Full of East End Promise ; As Shoreditch House, the Latest Venture From Soho House Founder Nick Jones, Opens This Week, We Look at How the 'Badlands' of Bethnal Green Have Been Transformed Into a Vibrant New Place to Party

Evening Standard - London › June 27, 2007

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AT THE Soho House launch party in Compton Street in 1995 I met Damien Hirst. He won the Turner Prize that year and his Mother and Child Divided featured a cow and calf split in two and plonked in formaldehyde.

There was a buzzing atmosphere.

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Full of East End Promise ; As Shoreditch House, the Latest Venture From Soho House Founder Nick Jones, Opens This Week, We Look at How the 'Badlands' of Bethnal Green Have Been Transformed Into a Vibrant New Place to Party

No one had done that sort of thing before. No one had done anything like Soho House either. A private members' club for cocksure media slicks. A playground for grown-ups who couldn't face growing up. In unison we thought it ingenious but also that it wouldn't...

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