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02 // 03 Old meets new in one of central London’s most enchanting residential areas. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 04 // 01 THE ULTIMATE IN GRACIOUS MODERN LIVING An elegant historic façade. An exceptional collection of 27 beautifully restored apartments, of classic contemporary design, set within an Edwardian terrace. Right at the heart of one of London’s most desirable residential districts, and moments from the city’s vibrant West End. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 02 // 03 INTERIORS OF CONTEMPORARY LUXURY Living Room | Apartment 4.04 | Fourth Floor 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 04 // 05 Kensington Oxford Kensington Hyde Kensington St Paul’s Heron Tower Piccadilly Royal Albert The London Canary Big Buckingham Regent’s Park Palace BT Tower Street Palace Gardens Park High Street Cathedral Tower 42 Serpentine Circus Hall Shard Eye Wharf Ben Palace Museums Victoria & Albert Museum Natural History Museum Science Museum Royal Garden Hotel Barkers Arcade Kensington Roof Gardens High Street Kensington Station 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 06 // 07 KENSINGTON - A QUALITY ADDRESS A place of exquisite pleasures. Affluent yet approachable, exclusive but vibrant, leafy Kensington may be a lively shopping hub but it also has some of the capital’s most tranquil parkland. It’s where refined gourmet restaurants rub shoulders with hip bars, where you’re steps from the world’s finest museums as well as the retail mecca of Harrods. A few kilometres from Piccadilly Circus, but a world apart. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 08 // 09 DYNAMIC, DARING AND ENDLESSLY FASCINATING The capital is a thrilling place, with an energy all its own. London’s streets offer all the wealth of experience that the world can afford. It’s a major destination for business and pleasure, where Europe’s finest restaurants brush shoulders with hip bars, exceptional shopping, experimental art spaces, and the world’s great museums and galleries. Tranquil parks help you forget that you’re in the city, and bustling neon-lit buildings remind you that you are. Exciting, surprising, engaging. London really has it all. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 10 // 11 AT THE HEIGHT OF FASHION London’s shopping scene is nothing if not legendary. London’s most stylish shopping lies within minutes of Kensington High Street. Kensington is a hive of fashion and antiques shops, while the surrounding areas give Knightsbridge – Famous for world-famous department stores Harrods and Harvey Nichols, both with a heavy emphasis on fashion. even more variety. Sloane Street rivals Bond Street for fashion, while nearby Harrods King’s Road, Chelsea – Two miles of shopping; the west end is famous for antiques. pushes luxury to a different level. There’s King’s Road Chelsea for antiques – or just Sloane Street – All the major luxury designer brands, rivalling Bond Street. meeting friends for coffee and cake – while Notting Hill has quirkier niche boutiques. Notting Hill – Famous Portobello Road antiques market and one-off concept boutiques. And the pinnacle of shopping, with its flagship couturiers, art galleries and jewellers, Westfield – New shopping centre with major international brands. marvelous Mayfair is just a ten-minute drive away. Mayfair – The internationally renowned shopping hubs of Bond Street, Regent Street and Savile Row are just a twelve-minute drive away. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 12 // 13 A GOURMET EXPERIENCE London’s spectacular culinary scene is tribute to the city’s inventiveness. London’s culinary scene is diverse and constantly surprising, vying with Paris as Europe’s most tastebud-tempting city. From the grand restaurants of the great hotels and exquisite private dining clubs through to experimental pop-ups, the city has reinvented itself over the past couple of decades as one of the world’s most rewarding places to eat. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 14 // 15 Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester ★ ★ ★, 53 Park Lane, Mayfair W1K 1QA Amaya ★ Halkin Arcade, Motcomb Street, Hyde Park Corner SW1X 8JT Apsleys ★ The Lanesborough Hotel, Hyde Park Corner SW1X 7TA Benares Restaurant ★ 12a Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, Mayfair W1J 6BS Dinner by Heston Blumenthal ★ Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, 66 Knightsbridge, Knightsbridge SW1X 7LA Galvin at Windows ★ London Hilton Hotel, 22 Park Lane, Mayfair W1K 1BE Gordon Ramsay Chelsea ★ ★ ★ 68-69 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea SW3 4HP Greenhouse ★ 27a Hays Mews, Mayfair W1J 5NY Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Hotel ★ ★ Carlos Place, Mayfair W1K 2AL Hibiscus ★ ★ 29 Maddox Street, Mayfair W1S 2PA Kai Mayfair ★ 65 South Audley Street, Mayfair W1K 2QU Kitchen W8 ★ 11-13 Abingdon Road, Kensington W8 6AH Le Gavroche ★ ★ 43 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair W1K 7QR The Ledbury ★ ★ 127 Ledbury Road, Notting Hill W11 2AQ Locanda Locatelli ★ 8 Seymour Street, Marylebone, W1H 7JZ Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley ★ ★ Wilton Place, Knightsbridge SW1X 7RL Maze ★ London Marriott, 10-13 Grosvenor Square, Mayfair W1K 6JP Murano ★ 20-22 Queen Street, Mayfair W1J 5PR Nobu ★ 19 Old Park Lane, Mayfair W1K 1LB Nobu Berkeley ★ 15 Berkeley Street, Mayfair W1J 8DY Pétrus ★ 1 Kinnerton Street , Knightsbridge SW1X 8EA Sketch ★ ★ 9 Conduit Street, Mayfair W1S 2XG The Square ★ ★ 6-10 Bruton Street, Mayfair W1J 6PU Tamarind ★ 20 Queen Street, Mayfair W1J 5PR Texture ★ TABLE TALK 34 Portman Square, Mayfair W1H 7BY Dozens of London’s Michelin-starred Umu ★ 14-16 Bruton Place, Mayfair W1J 6LX establishments lie within a couple of Wild Honey ★ kilometres of Kensington High Street. 12 St George Street, Mayfair W1S 2FB 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 16 // 17 THE ART OF LIVING London’s cultural scene challenges and inspires, educates and entertains. London and culture are an inseparable pair, in a city where the old masters are as accessible as today’s graffiti art. Dive into the world-class ensemble of institutions in nearby South Kensington, or venture further for superb galleries and museums, theatre, opera, cabaret and conceptual spaces… London is a banquet of cultural opportunities, waiting to be savoured. CULTURE ON TAP Where do you start in a city of such cultural importance? These are the greatest and most famous of London’s cultural hotspots, though the list is endless and constantly changing: Tate Britain art gallery, London 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 18 // 19 THE TRANQUIL PLEASURES London, home to some of the world’s most beautiful parks. Kensington is on the doorstep of London’s most expansive green spaces. Hyde Park, Henry VIII’s former hunting ground, and Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of the palace, combine to make almost 200 hectares of open space – larger than the Principality of Monaco. Nearby Holland Park is one of London’s forgotten treasures, making it easy to escape from the noise of the city. In Kensington, green is a way of life. 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 20 // 21 A PLACE OF LEARNING THE CITY’S MANY WORLD-CLASS CENTRES OF HIGHER EDUCATION ATTRACT London is a melting pot of ideas, opinions, cultures and languages, with some of the world’s most renowned tertiary institutes and a reputation for academic excellence. It’s a vibrant and exciting place to study, with a STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. lively student life and a welcoming outlook. From Shakespeare to Dickens, London has been a magnet for thinkers and writers for centuries. Finchley Road Swiss Cottage Camden Town Stratford St John’s Wood 2 REGENT’S PARK King’s Cross Chelsea College of Art & Design University of London St Pancras Warren 1 8 Euston 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Senate House Malet St, London WC1E 7HU Street 13 7 2 Central St Martins 9 King’s College London Marylebone Regent’s Park Euston Granary Building 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London N1C 4AA Strand London WC2R 2LS Square 10 Baker Street 12 City of Westminster College Birkbeck University 3 8 3 10 Edgware Road Paddington Green London W2 1NB Malet Street London WC1E 7HX 6 Farringdon 14 Liverpool Street Royal College of Art London College of Fashion Holborn Chancery 4 11 Lane 11 Kensington Gore London, SW7 2EU 20 King John Ct London W1G 0BJ Tottenham CITY Oxford Court Road Circus Bond Street St Paul’s 5 Imperial College London 12 University of Westminster Marble Arch Covent Garden 9 Bank South Kensington Campus Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2AZ Marylebone Road, Marylebone NW1 5LS Blackfriars Tower Hill 6 LSE London School of Economics 13 Regents University London Piccadilly Circus Tower Gateway Houghton Street, Covent Garden WC2A 2AE Inner Circle, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4NS HYDE PARK Embankment Charing Green Park UCL University College London University of the Arts Cross Canary Wharf 7 14 Gower Street, Bloomsbury WC1E 6BT 272 High Holborn London WC1V 7EY London Bridge ST JAMES’S Southwark London PARK Waterloo Ci ty Airpor t 4 Westminster North Greenwich Knightsbridge 5 Victoria 1 Pimlico Cutty Sark Greenwich 151-161KensingtonHighStreet.com 22 // 23 ALL THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS High Street Kensington is superbly served by public transport. It’s a couple of minutes’ walk to the Underground station (in central Zone 1), served by the Circle and District tube lines that loop around the entire West End (14 mins) and City (24 mins), as well as giving access to Heathrow Airport (40 mins). The lines also lead directly to major railway interchanges at Victoria, Blackfriars and Liverpool Street for national rail services, and King’s Cross for international connections. Buses are also a King’s Cross St Pancras 28 Mins favourite local option, getting you to Piccadilly Circus in just 31 minutes. By road,