Elite Traveler Spring 2021

INFLUENCE A DAY IN THE LIFE OF... by Orla Pentelow

Martin is a fan of The Fox & Pheasant pub in Chelsea, London

A day in the life of... MartinBrudnizki

The first thing I do is… Depending on where I am, it’s a very different approach. Five days a week I get up at 5:20am. If I’m in London, I’ll get up, have a coffee — espresso, straight up — and head to the gym. But if I’m in the countryside I’ll do other things like gardening and going for walks (I live in a national park so I like to make the most of it). If I’m in the country, I start working straightaway from my laptop in the kitchen or dining room, to check emails from the New York studio coming in throughout the night. Once the inbox is clear, I’ll stop for breakfast around 10am — usually cereal, smoked salmon, scrambled egg and orange juice — and then go into the garden. You can often find me… Between London, my house in the countryside in England, and New York — when things were a bit more 'normal' I would be flying to visit the New York studio for face-to-face meetings on projects all the time. It’s something that I’ve realized from this experience: If you’re going to do business on two different continents, you actually have to travel, and you cannot get away with not doing it. Face-to-face time is everything. Especially when working with very emotive materials, you need to see things, touch them, talk to people. It’s hospitality interiors...you can’t do that on a computer screen. When things were ‘normal’ I would head out for dinner with friends two or three times a week. If I’m in London, I like to head to places like Annabel’s or the creative mind behind Annabel’s in London, The Beekman in New York, and Fortnum&Mason in Hong Kong) he can be found gardening or catching up with friends in some of London’s most high-profile eateries Award-winning interior designer Martin Brudnizki divides his time between London, the English countryside and New York. When he’s not working (he’s

Coast and Positano, so we go back there quite a bit and stay at Le Sirenuse, and every year we go back to Venice around Christmastime and stay at The Gritti or the Danieli. My work is… Really varied. The first thing I do is have another coffee, then sit down with my assistant, and we’ll go through the day to see if there’s anything specific in the diary or things that need to be done. I’m in charge of reviewing everything, so I’m looking at

Scott’s for dinner and drinks, or something more casual like The Fox & Pheasant pub in Chelsea. I love a pub. In New York, my favorite haunts at the moment are the Little Owl and King in the West Village, and La Grenouille in Midtown. In my younger years, I traveled to the Maldives and Asia for long-haul holidays. But as I’ve gotten older, I prefer a shorter travel time. Europe reappeared on my horizon a couple of years ago, and I love going to Greece and Italy because you can explore so many different areas. That being said, I love the Amalfi