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ESHomesAndProperty @HomesProperty HomesProperty EVENING STANDARD WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST 2013 3 homesandproperty.co.uk with News Homes & Property London’s X factor, Homes by Nicole É NICOLE SCHERZINGER is gossip flat hunting in Kensington. The By Amira Hashish Hawaii-born pop diva, who has fallen for the capital, is filming the new X Factor series and É MILKWOOD STUDIOS, searching for a new so named because Welsh And now for home, but has yet to poet and writer Dylan something confirm whether she Thomas penned some of wants to rent or buy. his works in the completely Work keeps her in the neighbouring house in city but there is a love Camden Town, were different. interest too, with on/off purpose-built for Monty boyfriend, Formula One Python in the Eighties. a patio garden, two Buy Robin and Lucienne Day’s home driver Lewis Hamilton. When John Cleese (of the courtyards and five Making the most of the Ministry of Silly Walks, bedrooms. But it is the É WE OWE a lot to Robin and without her iconic designs.” The good weather, Scherzinger pictured below), Michael eye-catching floor-to- Lucienne Day. The textile specialists couple’s work was as practical as it tweeted: “Dang this town is Palin, Terry Gilliam and co ceiling glass that puts transformed British style after the was jazzy and the polypropylene gorg-oire when the sun is moved out, the 10,000sq ft this home in a league of Second World War — he with new stackable chairs they invented shining! #London.” And the space became home to its own. materials and inexpensive furniture, (above) can still be seen in schools, former Pussycat Doll has film companies. Now it At £12 million the asking she with wild, vibrant pattern. hospitals, airports and restaurants discovered a new way of is a super-swanky New price is no joke — but the “Day was the first woman who really the world over. Now their former commuting. She snubbed a York-style loft home with funnymen’s former understood art for the people,” said four-bedroom house in Chichester is chauffeur-driven car to accommodation over two factory is certainly a living designer Orla Kiely. “No modernist for sale at £725,000 through Jackson- hop on a rickshaw to floors. Set behind a gated space to lust after. home of the Fifties was complete Stops & Staff. the ITV studios. entrance, the NW1 wonder O Visit homesand comes with roof terraces, property.co.uk/monty Got some Bathing with gossip? the fishes at Tweet Kanye’s place @amiranews ÉNEW dad Kanye West is struggling to sell his bachelor pad, a minimalist home in the Hollywood Hills. The rapper is now focusing on family life with reality TV star Kim Kardashian (left) and their baby girl North West (yes, really), so he has taken £333,333 off the £2.2 million asking price to attract buyers after a quiet five months on the market. The hip-hop star has put his own stamp on the place mind you — including huge murals of The Flintstones cartoon characters and a bath with a built-in fish tank. REX FEATURES Who could resist? PA BBC 4 WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with New destiny: plans to transform Victoria coach station are driving wider change HE Queen has done rather Goodbye blighted well out of Buckingham Palace. When she came to the coach station — hello throne in 1952 the one-time cultural quarter, a townhouse of the Duke of TBuckingham, built in 1705, with its £2 billion makeover 830,000sq ft of living space and 40 acres of landscaped gardens,was worth and Belgravia Bling. £11 million. Today it has a value of £1 billion. That’s a 9,000 per cent jump, Victoria’s secret is according to the Nationwide Building Society. finally out, reports The Palace gardens sit behind high security walls along Buckingham Palace David Spittles Road, a surprisingly dreary street. Traffic jams and souvenir shops have lowered the tone of this busy thorough- fare dividing workaday Victoria from super-rich Belgravia, and probably nowhere else in London is there such a value gap either side of a main road.