So continues his investigation into solitude in urban life, experimenting with his piano nobile apartment in a stuccoed Regency townhouse designed by Thomas Cubitt in central London.

 Formerly a tired rental property with none of its original fixtures remaining, the project resists a complete strip-out in favour of restrained yet radical interventions inspired by Bachelard, bringing out the poetic and emotional qualities of the purportedly banal interior.

The century-old Baltic pine floorboards under the carpets were carefully lifted, acoustically insulated from beneath, and reinstated alongside reclaimed timber. Existing but non-original tiled floors in the kitchen and conservatory were retained; cabinet carcasses were recycled, with only deteriorated components and doors replaced. Crudely constructed bookshelves and wardrobes were preserved and visually unified with the walls in monochrome.