CELL FOUR
Access
Rooms that are not sold. Tables, boxes and dressing rooms held by relationship.
Access is not inventory. It is a set of long relationships with houses, clubs, promoters, chefs and directors, kept warm over years and used sparingly.
We ask for what a household actually wants — the second night rather than the opening, the corner table rather than the centre of the room, the entrance that avoids the photographers.
We say no when a request would spend a relationship badly. That restraint is the reason the answer is usually yes.
WHAT THIS CELL CARRIES
Restaurant tables at short notice
Sport: boxes, paddock, tunnel and dressing room
Opera, theatre and concert seating
Private views, fashion houses and ateliers
Membership introductions to clubs and societies
Arrival routing away from public entrances