Client: SARM studios
Location: Notting Hill, London
Completed: September 2013
Photography: Jack Hobhouse
The full internal rebuild of a 4 storey Victorian end of terrace house
to convert to a long stay hotel for the record label client. The brief, to
provide accommodation for visiting musicians using the neighbouring
recording studio, was enriched with the request to embody the history
of the studio’s past in the proposed design.
Designed as a set of unique apartments connected by a common
language, the scheme took elements of the period architecture and
re-imagined them in the spirit of the four chosen record labels – Island
Records, Stiff Records, ZTT and Sarm.
Album covers from each label were taken as the inspiration behind the
colour scheme and fixtures used in each apartment.
