Inside the London flat with decor that inspired the Titanic’s VIP dining room to rent for £15k per month

The entire restaurant in the original building was copied on board the ill-fated Titanic, from the decor to the place settings
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Ella Jessel4 March 2022

An opulent Covent Garden apartment that inspired the first-class dining room aboard RMS Titanic is up for rent — at a cost of £3,500 a week, which works out at over £15,000 per month.

The 1,81sq ft first-floor flat is part of a Grade II-listed building at 410 Strand, and has a grand main reception with four-metre high ceiling and ornate plasterwork.

The building was formerly used as the restaurant for the Adelphi Theatre next door.

In its heyday it was frequented by London’s elite, including Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward.

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Designed by leading Victorian theatre architect Spencer Chadwick, the Adelphi Theatre Restaurant was owned by brothers Agostino and Stefano Gatti, a wealthy Italian-Swiss dynasty who owned a portfolio of theatres such as the Adelphi and The Vaudeville.

In 1908 J. Bruce Ismay, a regular customer at the Adelphi dining room and shipping company chairman, hired the Gatti family to run the à la carte restaurants on his new ocean liners the RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic.

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Ismay was so impressed by the interiors of the Covent Garden dining room, he later decided to create a recreate its design for the first class dining room on the ill-fated Titanic, even copying the menu and table place settings.

When the ship sank in 1912, Gaspare Gatti, the Gatti brothers’ cousin who managed the a la carte restaurant on RMS Titanic, was on board along with 35 of his staff.

The first-class dining room and ballroom on board the Titanic
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The Adelphi Theatre and restaurant was sold by Jack Gatti (one of the next generation of the family) in 1955.

In 2010 the building was bought by a developer and underwent a four-year restoration.

It’s now known as Gatti House where there are four flats, including a £5.95 million penthouse.

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In the original sales particulars the flats were advertised as having “pizza lifts” delivering from the Nell Gwynne Tavern next door.

Marketed by Knight Frank, the Gatti House apartment has two en suite bedrooms, a 22sq ft terrace and 8sq ft of ornamental balconies.

Its spacious reception room and dining area has three pairs of French doors opening out onto small balconies.

There’s a separate fitted kitchen and breakfast room, with a central island and four-seat breakfast bar and diamond pattern marble flooring.

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