a Portland facelift
The Twenty Two, Grosvenor Square, London
The Twenty Two is a new hotel and private members’ club that occupies the corner of Grosvenor Square and North Audley Street. The building is a grade two listed Edwardian property, the external stonework of which was badly damaged and needed restoration. The main contractor asked us to supply the stonework both externally and for the internal public areas.
The stonework was salvaged from the original building and delivered to the factory where we surveyed it to decide what could be reinstated and/or used for the new extension which was part of the project.
We then fabricated all of the new stone required in Portland Broadcroft Whitbed. This included a bottle balustrade, plinths, window surrounds, and the ashlar blocks, quoins and so on.
The original carved ocular window surrounds were scanned with a laser, and then new ones carved to match on the 5 axes CNC machine.
This was the first large scale external stonework package that we had undertaken and both the client and the contractor were very pleased with the result.
Internally we installed travertine, granite and slate floors and stairs, and fabricated marble bar counters. The entrance steps were in Carrara marble.
project details
contractor: Knightbuild
materials: Portland Broadcroft, Travertino Classico, Black Slate, Zimbabwe Black, Ledmore, Carrara