At present you have three opportunities to buy a home designed by the late Claude Megson, whose homes sometimes didn’t look much from the outside, but at their best created a world for those within that almost seemed to encompass the whole universe.
As British architectural critic Geoffrey Broadbent said of Claude’s work some years ago,
This is work of a very high international standard indeed. ...One is constantly struck by the surprise around the corner, the bright shaft of light penetrating from above into the softer glow of the main living spaces -- especially in Megson' own house – that give his work such very special qualities...
There is an essential "rightness" about Megson's spaces, for pleasant occupation by ordinary, normal human beings.
Consistent with this, and something about which Claude was very proud, once settled in his clients very rarely moved out—as is the case with this home here, where the original owner has lived there for over thirty years!
This house is a small and almost original 1970s Remuera townhouse, with a later conservatory addition, currently showing at Open Homes.
PS: Here’s another one in the same block that was recently renovated:
Cross-posted at my Claude Megson Blog.
3 comments:
go and make them an offer Pete :-) Carol would like it
Not so sure about the bank manager, however.
Nice - very nice!
Now all I have to do is win Lotto.... :)
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