Project Team
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Boffi, Apparatus, Marset , Kaia, Naturally Wood, Twentytwentyone, The Rug company, Silvera, Frank Landau, CC-Tapis, Pamono, Cappellini, Dedar, Aram, Santa & Cole, Ochre, Living Divani, SCP, 8 Holland Street, Nordic Knots, Kvadrat, Oka, Skandium, Modern ID, Silent Gliss, Dru, Metalfire, Glazing Vision, Little Greene, Dulux, Duarvit, Crosswater, Gerberit, SDS London, Howdens, Hafele, Dometic, Delabie, Vola, Fantini Rubinetti, Agape, Alape, Unidrain, Rexa, Allgood, Joseph Giles, Olivari, Simonswerk, SkyGarden, Summerford Ltd, Rhodium, Forcia, JFAN, Wilder, METSEC, Colt, Essex Ductwork, Chiltern Marble Group, Buth Robinson, Modern Doors, NDM, Premier Engineering, SMET, Glebe Asset Management, Studio Mackereth, Heyne Tillet Steel, Norman Disney Young, EEP, Arup, RBA Acoustics
Text provided by Studio Mackereth
Studio Mackereth have designed a striking new-build art gallery and apartment building on a narrow site opposite Mayfair’s Connaught Hotel. The contemporary design imbues the architecture with a sense of place, introducing a legacy building to the streetscape that takes inspiration from the immediate context and rich heritage of old Mayfair. Internally, each apartment interior is unique, with every item specifically procured for the look and feel of an intelligently curated urban home. This highly bespoke approach to interior design includes a curated selection of books in the library, vintage items as well as state of the art furniture paired with carefully chosen modern artworks.
The original two storey house facing the street was a poorly constructed 1960s infill of little architectural merit and its proportion was out of scale with the rest of the terrace (which was four or five storeys above ground), so the proposed replacement was argued as an important reinstatement of the ‘missing tooth’ in the streetscape. At the rear of the mews house that was demolished lay the largest remaining private garden in old Mayfair, and whilst this land was destined to be developed, the designers persuaded the client to maintain a sculpture garden to act as a draw at the back of the site, a glimpse of greenery visible through the gallery from the street.
