NOTES: Margaret Traherne (1919-2006), the artist and designer, and her husband commissioned this modernist artists' house on land adjoining Ham Common in 1953.
NOTES: Sometimes referred to as the 'Courtyard House', this glass-sided house was designed by Hordern for his parents. He had travelled in the United States and had been particularly influenced by Craig Ellwood who produced rectilinear steel-framed houses in southern California, known as case study houses.
NOTES: Wright & Wright's design proposed alterations and additions to the Henry Cole Wing, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, to accommodate the RIBA Special Collections (Drawings and Manuscripts) and study rooms.This drawing depicts various historical figures (including Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, Christine Keeler and Oscar Wilde) seated at tables in the proposed new study room, viewing items from the collection. On shelves above them are models and portrait busts from the RIBA's collections.
NOTES: Wright & Wright's design proposed alterations and additions to the Henry Cole Wing, Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington, London, to accommodate the RIBA Special Collections (Drawings and Manuscripts) and study rooms.This drawing depicts an imagined meeting of Sir Henry Cole, Captain Francis Fowkes and George Grey Wornum in the proposed new RIBA study/reading room, where they are shown viewing items from the collection. On shelves behind them are models and portrait busts from the RIBA's collections. In the foreground is a model of the proposed study room design itself.
NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning your home' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved layout and modern design in the domestic home.
NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning your home' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved layout and modern design in the domestic home.
NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning your home' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved layout and modern design in the domestic home.
NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning your home' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved layout and modern design in the domestic home.