The first volume of the BHB Private Journal, Making Extraordinary Things Happen. In his introduction, Harry Becher writes that as BHB expands across the Atlantic into New York City, the Journal introduces some of the people BHB has worked with, their tips on their home cities, some of the things BHB does for its clients and the BHB team.
Summaries describe each volume as published.
Oliver Rampley, BHB’s first Managing Director and founder of Altana Europe, which creates tailor-made trips based around fishing, birdwatching and conservation management in Tuscany and Andalucía, gives his recommendations for Florence: bars, a private loggia and terrace, and restaurants.
The purchase of Benham Park was recently completed by BHB’s sister company Bluedoor, which focuses on the acquisition of houses, on behalf of a client. BHB and Bluedoor are acting for the client to plan the property’s future.
By 2018 BHB had worked with Battersea Power Station for five years and was running a benefits, events and pay-to-play concierge programme for the 866 residents of the first finished phase.
The tower on East 60th Street in New York, designed by Robert A M Stern and developed by William L and Arthur W Zeckendorf. BHB is working with 520 Park Avenue and the Zeckendorf Group on the creation of a private concierge service for its residents.
The London restaurateur, one half of Corbin & King, behind The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Brasserie Zedel and The Beaumont, on why he loves London: his favourite restaurant, The River Café, his London weekend and his favourite building, Cambridge House on Piccadilly.
Marie-Louise Scio of Pellicano Hotels Group, the family group behind Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole and La Posta Vecchia near Rome, gives her favourite places in Rome, from restaurants and shops to art, and a brief history of both hotels.
BHB managed and curated a series of events with artists for a private corporate client and its top customers, including a talk by Dame Darcey Bussell at the Dover Street Arts Club, a private performance by Laura Mvula at the Cuckoo Club and a conversation between Joanna Lumley and Clemency Burton-Hill at The Ned. With an extract from Eastern Horizons by Levison Wood.
The Managing Partner of La Goulue Restaurant on why he loves New York City: T-Bar on 73rd and 3rd, summers on the North Fork and his favourite building, 704 Broadway.
By 2018 BHB had worked with Rolls-Royce for three years on The Private Office, which sells cars directly from the factory in Goodwood to clients not linked to the dealer network. BHB supports its client management programme and its summer studio in Porto Cervo and winter studio at Badrutt’s Palace in St Moritz.
Annabel Seel of ALS, a sister business of BHB, on Sainte Foy and St Moritz, and on heli skiing: a day trip from London to the Swiss Alps for a client’s top customers, and a week of heli skiing from a superyacht in Alaska planned for a client’s 50th birthday.
Diane Abela, BHB’s art advisor and the Middle East art consultant at Gurr Johns, writes about Beirut: its museums, including the Sursock Museum and the National Museum of Beirut, its galleries, the streets of Gemmayzeh, and its restaurants, rooftop bars and clubs.
Members of the BHB team each name a favourite beach, hero and bar. Harry Becher’s are Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Winston Churchill, and La Posada De Abuela in El Gastor, Andalucía.