In a Tony London neighborhood,a townhouse stands tall after a gloriously detailed redo
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- 31 Oct 2022
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On a southern crook of London’s Belgravia, people were still sitting on folding chairs in Orange Square in the late afternoon, scraping plates of rabbit in mustard sauce. The long-established bistro that sets out the chairs, La Poule au Pot, sits under the broach spire of St. Barnabas Church and in the shade of two-story-high London plane trees. The scrubbed-doorstep neighborhood is better known for its Regency mansions a short walk north, closer to Hyde Park, but in truth many of the butcher’s-cut houses are here, folded into the short, quiet streets, and a couple of years ago an acquaintance called Veere Grenney to talk about one.
Grenney is an acclaimed, tentpole designer with a playful style (custom chintz sofas, chicken-wire wardrobes, upstairs-downstairs half-glazed doors with curtains, mounted crockery). He came to London by way of New -Zealand, where he was born, and now divides his time between Britain and Morocco, where he has a home in Tangier. The Belgravia residence was an unusual choice for the owner, an American who works in real estate and needed a foothold in the United Kingdom: an early 1980s rebuild of yellow stock brick and rusticated stucco, with Black Hamburg grapevines creeping up the facade. Read More...
