Top Billing recently visited Property Developer Brendan O’Brien’s beautiful Claremont home, nestled below Table Mountain in the leafy Southern Suburbs of Cape Town.

Considered to be one of Cape Town’s most elite residential areas for over a century, the charming ‘Hen and Chicken Estate’ sits within Upper Claremont, on the hill that gently slopes towards Newlands and Claremont CBD. Here, on one of the area’s quietest streets, Urban Space has created a remarkable secure estate of four striking, ultra-modern homes, each designed and crafted to a level of excellence that is their hallmark.

Xperiencemakers was the Interior Design Team behind the prominent Urban Space property developer’s beautiful Cape Town Home.

The striking modern architecture of Cadogan Place balances a Zen-like minimalist approach with the practical requirements of family living. The generously proportioned, open-plan main floor provides plenty of space for family living and entertaining. Large expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass bring the outdoors in. Living areas open seamlessly onto low-maintenance landscaped gardens, while upstairs all bedrooms, including the impressive master, are en suite.

Urban Space have considered, planned and designed every aspect of your home down to the last detail.

Having been involved in property development for a number of years, Brendan Obrien’s family and Irish heritage, were strong themes that Renee de Waal blended into the interior design.

Beautifully framed by custom wall paper throughout, Brendan’s home is brimming with personality and uniqueness.

The uninterrupted lines of the architecture by David Peerutin of Peerutin Architechts, was complimented by the sleek, sophisticated kitchen and Caeserstone concrete tops as designed by Xperiencemakers. Contemporary chairs and cladding to the front of the bar counter with a traditional twist, further provide the ideal balance between classic and contemporary.

Historical Background

Drayton House was named after Drayton Gardens, which lies between the Old Brompton Road and the Fulham Road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea with a number of significant cultural and historical landmarks, along with several diplomatic premises, found close by.

In the 16th century, and prior to development, the area formed part of a three-acre field on the Day Estate called Rosehall or Rose Hawe which later became a market garden. For more than two hundred years the Day family had owned land on both sides of Old Brompton Road. In 1835 the family purchased the enfranchisement of the copyhold tenure from Lord Kensington, the Lord of Earls Court Manor. Then, in the 1840s, there was a revival in London building activity and James Day leased the land to speculators and 57 houses were built within 7 years with the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1884 renaming the area Drayton Gardens. As an aside the largest single household in 1861 was not at one of the newly built residential houses but the Drayton public house, where lived the publican, his wife, their seven children and five servants, making a total of fourteen occupants!

A big thank you to #Topbilling for their feature on this Urban Space and Xperiencemakers Luxury Home Project.

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