Photographs by ROWBEN LANTION
Words by JANE CROWTHER
To usher in the release of the tenth issue of Greg Williams’ Hollywood Authentic magazine, the photographer and filmmaker held a rooftop soiree at the newly opened Chancery Rosewood Hotel in Mayfair where guests drank from Hollywood Authentic-designed glassware in the Eagle Bar, perched on the seventh floor building with views of London. The hotel was the location for Williams’ cover shoot with Dakota Johnson for issue 10 and is the former US embassy in Grosvenor Square. The bar is so named for the gold eagle sculpture by Theodore Roszak that is made from former B-52 bombers and hovers over the edge of the building. As night fell and the skyline twinkled, guests including Sofia Boutella, Hannah Waddingham, André Balasz and Jimmy Napes took in the vistas, the nine Greg Williams prints on permanent exhibition throughout the venue and the themed cocktails dispensed from the bar – one of two which crown the roof.
‘When we first started Hollywood Authentic, we were advised that most new magazines don’t make it past their first issue,’ Williams noted. ‘I’m so proud to prove that statistic wrong with issue 10…’
Photographs by ROWBEN LANTION
Words by JANE CROWTHER
Thanks to the Chancery Rosewood Hotel, Mayfair, London
rosewoodhotels.com/en/the-chancery-rosewood
