We’re really thrilled to show you the very first in our brand-new series, Listing of the Week. The hint remains in the name: each Friday, we’re going to cast a spotlight on among our finest houses presently for sale– and what much better method to kick things off than with this amazing modernist house by Walter Gropius
As the creator of Bauhaus and a leading leader of modernist architecture, Walter Gropius is understood for developing numerous things. His substantial contribution to the modernist motion, for instance, consists of Dessau Bauhaus and Fagus Factory, which epitomise what he’s perhaps best understood for: considerable, practical structures, such as schools, home blocks and healthcare facilities — most of which are based in his native Germany and consequently the United States. It wonders then, that in addition to Maxwell Fry, a substantial name in the British contemporary motion, he developed this weather-boarded home in the peaceful, countryside town of Shipbourne in Kent.
In between his time in Germany and the United States, Gropius had a spell living in Britain from 1934 up until 1937– he emigrated here with the aid of Fry to prevent the Nazi routine of his homeland. The good news is, prior to he left, he contributed a variety of wonderfully created, clean-lined structures, including this extraordinary house in concern, which he integrated in his in 2015. It is now called the only weather-boarded home in the nation by the designer. So, we’re rather thrilled that it’s noted with us for sale.
The customers of the job were Jack and Frances Donaldson. Jack, who later on ended up being a Labour political leader and OBE, and Frances had rather the circle of pals: in 1935, they were used the opportunity to develop a home on the estate of the notorious household of socialites, the Cazalets. Obviously, they snapped it up. It’s most likely such customers would have had the choice of the lot of designers at the time– and they carefully picked Gropius and Fry.
There’s a 3rd designer who might have this beautiful Grade II *- noted house on his CV: Walter Segal A fellow German émigré, the young Segal was revered for his experience in lumber structure– an ability which came naturally in convenient when Gropius was creating and developing this house. The extraordinary usage of lumber is, after all, the important things that initially strikes you about the pleasing outside. Oh, and does it advise you of anything? Architecture enthusiasts might draw the similarity to the Gropius-designed Sommerfield Home in Berlin, which has a comparable sincere natural scheme.
Now, let’s step within: the dazzling cobalt blue door that welcomes you nicely incorporates pleasing blue accents throughout the house. We’re a sucker for an excellent reading area, and this house has a library area total with a log burner. Our preferred area in your house? Rather potentially– however it’s competing with the close-by kitchen area that has a wall of floor-to-ceiling glazing that watches out to lashings of lavish plant.
We have actually been so overtaken the style and architecture that we have not even discussed stated outside area. Gardens, fully grown trees, and orchards of apple, pear, damson and the sort cocoon the entire home, developing a tranquil environment so stunning, it would not keep an eye out of put on a quite postcard. Desire you were here? We most definitely do.
