Monday, 21 January 2008

Homage to Lubetkin

Airside must be closet Modernists.
Now unavailable at COSH.
Maybe hassle them for a Highpoint I edition?

Modernist on the Market: Utzon House, Hertfordshire

West Common Way is for Sale at £2.5m.
While you're there, check out the DCM house in Kilburn too

Via the Modern House.net

Ilmari Tapiovaara


When your CV shows you worked with Aalto in London, Corbusier in Paris and Mies van de Rohe in Chicago, do you need to know more? How about gold medals for his chairs at the Milan Triennials in 1951, 1954, 1957 and 1960.

Prikka T table

Also spotted at the Nordic Bakery, London

Sunday, 20 January 2008

VILLA, CHABREY

"This low-lying, expansive house in Chabrey encompasses two bedrooms, a garage and an indoor pool in a single volume. Reminiscent of an agricultural building or a hangar, its material simplicity allows it to blend into the rural landscape. The external walls and roof are clad in thin slats of wood, and the roof oversails the walls to create a covered walkway."

Via Wallpaper

The Homewood by Patrick Gwynne

Proof classical modernism can be fun.
Build by Gwynne in 1938 in Esher, it's sumptuous interior can be seen in this excellent
Virtual tour.

Picture via avantiarchitects