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From boardrooms to bedrooms: ICI director’s office was the perfect formula for £18m penthouse in Westminster

Living inside a converted office building can signify all sorts of horrors, from striplighting and suspended ceiling tiles to badly converted, overcrowded homes. But an £18 million penthouse in the heart of Westminster bucks the trend.

There again, it hasn’t been converted from just any old office. The Gainsborough occupies one of four director’s offices in what was once Imperial Chemical House, the former HQ of industry giant ICI.

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