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Article: Dark inspiration
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2009
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Now this is what Soho is all about. An unmarked doorway on a side
street. A dark stairwell leading up to a crepuscular first-floor
dining room. Guttering candles casting pools of light in a shadowy
room of shiny black and sexy red. Light slanting through Venetian
blinds on to crisp white tablecloths. All the scene needs is a woman
straddling a chair while unpeeling a stocking and we could be in a
Jack Vettriano painting.
Maybe it could be called The Kissing Manageress. Sashaying
towards me through the gloom comes a stylish woman with an
incredible husky voice, like Campari poured over cracked ice. When I
give her my name (or rather the name I've booked under) she leans in
to ...