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Five Modernist homes in London you'd give your right arm to live in

Mike Pollitt | Thursday 2 June, 2011 12:05

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1-3 Willow Road
2 Willow Road
Designed by Erno Goldfinger, whose name inspired the bond villain. You can’t live here, because it’s gone all National Trust, but you could live next door which would be almost as good.

Lawn Road and the Isokon building - geograph.org.uk - 673726
Lawn Road Flats
1930s built, beautiful to look at, and the place where Agatha Christie spent the war. Now lived in by some lucky “key workers”, which kind of makes me regret not doing that 7 year medical degree.

TQ3472 : Six Pillars, Crescent Wood Rd by Nigel Chadwick
Six Pillars, Crescent Wood Road
This Sydenham house was on the market for £1.5m in 2005. A pdf with some pretty sexy interior shots is here. Only £1.5million! Kind of makes me regret not spending the last 5 years in an investment bank.

TQ3573 : .
All Aboard, Horniman Drive
Some will tell you this is more Art Deco than Modernist. To them I say, that’s a false distinction. It’s all one movement baby!

66 Frognal
66 Frognal
Yet another one up Hampstead way. You’ve got to hand it to the Hampsteadians, they certainly know how to consolidate their power and wealth through the medium of housing. God damn them.

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