Angelika, between the gallery and the encore
A tennis player's stride, black hair worn straight, and firm views on new painting.
Available todayEvenings from seven; W1 hotels within the half hour
- Age
- 24
- Height
- 172 cm · 5 ft 8 in
- Hair
- long, straight black
- Eyes
- brown
- Build
- athletic
- Languages
- English
- Based
- Mayfair · W1K · W1J
On Angelika
Octavia's notes on Angelika open with a single word, composed, and nothing since has argued with it. She stands 172 cm, athletic from tennis played most mornings, and crosses a crowded bar the way a good player covers a baseline, unhurried and always in position. Black hair, long, dead straight. Brown eyes that are slow to look elsewhere. For evening: a sleeveless black dress, flat gold at one wrist, full stop.
Confidence arrives with her; she never announces it. Playfulness comes later, once she has made up her mind about you, and it repays the short wait. Mid twenties. English, quick and dry. Contemporary art is her serious subject: she reads every wall label and quarrels with most of them. Jazz is the indulgence. Give her a small room, a trio near enough to hear brushes on the snare, and a set that overruns.
Her evening in this quarter begins at the Royal Academy of Arts on Piccadilly, in the last hour before the galleries shut, when the rooms thin out and she can give one canvas the time it deserves. Burlington House to a supper table is a short walk; supper to your hotel bar is shorter. She picks the table. Asked, she also picks the wine, and her record with both is excellent.
Home is Mayfair, a few doors from the Academy, so most of her evenings are arranged on Albemarle Street or near it. One hour is £600. The longer ladder sits on the rates page, and a single note to Octavia through booking holds the date.
// Octavia's noteAngelika prefers to begin before eight, while the galleries are still open. For painting, supper and a late set, I would book the dinner date at £1,800 rather than two hours.
Angelika, by the hour
One ladder serves every introduction on Albemarle Privé. Her journey costs nothing inside fare Zones 1 and 2, and Angelika receives the fee from you in person on arrival.
| Ref | Length | Fee | Suits | Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.01 | One hour60 min | £600 | An aperitif and a first conversation, nothing hurried. | Request |
| R.02 | Ninety minutes90 min | £900 | Room for a second glass and a proper exchange of views. | Request |
| R.03 | Two hours120 min | £1,100 | A short supper nearby, or a private view and a drink after. | Request |
| R.04 | Three hours180 min | £1,500 | Theatre and a late table, or dinner without a watch. | Request |
| R.05 | Dinner date4 hours | £1,800 | The reservation, every course, then the slow walk back. | Request |
| R.06 | Overnight10 hours | £3,000 | Dinner through to the morning coffee. A day of notice helps. | Request |
| R.07 | Weekend awayBy arrangement | from £6,000 | A city weekend or a journey, agreed as one sum in writing. | Request |
Journeys past Zone 2, airport hotels and cancellations: see Rates, terms T.01 to T.08.
As Angelika keeps it
The arrangement is simple: you name a hotel, she names a painting. Angelika reaches Burlington House early, floor plan folded into her bag, and walks you straight to the one room she wants you to see. In front of the canvas she says almost nothing. Afterwards, in the courtyard or at a hushed bar on Albemarle Street, she says a great deal. Supper keeps her tempo, the talk moving from brushwork to backhands to a drummer she caught last Tuesday. Is there a late set nearby? She will know, and she will know who is playing. If not, your hotel bar and one more drink suit her equally. By then she is playful and entirely at ease, and the evening closes precisely where it was agreed to close.
Three questions for Angelika
The emptiest one. A picture behaves differently without a queue in front of it. You look longer, and you stop fretting over whether you have understood it.
Backhand, two hands, since I was small. My forehand remains a matter of opinion. Ask me after a set and I will blame the wind.
A drummer who listens. When he drops to a whisper because the singer has, I am there for the second set, and probably the third.
Notes on Angelika
No guest notes published yet.A note appears here only after Octavia has read it: a first name, a month, nothing more. Nothing is ever written on a guest's behalf.
Read by Octavia before it appears · a first name and a month, never more · Angelika can have any note taken down
A message for Angelika
Already addressed to Angelika. Fill in the brackets and send it; Octavia answers every line in one reply.
Hello, I would like to book Angelika on [date] at [time] for [duration]. I am staying at [hotel name], and will share the room number on confirmation.
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Angelika, by arrangement
Send a date, an hour and a length. Octavia looks at Angelika's diary before anything else and answers in writing, usually within minutes.