Soho House (club)

Soho House & Co Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: SHCO
Founded1995 (1995)
FounderNick Jones
Headquarters72–74 Dean Street, Soho London, England
Number of locations
  • 42 Houses (2024)[1]
  • 75 total sites (2022)[2]
Key people
Andrew Carnie (CEO)[2]
RevenueIncrease US$1.14 billion[3] (2023)
Negative increase US$−20 million[3] (2023)
Negative increase US$−118 million[3] (2023)
Total assetsIncrease US$2.54 billion[3] (2023)
Total equityDecrease US$−158 million[3] (2023)
OwnerRon Burkle
Members193,900[3] (2023)
Number of employees
7,852[3] (2024)
Websitesohohouse.com

Soho House is an international private members’ club with a focus on the media, arts and fashion industries.[4][5] Membership is highly selective and primarily drawn from these fields.[6]

The company operates clubs, hotels, restaurants and other venues. In 2015, it changed its name from SOHO House Group to Soho House & Co.[7] The original location is at 40 Greek Street, Soho, London, England. As of March 2024, Soho House operated 42 club locations worldwide, with plans to open more.[8][1]

History and ownership

The rooftop bar of Soho House in New York City

Soho House was started by restaurateur Nick Jones in 1995 on London's Greek Street above his restaurant, Café Bohème.[9] In 2008, Jones sold 80% of the club for £105 million to British businessman Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings.[10][11]

On 13 January 2012, the Financial Times announced that 60% of Soho House Group had been acquired by the US billionaire Ron Burkle, through his investment fund Yucaipa in a £250 million deal, with Jones retaining 10% and Caring 30%. In September 2015, the company’s high leverage and limited free cash flow was under scrutiny by fixed income investors.[12][7][13] However, company profit potential was affected by growth in new clubs.[14]

In 2019, Soho House acquired Scorpios, a beach club compound on a 650 m2 (7,000 sq ft) peninsula in southern Mykonos.[15]

The company filed for an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2021, and went public in July 2021, trading under the name Membership Collective Group.[16] From then on, Jones owned just under 6% of the shares, alongside Caring (20%) and Burkle (42.5%).[17] The IPO raised $470 million, allowing the company to reduce some of its debt burden.[18] The organization will use the money raised to pay down debt and finance further expansion.[16]

In November 2022, Jones stepped down from day-to-day running of the business, citing a recent cancer diagnosis and recovery, and appointed Andrew Carnie as CEO.[19] On March 20, 2023 Membership Collective Group became Soho House & Company. Their stock symbol changed from MCG to SHCO.[20]

As of 2024, Soho House had never made a profit; pre-tax losses for 2024 were forecast to be about US$73 million.[8] Within less than three years after listing, the company started exploring the idea of going private as it struggled to turn a profit despite growth in membership and revenue.[21] In August 2025, it publicly announced plans to go private in a $2.7 billion deal led by New York-based MCR Hotels.[22][23]

Membership

Soho House membership policies are said to focus on creativity "above net worth and job titles" with "studied resistance to ostentation...[and] cultivated status signifiers," and favour moral values over financial success ("several execs were banned because they were thought to be abusive to their assistants").[5]

In June 2015, Soho House had over 50,000 members and a global waiting list of over 30,000.[13] In July 2021, Soho House had 119,000 members across 27 houses in 10 countries.[24]

Locations

List of current and planned Houses is maintained on the Soho House Web site.[1]

Europe/Middle East
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Netherlands Netherlands
Greece Greece Mykonos
  • Soho Roc House (since 2020)[29]
Spain Spain
Turkey Turkey
Italy Italy
Sweden Sweden
Israel Israel
France France
Denmark Denmark
Germany Germany
North America
Soho House in Toronto
Canada Canada
Mexico Mexico
United States United States
Caribbean
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
South America
Brazil Brazil
Asia
Hong Kong Hong Kong
India India
Thailand Thailand

Activities

On 13 August 2017, the film Tulip Fever (starring Alicia Vikander) was first screened at London's Soho House.[40]

Incidents and controversies

In 2002, the London branch of the club made headlines as Iris Law, the two-year-old toddler of Jude Law and Sadie Frost, was briefly hospitalised but ultimately unharmed after swallowing part of an ecstasy tablet she had found on the floor of Soho House while attending a children's birthday party.[41]

In 2009, more than eighty residents signed an appeal by a neighbourhood association against allowing Soho House to move into the top two floors of Luckman Plaza in West Hollywood, near Los Angeles, US. The opening of the West Hollywood location also drew opposition from Beverly Hills Mayor Nancy Krasne.[42]

On 9 December 2010, American swimsuit designer Sylvie Cachay was found murdered in room 20 of the Manhattan branch.[43] Nicholas Brooks, her boyfriend of six months, was convicted of her second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment.[44]

In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, an attempt to open a new club also met protest,[45] but an Amsterdam House nonetheless opened in August 2018.[46]

In April 2021, Bottega Veneta was criticised for holding maskless indoor dance parties at Berlin's Soho House for artists and celebrities flown in from around the world during a citywide lockdown imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[47] .[48] Though Soho House staff complained about the lack of safety measures and regulatory guidelines,[48] management said nothing and implied that staff were not telling the truth.[49] While the company claimed that what happened was "spontaneous," Berlin's Soho House staff said that the party spaces had been booked in advance.[49][50] Club members made their dissatisfaction and disappointment known, with some considering ending their membership; police investigated.[50]

Soho House London is mentioned briefly in The Holiday by Jasper (Rufus Sewell).[51] Soho House New York was featured in season 6 of the TV series Sex and the City in an episode titled "Boy Interrupted". In this episode, Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) pretends to be a member by using a stolen membership card.[52]

In 2022, Soho House was mentioned in the Netflix drama Inventing Anna, where the main character, con artist Anna Delvey, when asked if she was rejected by Soho House in episode two, she replied: "I’d rather hang out at a McDonald's or start my own club and reject their members."[53]

Soho House on 76 Dean Street was used as a location in the 2024 crime novel Crooked Was His Cane, the nineteenth DCI Declan Walsh novel written by Jack Gatland; the pen name of New York Times #1 Bestseller Tony Lee. In it, DI Anjli Kapoor meets with Billionaire tech entrepreneur Eden Storm, who comments during the meeting "Soho House has a rule that only three guests can come in at any time with a member. I told them if they didn't give me four, I would have to buy the building and evict them." Tony Lee has been an "Everyhouse" member of Soho House since 2014.[54]

Soho Home

In 2016, the club launched a 'modern interiors brand designed for relaxed, sociable living', called Soho Home.[55] The brand's flagship store located in Duke of York Square in Chelsea opened in 2021.[56]

In April 2025, Soho House accused Next of copyright and design right infringements over selling furniture that “closely resembled” that of Soho Home.[57]

Further reading

  • Eat, Drink, Nap: Bringing the House Home. London: Preface Publishing. 2014. ISBN 978-1848094116.
  • Morning, Noon, Night: A Way of Living. London: Preface Publishing. 2016. ISBN 978-1848094116.
  • Thévoz, Seth Alexander (2022). Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs. London: Robinson/Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-47214-646-5.

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