The centrepiece for us was most certainly the beautiful waterjet cut pattern of Crema Perla and Alpine White. Nick and Lucy wanted to create a floor that wasn’t the familiar chequerboard pattern or angular geometries, something more modern that could flow from the historic areas into the new. The building was famous in the mid-nineteenth century as a silk merchant and silk dressmaker’s business so we looked at woven patterns that have a flow. As the house was built in 1723 by a learned classical architect they also looked to Ancient Rome and the mosaic floors in the Baths of Caracalla. They also thought of the spears that you find on railings in Mayfair because the pattern needed to tie in with the metalwork on the project.
