Bella Freud and Maria Speake fashion retro interiors for BBC TV centre apartment
Creative duo Bella Freud and Maria Speake channelled the vibrant 1970s throughout the interiors of this London apartment, which has been designed by architect Piercy & Company inside the former BBC television centre.
The two-floor apartment is located in west London's White City district within a Grade II-listed building that previously served as the headquarters for the BBC and has been overhauled by AHMM.
Designed by architect Piercy & Company, the apartments is one of five penthouses in the Architect's Series. The scheme invited different architecture studios to design high-end homes within The Helios ? a ring-shaped building in the former BBC centre.
British fashion designer Bella Freud and Maria Speake ? co-founder of Retrouvius, a design studio that specialises in salvaging furniture ? were brought on board to complete Helios 710's interiors. The pair has previously collaborated for the revamp of Freud's own home and on the fit-out of the designer's flagship store in Marylebone.
For this project Freud and Speake looked to the "bold colour, eclecticism and glamour" of the 1970s, decking out a majority of the apartment's living spaces in striking hues.
In the main living room, glossy black sofas with burnt orange seat cushions contrast against an emerald green carpet. At its rear is a long glass dining table surrounded by woven cane dining chairs, which complement the adjacent hessian-covered walls.
Surfaces in the master bedroom have then bee...
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