Design Buy Build Issue 21 2016 | Page 8

HOUSE FEATURE MODERN HOMES TAVISTOCK APARTMENTS New apartment’s striking interiors designed to reflect the dramatic changing face of Catherine Street and Covent Garden over the decades. K ay & co highlight that over the decades some of london’s addresses have had dramatic image makeovers including name changes, resulting in new residents, enhanced reputation and transformed desirability. The perfect example of this is two new apartments that the firm is marketing in the tavistock, a new apartment scheme on the corner of tavistock street and catherine street. One is cleverly interior designed to subtly echo the dramatics change in the image of catherine street. to reference the ‘fleet street’ era and bright colours and exclusive finishes to underline the current covent garden setting. Apartment 1 (£3.75 Million) is on the first floor and apartment 2 (£3.5 Million) is on the second floor of the five storey building whose address is 23 tavistock st. Both apartments provide three bedrooms and feature high ceilings, large sash windows and c. 1,600 Sq. Ft. Of living space. Catherine street, on which the tavistock stands, was originally named brydges street and was immortalised in hogarth’s Originally known as brydges street, the address was a notorious drinking den and ‘red light’ area. Then renamed catherine street, it became the first ‘fleet street’ of the capital, a place for posh newspaper and magazine production. Finally, since world war 2 it has become part of the exclusive covent garden district, with boutique shops, restaurants and glamorous homes. The dressed apartment at the tavistock clearly references this dramatic trio of changes in the street’s history; with photos showing the dancing girls of the brydges street era, a bookcase of magazines and newspapers 8