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Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Raised in the hospitality traditions of the American South and shaped across global creative communities, he has spent decades convening artists, leaders, and strangers into shared spaces — from intimate dinners to international cultural programming.
As a senior executive for nearly two decades at the covet- ed private members' club Soho House, Chris designed ex- periences for members, shaping how communities gather, connect, and interact.
Global lifestyle brands including LVMH, Vitra and Mr. Porter have engaged him to create distinctive gatherings that centre connection rather than spectacle. His writing on social behaviour and modern etiquette has appeared in publications such as Vogue, ICON and House and Leisure.
He is also the host and interior expert on the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) television programmes Queer 4 You and Ganz Schön Berlin. He speaks internationally at conferences on culture, connection, and community, and connects with a global audience through his social feeds (@iamchrisglass) (www.linkedin.com/in/chris-glass-29295/).
Having lived and worked across the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa, Chris has developed a deep sensitivity to the unspoken cues that distinguish showing up from show- ing out — a lived fluency that allows him to move across cultures with ease, awareness, and respect.
Guesting translates Chris's experience into a practical phi- losophy for modern life, offering readers a more intentional way to participate in shared space.
Represented By: Sharmaine Lovegrove
Raised in the hospitality traditions of the American South and shaped across global creative communities, he has spent decades convening artists, leaders, and strangers into shared spaces — from intimate dinners to international cultural programming.
As a senior executive for nearly two decades at the covet- ed private members' club Soho House, Chris designed ex- periences for members, shaping how communities gather, connect, and interact.
Global lifestyle brands including LVMH, Vitra and Mr. Porter have engaged him to create distinctive gatherings that centre connection rather than spectacle. His writing on social behaviour and modern etiquette has appeared in publications such as Vogue, ICON and House and Leisure.
He is also the host and interior expert on the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) television programmes Queer 4 You and Ganz Schön Berlin. He speaks internationally at conferences on culture, connection, and community, and connects with a global audience through his social feeds (@iamchrisglass) (www.linkedin.com/in/chris-glass-29295/).
Having lived and worked across the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa, Chris has developed a deep sensitivity to the unspoken cues that distinguish showing up from show- ing out — a lived fluency that allows him to move across cultures with ease, awareness, and respect.
Guesting translates Chris's experience into a practical phi- losophy for modern life, offering readers a more intentional way to participate in shared space.
Author: Chris Glass
Genre: Lifestyle
We have spent generations teaching people how to host. Nobody has taught them how to be hosted.
Chris Glass has spent two decades shaping how people gather at Soho House, the global members' club, while entertaining across six continents. He has watched one truth play out everywhere: one person can warm a room or rescue a silence. One can quietly ruin it. It is the guest, not the host, who decides whether an evening comes alive.
Guesting gives the invited their due, reconsidering the rules we thought we knew: how swiftly to RSVP, why you never arrive with flowers, how to leave unnoticed, and what it means to move thoughtfully through the world.
For readers of Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, Kate Fox's Watching the English, Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic and Alison Roman's Nothing Fancy.