Business mogul, Robin Birley, owner of London's most exclusive private members' club, Number 5 Hertford Street, has opened a new club on Mayfair's prestigious Albemarle Street.

Located at 25 Albemarle Street (previoulsy Michael John hairdressing salon). The club looks to offer members a focus around wine with dedicated storage space for private collections and named Ozwald's - after Robin Birley's grandfather - an English portrait painter and royal portraitist. The club consists of a 80 cover restaurant, wine cellars and eventually a first floor drawing room.

The nearby Arts Club is also expanding with planning permission being sought to open a five-storey private members’ club in Canary Wharf, on a pontoon overlooking Bank Street, in early 2018. The building will be made from aluminium and house a bar, restaurant, private dining area, members’ lounges and accommodation, a gym, treatment studio and open terraces. 

Home House has brought the New Cavendish Club on Portman Square, with a view to creating a seperate work space for its members. One of the original Mayfair clubs (there are now more than 50 private members' clubs in Mayfair alone), is the infamous boite Annabel's club, which in its new home is to feature dedicated work space and private meeting rooms.

This renowned London nightclub (founded in 1963, by Robin's father Mark and now owned by businessman Richard Caring) has been given a new lease of life with plans to incorporate a range of leisure and wellness facilities as part of it relocation (two doors drown from the current site) with the provision of a "high quality private members' day and evening club". The new Annabel’s includes a modern private members’ health club, comprising a gym, medical and spa treatment rooms, private fitness studios, a sauna, steamroom and a club bar with healthy food offerings. This sit alongside a revamped nightclub, plus a new daytime lounge and several dining areas (inlcuding a terrace dining space - pictured). 

In addition Mayfair is to be home to yet another new members' club - The Conduit - with the taking over of Washington House by the founder of New York-based, ethical fashion brand Maiyet. The eight-storey building at 41-42 Conduit Street, next to the Westbury Hotel, was formerly home to Brasserie Chavot and a basement nightclub as well as providing event space and conference facilities. Expect the new club to feature dedicated work and social space as well as several open terraces. The club states that it is to bring “together social entrepreneurs, investors, creatives, business leaders, policy-makers and civil society,” to act as a “catalytic platform for individuals tackling some of the most pressing challenges facing us today.” Ennismore (behind The Hoxton hotels) is looking to also looking to open a private member’s club inspired by their Gleneagles luxury resort in Scotland, in Mayfair. 

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