Patrick Mavros & Patrick Mavros Jnr Invite You to London this Festive Season
Family | November 2026
There is a particular kind of anticipation that gathers around Christmas Safari at our Fulham Road boutique, when the windows glow and friends begin to arrive from near and far. This year, from Wednesday 11th to Saturday 14th November, between 11am and 6pm, the Mavros family will be in London, and the days will come with something extra: wildlife stories told first-hand, by the people who have lived them.
Patrick Snr has spent a lifetime in the company of snakes, and he tells their stories with the ease of someone describing old neighbours. Pythons shared the family farm in Zimbabwe, where his sons grew up alongside them, and where he once fashioned an anti-python helmet from a soup ladle to protect a much-loved dachshund. He is looking forward to sharing tales of Africa and the wild encounters that shaped them, particularly with younger visitors, whose questions and curiosity make the best audience a storyteller could hope for.
Patrick Jnr’s fascination with snakes began as a child, when he experienced the capture and relocation of a python on the family farm, and it has stayed with him ever since. That early curiosity now takes shape in the Snake Collection, which he has designed in sterling silver and 18ct gold, with finely detailed scales and vivid green tsavorite eyes. At the Christmas Safari he is looking forward to presenting the collection in person, and to talking guests through the wildlife that inspired each piece.
Father and son share a way of looking at the natural world: closely, and with a storyteller’s instinct for the detail that makes a creature memorable. It lives in the wild landscape where the Mavros sons grew up, and in the studio, where lost-wax casting turns careful observation into silver. It is a shared appreciation of nature's beauty, storytelling and craftsmanship that the family hopes to pass on.
A Family Tradition of Welcome
1983: The first studio opens in the family garden.
2004: The Fulham Road flagship opens.
Annual: Christmas Safari brings festive magic.
Families are warmly invited to come together at Fulham Road. They can listen to Patrick Snr’s stories, learn about the snakes that share Africa’s rivers, grasslands and farms, and meet the family who have lived alongside them. For many guests, it may be a first glimpse of the wild told by someone who has lived it.
Did you know?
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A snake’s flickering tongue gathers scent particles, which an organ in the roof of its mouth then analyses.
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Snakes have no eyelids; a clear, fixed scale protects each eye, which is why they appear to stare.
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Snakes lack external ears, yet sense vibrations travelling through the ground, which they pick up through their jawbones.
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Flexible ligaments let a snake open its jaws wide enough to swallow prey considerably larger than its own head.
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Snakes are found on every continent except Antarctica, from rainforests and deserts to oceans, mountains and suburban gardens.
We would love for you to join the family at Fulham Road this Christmas, whether to hear a story, meet the new Snake Collection or simply to enjoy a festive afternoon among friends. Come with your families, your curiosity and your own wildlife tales, and we will be there to welcome you.