LONDON PENTHOUSE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 15

LONDON PENTHOUSE

LORD LOUIS MOUNT - BATTEN

KENT £4200 A YEAR

CINEMA DINING BOOM

LONDON, July 23

Lord Louis Mojmtbatten yesterday moved into the first completed corner of the Park lane penthouse, winch he and Lady Louis MouMbattcn will use as their town residence after September.

Rising eight storeys above the treelined roadway, this new-styled home occupies the top floors of Brook ilouM', a square block of modern Hats replacing the famous Victorian mansion of the same name, left lo Lady Louis Mountbmtten by Sir Ernest Cassell, her grandfather, and sold by her. Britain's first penthouse, self-con-tained, terraced and gabled, is the modern American style' of dwelling which sits, like a top hat, 0:1 all skyscrapers. HIS STUDY—IN BLUE Lord and Lady Louis Mountbnttcn, close friends of the King, are equipping their home for extensive entertaining. It has P>o rooms. It, i.s still, covered with plasterer's sheets and awaits .Lady Louis Mountbatten's return, from America before the decoration scheme can be completed. "Typical of the rest of the house is Lord Louis' suite. His study is egg-shell blue, with fitted carpets in nigger brown, and deep rest couch covered with magenta linen.

The furniture is built round the Avail, desk dissolving into bookshelves, wine cabinet, radio set, and filing cupboards in natural sycamore wood. The feature room of the penthouse will l)e its dining room. It can be converted into a talkie cinema to hold 100 guests. The nursery for 12-year-old. Patricia and seven-year-old Pamela has its own kitchens, modern play-room, and nurse's quarters. The front door has no handle. The beli is rung, the visitor scrutinised, and unless the porter switches on the current from the hall the door remains locked. The rent is £4200 a year.