Dane Jones Creampie May 2026

Forget the Soho House. The "Dane Jones Residences" are invite-only sanctuaries hidden in plain sight. There’s the one in Tokyo’s Golden Gai, a tiny ramen shop whose back door opens into a karaoke lounge lined with first-edition Murakami novels. There’s the "Reading Room" in London’s Bloomsbury, where members pay £5,000 a year for access to a fireplace, a typewriter, and a strict silence policy. Jones doesn't sell luxury; he sells permission —to be still, to be curious, to be offline.

The room fell silent. And for once, that was the entertainment.

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Jones is famously anti-merch, but he launched "The Essential Line" in 2023. It consists of exactly five items: a wool blanket made by a single weaver in the Outer Hebrides, a ceramic pour-over coffee dripper that takes seven minutes to drain, a journal with no lines, a fountain pen that uses ink made from walnut shells, and a candle that smells of wet earth after a thunderstorm. Each item costs $347—a number Jones chose because it’s "the average price of a therapist copay, and this is cheaper." Every product sells out within an hour.

In the sprawling, sun-baked hills of Los Angeles, where dreams are manufactured and discarded with equal speed, one name has quietly become synonymous with a new kind of cool: Dane Jones. Not a celebrity chef, a film star, or a tech mogul, Jones is something far rarer in the modern era—a curator of a feeling. Forget the Soho House

As for Jones himself, he lives in a rented bungalow in Ojai with no TV and a single landline phone. He takes meetings only while walking. He has never owned a smartphone. And when asked at a recent press conference what the future holds, he smiled, held up his walnut-ink pen, and said: "A better question is—what do you want to stop doing?"

This is where Jones disrupted the industry. Instead of funding blockbusters, his entertainment arm produces "micro-moments." A 15-minute play performed in a laundromat at 2 AM. A concert by a masked violinist on a moving subway car in Berlin, live-streamed once, then erased. Last year, his flagship project, The Forgetters , won a surprise Oscar for Best Documentary Short. It was a 22-minute film about a man who repairs antique music boxes in Venice. There were no explosions, no villains—just the sound of tiny gears clicking into place. Critics called it "revolutionary in its quietness." There’s the "Reading Room" in London’s Bloomsbury, where

The brand's first pivot was accidental. Jones began hosting "silent dinners" in an abandoned downtown warehouse—no phones, no social media check-ins, just 20 strangers eating a seven-course meal by candlelight. The only entertainment was a single jazz pianist in the corner. The events sold out in four minutes.