Lust is all the better if the host lies down

 
2 September 2013

A bunny at the Playboy Club in the Sixties, Lady Sandra Bates has been hosting parties ever since. So when doctors told Sandra, now an art agent, that she couldn’t attend three nights of private views for new exhibition Lust this week, due to osteomyelitis, she came up with a plan. She has installed a bed in La Galleria in the Pall Mall Gallery, will lie in it and host horizontally. “I was devastated when my consultant told me I should cancel it,” she said, before finding the solution.

“Champagne in bed for three whole days. So decadent, darling! I’ll be like a living, breathing art exhibit. I might even slip into something comfortable.” Bates counts Kate Moss, Stella McCartney and Cilla Black among her devoted clients but expects one companion in particular to be at her side. “I’ll be joined in bed by my chihuahua,” she said.

“He comes everywhere with me.”

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