“Double-height living spaces are finished with the finest contemporary materials”
Perched high above central London, this light-filled duplex apartment sits within Orwell Studios, an impressive art deco building overlooking Oxford Street. It was completed in 1926 to a design by Herbert Austin Hall and is characterised by giant stone pilasters and beautiful bronze adornments at ground floor-level. Soho, Fitzrovia and Mayfair are all minutes away on foot.
History
This particular building has a rich cultural association with the BBC, which took it over in 1942 to accommodate overseas broadcasting services during wartime. In the basement and on the rooftops, the words of luminary broadcasters including J. B. Priestly, Wickham Steed, Howard Marshall and George Orwell were beamed to America.
Accounts from the time describe live broadcasts from the roof of the building during air raids over London, with detailed accounts offered from this truly unique perspective, high over Oxford Circus. Following a sensitive renovation in 2006, the upper floors were converted to a small selection of private residences that take their name from George Orwell, who was not only the author of classics 1984 a Animal Farm but also a regular broadcaster and reporter for the BBC.
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