The Modern House | Selling the UK’s most inspiring living spaces
WEBThe marketing team went to extraordinary efforts to promote my house via their own outreach and in national media. All in all, a great experience.”. View all Past Sales. “An estate agency like no other, The Modern House sells the most incredible design-led homes in the UK” – Evening Standard.
The Modern House Journal | Inspiration for modern living
WEBThe Sicilian art director and maker – perhaps best known for his wavy ‘Lampada Cappello’ lamp – has a penchant for peculiar pieces that he finds anywhere and everywhere. His shelves and surfaces, for instance, are stacked with bits of wood he’s picked up in the park, a miniature metal bull and an Inspector Montalbano book gifted by ...
Checking In: Simon Elvins and Adele Jeffs at their Walter Segal house
WEBIn 2019, Simon and Adele bought and sold through The Modern House, swapping their two-bedroom flat in Forest Hill for their new home, which looks over Sydenham Wells Park and was built in 1981 by a local resident who secured the plot in a land lottery held by Lewisham Council. Jake Elliot, Senior Appraisals Specialist at The Modern House ...
Kevin McCloud takes us behind the scenes of his own life
WEBAnyone who’s ever dreamed of building their own home has probably watched an episode of Grand Designs.In fact, quite a few people have – the programme has been on our screens since 1999, during which time Kevin McCloud has cemented his reputation as a great deliverer of thoughtful monologues on the wonders of modernism (and a master of the raised eyebrow in the face of bloated budgets and ...
A local’s guide to Highbury and Canonbury: design and …
WEBThat there is a bus stop named for this modernist estate says something of its size (and provides a handy prompt for those stepping off here). Designed by Darbourne & Darke between 1966 and 1976, the Marquess Estate demonstrated a new mode of council housing in Islington: in contrast to the high-rise residential blocks that had dominated the previous decade, it was the first of its kind to ...
Chronicles of Modernism: the history of Klein House
WEBMay 14th, 2020. In this new series, we’re looking through our archive of homes to chronicle how modernist architecture and its various iterations were expressed in Britain. In this first instalment, we uncover the story of Klein House, commissioned by its namesake owner, Bernat Klein, from Peter Womersley, one of the country’s most esteemed ...
Loft Apartments for Sale - The Modern House
WEBLight-filled, airy spaces, often with industrial heritage and features like exposed brick walls, steel columns, sash windows, timber beams and concrete shuttering make up this collection of loft apartments. Looking for sprawling studio space in Clerkenwell, a characterful east London abode or canal ...
My Modern House: Emma and Ross Perkin of Emil Eve architects
WEBSep 29, 2020 · For Sale: London homes under £500k. October 2nd, 2020. After leaving their compact flat – sold by us in 2017 to Holly Swayne – Emma and Ross Perkin of Emil Eve architects took on a more substantial project to house their growing family: a three-storey Victorian house in Stoke Newington’s conservation area. Their renovation installed ...
Architect Nicola Chan on the joys of lateral living at her carefully ...
WEBIn 2016, architect Nicola Chan and her husband Tom Williams swapped London for Bristol, buying a Victorian house in Easton, an area just east of the city centre. However, two years later, they found themselves craving precisely the sort of apartment living that they had left behind in the capital.
Character building with Paul Firmin and Niko Dafkos, founders of …
WEBJul 25, 2022 · “Character doesn’t just mean old. I think there’s a misconception there,” says Paul Firmin. Six and a half years ago, Paul and his partner, Niko Dafkos, moved into a new-build house in the leafy suburb of Leyton, east London.