hotel
Antony Gormley, 2014
The Beaumont, Brown Hart Gardens, 8 Balderton Street, W1K 6TF
A monumental, inhabitable sculpture placed on a wing of the listed façade of The Beaumont Hotel. The interior, a bedroom, is as important as its exterior: a giant crouching cuboid figure based on the artist's body.
Bond Street, Marble Arch
390, 139, 113, 94
"MY AMBITION FOR THIS WORK IS THAT IT SHOULD CONFRONT THE MONUMENTAL WITH THE MOST PERSONAL, INTIMATE EXPERIENCE."
Antony Gormley's ROOM forms part of a suite of rooms. A cavernous, dark, mysterious space, its creation allowed the artist to "sculpt darkness", encouraging the occupant to enter a different state of consciousness, to enjoy at the very least a meditative pause, a moment of withdrawal from the pulsating world outside.
Gormley's ROOM is both a monumental figural sculpture and an architectural extension to the hotel. The interior, which is a dark fumed oak-clad bedroom in a one-bedroom suite, accessed up nine white marble steps through a black velvet curtain from a strongly contrasting pure white marble bathroom, is just as important as its exterior: a giant crouching cuboid figures based on the artist's body.
Adjacent to ROOM, the bedroom, is a sitting room with large hallway and guest bathroom, decorated, like all the rooms in The Beaumont, in a soft Art Deco style with dark polished woods.
Guided tour
historical house, institution/profession, museum
Grade II listed building with neoclassical portico. Highly decorated meeting rooms throughout the building with ceiling and wall mouldings, and artwork featuring Venus the Goddess of Love and the Greek Muses.
Robert and James Adam, 1776
Guided tour
institution/profession, library, museum
Part of New Burlington House, purpose built in 1875 for London's learned societies. Historic apartments with highlights from the Library and Museum collections on display. Imposing top-lit library with double galleries and marbled columns.
Robert Richardson Banks and Charles Barry, 1875
