Thirdway transforms Georgian townhouse into women-only members' membership in London

American members’ membership Chief has arrange its first London outpost inside a centuries-old townhouse in Bloomsbury, with cosy interiors conceived by design studio Thirdway.

Established in 2019, Chief has places in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, the place ladies working in senior management roles can join, study from business friends and discover methods to drive extra ladies into positions of energy.

When it got here to designing the membership’s first abroad department, Thirdway was requested to take care of the homely aesthetic established throughout its US outposts whereas additionally chatting with the distinctive structure and site of the townhouse.

“We needed a mixture of what felt like Chief however with a London stamp on it, whereas additionally being sympathetic to the age of the constructing and the native London space,” defined Alex Hodson, a senior designer at Thirdway.

The membership occupies a Grade I-listed townhouse in Bloomsbury, which Thirdway prolonged by connecting it to an adjoining four-storey mews home through a glazed walkway, permitting sufficient area for all of Chief’s facilities.

Members enter through a forest-green reception space that is anchored by a wood desk.

Arched panelling fronts the desk in a nod to the townhouse’s curved home windows, whereas its fluted detailing references the grooves on the constructing’s unique fireplaces.

Wealthy hues go on to seem within the membership’s different rooms. Within the bar, for example, the drinks counter is clad with shiny, emerald-green tiles. Right here, the arch motif additionally reappears within the type of the storage cupboards holding the bar’s glassware and wine bottles.

Plump teal and mustard-yellow sofas have been dotted all through the sunroom on the lower-ground ground, alongside poufs coated with the identical material that was used to upholster seats on London’s Piccadilly underground line within the Nineties.

To emulate the look of a conventional English conservatory, a white grid was put in throughout the ceiling whereas a lot of leafy potted and hanging vegetation have been dotted across the area.

One other occasions room on web site was given a barely extra refined really feel with wood-lined partitions and vermillion-red velvet seating.

Different women-only members’ golf equipment in London embrace Allbright in Mayfair, the place the partitions are completely coated with works by feminine artists.

All photographs are courtesy of Peter Ghobrial Images.