Published: 6 October 2026
Some properties are defined by their address. Others are defined by the people who made them. 10 Warner Street belongs firmly to the second category: for fourteen years, this Clerkenwell warehouse has been the working studio, gallery and private home of Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard, the design duo behind some of the most collectable sculptural furniture of the past two decades, with pieces held in the permanent collections of the V&A and MoMA. Now, for the first time, it is offered for sale through United Kingdom Sotheby's International Realty.
A Building With Its Own History
Long before it became a creative sanctuary, the building at Warner Street served a far more practical purpose: a Victorian workshop manufacturing wheels for carriages. That industrial past is still legible in its muscular brick fabric and quietly hidden position, tucked away in a corner of Clerkenwell long associated with the London of Charles Dickens, whose Oliver Twist is said to have drawn on the area's lanes and workshops for inspiration.
The approach itself carries history. A long, covered courtyard leads to the building's entrance, tracing the line of what was once an open Georgian street before the Victorians enclosed it during the construction of Holborn Viaduct. The outlines of the original windows remain faintly visible along its walls, a trace of the layers that have accumulated here over two centuries.
A Creative Campus at Ground Level
Fredrikson Stallard have spent over a decade shaping the building's ground floor into a space that functions as gallery, studio and stage in equal measure. A double-height space anchors the plan, where steel, brick and polished concrete create a deliberately raw architectural backdrop for the pair's sculptural work. Visitors move through a long, immersive entrance corridor that behaves less like a hallway than a curated exhibition route, opening onto a sequence of rooms that have hosted everything from ceramics production to major product launches.
A fully equipped ceramics studio sits alongside a series of flexible workspaces, capable of functioning as design studios, offices or additional exhibition rooms, while a further area with its own private entrance adds a layer of independence, suited to use as a self-contained gallery or studio space. At the rear, the ground floor opens onto a private courtyard garden finished in Italian travertine, its fountains and Japanese-inspired planting flooding the interior with natural light.
A Private World Upstairs
Climb to the upper level and the building's character shifts entirely. Solid oak parquet runs throughout a home defined by restraint rather than display: a kitchen in dusky marble and bespoke cabinetry opens onto dining and seating areas framed by elegant Crittall windows and doors. Bathrooms are finished in solid marble with hand-finished, patinated steel cabinetry, continuing the material language that defines the designers' work. Throughout, filtered daylight and tactile, handworked surfaces stand in for conventional ornament, a fitting reflection of a partnership built on what Fredrikson and Stallard describe as material honesty.
Beyond the principal rooms lies the property's most unexpected feature: a private garden planted with 200 silver birch trees, conceived less as a traditional city plot than a work of land art. It was shortlisted as a finalist for BBC Gardeners' World Garden of the Year, and offers a rare sense of escape at the heart of one of London's most densely built neighbourhoods.
Describing the building, Fredrikson and Stallard have said it has become far more than a place to work, evolving instead into what they call "a living, breathing environment that completely dissolves the boundary between our lives and our art."
Rooted in Clerkenwell, Connected to the World
For all its sense of seclusion, Warner Street sits within easy reach of Clerkenwell's cultural landmarks, just moments from Exmouth Market, Sadler's Wells Theatre and Spa Fields Park. Farringdon station and the Elizabeth Line provide fast connections across the city and direct routes to Heathrow and Gatwick, placing the property firmly within London's international creative circuit despite its tucked-away setting.
Becky Fatemi, Executive Partner at UK Sotheby's International Realty, notes that the building defies expectation, feeling discreet from the outside before opening into something expansive and immersive within. She points to a growing appetite among international buyers for spaces with identity and flexibility, rather than simply beautiful interiors, somewhere capable of evolving alongside how they live and work.
Darcy Hunt, Director of Sales, points to a broader shift among buyers at the top of the market, away from conventional luxury and towards spaces with genuine authorship and cultural weight, the kind of provenance that cannot be replicated by a developer's scheme. As he puts it, opportunities like this sit at the intersection of the art market and prime property, precisely where the strongest global demand is currently concentrated.
A Rare Opportunity
Properties that double as an artist's life's work are vanishingly rare in central London, and rarer still when that work sits within the collections of the world's leading design museums. 10 Warner Street offers a buyer not simply 4,073 sq ft of space in one of the capital's most design-literate postcodes, but a fully realised creative environment, shaped over fourteen years by two of Britain's most significant contemporary designers.
10 Warner Street, Clerkenwell, is offered leasehold for £3.95 million.
