Patricia, with a paintbrush that folds in half
A novel from Curzon Street, a drink in the Library Bar, and a small painting of your view.
- Age
- 28
- Height
- 172 cm
- Hair
- long auburn brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Build
- slim
- Languages
- English
- Based in
- Belgravia
- Visits
- Hotels and residences
Her own photos, matched to her in person before they went up. Photo Policy
On Patricia
- Belgravia, SW1X
- Watercolours, film noir, bookshops
- Slim, 172 cm
- Brown eyes, long auburn brown hair
Based in Belgravia, and happy to travel to any hotel in town.
Patricia carries a small tin of watercolours the way other people carry a phone charger, together with a brush that folds in half. In a hotel room with a good window she will sometimes paint the view while you finish a call, a few quick washes of roof and sky, and leave it on the desk as a souvenir. It is typical of her: gentle, attentive and romantic in the old fashioned sense, thoughtful about small things.
Slim and 172 cm tall, she wears her long auburn brown hair loose or pinned up with whatever is to hand, and her brown eyes are soft and amused. The wardrobe is bohemian, flowing dresses, a long cardigan, a scarf that has travelled. She is in her late twenties, loves film noir for its rain and shadows and impossible dialogue, and spends too much of her free time in bookshops. Her English is gentle and well chosen.
Heywood Hill on Curzon Street is where her favourite evening begins, a Mayfair bookshop with creaking floors where she will find you a novel you did not know you wanted. Then a short walk to Hyde Park Corner and the Library Bar at The Lanesborough, all leather and lamplight, where she orders an old fashioned and asks about the last book that kept you up at night. She listens beautifully, and she remembers.
Patricia lives in Belgravia, a few minutes from The Lanesborough and the hotels around Hyde Park Corner. Calm evenings suit her best, asked for a day or two ahead; describe the evening you picture to Henrietta.
Patricia, after hours
She chooses the hour before closing at Heywood Hill, when the shop is quiet and the floorboards creak under every step. Patricia asks three questions about what you like to read, disappears between the shelves and comes back with a novel and a small, pleased smile. Then down Park Lane in the dusk to The Lanesborough, where the Library Bar has deep chairs and walls of old books. She orders an old fashioned and talks about a film in which it rains in every single scene. Later, in your room, she opens her tin of paints at the desk and paints the view from your window in five minutes flat: a rooftop, a streetlamp, a patch of night sky. She signs it with one initial and leaves it for you.
Patricia, answering
3 things guests tend to ask before booking, answered in Patricia's own words.
Because nobody in those films ever says what they mean, and the rain does half the acting. Watch one late with the lights off, then tell me who you trusted.
If there is a window and five spare minutes, yes. It will not be a masterpiece, but it will be the only painting of that night anywhere in the world.
A good bar with soft chairs, one drink each, and a conversation about the books that changed our minds.
Hours and rates
Patricia likes a day or two to plan an evening. Four hours, the £900 dinner date, is enough for a bookshop, a drink and dinner with no one glancing at a watch.
Whichever length you pick, you settle the figure with Patricia face to face once she is with you. Her taxi to a Zone 1 or Zone 2 address is already priced in.
Platforms near her base- VictoriaCircle, District, Victoria, National Rail5min
- Sloane SquareCircle, District6min
- Hyde Park CornerPiccadilly7min
Notes on Patricia
No notes on file for Patricia yet, and the desk will never invent one. Guests add a note only once a booking has actually taken place; it shows nothing but their first name and when it was written, and Henrietta reads every one before it is posted.
Should Patricia want a note about her withdrawn, it comes down the same day.
Also on the rota
Book Patricia
The message opens with Patricia already named. Add the date, the length and your hotel, and the desk sends back the minute she will knock.