Terry Farrell puts his "exuberantly colourful" flat on the market - architecture and design

Terry Farrell puts his "exuberantly colourful" flat on the market



Postmodern architect Terry Farrell is selling the flat he designed for himself in a former Spitfire factory in Marylebone, London, after living in it for more than 20 years.
Farrell designed the apartment in the Old Aeroworks in 1998. The architect converted the space ? which was previously the office for his architecture studio ? into his home after his studio outgrew the space and relocated next door.
"I'm selling it after over twenty years living here as I want to get away from the feeling of cabin fever, living and working in the same group of buildings," he told Dezeen.

Farrell is the architect of numerous postmodern landmarks in London including the TV-am television studios, Charing Cross Station and the MI6 building.
Like much of his work, the interior of the penthouse apartment is bright and colourful and draws upon history.
The art-deco block was formerly a factory for aircraft parts, and the interiors have an industrial aesthetic with numerous model planes hung from its ceiling.
"I like to think it represents my wider work by being exuberantly colourful, very mixed stylistically, and something of a collage starting with the base of its history, which included forty years as an aircraft parts factory, which all takes in the narrative and story telling of the building's history," he said.

Farrell retained many details from its time as the studio office in the 306 square-metre-flat, which is arranged around a central space, and topped with a c...
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