Art in the Tearoom

I'm always getting enquiries about Tania's exhibitions upstairs in the first floor tearoom/gallery. At the moment she's got thel legendary Nobby Clark"s exhibition of photographs he took on the opening night of Noel Fielding's "Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox" painting show. Nobby Clark has taken pictures of rock n roll greats the Stones, Al Pacino and many more and these limited edition photographs are for sale and going fast!!!

Talking of the Jelly Fox show, Tania has a few more of the signed posters (below), so if you're a fan you'd better be quick because when they're gone that's it!!! Give her a call on 07985 395079 for any art enquiries...


Madame x

Nobby does Noel Fielding.....

Upstairs in the gallery Tania is continuing the Noel Fielding theme with an exhibition of photographs by Nobby Clark took at the opening of the show of Noel's paintings in December. This is my favourite pinky hued shot of Noel lurking by the miniature cakes....

......and at the opening of Nobby's show the other night Emma, Max and I managed to neck quite a few nibble-sized eclairs, tarts and croissants, in fact we seated ourselves rather near a huge plateful, well to be fair you couldn't get away from a plateful, big groaning platters full of the best of Maison Bertaux's treats, I think I prefer them tiny because it means you get to try two...three....four......five.... or maybe six if you're Max, with ease. Max was popping cakes while doing an uncanny Leee John impersonation as Imagination wafted out of the speakers. I was expecting the Rolling Stones or Razorlight to be the soundtrack to the show but was much better pleased with the best of Imagination!

The show runs for the next two months, grab yourself a creamy confection and a cuppa tea and have a butchers....

Madame x

The Measure of a Madame....

Proud I was to be brushing up against the likes of Nick Knight, Claudia Schiffer, Giles Deacon and Jimmy Choo in my cardigan at the launch of The Measure by Louise Clarke on Thursday night.... As I might have mentioned (and might again.....), I was one of the contributers to a cracking book which explores the influence of London as a creative hotbed and dream destination from the point of view of many different voices from the world of fashion. I've been dipping into it and LOVING it! Here I am with editor Louise Clarke who's first book this is and who has become a great friend since she first walked into Maison B about a year ago to ask me if I'd be interested in writing something (would Eva Herzigova wear a push-up bra?!), and Alex...

And here's Paul Gorman who's written a fantastic Soho history for his contribution with Nigel Waymouth of Granny Takes a Trip fame and John Pearse the tailor who of course features in Paul's piece and still has a shop on Meard St from which he kits out your Dennis Hoppers and Mick Jaggers to this day....

The eats and drinks were deeeeelicous, here's Max with a mini mushroom risotto and champagne...

What clever friends I've got, Tania's been working hard getting the Noel Fielding show together for the 13th December upstairs in the Maison Bertaux gallery....mostly it's a breeze but you can see there are stressful moments for all of us...

Check out my flickr for the rest of Sarah Lee's pictures, so hilarious, of Tania and me involved in some mis-en-scene which looks like we're involved in some sort of lesson.....and I'm not taking instruction properly!!
And Stevie Stewart's always doing something amazing but this costume for the Michael Clark Stravinsky project which was based on an Yves Saint Laurent wedding dress rendered me speechless....

Good to see you taking advantage of Madame's festive offer, hope to see you all over the next few weeks.....can't wait for Maison Bertaux to start baking mince pies!!!!

Madame x