A rare gem of a period property is oozing with original features
If the 100-year rule holds, these 1930s girl names should be fresh + ready for revival right about now. Ready for Joan, Irene + Frances?
A 1934 doctor takes on America’s newly acquired weight-loss obsession.
See firsthand the integral decade’s incredible impact on modern American interior design
We’ve just completed another Hove renovation – this time a 1930s kitchen extension and I’m bursting to share some sneak peeks with you!
A couple have thrown open the doors of their heritage-listed 1930s Sydney bungalow to local design, Danish modernism and Italian elegance to harness a refined retreat all of their own. Photographed by Anson Smart. Styled by Claire Delmar.
Funny how things turn out. In last month’s column, where I discussed my trip to the Stanton Street Shul, I made much of the fact that I did not have to resort to 3-D goggles to be transported back in time to the Lower East Side of the early 1900s. But, as luck would have...
When one of the finest modernist houses of the early 20th century goes up for sale, we are obviously going to be interested. Saying that, even a Lotto win
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A look inside one of Melbourne's earliest examples of well-designed, minimal, medium-density housing — designed by architect Acheson Best Overend.
Heather Dewberry Will Huff Norman Askins Atlanta Georgia Buckhead historic home Grandmillennial traditional interior design
The couple behind Rapture & Wright fabrics and wallpapers are used to combining their talents to creative effect – not least in the design of the Gloucestershire barn conversion where they live and work
A renovation project for sure, but this 1930s time capsule house in Harrow, Greater London is both fascinating and quite a prospect.
Have you ever wished that your marriage had a little more of the romance, respect and decorum of the 1930s?
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Modernism of the past, the 1930s Robert Lutyens Mango House in Torquay, Devon is also a very modern affair in the present too.
Maurice Fatio Home built in the 1930s
This place has appeared on these pages on numerous occasions, but this apartment in the 1930s Berthold Lubetkin-designed Highpoint Building in London N6 is a fairly recent addition to the market.
David Suchet has had his last outing as Poirot. The TV adaptation was a glorious love letter to the design and architecture of the 1930s.
A new exhibition at NGV Australia, Brave New World: Australia 1930s, which includes works by Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Grace Cossington Smith, Max Dupain and Albert Namatjira, highlights how Australian artists and designers captured this moment in history
Well, we featured the First Sun House some time back, so it would be rude not to flag up the 1930s Connell and Ward-designed Second Sun House in Amersham,
Charles Lindbergh's Nazi connections left him with a complicated reputation back home. Was Charles Lindbergh a Nazi? Was Charles Lindbergh antisemitic?
A look inside one of Melbourne's earliest examples of well-designed, minimal, medium-density housing — designed by architect Acheson Best Overend.
Peggy Angus isn't much celebrated today but these pictures from a new show at the Towner in Eastbourne highlight the work of a 20th-century great
Windlesham Moor, in Surrey, was lived in by the late Queen and Prince Philip for two years after their wedding in 1947. There they spent time with their eldest son, the then Prince Charles.
Huge thanks to Damon for spotting and sending us details of the Fairbank 1930s art deco property in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. According to the agent, Firbank
During World War I, hundreds of young women went to work in clock factories, painting watch dials with luminous radium paint. But after the girls — who literally glowed in the dark after their shifts — began to experience gruesome side effects, they began a race-against-time fight for justice that would forever change US labor laws.
A new photography exhibition by Sydney-based photographer Lyndal Irons will shed light on the world of Physical Culture – known as Physie – which has been active in Australia since 1892.
The extra-long kitchen has miles of glass
The Obertal B-listed 1930s art deco house in Leven, Fife, Scotland is in remarkably original condition. It has also just been discounted.
A Sydney designer took just a year to transform a dark, dreary 1980s house into a light and airy home that turned a handsome profit.
On the market back in December, the Sunpark 1930s art deco house in Brixham, Devon has just had a significant price drop.
The Saltings 1930s Connell, Ward and Lucas modern house in Hayling Island, Hampshire is back up for sale with a reduced asking price.
Incredible archive images show a young Princess Elizabeth playing outside her Wendy house, gifted by the people of Wales for her sixth birthday, with sister Margaret.
One of the iconic grade II-listed Sun Houses in Amersham is now up for sale.
This week we were finally granted planning permission to renovate our 1930s house into a Scandinavian inspired contemporary family home. Come and see the design prepared for us by Detail Architects and get tips on how to navigate the planning process.
A look inside one of Melbourne's earliest examples of well-designed, minimal, medium-density housing — designed by architect Acheson Best Overend.
Architecture studio Freadman White has remodelled a 1930s Melbourne house that was extended in the 1970s, and created a new room featuring an angular roof
The Oscar-winning musician and producer fell for the airy abode's "wow factor"—then began to infuse it with his inimitable style
When one of the finest modernist houses of the early 20th century goes up for sale, we are obviously going to be interested. Saying that, even a Lotto win
On the market back in December, the Sunpark 1930s art deco house in Brixham, Devon has just had a significant price drop.
These iconic institutions have impressed Los Angelenos since the glory days of Old Hollywood
Connell and Ward’s First Sun House in Amersham, Buckinghamshire is back up for sale, appealing to anyone in love with 20th-century modernism.
The photography of Marianne Breslauer is striking for both its intimacy and its subjects—women, usually of the sleek, chic and gender-bending variety, posed to optimum androgynous elegance. A bohemian Berliner by birth, Breslauer studied under Man Ray for a time in Paris and achieved some commercial success before returning home to an increasingly volatile Germany. As a Jewish artist working in an obviously queer milieu, Breslauer eventually fled to Switzerland and retired from photography early, eventually marrying a man and becoming an art dealer. Among the many beautiful faces captured by Breslauer was her dear friend, Swiss writer, journalist and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, who she described as “neither a man nor a woman, but an angel, an archangel.” A libertine and rebel, Schwarzenbach defied her wealthy, Nazi-sympathizing family, funding anti-fascist publications and later supporting American unions at the height of the Depression—this is not to mention her adventures hitchhiking across India and Turkey, or the many lesbian affairs. Surviving addiction issues and a suicide attempt, Schwarzenbach nonetheless died at the young age of 34 after a fall from a bicycle, leaving behind a prolific body of work, 170 articles and 50 photo-reports. ...
Big thanks to Matt Somerville for spotting (and sending us) an absolute gem that's on the market, this 1930s Mollie Taylor-designed Kilowatt House art
