RESIDENCE & ESTATES
SHH DESIGNS LUXURY
MAYFAIR RESIDENCE
WITH A CONTEMPORARY TWIST
The Grande House is a unique, new-build black-fronted house The interior design also took design cues from the surrounding area,
designed by luxury architecture and interior design practice, SHH. but with contemporary touches throughout. SHH took classical
Situated on Park Place, a cul-de-sac in the heart of the St James’s cornices, skirtings, mouldings and doors, and designed modern
Conservation Area in Mayfair, London, the 8,500 sq ft townhouse bespoke versions that worked as a system throughout the home. As
seamlessly blends contemporary design and luxurious materials you move through the house to the various zones within, the level of
with heritage in one of the capital’s most prestigious postcodes. detail increases and decreases as required.
SHH’s brief was to design a contemporary single-family residence The elongated footprint of the house features a stunning staircase
of the highest possible standard to replace an existing office at its core which sweeps through the upper five levels from the main
building, which was built in the 1960s and was unsympathetic to its reception on the ground floor. The design intent was to keep the
surroundings. The area’s mixed and eclectic architecture informed core darker with larger light filled rooms to either side. The master
the design approach, resulting in the proportions of the house being suite occupies an entire floor with two dressing rooms and separate
brought back in line with the rest of the street. The striking façade is en-suite bathrooms.
finished with black brick and granite and includes a double-storey
modern interpretation of an oriel bay window at first and second
floor levels, partly fronted by a metalwork screen.
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The Art of Luxury
Issue 43 2020