Here’s a recipe for the perfect private members’ club. Take one Georgian townhouse in central London. Add a wellness studio run by a trainer to the Notting Hill set and a salon for post-workout blow-dries and manicures. Stir in avocado on toast and green juice. Now put aside two floors for ‘co-working space’ with plenty of velvet sofas. Finish with a top-floor cocktail bar. Then remove the men.
Welcome to the Allbright, the new women-only members’ club opening next month. It is the first of its kind in the UK, the schtick being that it’s the first members’ club for working women — no yummy mummies or ladies who lunch here. It counts the fashion designer Mary Katrantzou, the actresses Naomie Harris and Ruth Wilson and...