'Home House' Phase 2

In 1999 we carried out the conversion of the former Courtauld Institute in Portman Square, London W1 to provide the private members’ club ‘Home House’, which has become both fashionable and successful.  This included the famous town house of the same name originally designed by Robert Adam.

 

We have just completed the extension of the club into the adjoining No. 21, whose external fabric we had earlier overhauled, so that it now occupies all the surviving Georgian houses in the square and the mews cottages to their rear.

 

This Grade 1 Listed house, originally designed by James Wyatt in the 1780s, has been reworked comprehensively internally to provide gym and spa facilities in the basement, reception rooms and catering facilities on the ground and first floors and residential suites and offices and conference facilities on the second and third floors respectively.

 

Whereas, in the earlier phase the emphasis was on authentic décor and furnishing ‘of the period’, in this phase we were requested to ‘do a modern take’ on the classical original.  An even greater departure has been the incorporation of a bar and other fittings designed by Zaha Hadid, around the entrance area.