Miu Miu celebrate their new London flagship

Last Friday (3rd) saw the opening of the new London Miu Miu flagship on the corner of Bond Street and Bruton Street. An upgrade not only in terms of square footage (3x the original) but also, without question, in terms of location.
To celebrate the opening, Miuccia Prada hosted a dinner at Lancaster House in St James's. The neoclassical Grade 1-listed building, built for the Duke of York and Albany in 1825, was as suitably dressed for the occasion as the Miu Miu- and Prada-clad guests.
In the main hall as Zaha Hadid, Terry Gilliam, Francesco Vezzoli, Germano Celant, Mr Hudson, Mark Ronson and Nicholas Serota sipped their champagne coupes and nibbled the mushroom vol-au-vents, a pianist mimed Mozart's Sonata in F Major (he had been requested to hit the 'silent mode' pedal) and an actress sat at a games table attempting a large jigsaw - the pattern was a faithful reproduction of the liberty-style flocked wallpaper that clad the Miu Miu store.
Up on the 'piano nobile' (first floor), set designer Martin Childs invaded the state rooms, originally designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Sir Charles Barry and Sir Robert Smirke, with a hand-picked heist of furniture and objects that added a playful yet slightly cryptic bent to the visual impact.
In the Music Room tables were set up for canasta, draughts and chess (antique games also doubled up as table décor) and huge archery targets created a popish backdrop. The Long Room was laid out as a library with one long table seating 90, decked out with writing inks, stamps, quills and ink blots, whilst lampshades had oversized type blotted on them. The State Drawing Room had a decadent oriental feel with terracotta Chinese Army figurines lined up along the dining tables and Chinese antique porcelain birds and furniture decorating the room.
The langoustines, saffron risotto, braised artichokes and spinach flan were prepared by Chicco Cerea, the celebrated chef from Da Vittorio who flew in especially from Bergamo, and served on an eclectic selection of china and specially made placemats, which like some of the terracotta army no doubt made it home in the signature pink Miu Miu bags as 'souvenirs'.
The State Drawing Room of Lancaster House decked out for the dinner with a specially curated terracotta army
The terracotta army on the table in the State Drawing Room
Ana Araujo, Ronnie Wood and Jessica Alba
A card table set up in the Music Room
The poppish target in the Music Room
Lancaster House’s Hall, with the jigsaw puzzle in the Liberty style golden brocade wallpaper from the Miu Miu store
Mark Ronson, Wallpaper’s Nick Vinson and Mr Hudson
A specially printed lamp shade in the Long Room
Francesco Vezzoli & Zaha Hadid
The Long Room table set for 90
Germano Celant
Nicholas Serota
Porcelain birds in the State Drawing Room
Lord Mandelson
Mrs Prada with Jessica Alba
The table setting in the Music Room
A target in the Music Room with a specially made folding screen
A set up in the Long Room
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