18 minutes to Kings cross but a lifetime from ordinary
“Live Beautifully, Live Simply, Live Connected”.
Design Philosophy
Crafted,
Not Built.
It’s about
Stillness.
Precision.
Purpose.
Each element — oak, stone, glass — chosen not for show, but for truth.
It’s how luxury feels when it’s honest
Technology in Harmony with Tradition.
Discreet.
Silent.
Effortless.
Beneath the natural materials, every system — lighting, energy, comfort — works in harmony. You never see the technology.
You simply feel its intelligence.
The Experience
True luxury is Space. Light. Time.
Designed to slow you down — to remind you what it feels like to simply be.
Connection to
Nature.
Designed to Disappear into Nature.
The architecture breathes with the land. Floor-to-ceiling glass dissolves the boundary between inside and out. At dusk, reflections fade — and the horizon becomes home.
The Neighbourhood. Perfected. A Place to Grow
Life Beyond your Doorstep
The Lifestyle
Form follows Feeling.
It's a retreat for thinkers, dreamers, makers.
A space to reconnect — with nature, with craft, with yourself
This Is More Than A Home
Inspired by What
Came Before
Decades of change, craftsmanship, and community woven into one enduring vision.
A Place with a Story to Tell.
Connections to local orchid-growing traditions
While Ivens Orchids is a more recent entity, the area (St Albans / Sandridge) has a longer heritage in orchid cultivation, linked especially to Henry Frederick Conrad Sander.
"A Place with a Story to Tell."
Reichenbachia (1888–1894)
Lavish folio of life-size orchid plates (chief artist Henry G. Moon), published at St Albans by F. Sander & Co.
"A Place with a Story to Tell."
Sander’s (Sanders’) Complete List of Orchid Hybrids
Tabular register of known orchid hybrids (later continued/updated beyond Sander’s lifetime).
"A Place with a Story to Tell."