Six homes that epitomise the day-to-day dynamism of mid-century design

Fortunate newlyweds may get a home home appliance as a wedding event present. The luckiest– like designer Peter Wormsley’s sibling– may get a home, created particularly for them as a nuptial present by an especially visionary brother or sister. Among the very first post-war homes to be noted, Farnely Hey represents an essential minute in Wormsley’s profession and, more broadly speaking, in mid-century British style. The late architectural historian, Elain Harwood, summed it up hence: “[Farnley Hey] represents the very best of the 1950s in its lightness, sense of the picturesque, and positive position.”

While completely matched to its West Yorkshire setting (double-height windows frame huge Pennine panoramas), your home remembers the continental modernism of Le Corbusier and the American cool of Frank Lloyd Wright’s domestic styles. Being among the finest mid-century homes in the nation, it’s tough to single out any one specifying function, however it would be remiss people not to point out ‘The Dancefloor’– a space of impressive percentages that has actually seen its reasonable share of lobbyists.