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Palace Gate

London W8

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Architect: Wells Coates

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“A bright example of modernist architecture in London”

An ingenious exploration of light and form, this recently refurbished two-bedroom apartment is set in a Wells Coates-designed modernist building in Kensington. It is brilliantly located for all the area has to offer, with Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park and Holland Park within easy walking distance.

History

Wells Coates (1895 – 1958) was born in Japan to a mother who had trained in architecture under Louis Sullivan. His mother encouraged his interest in the profession, although his formal training was in engineering and his first job was as a journalist for the Daily Express. Coates spent his childhood in the Far East, built his most important buildings in Britain, and moved to the United States and then Canada after the Second World War, where he spent his final days.  Palace Gate is marks an important moment in Coates' career, following the completion of the Isokon Building, or Lawn Road Flats, and Embassy Court. As Historic England put it:  "[It was] one of the most innovative blocks of flats built in Britain in the 1930s, by one of the leading modern architects of the time. It marks the culmination of Coates' ideas on the planning of flats, with his first 3-2 blocks."

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