The Beaumont Hotel is a Grade II listed luxury hotel in Mayfair, London, United Kingdom. One of its rooms was designed by Antony Gormley as a public sculpture.
Location
The hotel is located at 8 Balderton Street, Mayfair, near Brown Hart Gardens. It has 73 rooms, including 23 studios and suites, and opened in September 2014.
History The building was erected as a multistorey car parkOwen Hatherley, Antony Gormley's Mayfair metamorphosis, The Guardian, 11 June 2014 in 1925–1926 to designs by the architects Wimperis and Simpson on behalf of Macy's Ltd.
Historic England note that "the façade is remarkably ambitious for a car park of this date", as well as "its importance in the evolution of the multi-storey car park as a distinctive C20 building type".
The building was listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England by Historic England in 2009.
In 2014 Antony Gormley designed a room as a public sculpture.Jonathan Jones, Antony Gormley's £2,500 Room without a view – review, The Guardian, 10 June 2014
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