Nash-era stone, Grade II-preserved (1820s façade)
Phase 1 interim swatch — photography pending.
- Technique
- Heritage Nash-era stone façade (John Nash, early 19th-century Regent Street plan; 1920s Neo-Baroque rebuild), preserved under Crown Estate / Grade II listed-building consent
- Family
- stone
- First appearance
- Issue 01 · kith-regent-street
Editor note
The Nash-era stone façade at 314 Regent Street — part of John Nash's early-nineteenth-century Regent Street plan, rebuilt in the 1920s in Neo-Baroque register. Grade II-listed. The entire 2km Regent Street portfolio is held by The Crown Estate under one conservation framework. For Kith's flagship, the original curved-glazing vestibule — approximately a century old — was preserved, and new fixtures calibrated against it. Nothing on the street-facing elevation was touched. All architectural expression moved inside. This Directory entry captures the material argument by way of constraint: preservation as brief. Paired with Portland stone at Ferrari London, it reads as Issue 01's UK evidence — heritage material treated not as something to design against but as the starting condition that disciplines the interior. Nash-era stone itself is typically Portland or Bath limestone; this entry is about heritage preservation posture, not contemporary stone sourcing.
Specification notes
- 1820s Nash-era Regent Street stone façade; 1920s Neo-Baroque rebuild
- Grade II-listed, Crown Estate conservation framework
- Original curved-glazing vestibule retained (approx. 100 years old)
- No street-facing elevation alterations