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Sissinghurst Castle: Vita Sackville-West's boots

RIBA5272
NOTES: This Elizabethan manor house, based on a double courtyard, with a central red-brick tower, was built by Sir Richard Baker in 1560-1570. It was saved from dereliction when Vita Sackville-West and Nigel Nicolson bought Sissinghurst, which included 400 acres of farmland, in 1930.

Westport House, County Mayo: the Morning or Toilet-room with a watercolour of the wife of the fifth Marquis of Sligo above the fireplace by James Wyatt

RIBA6999
Cassels, Richard (1690-1751)
NOTES: Richard Cassels, a German architect living in Ireland, was engaged by John Browne, later the first Earl of Altamont, in 1732 to design the present east facade as part of a classical house laid out around the core of the earlier fortified house, O' Malley Castle. The house was further extended in the 1770s, but the two wings at the back of house were never completed. The artificial lake was created by the second Earl of Altamont (d.1780).

Three bedroom flat in Highpoint One, North Hill, Highgate, London: carved stone figure by Henry Moore

RIBA8755
Lubetkin & Tecton
NOTES: The flat's interior and furniture were designed by Yorke & Breuer.

Three bedroom flat in Highpoint One, North Hill, Highgate, London: dining room trolley and painting by Juan Gris

RIBA8761
Gris, Juan (1887-1927)
NOTES: The flat's interior and furniture were designed by Yorke & Breuer.
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