The Musical Nights at Baker Street

Where creativity, candlelight, and chords intertwined

During the day, 30 Baker Street buzzed quietly with creativity - silks were sorted, sketches refined, and fabrics lovingly handled. But as evening fell, the atmosphere gently shifted from artistic focus to musical magic.

This was a salon in the most authentic sense: candlelight flickered across brocade curtains, laughter echoed softly up the staircases, and music gently filled the rooms upstairs.

The Davenport Brothers' Salon

Upstairs lived the Davenport brothers, accomplished musicians and Watts shareholders, whose apartment transformed nightly into an intimate gathering place. As daylight faded, friends and guests arrived, settling among velvet furnishings and ornate passementerie. Then, the music began...

These evenings were never formal performances. Instead, they were relaxed, lively meetings - a flowing exchange of ideas, melodies, and inspiration. Surrounded by unfinished designs, rolls of patterned paper, and intricately embroidered altar frontals, the guests listened to violins blending effortlessly with their conversations. Decisions about fabric colours might well have been influenced mid-sonata, or discussions on wallpaper motifs gently debated over another glass of claret.

Design as Performance

Watts has always embraced theatricality - the luxurious materials, bold patterns, and window displays that seem like stage sets. It makes perfect sense, then, that music felt entirely at home within its walls.

These musical gatherings weren’t just entertainment. They became part of Watts’ creative heartbeat - a vibrant reminder that design isn’t crafted in silence but emerges from a place of tone, rhythm, and feeling.

Who knows? Perhaps some of our most cherished copes or curtain designs were inspired by the graceful notes of a nocturne played long ago.