Monday, August 16, 2004
Raising Cain
Nightlife veteran Jamie Mulholland (Lotus, P.M., Quo) is preparing to unleash a brand new nightclub and lounge on Manhattan this fall. Mulholland’s latest venture, Cain, will be located on West 27th Street in West Chelsea, and is set to open the first or second weekend in October. Word is Mulholland’s recruited designer of the moment Robert McKinley (P.M., Table50) to handle the aesthetics detail; according to a press release from Cain’s publicists, the new, destined-to-be-the-next-hottest-spot’s space will “emulate and reflect the sophisticated and cosmopolitan nature” of Mulholland’s native home of Cape Town.
After returning from a countrywide tour of South Africa with McKinley, Mulholland found himself inspired by the urbane nightclubs and restaurants of Cape Town, and decided to launch a club based on the elements of South Africa – one that captured the essence and artistic nature of the Dark Continent. That club is Cain.
Throughout their travels, Mulholland and McKinley collected skins, horns, and beads that will transform the venue into “an escape from reality,” according to the press release. McKinley described the interior as looking like a “YSL Mombasa handbag that you can dance in.” We’ll just have to wait to see what he’s talking about.
The club, which will be a split-level with a maximum occupancy of 400 bodies, has a few celebrity owners as well, “but none that we will discuss,” says Steve Kasuba, Cain’s publicist. He did say that the club will be ultra exclusive, and extremely hard to get into – “The whole venue will be VIP,” he explains.
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