The party's over: Designer Patrick Cox sells his £2.75m Little Venice townhouse with 'disco loo' and an entire floor just for shoes

The shoe designer has found a buyer for his 'selfish' home.
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Patrick Cox has sold his £2.75m London party pad and is headed for Ibiza, with bulldogs Caesar and Brutus in tow.

The shoe designer, whose most iconic product – the Wannabe loafer – was synonymous with London in the Nineties, designed the four-storey house as the ultimate bachelor pad.

Describing the layout as “selfish”, Cox halved the number of bedrooms when he moved in in 2002, with one large room on each floor. The walk-in wardrobe for his 400-pair shoe collection spans the entire top level.

“I’m Canadian, I don’t want a bunch of Canadians coming to stay in the house all the time!” he explained.

400 pairs of shoes: the designer's shoe collection is stored in the top-floor walk-in dressing room 

Other distinctive touches include the mirrored disco loo, complete with sound system, and Classical sculptures displayed throughout.

The house has a small and virtually unused kitchen in the basement in a corner off the huge dining room, which was often filled with sketches of shoes because Cox mostly used it as a design studio rather than for eating.

Where the party's at: the mirrored disco loo, complete with sound system

“I’ve had maybe six dinner parties in 15 years – hiring a chef to cook and clear up. I’ve certainly never cooked a dinner party,” Cox told Homes & Property.

“You’re not coming to my house for a foodie experience, there are other pleasures in life.”

Most similar sized houses in Little Venice are four-bedroom family homes, but the characterful decoration and luxurious layout were a plus for the Lanark Road house’s buyer, according to Lee Koffman, house sales manager at Aston Chase.

Although Cox said he feared he’d moved to deepest suburbia when he first swapped Notting Hill for Little Venice, the house is minutes from Maida Vale tube station and the shops and restaurants on Clifton Road.