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Ideal
House - Great Marlborough Street, London, UK
Architect
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Raymond
Hood and Gordon Jeeves |
Date Built
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1928 - 1929 |
Location
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At the corner of Great
Marlborough Street and Argyll Street |
Description
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This
extraordinary
building
at
the corner of Great Marlborough Street and
Argyll Street was once the showroom and offices
of the American Radiator Company.
The architect of the building, Raymond
Hood, had designed the company's head office in
New York and the London building is said to have
been influenced by his earlier creation.
In that the Ideal House is clad in polished
black granite and decorated in gold, that is
certainly the case. Compared with
the New York building though, the Ideal House is
almost restrained, as you can see below.
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When it was built in 1929 the Ideal House
comprised seven storeys with a recessed attic
level. It extended for four bays along
Argyll Street but in 1935 a further seven bays
were added to that elevation, a fact that is
revealed in the spacing between the fourth and
fifth bays on that street.
Gordon Jeeves collaborated with Hood on the
design of the building and Jeeves went on to
collaborate with Herbert A. Welch on the design
of the Drages' furniture store on Oxford Street
(now Gainsborough House - 81 Oxford
Street). It too was clad in black granite
but this time with pink decorations.
Today restaurants occupy the ground floor of the
Ideal House and above are residences.
Presumable because of its proximity to the
theatre the building is now called Paladium
House.
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