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Ruth Rogers revolutionised London\u2019s food scene with The River Cafe, so it\u2019s no surprise the kitchen is at the heart of her home\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_02_020-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_02_020-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Dress, \u00a31,750, The Row; shoes and all jewellery worn throughout, Ruth\u2019s own<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n ‘My advice would be to have two dishwashers. Because you can use one as a cupboard. Otherwise, you\u2019re always, always emptying the dishwasher,\u2019 says Ruth Rogers, chef and podcaster. It\u2019s sage counsel from the 75-year-old, who has spent four decades running service at The River Cafe, the Michelin-starred restaurant she co-founded with the late Rose Gray in 1987. Her kitchen at home \u2013 one sink, four burners, two ovens, no extractor fan \u2013 is otherwise decidedly minimal, encased in floor-to-ceiling stainless steel. \u2018When someone walks into The River Cafe, they are surprised we have a kitchen as small as we do to feed so many people. We\u2019ve always worked on a less-is-more idea \u2013 this is kind of extreme though,\u2019 she laughs. \u2018I do cook here, but the temptation is always to go to the restaurant.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Located in London\u2019s Chelsea, the strikingly modernist property \u2013 a cavernous space that belies its central London postcode \u2013 was conceived by her late husband, the Pritzker Prize-winning British architect Richard Rogers. Fresh from designing the Pompidou Centre with Renzo Piano in Paris, the couple moved to London in 1983 when Richard embarked on a two-year reconstruction, which involved knocking down a party wall separating two 19th-century dilapidated townhouses. \u2018We knew we wanted to live in a lateral way as that\u2019s how we had lived in Paris \u2013 we wanted to live on one floor,\u2019 she recalls. \u2018When we saw these two houses for sale, we thought we would be able to combine them together to have the space and light we were looking for.\u2019 Renowned for his \u2018inside out\u2019 work, meaning pipework, elevators and structural members are left exposed rather than concealed, Richard went on to create an industrial, architectural feat \u2013 somewhere the chef, who goes by Ruthie, a native New Yorker, has called home for the past 40 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_167-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_167-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Main living room [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Thanks to 13 large windows (\u2018they can see our Warhol from the street!\u2019 she laughs, referring to a set of nine Andy Warhol Mao<\/i> works that hang above the sofa), the 21-foot-high open space, which houses the open-plan kitchen, seating and dining area, is continuously flooded with light. \u2018It\u2019s a space where you can have 300 people or three people,\u2019 she says of the communal \u2018piazza\u2019. \u2018We\u2019ve hosted a lot of parties here.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n While she\u2019s too discreet to name names, Rogers\u2019 eclectic social network can\u2019t help but come up in conversation \u2013 from recording one of her podcasts with \u2018my friend Jake Gyllenhaal\u2019 to the time Valentino Garavani called her while she was getting her ears pierced to ask for a reservation. It\u2019s a similar story at The River Cafe, where everyone from Tracey Emin to Kim Kardashian has dined in the Hammersmith institution. Many of the restaurant\u2019s eclectic cast of visitors \u2013 a long-standing amalgamation of artists, actors, foodies and media magnates \u2013 have become the subject of said podcast, Ruthie\u2019s Table 4, now in its third season. \u2018We always have so many guests in town to promote their movie or play or book, so the idea is for them to read a recipe and talk about their life through food, their food memories,\u2019 she explains. The first episode launched with film-maker Wes Anderson, before the likes of Al Gore, David Beckham, Carey Mulligan and Michael Caine (\u2018he talked about the war, rationing and his love for caviar\u2019) took a seat at Ruthie\u2019s table. \u2018What I\u2019ve learned is that most people did not grow up entitled, so their journey with food has been parallel with their working hard,\u2019 she says. \u2018If I wanted to talk to Paul McCartney about The Beatles, he wouldn\u2019t do it, but everyone wants to talk about food,\u2019 she says.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_01_029-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_01_029-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Dress, \u00a314,500, and jumper, \u00a31,610, both Miu Miu<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_033-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_033-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Punch Bag [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_01_066-4-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_01_066-4″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Matching Mugs<\/b><\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Rogers likes to talk food too. Her mouth-watering list of cupboard essentials \u2013 a tomato sauce, mozzarella, salted anchovies, olive oil, basil \u2013 is reassuringly simple. And exactly what you\u2019d expect from the woman who brought seasonal Italian cooking to London, launching the career of Jamie Oliver along the way. Does she have a go-to dish when guests are over? \u2018I have a rule. The more elegant the evening and the more posh the people, the more simple I make the food. I always have tomato sauce, I always have tomato pasta,\u2019 she says.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_04_076-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_04_076-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Shirt, \u00a31,250, and skirt, \u00a31,080, both Prada<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n The restaurant never sits still and neither does Rogers \u2013 in the 24 hours since stepping off a transatlantic flight she\u2019s recorded two podcasts, done a photo shoot and will head to the restaurant later (Rogers can be found at the restaurant most days, and refers to her River Cafe team \u2013 including the executive chefs Sian Wyn Owen and Joseph Trivelli, and managers Vashti Armit and Charles Pullan \u2013 as family). Such scheduling requires militant organisation, not dissimilar to running a kitchen \u2013 her neon pink iPhone, which continuously buzzes throughout the day, is never too far from reach.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_208-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_208-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Bedroom<\/b><\/span> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n A quick scan of the clothing rail for our photo shoot quickly eradicates most looks \u2013 \u2018I don\u2019t wear black\u2019 \u2013 before yielding a polite request to phone The Row\u2019s Mayfair store, where she is a regular customer. (Rogers also religiously wears Phoebe Philo and loves Erdem.) Fresh flowers are brought in, knick-knacks are arranged and rearranged, while Rogers pores over each picture, pointing out a small detail here or a wrinkle there. If chefs are known for being obsessive, Roger\u2019s fixation is colour \u2013 as well as curating the insides of her kitchen cupboard to look just so, she keeps a bright orange Compton bike downstairs \u2013 not because she uses it, but because of how it looks against the navy blue steel beam. In-between photographs she takes multiple calls from HQ to discuss her newest venture \u2013 The River Cafe Cafe. The sibling restaurant, set to open in June, will be a stone\u2019s throw from the original location. \u2018It\u2019s a place where you can have a pre-dinner drink before coming to the restaurant or, if you don\u2019t want to spend the money at The River Cafe, you can have a little meal over there. It\u2019ll be small plates \u2013 bruschetta, mozzarella, fried zucchini flowers in the summer,\u2019 she says proudly, showing me the new logo on her phone. \u2018It\u2019s the first thing The River Cafe has done other than be The River Cafe, so it\u2019s exciting. And then there\u2019s the new books,\u2019 she says, referring to two upcoming publications \u2013 one related to the podcast and a new edition of The River Cafe<\/i> Cook Book<\/i> pegged for 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_179-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_179-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_242-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_242-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Artwork [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n It\u2019s clear that a sense of community, in both her personal and professional space, is what drives Rogers. Her home and restaurant, both designed by Richard, are extensions of each other, from the open-plan stainless steel kitchen to vivid pops of colour in both. (Book a table for the restaurant\u2019s cobalt blue floor, glossy yellow pass and neon pink wood-fired oven alone \u2013 then stay for a slice of its chocolate nemesis cake.) Her open-plan living space is never without some form of activity \u2013 whether it\u2019s Rogers\u2019 long-standing housekeeper, Luisa, or the grandchildren popping in. \u2018And there\u2019s always someone here fixing something or painting something,\u2019 she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_03_015-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_LOOK_03_015-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Terrace [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Richard, who passed away in 2021, is never too far from her thoughts, from the personal photographs found throughout the house to the pride in which she speaks about his vision and work that went into creating their home. \u2018In this world of chaos and troubling times, I think food and connection and family and the people we work with are the most important.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n Ruthie\u2019s Table 4 is available to listen on Apple Podcasts. rivercafe.co.uk<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_117-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_117-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/05\/20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_230-2-scaled.jpg” title_text=”20240412_GRAZIA_CASA_RUTHIE_ROGERS_INTERIORS_230-2″ force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-gallery-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Akshar|600|||||||” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n Mezzanine<\/b><\/span>\u00a0 [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n WORDS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Jane McFarland <\/span>PHOTOGRAPHS<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Bob Foster FASHION<\/strong> Henrik Lischke <\/span>Make-up<\/strong>: Sophie Gia @sophiegiamoore. 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<\/b><\/span>A set of nine Andy Warhol Mao<\/i> works hang above a Poliform couch, black Le Corbusier chairs and yellow Charles and Ray Eames Aluminum Group loungers.<\/span><\/p>\n\u2018I have a rule. The more elegant the evening, the more simple I make the food\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/b><\/span>A minimalist gym is found on the mezzanine floor.<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/b><\/span>\u2018We had very aligned tastes. From the minute I met him. He was an architect and I was a graphic designer. We loved bright colours, we loved light, we loved open spaces,\u2019 she says of her late husband, architect Richard Rogers.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/b><\/span>\u2018Richard\u2019s son, Ab, made us this bed. He\u2019s a designer, so when we moved into the house, we said, \u201cOK, you can get one room.\u201d He also did the downstairs loo.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/b><\/span>Both Ruthie and Richard were passionate art collectors; their collection includes pieces by Andy Warhol, Philip Guston, who was a friend of Ruthie\u2019s family, and Cy Twombly. Her sister, the artist Susan Elias, has also gifted her many pieces over the years<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/b><\/span>A roof terrace, where Rogers grows herbs, overlooks the Royal Chelsea Hospital. \u2018We\u2019ve always loved the park outside, we loved looking at a masterpiece of architecture \u2013 [John] Soane\u2019s Royal Hospital \u2013 and we loved being on the King\u2019s Road.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span>The mezzanine level, which houses an extensive collection of books and a home office, is connected by a suspended steel staircase, which runs up and down inside the building.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n