22/10/2025
Similar to his characteristic residence projects, his creations seem to be synonymous to sumptuous, warmth, richness, and always chic. Let’s unveil Joseph Dirand’s (super fans here) most recent accomplishments.
Situated at Grosvenor Square and designed by American-Finnish master Eero Saarinen, the former US embassy has been transformed into a 144-suite hotel, Chancery Rosewood London. While the rebirth of the building was appointed to Sir David Chipperfield, in Financial Times’ Edwin Heathcote’s words, ”If the public spaces tend towards the kitsch end of midcentury – chandeliers, chunky statement furniture and champagne-gold aluminium columns – the rooms go pleasingly the other way. Capacious, gorgeous and soothing, they are the work of Parisian architect Joseph Dirand, and they concentrate on calm and comfort.
“It’s interesting to conceive or to understand this building as, in a way, almost like kind of a modernist castle in the UK, built by the Americans in the ’60s,” Dirand says. “This idea of something that has a certain grandness and power – what comes to mind when you think about a private member’s club in London.” His designs veer away from midcentury cliché, but retain a cool ’60s chic. “I had to transform to a kind of a British flavour; the ’60s is like James Bond, it is fashion, it’s art, it’s the music.”
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