By the time I met the founder Mark Birley at a dinner party in 1965, I was working as an assistant to the decorator John Fowler, who had been responsible for restoring the William Kent-designed ...

Its current owner, Richard Caring, snapped up the coveted Birley Group (which ... update for 2015” the club’s interiors. The most noticeable alteration to Mark’s Club, though, will be ...

The lighting was soft, echoing the dimly lit interiors of Annabel’s ... But David Wynne-Morgan, a PR guru and one of Mark Birley’s oldest friends, disagrees. “She is completely wrong ...

With every inch of its interiors lovingly restored under the watchful eye of Mark Birley, Thurloe Lodge was known as one of London’s most stylish houses. Mandrake can disclose that planners have ...

Son of Mark Birley, the entrepreneur who founded the world-renowned ... The dress codes for the clubs are as smart as their interiors, expected to ‘be well-dressed at all times’, the members are not ...

While Mark Birley's sale of iconic Mayfair club Annabel's to rag-trade tycoon Richard Caring ended his family's infighting over the nightspot, there remains, I can reveal, a delicate problem about ...

I have a particular fondness for the place, since I was introduced to it by its creator, the late Mark Birley. A perfect blend of luxury and comfort, there was none of the off-putting air of ...