{"id":113227,"date":"2019-12-21T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/modern-history-a-modular-home-in-camberwell\/"},"modified":"2019-12-22T00:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T17:21:49","slug":"modern-history-a-modular-home-in-camberwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/modern-history-a-modular-home-in-camberwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern history: a modular home in Camberwell"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThis immaculate single-storey house is still bursting with the design details that made it a 1970s classicWhen interior designer Jason MacLean discovered an original 1970s California-cool modernist house for sale in Camberwell in 2006, he jumped at the chance to buy it. \u201cI came to view the house on the Saturday and bought it on the Monday,\u201d he recalls. \u201cThe week before, I had been to Palm Springs. I love the period architecture there and I had visited the Eames House, too. So when I saw this place I fell in love with it.\u201dBuilt and once occupied by British architect Martin Crowley in 1979, the single-storey compact house with a flat roof is a classic piece of infill architecture. It\u2019s set on a back street where it is virtually invisible, tucked away between a row of garages. The black-painted front facade is largely blank, save for a bright orange door through which you access a cobbled courtyard. Here, Douglas Deeds white fibreglass pots are dotted around underneath a black I-beam frame that extends out from the steel, glass and brick structure of the house. A bamboo garden helps to screen the towering Georgian terraces behind. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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