67-68 Pall Mall

Description

Built in collaboration with Romaine-Walker and Jenkins, Lutyens only designed the elevations. The design incorporated a Banking Hall on the ground floor and flats above. The façade demonstrated a facility, much admired to the 1920s of ‘how to get up a building without repeating yourself’; the windows of each floor are different. (Amery et al, 1981, Cat no.193)

Nos. 67–68 on the corner to Marlborough Road, of 1930–1, has elevations designed by Lutyens. Here he seems fully in control, and not just pranking up a big utilitarian mass, as at some of his late commercial projects. Twin pedimented top bays, mannered mezzanine windows to a different rhythm, and a rusticated Doric ground floor with pilasters which seem to disintegrate and recoagulate. (Bradley & Pevsner, 2003, p.618)

Bibliography

Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain.

Bradley S & Pevsner N (2003) LONDON 6: WESTMINSTER. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Also Cited In

Butler, A., 1950. The architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: the Lutyens memorial series. Vol III: Town and Public Buildings: Memorials: The Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool, Country Life: London and Scibners: New York.

Listing Grade

II

Listing Reference

1126570

Client

Victor Behar