The former home of celebrated fashion designer Alexander McQueen is now on the market.
The penthouse with a roof terrace is just a stone’s throw from Hyde Park, and forms part of an imposing townhouse with a rich historical legacy.
A blue plaque on the building commemorates P G Wodehouse, who wrote some of his Jeeves stories while living there in the interwar years.
It has its own royal connections, too, as the one-time home of Alexander Mountbatten, Queen Victoria’s grandson.
But the legacy of McQueen looms largest over the three-bedroom home, after his suicide in 2010.
The stylish two-floor duplex has been recently renovated to pay homage to the designer's style, according to the estate agent, with skulls decorating it, and a chrome spiral staircase.
The so-called “bad boy of British fashion” had begun renovating the property himself at the time of his death, turning it from flats into a townhouse.
Fittingly, the building is less than a mile from the Savile Row tailors where it all began for a 16-year-old McQueen, who started out as an apprentice at Anderson & Sheppard in 1985.
It is also only a few hundred feet from Marble Arch Tube station, where Oxford Street meets Marble Arch and Park Lane.
In a sign of the performance of the central London market, the price of this flat has been slashed, after having been put on the market in 2016 for £8.5 million. It is now for sale with Fine & Country for £6 million (fineandcountry.com; 020 3861 8810).