Author Topic: London Mews & Townhouse - Mayfair and Belgravia :Steampunk or No - (Read 13000 times)

Hurricane Annie · « **on:** March 24, 2018, 10:11:59 am »

Rock stars,actors, spies, foreign dignitaries and other wild eccentrics live in these homes. I've been lent a renewed interest in such residences after reading another celebrity auto biography and revisiting other scandals from a previous era. It has co incided with a search for inspiration for a re vamp of the Hurricane abode to enhance its more exclusive luxe appearance. [OK so its really a series of add ons, the main dwelling a prefab house, transported from a ex military base decades ago]. Its about the paint colour, window treatments , door style, entrance planting, planters, fencing & gates etc, the little touches that are the hallmark of a luxury status property.

To those familiar with the streets of Mayfair, Belgravia, Eaton square et al - what is it that stands out about these residential addresses . What special features give them their identity and point of difference ?

http://www.lurotbrand.co.uk/mews-gems/what-is-a-mews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhouse_(Great_Britain)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mews

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2018, 11:23:19 am »

Maybe I just watched to many bad British 70s movies , episodes of the Professionals and Upstairs Downstairs

von Corax · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2018, 05:14:33 pm »

I'd call it "Heritage." It isn't really "Steampunk" until you add a bit of external steam ductwork.

James Harrison · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2018, 06:28:13 pm »

My experience living in a mews house (for all of six weeks whilst it was being worked upon) suggests there should be another option in the poll. "Jerry-built"....

Now a mews house, I reckon, is eminently steampunk-able. Not steampunk straight off, but certainly a good candidate for being steampunked. There's a surprising amount of internal volume and you can really do wonderful things with them. The one I spent some time in, for instance, had a glass octagonal dome over the dining room (which would originally have been a courtyard and which was filled in later), a small study/ library formed from a series of archways which gave an interesting effect of a room within a room, and a conservatory lantern on the roof.

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2018, 10:08:11 pm »

Quote from: James Harrison on March 24, 2018, 06:28:13 pm

My experience living in a mews house (for all of six weeks whilst it was being worked upon) suggests there should be another option in the poll. "Jerry-built"....

Now a mews house, I reckon, is eminently steampunk-able. Not steampunk straight off, but certainly a good candidate for being steampunked. There's a surprising amount of internal volume and you can really do wonderful things with them. The one I spent some time in, for instance, had a glass octagonal dome over the dining room (which would originally have been a courtyard and which was filled in later), a small study/ library formed from a series of archways which gave an interesting effect of a room within a room, and a conservatory lantern on the roof.

The rows of homes are an interesting heritage housing program. Affluent peoples mass built mansions projects. It does not surprise to find they were " Jerry built" or thrown up in a less than craftsman like quality. The same happens today. Accross Britain and the US they were often torn down in short time and replaced by bigger bold homes.

The tenuous [ extremely loose] link with steam or dieselpunk was their connection via era and location to steam train travel and stations as a mode of transport I the early part of the 19th century. Along with the mid 20 th century renovation and remodeling of the mews from stables to exclusive apartments, as horse travel made way for petrol driven engines.

Both the mews and the town house rows could be a classic canvas for steam or diesel influenced re invention

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #5 on:** March 24, 2018, 11:18:54 pm »

Transitional times

Rockula · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2018, 10:52:11 am »

Having worked in those areas for 15 years I would have another name for them.
But that's more based on the attitudes of a lot of the people that live in them.
So I won't go into that.

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2018, 05:27:50 pm »

Quote from: Rockula on March 25, 2018, 10:52:11 am

Having worked in those areas for 15 years I would have another name for them.
But that's more based on the attitudes of a lot of the people that live in them.
So I won't go into that.

Is there a certain something one just can't cleanse out of a redecorated stable...

glensy · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2018, 02:16:05 pm »

Quote from: Rockula on March 25, 2018, 10:52:11 am

Having worked in those areas for 15 years I would have another name for them.
But that's more based on the attitudes of a lot of the people that live in them.
So I won't go into that.

wait... I think I need more detail hahaha. I think I've bought into the romanticism of it all! All dreams though, all dreams.

https://www.rarespace.co/mews

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2018, 03:28:59 am »

Quote from: glensy on April 26, 2018, 02:16:05 pm

Quote from: Rockula on March 25, 2018, 10:52:11 am
Having worked in those areas for 15 years I would have another name for them.
But that's more based on the attitudes of a lot of the people that live in them.
So I won't go into that.

wait... I think I need more detail hahaha. I think I've bought into the romanticism of it all! All dreams though, all dreams.

https://www.rarespace.co/mews

Fairy tales have been woven around the mews. Peter Pan flew around in the London mews.

von Corax · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2018, 11:03:09 am »

As Queen Victoria said, "We are a city in Canada, we are a waterfall in Zambia, but we are not a mews."

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2018, 11:26:15 am »

Quote from: von Corax on April 27, 2018, 11:03:09 am

As Queen Victoria said, "We are a city in Canada, we are a waterfall in Zambia, but we are not a mews."

If only there was a kudos button

One wonders what One would think of the servants quarters and stables becoming the exclusive sought after residences of her descendents and their pals

annevpreussen · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2018, 03:52:56 pm »

Maybe more heritage than steampunk, but I feel they could be so easily adapted to the discerning steampunk gentleperson's taste. Steampunk or not, though, I want to live there!

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #13 on:** May 04, 2018, 05:20:42 pm »

Quote from: annevpreussen on May 04, 2018, 03:52:56 pm

Maybe more heritage than steampunk, but I feel they could be so easily adapted to the discerning steampunk gentleperson's taste. Steampunk or not, though, I want to live there!

There is something compelling about the residential addresses. That many rock stars and oil Sheiks can't be wrong

There is definitely potential for steampunk revamp

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #14 on:** May 04, 2018, 05:36:37 pm »

I was outraged to find these out and out blasphemy of the steampumk credo

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annevpreussen · « **Reply #15 on:** May 05, 2018, 04:52:38 pm »

Quote from: Hurricane Annie on May 04, 2018, 05:36:37 pm

I was outraged to find these out and out blasphemy of the steampumk credo

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They glued a cog on...!!!!

Oh... oh dear...

Banfili · « **Reply #16 on:** May 06, 2018, 01:18:06 am »

There has to be a better way! No, no, no to non-functioning cogs on the wall!

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #17 on:** May 06, 2018, 07:36:55 am »

99 glued cogs on the wall... One of those cog is ready to fall...

Oh & $#@% rip the @$#&¥€ down

Synistor 303 · « **Reply #18 on:** April 06, 2021, 12:30:10 am »

Ah, the old 'stick a cog on it and call it Steampunk' brigade. They should be taken away and crushed in a steam-powered press...

von Corax · « **Reply #19 on:** April 06, 2021, 12:33:43 am »

Track 'em down and give 'em the gears!

Hurricane Annie · « **Reply #20 on:** April 06, 2021, 08:01:42 am »

Stick a red hot spanner in their inner workings

Here's the latest luxury listings. I'm tossing between Bedford, Sumner and Victoria Park. Wondering which former horse stables would suit this old mare.

https://search.savills.com/list/mews-for-sale/england/london/london/ec3n

News:

Poll

Are the exclusive London Mews homes and Townhouses steampunk, dieselpunk or just old?

Author Topic: London Mews & Townhouse - Mayfair and Belgravia :Steampunk or No - (Read 13000 times)