as part of C4’s Coming Up strand in 2013 and was described by the Observer as ‘a remarkable debut’ and by Time Out as ‘funny, touching [and] superbly written’.

He has a monthly column in the Observer Magazine, and contributes regularly to the Evening Standard and Huffington Post. Amongst his other interests are the environment (he is a regular on the Observer Ethical Awards judging panel), mathematics (his mental arithmetic is impeccable), and snooker (highest break: 32).

Brian Duffy

Sir Paul Smith

Paul Smith is one of Britain’s foremost designers. He is renowned for his creative spirit, which combines tradition and modernity.
Famous for its clothing and accessories collections, Paul Smith specialise in an inventive use of traditional craftsmanship and cutting-edge design to create beautifully-made, desirable, modern pieces.

Paul Smith is a tastemaker – a leader of British and international design trends. With an enthusiasm for eclectic cultural references and idiosyncratic combinations of pattern and colour, applied with understatement, Paul Smith expresses a truly contemporary aesthetic.

Paul Smith is loved across the world – its customers range from the creative community to students, and from Hollywood actors and pop stars to business professionals. From its origins in one small shop in Nottingham, England, in 1970, Paul smith had grown into a global business, selling to five continents. Stating with one men’s collection, the business had grown to comprise collections for men and women and children, including, shoes, accessories, fragrance and home furnishings.

Paul Smith has shops globally – including in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo – and stages fashion shoes at men’s Paris Fashion Week twice each year. Throughout its development Paul Smith’s values of curiosity, quality and authenticity have remained constant.

For further information please contact:
beth.thomas@paulsmith.co.uk

Sir Geoff Hurst

Steven Knight

Adam Kay

Dane Baptiste

Annabel Jones

Chris Galvin

George Bamford

George Bamford has made his name as founder of Bamford Watch Depart-ment, a business/concept that has become the global market leader in con-temporary watch customisation, synonymous with uncompromising style and quality.

With his youthful approach to his subject George is reinventing luxury, keep-ing the tradition while looking towards tomorrow. His mission statement: “If you can imagine it, we can create it”. His London base, an elegant 5-story townhouse (The Hive) on South Audley Street, Mayfair, is “by appointment only”.

Creating one off “Limited Edition Timepieces” collaborating with the likes of artists including Marc Quinn and Daniel Arsham, fashion legend, Karl Lager-feld as well as The Rodnik Band, DRx, Fragment and a collaboration with
Apple Corps paying homage to The Beatles.

Making history and signing official customisation agreements with major Swiss watch brand Zenith and Bulgari, with others following, Bamford Watch Department is the first customisation house venturing into a new market with one-of-a-kind watches offered with the full support of the brand.

Bamford set out to “make luxury feel unique again” with the evolution
of the “Bamford Grooming Department”, a collaboration with his mother
Carole Bamford (founder of Daylesford). “Essential kit for life on the move. Inspired by wonderful places around the world”. http://bamfordgroomingdepartment.com

George likes to run at life and enjoy it whilst clearly defining his signature. “I love personalising my world”. The criteria behind the Bamford London
personalised accessories range was that he wanted “everything to have a feel, and you have to want to touch it”.
http://www.bamfordlondon.com

With global businesses, always on the lookout for new ideas, George is
permanently on the move travelling throughout Asia, India the Middle East,
Europe and the USA.

Curiously seeking out the most desirable and the ultimate in luxury
(often under the radar) Bamford (family motto: Jamais Content) is a man
obsessed with all things relating to design.

www.bamfordwatchdepartment.com
http://www.bamfordlondon.com
www.bamfordgroomingdepartment.com

Tony Conigliaro

Damien Paul

Damien Paul is Head of Menswear at MATCHESFASHION.COM and oversees all elements of the men’s buy including the introduction of new designers and product categories, exclusive and capsule collections, and studio franchises.

Damien joined MATCHESFASHION.COM in 2012 as menswear buyer and was quickly promoted to Head of Menswear with the remit to grow and develop the menswear portfolio. He has introduced designers as diverse as Givenchy, Off-White, Craig Green and Vetements and now oversees a mix of over 200 designers. He has extended the lifestyle category and has been instrumental in the development of both the activewear and vacation studios. Damien sits on the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN panel, which recognises and supports emerging talent in the UK fashion industry.

Damien began his career in fashion as men’s contemporary buyer at Harvey Nichols London in 2003, before joining Bloomingdales Dubai in 2007 as menswear buyer.

David Hempleman-Adams

Richard Moore

Neil Laughton

Toby Bateman

Toby Bateman is Managing Director for MR PORTER and leads the business across all departments including marketing, buying, personal shopping, tech and editorial. He joined MR PORTER as Buying Director in late 2010 and was responsible for growth from 80 brands at launch to over 400 for FW 2017. In November 2015 he was promoted to Managing Director.
Bateman began his career at House of Fraser in 1996 progressing to Buyer for Men’s Formalwear. In 2004 he joined Harvey Nichols as Buyer, and from there he moved to Selfridges becoming Buying Manager across all menswear departments.

Russell Norman

Russell Norman is an award-winning restaurateur, writer and broadcaster. He operates several restaurants in London and beyond.
His book POLPO – A Venetian Cookbook (of Sorts) is published by Bloomsbury and won Waterstones Book of the Year 2012.
His second book SPUNTINO – Comfort Food (New York Style) won the 2016 Guild of Food Writers Award for best food and travel book.
In 2014 he presented The Restaurant Man, a six-part prime-time documentary for BBC2.
He is a contributing editor for Esquire and writes a monthly column as ‘The Accidental Cook’.
For the last three consecutive years he has been recognised by Debretts as one of the 500 most influential people in the UK. His Who’s Who entry lists just one hobby: Scrabble.
He lives in London and Kent.

Mark Jarvis

Alex Lawrence

Quentin ‘Captain Q’ Smith

Patrick Grant

Patrick’s career in fashion has spanned over a decade. In 2005 he took over as Director at Savile Row tailor Norton & Sons. He won much praise for his work there including being named Retailer of the Year at the 2008 Scottish Fashion Awards. He also won the Menswear Designer of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards and was awarded the BFC/ GQ Designer Menswear Fund. He has regularly appeared in GQ’s 50 Best Dressed Men and was also named in Esquire Magazine’s Most Stylish Men in the World. In 2016 he made the Business of Fashion 500 index of the most influential people in global fashion.

In 2012 he began working in collaboration with Debenhams on the brand Hammond & Co and it has gone on to be the most successful designer collaboration in the department store’s history. In 2015 he purchased Cookson & Clegg, saving the factory from closure. This was followed in 2016 with the launch of social enterprise Community Clothing in response to the extreme challenges facing the British clothing and textile manufacturing.

Patrick is a regular on television and has been a contributor to several major television documentaries including Savile Row, Harris Tweed and The Perfect Suit, but is best known for his role in the BBC2 Series, The Great British Sewing Bee, for which he was nominated for the 2017 National Television Awards.

His book ‘Original Man’ was published by Gestalten in 2014 and he is a regular lecturer at schools and colleges. In 2013 he was made an Honorary Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University’s School of Business and Society.

Faisal Khan

Faisal is a trainer at Third Space London.

Harry Jameson

Harry Jameson is an award-winning fitness business consultant with over a decade’s experience in coaching individuals, companies and brands to achieve their potential.

Harry’s unique training philosophy considers the mind as much as the body, building on his dual specialism of Psychology and Sports Science to drive the best results from his clients.

Harry is Esquire Magazine’s in-house fitness expert and Personal Trainer and has consulted with internationally recognised brands, such as AirBnB, Quintessentially and One & Only Resorts.

He provided 360 degree consultation to Ministry Of Sound, using his extensive expertise to design and create a revolutionary new fitness studio that would appeal to both fitness fanatics and novices alike.

Tom Harrow

Co-founder of Honest Grapes and wine consultant for Principal Hotels, Tom is also columnist for a number of luxury titles including FT’s How To Spend It (online), CENTURION, Rolls Royce Magazine and Yacht Investor. One of the UK’s most influential fine wine “fixers”, he is listed as “outstanding in field” in the current SPEAR’s 500 (top advisors to HNW community) and is well known as a commentator, consultant and event & vineyard tour host, being profiled on Channel 4’s World’s Most Expensive Foods, and interviewed for HTSI where his wine tours were described as like “Sideways on steroids”. He is also the international wine list reviewer for Luxury Travel Intelligence, an ambassador for Dom Perignon, Armand de Brignac and the wines of Franciacorta and former UK & Ireland judge for the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards.

Gok Yesodharen

Leading Heartcore’s TRX programme, Gok’s expertise is strength and body conditioning and passionate about creating challenging yet fun, functional and effective workouts.

Andy Vincent

Elite PT Andy Vincent will be offering AiM assessments on our Fitness Morning on Saturday 14th October. AiM is a method of assessing full body biomechanics by looking at how you walk. What Andy does is a slow motion analysis of someone’s walking gait. He looks at how people walk and what it’s effecting. There are 6 gait phases which occur as your foot passes over the ground, and your whole body moves at each phase in all 3 planes of motion.

Faye Edwards

Faye is a trainer at Third Space London.

Chris Miller

Chris started practicing yoga following a back injury sustained during weight lifting. Having found that yoga directly aided his recovery, complimented his various sporting interests and provided an increased sense of wellbeing, he decided he had to share this with others.

Chris teaches a playful alignment based vinyasa class, balancing stability with strength and a healthy range of motion; embracing his student’s non-yoga training and countering the imbalances that can develop through regular and repetitive activities. By developing a deeper knowledge of their anatomy, his students can work to avoid training injuries, connecting the experience on the mat with their performance off the mat.

Through his background in Biology, Psychotherapy and Health Counselling, Chris is especially interested in the relationships between physical activity, mental and emotional health. He provides Personal Wellness Coaching, using mindful exercise, yoga and meditation as a vehicle for developing physical and mental strength, stability and clarity to find our natural joy.

Chris is a student of Cyndi Lee, author and first female teacher to fully integrate yoga asana and
Tibetan Buddhism in her practice and teaching.

www.chrismillerfitness.com

Teo van den Broeke

Teo van den Broeke is the Style Director of Esquire magazine, Deputy Editor of Esquire’s biannual style title Big Black Book and Deputy Editor of Esquire’s annual Big Watch Book. Two-time recipient of The Fashion Monitor’s Long Lead Journalist of the Year award (2014 and 2015), Teo is an expert in the fields of men’s fashion, fine watches and grooming.

Louis Rennocks

Gary Logan

Gary Logan is Head of Boxing at BXR.

Luke Worthington

Luke Worthington is a trainer at Third Space London. Luke specialises in strength, conditioning and biomechanical assessment, as well as rehabilitation from musculoskeletal injury to give injured tissue the best possible chance to recover and to help clients minimise the risk of re-injury. He concentrates on helping mobility by improving strength and stability.

Michael Brooks

Michael Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He is a consultant at New Scientist, a magazine with over three quarters of a million readers worldwide,and writes a weekly column for the New Statesman. He is the author of At The Edge of Uncertainty, The Secret Anarchy of Science and the bestselling non-fiction title 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense.

His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Observer, the Times Higher Education, the Philadelphia Inquirer and many other newspapers and magazines. He has lectured at various places, including New York University, The American Museum of Natural History and Cambridge University.