Palladium House, formerly known as Ideal House, is a grade II listed
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
office building located on the corner of
Great Marlborough Street and
Argyll Street
Argyll Street is a street in the Soho district of Central London. It links Great Marlborough Street to the south to Oxford Street in the north and is connected to Regent Street to the west by Little Argyll Street. Historically it was sometimes w ...
in London.
History and description
The building was designed in by architects
Raymond Hood
Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Gothic Revival architecture, Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles. He is best known for his designs of the Tribune Tower, American Radiator Building ...
and Gordon Jeeves in the
art deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
style as the London headquarters of the National Radiator Company (European subsidiary of the
American Radiator Company). Its design was a scaled down version of the
American Radiator Building, New York.
Built 1928–9, the building is a seven-storey office block, with black granite facing decorated with an inlaid
champlevé
Champlevé is an enamelling technique in the decorative arts, or an object made by that process, in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or Casting (metalworking), cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreo ...
design with Egyptian influences. The building was extended in 1935.
In 1981, it was declared a Grade II
Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
.
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Art Deco architecture in London
Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster
Grade II listed office buildings
Office buildings completed in 1929
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