Property News · September 3, 2017

Life in a Modern masterpiece home


A rare intact British Modernist house has been decorated as if the era never ended‘It’s personal expression, not faithfully reproducing an era, that gives a home character,” muses Niki fforde, ushering me inside her restored 1960s home. The concertina door swishes open to reveal an avalanche of colour. A toe-cossetting aubergine carpet clambers up the navy-walled staircase. Acid-yellow upholstery fizzles against mustard walls. Add a peppering of contemporary art and furniture and the odd midcentury find and you have a home that rekindles the iconoclastic spirt of the original without feeling retro.Residents point out the house where Tom Jones lived for a spell, sprinkling celebrity stardust on suburbia Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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