Pavilion is a British business members' club co-founded by the UK property entrepreneur

Jon Hunt Jonathan Michael Hunt (born June 1953), is a British billionaire property entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder of UK estate agency Foxtons, and is more recently known as the founder of Pavilion, the business members club chain. He has ...

and his daughter Emma. It opened under the name "Dryland" on London's

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at the end of 2011, offering work space.

History

Media coverage of Pavilion's launch centred on the firm being one of the first public projects for Jon Hunt following his sale of

Foxtons Foxtons Group plc is a British estate agency company dealing with both lettings and sales. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. History Foxtons was founded by Jon Hunt in 1981 in Notting Hill, London, as a two-person estate agency. 200 ...

in a May 2007 deal that made him one of the wealthiest people in the UK. Hunt has said that he originally entered the serviced office business only by accident, after buying a 1970s office building in London's

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district that he intended to convert into residential homes, only for planning officials to refuse permission for residential use.

Concept

Pavilion claims to be the first "premium offering" in the serviced offices sector, providing members with private dining by in-house chefs and a concierge service. The ''

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'' describes Pavilion as providing "...the atmosphere of a private members club and the hospitality of a five-star hotel." In December 2015 the club launched at its premises ''The Ivy at Pavilion'' brasserie, a sister restaurant to

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Locations

The first Pavilion club opened on

at the end of 2011. The Hunts plan to expand the concept.

References

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