Park Street
Penthouse
A four-bedroom penthouse on the corner of Hyde Park — untouched for over thirty years, reconfigured and refined across 2,000 square feet of Grade II listed space. Handmade marble from Japan and the United States runs as a unifying thread throughout.
01 — The project
Thirty years
of silence.
Then this.
Set within a Grade II listed building on the corner of Hyde Park, this four-bedroom penthouse had remained untouched for over three decades. The proportions were extraordinary — high ceilings, deep rooms, generous windows overlooking the park — but every surface, every system, every detail had been left to age without care.
Melner was appointed to deliver a complete refurbishment — stripping the apartment back to its structure and rebuilding it as a light-filled family home that honours the building's heritage while meeting the demands of contemporary life.
The design, led by TFA Designs and Laura Jayne Design, centres on a deliberate material palette: handmade marble sourced from Japan and the United States runs as a unifying thread — from bathroom floors to vanity units to kitchen surfaces. Light oak herringbone flooring warms every room. Arched doorways frame the passages between spaces, softening transitions and drawing natural light deep into the plan.
Completed in six months, the project is a study in what happens when the right team, the right materials, and the right address align. Nothing was rushed. Nothing was compromised.
Architect: TFA Designs · Interior design: Laura Jayne Design
02 — The living spaces
Light oak, soft linen, and the quiet authority of proportion.
The principal rooms face Hyde Park. Period cornicing and ceiling roses were painstakingly restored, while everything beneath them was renewed — herringbone oak flooring, bespoke joinery, and a lighting scheme designed to shift the mood from morning to evening. The furniture and soft furnishings, curated by Laura Jayne Design, balance warmth and restraint: natural linens, organic-shaped oak pieces, and artwork that gives each room a distinct character without competing with the architecture.
Arched doorways frame the passages between rooms, softening transitions and drawing light throughout the apartment — a quiet architectural gesture that connects every space without walls.
03 — Marble & material
Handmade marble from Japan and the United States.
Marble runs as the defining material throughout the penthouse — not as a cliché of luxury, but as a thread that ties every space together. The tiles were handmade, sourced from specialist makers in Japan and the United States, each piece carrying the subtle imperfections and depth that factory-produced stone cannot replicate. From bathroom floors to vanity tops to kitchen splashbacks, the marble was templated, cut, and installed by Melner's team with the precision a material of this quality demands.
04 — Kitchen & joinery
Every handle flush. Every joint invisible.
The kitchen is defined by its bespoke joinery — warm oak cabinetry with integrated appliances and stone worktops that extend the marble language from the bathrooms. Elsewhere, built-in storage and shelving were designed by Laura Jayne to sit within the apartment's original alcoves and recesses, each piece scribed to period walls that are never plumb. The craftsmanship is quiet and precise — the kind you feel rather than see.
“This apartment had been frozen in time for thirty years. The proportions were always extraordinary — what it needed was a team willing to strip it back completely and rebuild every layer to the standard those proportions deserve.”
The structural programme included the reconfiguration of the internal layout to create a more fluid sequence of rooms, with the arched doorways that now define the apartment's character introduced as new openings between previously disconnected spaces. All M&E services were replaced from scratch — new electrical, plumbing, and heating systems installed throughout, with underfloor heating in every bathroom.
The lighting scheme was designed in collaboration with Laura Jayne, combining architectural downlights, decorative pendants — including a striking sputnik chandelier in the principal living room — and concealed LED strips to create layered, controllable ambience that shifts from bright working light to soft evening warmth.
Period mouldings — cornicing, ceiling roses, and panelled doors — were carefully restored rather than replaced, maintaining the dialogue between the building's Georgian origins and the contemporary interior that now sits within it. The result is a home that feels neither old nor new, but simply right.
Architect: TFA Designs · Interior design: Laura Jayne Design
Scope of works
- Full strip-out and refurbishment — 2,000+ sq ft
- Internal layout reconfiguration with new arched openings
- Handmade marble from Japan and the United States
- Light oak herringbone flooring throughout
- Period moulding restoration — cornicing, roses, panelling
- Bespoke kitchen joinery with integrated appliances
- Built-in storage scribed to period walls
- Full M&E replacement — electrical, plumbing, heating
- Underfloor heating to all bathrooms
- Architectural lighting scheme
- Complete decoration and finishing
05 — The finished home
Hyde Park at the window. Thirty years erased.
A penthouse
worthy of the park.
Overlooking Hyde Park from the top of a Grade II listed building, this apartment demanded the highest standard of craftsmanship, the rarest materials, and a team capable of delivering both within six months. Melner, TFA Designs, and Laura Jayne Design delivered exactly that — a home that feels as though it has always been this way.
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