'As soon as you enter, you know that Veere Grenney designed it': designer's former home for sale for £3.65m

“‘I deliberation it’s ever precise bully to marque things unsocial for yourself, and cosy, which is what a location is each about,” said interior decorator Veere Grenney of his Grade II-listed cardinal London townhouse successful an interrogation with House & Garden. The house, which Grenney bought successful 2011 and sold successful 2021, according to the Land Registry, has a bold colour palette —walls of burnt orangish and moss greenish velvet— and dramatic, classical-inspired interiors. And now, with his designs virtually untouched, the location is backmost connected the marketplace again.

“If you spell into a Soho House, you cognize it’s a Soho House the infinitesimal you locomotion done the door,” says Scott Joseph, manager of listing agents Anderson Rose. “As soon arsenic you spell done the doorway of this house, you cognize that Veere Grenney designed it.”

Grenney, dubbed a “master of contrasts”, is celebrated for designs which wed classicism with modernity. After buying the Georgian terrace connected Portsea Place, a cul-de-sac successful Connaught Village, helium “completely transformed it”, says Joseph, who sold the spot for Grenney successful 2021. “He took it backmost beauteous overmuch to the brickwork and started again.”

Today, Grenney’s erstwhile location covers 2,170 quadrate feet implicit 4 floors, with 4 bedrooms and 3 reception rooms. There are 2 bedrooms connected the little crushed floor, positive a TV room, with a kitchen, sitting country and eating country connected the level above. The apical 2 storeys location a bold treble reception country and study, with the maestro suite occupying the full apical floor. Outside, determination is simply a extortion terrace and a garden.

“It’s each astir the colour scheme,” says Joseph. “He’s got a darker, rustic vibe and colour strategy going on. It’s the attraction to detail.” In the sitting and eating rooms, Grenney added a detailed, Venetian patterned wallpaper, with matching curtains. The TV country has bright, burnt orangish walls, portion those successful the hallway are acheronian green.

The treble reception country is decorated successful a striking greenish silk velvet, utilized successful a fig of Grenney’s different designs. On 1 partition is simply a ample marble fireplace, flanked by busts connected the walls; other are 16 framed drawings, arranged symmetrically. “I ever deliberation that it’s large to beryllium brave with colour,” said Grenney successful the House & Garden interview. “You precise overmuch person ownership implicit what you’re doing.”

Grenney’s maestro chamber is location to a melodramatic four-poster bed, with its drapes —white linen with golden silk trimming— matching the curtains.

The house, says Joseph, was cautiously designed by Grenney to maximise storage: afloat of hidden cupboards and astute design, similar the triangular, space-saving table successful 1 of the bedrooms. All of the furniture, from the four-poster furniture to the oval-shaped woody eating table, was hand-selected oregon designed specifically for the property. And erstwhile its existent owner, a businesswoman past based successful China, bought it during the pandemic —only a week aft it was listed for sale— she bought it successful its entirety, furnishings included.

“She loved his work,” says Joseph. “She fell successful emotion with [the property] online. She wanted to marque an connection based connected the photos, but I said: ‘Come and spot it first. If you inactive emotion it, marque the offer.’ And she did.”

“She hasn’t changed a thing, isolated from bringing successful immoderate of her ain furniture,” Joseph adds. “There were items of furnishings that she asked to keep: the eating array downstairs; the furniture successful the main bedroom. She loved the style. A batch of the furnishings that’s successful determination was his too, due to the fact that it went manus successful hand.”

The proprietor relocated to London aft buying the spot and has lived determination permanently since. She is present selling owed to a alteration successful circumstances, making the spot surplus to requirements. It has been listed for £3.65 cardinal with Anderson Rose. For those wondering, the furnishings is besides disposable by abstracted negotiation.

Grenney, meanwhile, downsized to an flat successful an Art Deco artifact successful Chelsea, which helium has likewise reconfigured and imbued with his ain distinctive design. He besides owns a villa successful Tangier and an 18th period location successful Suffolk.

Joseph believes that the location is apt to entreaty to a purchaser downsizing from a larger spot successful the area, oregon perchance idiosyncratic looking for a much affordable alternate to the larger houses successful adjacent Connaught Village.

“I deliberation that the idiosyncratic that buys the location is much than apt going to emotion it and permission it arsenic it is, alternatively than putting their ain stamp connected it,” says Joseph. “It’s 1 wherever immoderate radical volition locomotion successful and say: ‘not for me’, and others volition emotion it. It volition instrumentality that 1 idiosyncratic that falls successful emotion with it. That was her [the existent owner]. We’re conscionable waiting to find that idiosyncratic again.”