Inside One Palace Green’s £23.5 Million Apartment, Where London’s Arts and Crafts Past Lives On
A London apartment with a £23.5 million asking price needs more than an impressive postcode to hold our attention. At One Palace Green, the more interesting invitation is to live inside a house whose artistic history still gives the rooms their character.
The first-floor show apartment brings Martin Kemp Design’s contemporary interiors into a restored mansion on Kensington Palace Gardens. It has three bedrooms, generous reception spaces and an original fireplace, with furniture included in the reported asking price. The art is a separate matter—and, in this case, particularly worth looking at.
The wider development reached completion in September 2026, according to developer REDD. Its arrival offers a timely alternative to the idea that a new luxury home should look as though nobody has ever lived there before.
A mansion built around an artist’s life
Philip Webb designed the house for George Howard, later the 9th Earl of Carlisle, with a painting studio forming part of the original building. The connection to the Arts and Crafts movement was integral to its conception: Morris & Company worked on the interiors, and the dining room included murals by Edward Burne-Jones.
Restoration architects Pilbrow & Partners describe a building whose original coherence had been diminished by later alterations. Converted into apartments in the 1950s, it had lost much of its original interior decoration.
That history makes this a more demanding project than simply adding period furniture to grand rooms. The building already had an identity. The task was to make it legible again while giving a new owner somewhere comfortable to live.
Martin Kemp’s interiors bring the garden indoors
The show apartment’s palette draws on moss green, warm earth tones and soft stone, with timber and textured fabrics bringing a gentler quality to the formal architecture. High ceilings and large reception rooms provide the grandeur; the furnishing introduces a more relaxed scale.
Three paintings by Howard connect the presentation to the house’s original owner. Their presence is a particularly pleasing detail, even though the artwork is excluded from the asking price. It gives the rooms a conversation with their past that feels more specific than a decorative nod to “heritage”.
For us, the appeal lies in that balance. A substantial reception room should be capable of hosting an occasion, but it also needs to make sense when only two people are at home. Softer textures and an earthy palette offer a way to make generous proportions feel inviting.
What has been created at One Palace Green?
REDD describes the completed scheme as five apartments and a detached coach house. Its current availability schedule gives the first-floor, three-bedroom apartment an area of 3,350 square feet. The project brings together Pilbrow & Partners, Martin Kemp Design and landscape designer Randle Siddeley.
The development’s own website also highlights access to a private garden and layered security. Those are practical attractions, but they support a setting with a stronger personality than an amenities list alone can convey.
There is something persuasive about a small collection of homes sharing an architectural history. The attraction is partly knowing that the rooms could not simply be transplanted into another city and tell the same story.
The price, and the detail that matters
The furnished show apartment has been marketed at £23.5 million, excluding art. REDD’s live schedule currently gives prices on application, so buyers should confirm the current asking price and precisely which furnishings are included.
The interesting question is what remains after the staging is removed. Here, the answer includes an artist’s former home, the work of an important architect and a restoration that has returned attention to the building itself. That is a more enduring proposition than a beautifully arranged coffee table.
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