New York’s most iconic club, The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, maintains its top-ranking status thanks to an Aussie. Managing Director Marlene Poynder hails from Perth.

New York’s icon, The Carlyle, a Rosewood Hotel, is so called because when it was being built, in 1930, Diana Ginsberg Jaffe, daughter of the developer, Moses Ginsberg, was reading all-round British brain, Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881. (Interestingly, Carlyle’s best-known work, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, is just as relevant today – and, inter alia, he inspired the mathematical term ‘Carlyle Circle’, which surely would make a great name for a loyalty following.)