Drawing room looking towards the double doors that can be flung open to invite guests into the dining room. The left-hand side cabinet with the wooden sarcophagus is false: the interior is actually part of the kitchen and houses equipment that would have otherwise been impossible to accommodate in the small space. The segmental arches provide a housing for loudspeakers (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

London, UK


The interior of this apartment in an 1850's London house was entirely remodelled to create an interconnecting suite of rooms. The cabinets either side of the central doorway are designed as part of the architectural fabric of the house. The one on the right reconciles an architectural anomaly in the layout of the flat and contains part of the kitchen behind. They both conceal radiators and various audio visual devices.

The library at 50 Belsize Park, looking at the chimney piece. This room retains its original 1850s embellishments, which can be seen on the ceiling. The painting on the opposite wall, seen in the mirror, is a seventeenth-century capriccio of architectural ruins looking through an arch (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

The interior to the drawing room is entirely new, the Victorian chimneypiece and ceiling moldings having been previously removed. The small side tables, the torchieres, the yellow chairs and the wall cabinet are designed by John Simpson. At either side of the chimneypiece hang paintings by Carl Laubin. On the mantelpiece is a limewood model of the market building from Paternoster Square, surmounted by a maquette of a statue of Playfair erected in Glasgow by Alexander Stoddart. While the chimneypiece is marble, the brackets to either side of it are wood, painted to blend in (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

From the curved bay, a Roman statue of a Vestal Virgin watches over the dining table; she holds a model of the Temple of Vesta. The bases for the tripods house radiators and the sconces either side of the window conceal PIR burglar alarm detectors (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

Dining room looking toward the study. The walls were painted in a yellow similar to that used in the drawing room at the Soane Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields in order to brighten up a north facing room. John Soane used to refer to this color as Turner Yellow in deference to the painter who was a friend and a fellow academician at Burlington House (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

The library at Belsize Park showing the half-size billiard table in the foreground and the Piranesi prints either side of the seventeenth-century capriccio above the sofa. The lamps are made from wood that has been painted to look like marble (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

The Library looking towards the balcony overlooking the garden with obelisks either side. The fabric for the curtain is decorated with large Piranesi urns. The furniture in front of the window is all designed by John Simpson (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

Drawing room looking toward the bay window. The two sconces either side of the window incorporate PIR burglar detectors (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

The outer entrance hall at Belsize Park with two arches, one leading into the inner hall and the other accommodating a stair to the floors above (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

The inner entrance hall is rusticated to look like stone, which supports an archivolt embellished with bucrania (goat’s skulls) and roundels. The rustication disguises several jib doors to a cupboard under the stairs and to the kitchen. The internal window provides light to the kitchen (Photography: © Andreas von Einsiedel)

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Belsize Park

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The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.

Detail of the chaise longue designed for Belsize Park, London, United Kingdom

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Belsize Park

London, UK


The project involved the internal reworking of an 1850's house in Belsize Park which had been gutted in the 1960's and converted into apartments. The interiors were completely remodelled with a new layout and new plasterwork and embellishment. The new interior with furniture and soft furnishings were designed by John Simpson and Partners.