{"id":807934,"date":"2026-03-06T13:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807934\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:07:20","slug":"the-tiny-exquisite-holland-park-apartment-of-martin-brudnizki-and-jonathan-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/807934\/","title":{"rendered":"The tiny, exquisite Holland Park apartment of Martin Brudnizki and Jonathan Brook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-dropcap has-dropcap__lead-standard-heading\">\u2018Our idea was to create a perfect little hotel room in London, a bijou flat for a couple of nights a week,\u2019 says Martin Brudnizki of the Holland Park pied-a-terre he shares with his partner Jonathan Brook. Perched on the second floor of a Georgian townhouse and overlooking a private garden, it is the quintessential jewel box of an apartment, luxuriously appointed and exquisitely finished in Martin\u2019s signature style.<\/p>\n<p>The couple, who work together at Martin\u2019s eponymous design studio, spend as much time as possible at their house in the Sussex countryside, but needed to maintain a base in London for work. When Martin sold his own flat, they decided to renovate and move into this flat of Jonathan\u2019s. The flat has a compact footprint \u2013\u00a0the sitting room and bedroom are essentially one long space running from the front to the back of the house, divided by a wall in the middle. Martin and Jonathan moved the door between them to allow light to flow through the entire flat. Off this central space is a miniature kitchen at the front , and a small entrance hall and bathroom at the other end of the room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Home Decor Indoors Interior Design Architecture Building Furniture Living Room Room and Cushion\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-dkeESL cQPiWi responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/01-20-25-HG-Brudnizki-Brook086.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A curtain and pelmet in the same Marvic moir\u00e9 as the walls divides the sitting room from the kitchen. One of a pair of Gothic Revival armchairs, upholstered in a flamestitch design, stands next to an antique tallboy.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Hearne<\/p>\n<p>The premise was to make it all feel \u2018as sumptuous as possible,\u2019 says Martin, \u2018but a little more contemporary than our place in the country. We took the history of the apartment as a starting point: a Georgian building that was redeveloped into apartments after the war, so we would mix the classical in with the modern and take a kind of Hicks-ian approach.\u2019 Strong colour and a bold patterned carpet were the starting point for a scheme that is indeed very much in the manner of David Hicks\u2019 iconic mid-century interiors. Martin created a sumptuous base by lining the walls of the two main rooms in fabric \u2013\u00a0glowing gold moir\u00e9 in the sitting room and chocolate brown mohair velvet in the bedroom, echoing these colours in the warm golden tiles of the bathroom and the tobacco brown paint in the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Our idea was to create a perfect little hotel room in London, a bijou flat for a couple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,2737,4022,110577,77,97052,105098,87364,163189,105097,91011,16,15],"class_list":["post-807934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-city","tag-design","tag-designers-houses","tag-entertainment","tag-flats","tag-houses-by-our-top-100-interior-designers-architects","tag-london-houses","tag-small-houses","tag-traditional-city","tag-traditional-houses","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116182387869583065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}