Supper Club New York

Last week Tamsin Lonsdale, founder of the upscale social networking service The Supper Club, described a recent experience at the Spotted Pig.

“We were having a very civilized dinner,” she recalled to the Transom, “and suddenly, uh, the music got cranked up, and there were 50 movers and shakers on the dance floor, and Jay-Z and Beyoncé were hanging out with us.”

On Tuesday, Dec. 10, a witness who was at the Spotted Pig that legendary night called offering further information about the time Ms. Lonsdale and her party spent in the vicinity of Jay-Z, who is part-owner of the restaurant, and his girlfriend, pop singer Beyoncé Knowles.  read more »

At 9:30 last night, about 30 of the 550 guests at the Supper Club New York's official launch party were standing out in front of the National Arts Club, the eccentric Victorianized complex facing the south side of Gramercy park, smoking and in some cases already hailing cabs.

Inside, the guests mingled on the second floor of the club near the central staircase and in four or five communicating rooms filled with knick-knacks, paintings and countless empty martini glasses and Champagne flutes, some with wrinkled maraschino cherries at the bottom.

America's Next Top Model's noted photographer Nigel Barker was there, and Del Marquis from downtown glam band Scissor Sisters and Richie Rich of Heatherette fame. The rest of the list reads like a roll call for a fashionable junior benefit committee: Richie Rich, Euan Rellie, Leven Rambin, Emma Snowdon-Jones, Kate Schelter, Jackie Astier, Andrew Buckler, Sue Stemp, Eneas Capalbo, Rory and Rebecca Guinness, Eugenia Silva, Kate Lanphear, Susan Shin, Antony Todd and Celeste Villanueva.  read more »

The yet-to-actually-happen Supper Club New York (an exclusive group of posh partiers, not a place), has successfully seduced some 300 people into becoming founding members. To celebrate, the cliquish moveable feast will officially launch on Tuesday, October 23, with a blowout fete at the National Arts Club.

An exclusive release sent to the Daily Transom today reveals the identities of several early-bird members, who have been, until now, preparing to sup under the media radar. New York "Ambassadors" include swish social bunnies like Susan Shin, Avenue magazine columnist Peter Davis, Elle's Kate Lanphear, Lyman Carter, Patrick MacDonald and Mark Langrish. Backing up such higher-ups are the Supper Club New York's founding members: James Blunt, America's Next Top Model's Nigel Barker, stylist Edward Enniful, Anthony Todd, fashion designer Andrew Buckler, Men's Vogue editor Hudson Morgan, stylist Kate Schelter, Luigi Tadini, Jennifer Missoni and Brooke Geahan among them.

The launch party invitation was printed on the inside of an over-sized matchbook-an indiscreet move that, strangely, manages to covey the club's shhhh-this-isn't-for-just-anyone vibe. It was sent to some 500 people, which comprise a mix of club ambassadors, founding members, press and "friends" (very, very good ones, apparently). The evening's host and the founder of the Supper Club in London and New York is someone called Tamsin Lonsdale, who is apparently "London Society's best-kept secret," according to her publicist.

From the release:

The Supper Club is an exclusive membership-only social and dining club in one, which hosts events at the newest and most alluring establishments throughout New York City. Founded by London Society's best-kept secret, Tamsin Lonsdale in 2005, this club with its unique mix influential artists, entertainers, socialites, and entrepreneurs, imports her taste for fetching cuisine and company to Manhattan's dining scene in October 2007. Once accepted, new members immediately have access to everything from small intimate dinners to large parties and unique events at New York's new hot spots and established venues. When not at an event, members can log in to the "members-only" part of The Supper Club's website to see more about or contact other members in both London and New York. Members will also enjoy exclusive preferential treatment and price breaks on hotels, activities and airfare with Supper Club New York's exclusive partner pairings.