SOHO HOUSE NASHVILLE

Remember the Sex & The City episode (Season 6, Episode 10, Boy Interrupted) where Samantha Jones pretends to be a member (Annabelle Bronstein to be precise) of an exclusive social club to gain access to it’s fabulous pool? That social club was Soho House. To be more precise, Soho House is a private members’ club. Its original members were drawn from the arts, politics and media. It is exclusive and extremely selective, and its current membership is said to mainly draw from those in the media, arts and fashion. Soho House also has an undeniable cool factor. On Tuesday the 22nd, Soho House opened its Nashville location.

Located in the former May Hosiery Building at 500 Houston Street in WeHo, that’s Wedgewood Houston not West Hollywood. The house features a club room, a Club Cecconi dining room (the first in-house Cecconi’s restaurant featuring a rotating menu of the restaurant’s best-known dishes), a ground-floor 75-by-24-foot pool with access to outdoor bar/restaurant and sun loungers, Soho Health Club (gym plus a sauna, steam room, and yoga terrace), cinema/screening room and an entertainment/music room, the Sock Room, an homage to the sock factory that made socks for astronauts who went to the moon. The Sock Room is an indoor/outdoor space that has two stages and a bar. The house has 47 bedrooms (hotel rooms) available to members and non-members alike and The Alley, the hotel lobby that features a barista station that is also open to the public.

Writer Osman Can Yerebakann interviews supermodel, activist, singer-songwriter and Nashville resident, Karen Elson for Soho House’s February issue. To read and watch the full feature – Soho House | Supermodel Karen Elson wakes up at our new House

Nashville’s WeHo neighborhood has develop into an arts districts boasting about a dozen art galleries, including David Lusk Gallery and Zeitgiest. They host an art crawl the first Saturday of each month, the WeHo Art Crawl. Soho House Nashville is said to have one of Tennessee’s largest local contemporary art collections. The art has been curated from 41 Tennessee artists — including Yanira Vissepo, Noah Saterstrom, Vesna Pavlovic, Beizar Aradini, Willie Stewart, Vadis Turner, and Eden Anyabwile. Artwork is said to be displayed creatively in unexpected locations – tucked in a stairwell or on a health club wall.