Light and airy, the 5,035-square-foot apartment is spread over four floors in a building originally designed as artists' studios and used for five decades as a recording studio by musicians including the Sex Pistols, Rod Stewart, the Troggs and Art Garfunkel.

"The design is contemporary, with all manner of conveniences to make living here a dream, but I have retained all original features, restoring stone, windows, terrazzo, teak paneling," Ms. Lovelock says of her refurbishment of the apartment, which includes an integrated audiovisual system and underfloor heating. "The added materials were chosen to complement the grandness of the original design, but keeping things light, but rich at the same time

There are four bedrooms and five bathrooms. Every bedroom has its own en-suite bathroom. Three of the bedrooms are on the lower-ground and there is a guest bedroom on the first floor

The property includes a cinema room and gym, galleried reception room, large kitchen/dining room, conservatory and a study. It also has a private off-street parking space.

Holland Park appealed to Ms. Lovelock for its beauty, peacefulness and location, she says. "We are only a few stops from the center of London, and near to the Holland Park's park. Most of the houses have gardens. There are local shops and it has a village feel but with access to all the great town things like restaurants, theaters, galleries." Lansdowne House is listed with Aylesford International and VanHan at £10.4 million ($16.2 million).