Amyas Connell
Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in architects practice Connell, Ward & Lucas which was highly influential in UK house building during the 1930s . He was the architect behind the wonderful 'High & Over', a Moderne house masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in various Poirot episodes. He designed 'High & Over' for Brian Ashmole, then Yates Professor of Archaeology at the University of London. Connell had met Ashmole in Rome three years earlier - when Ashmole was director of the British School there and Connell was a Rome scholar. In designing 'High & Over' he drew on the recent ground-breaking work of the French architect, Le Corbusier, to create a novel variation on the English country house. <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3314399/The-century-makers-1929.html</ref>.
Connell's Houses[edit]
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New Farm, Grayswood, Haslemere 1933
See Also In Chimni[edit]
ChimniWiki 'High & Over'
Chimni Wiki Homes Used In Poirot Episodes
ChimniWiki Is My House 'Art Deco'?
Other Interesting Web Sites[edit]
A web page dedicated to Connell, Ward & Lucas' Houses in Ruislip
Modernist Britain - a beautiful site celebrating the best buildings of the era
Books We Liked[edit]
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