fabric

fabric occupies the cellars of the Metropolitan Cold Stores on Charterhouse Street, directly opposite Smithfield Market, in a run of Victorian brick vaulting built alongside Holborn Viaduct. It opened in October 1999. Twenty-five thousand square feet sit below the pavement: three rooms of exposed brick and raw concrete, five fully serviced bars, a green room, and a low-lit lounge the club calls the Cave.

The building hires whole or in parts, from a hundred guests to fifteen hundred. Room 1 takes a thousand and keeps the Bodykinetic dancefloor the club is known for, a floor mounted on bass transducers so the low end arrives through the feet. Room 2 and its Sunken Bar hold five hundred beneath a barrel-vaulted ceiling. Room 3, the smallest at a hundred and fifty, runs through a series of brick arches to its own bar. Rooms 2 and 3 were rebuilt acoustically in 2026, each system co-designed in-house for the shape and materials of the room it sits in.

Regular nights run to 6am on Fridays and Saturdays and the club publishes a 24-hour licence seven days a week, which is what makes the building usable for the formats a hotel ballroom cannot take: brand activations, fashion and press evenings, film and photography shoots, industry parties. A club-grade in-house sound system, a permanent DJ booth in every room and a moving-head lighting rig are already installed, so nothing has to be trucked in.