Issue No.3 of The Modern House Magazine
In issue No.3 you’ll find an ambitious photography project by Catherine Hyland, a British photographer who normally documents human interactions with landscapes in places like China and Jordan. This summer we tasked her with examining a place closer to home but, for her, less explored: the UK. The resulting work is a personal search for identity and meaning in Catherine’s Home Turf – the name given to the project – which takes in industrial sites in her native Midlands, livestock on the Isle of Skye and tourism in the Lake District.
On a sunny afternoon in late summer, food stylist and artist Imogen Kwok hosted some of her art-world friends and shared why eating, creativity and work all get cooked in the same pot for her. In Cornwall, our editor has a chance encounter with Pillwood House, designed by Su Rogers and John Miller in 1974 on a quiet coastal creek. On the other side of the water is Creak Vean, a brutalist-inflected masterpiece by Richard and Su Rogers, and Norman and Wendy Foster – aka Team 4. We look at how the two houses set the agenda for late 20th-century modernism.
High on the Tibetan Plateau, we pay a visit to Norlha, a luxury wood brand keeping a traditional way of life going in changing times. We meet its network of nomadic yak herders, weavers and artisans who tell us what their homeland means to them.
In Clerkenwell, jewellery studio Alighieri founder Rosh Mahtani lets us into her treasure trove of a house, which is filled with ancient artefacts, bespoke furniture and souvenirs picked up in markets around the world. Plus, what does home smell like to Cremate London founder Junior Adesanya? What is the legacy of Assemble’s Granby project in Liverpool? How is original Barbican architect Christoph Bon’s villa in the south of France looked after today? How is a former architect using ancient technology to make sustainable sea salt on Scotland’s West Coast? Discover all this and more in The Modern House Magazine No.3.
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