IN BED WITH THE NED
London’s besuited Square Mile will never be the same now The Ned has moved in. After a £200 million heritage restoration by London’s Soho House and America’s Sydell Group, the disused Midland Bank opened last month as a sumptuous 252-room hotel, members’ club and restaurant hub, with a dramatic late-night bar called The Vault and a spectacular rooftop complex with views stretching from St Paul’s to the Gherkin. The opening of The Ned has set Soho House on a roll, with plans on track to open clubs in New York’s Dumbo neighbourhood later this year, and a downtown Los Angeles property next year. Founder Nick Jones will reopen his original club in Soho followed by another London club, White City House (in the converted BBC Television Centre), next year, and promises another “three or four a year” thereafter. sohohouse.com