“This is where I became a man 44 years ago!” Negotiations for entry are underway – we are off to find a sheik at a restaurant to seek permission to film inside the mosque. Many phone calls are being fired off in the Somine Restaurant on the corner of Crossway and Kingsland High Street. The […]
On the way to an old synagogue in Stoke Newington, one which has been converted into a mosque. Tony spent a lot of time with his grandparents just round the corner from this building. His grandfather, Isaac Cross, was a runner for him. “I was born into an orthodox family who came from eastern Europe […]
Outside the old Middlesex Hospital, a Rolls Royce goes past. “Get one of these,” calls Tony to Felix Dennis’s chauffeur, pointing at the fleet of Cubes. The chauffeur’s not impressed. “I’ve outlived a building,” says Tony. “I don’t know where it went. We should have started here. But now we’ve seen where I was born […]
One of my friends, the filmmaker Tony Kaye, is in London this week to launch a series of Design Inspiration events at The Cube Store, a unique, pop-up destination and creative forum in Brick Lane set up to celebrate the launch of one of Japan’s greatest design icons, the Nissan Cube. To celebrate Tony’s arrival […]
The journey begins in a fleet of Nissan Cubes. We’ve arrived at The Basil Street Practice at 9.15 to put into practice the day’s theme: Tony Kaye’s journey to immortality. Kaye insists that he is overly cautious, so a visit to a doctor in Knightsbridge is a thematic essential – added to that, Kaye has […]