Location: Regents Park, London

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This house was a wonderful Regency style property in the heart of the Crown Estate in Regents Park. It was unmodernised when our clients purchased it and they wanted us to create a family home with flexible entertaining space with thought to the extensive modern art collection they have curated over many years.

Working alongside Catherine Pawson we reinvented the space internally – moving the kitchen to the heart of the house on the ground floor instead of the basement was our first design concept and this enable us to create a large open plan kitchen with central bar area and the perfect place for a vintage retro 60’s pendant light sourced at Alfie’s Antique market.

The kitchen had a prep area, small terrace and banquet seating for informal family gatherings.

The house needed full modernisation and we worked closely with the contractors Boldfort throughout the works to a turn key completion.

The largest room in the house was created by removing the floors between two rooms and this created a double height drawing room with a contemporary fireplace, large windows and walls for displaying the contemporary artworks and sculptures. We continued the retro theme by using leather upholstered sofas and creating a comfortable social space to entertain. This room lead into a large dining room where we reinstated a traditional marble fireplace and an overhead existing skylight was restored. A large extending dining table was place centrally and this can be adapted to a variety of different seating arrangements for the client.

The original stone staircase was fully restored and leads to the master bedroom floor where we created full height storage cupboards and elegant window dressings for the Georgian floor to ceiling windows. We also created from an adjacent room a wonderful marble master bathroom with free standing bath and restored fireplace which was the focal point of this wonderful eclectic room.