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[[File:KitClose2.jpg|300px|right]] Kit's Closer is a Grade II listed [['Moderne' Houses|'Moderne']] [[Detached]] house in Fawley, Buckinghamshire.  Kit's Close was designed and built between 1936 and 1937, by Christopher Nicholson, for Dr. Warren Crowe.  
[[File:KitClose2.jpg|300px|right]] Kit's Close is a Grade II listed [['Moderne' Houses|'Moderne']] [[Detached]] house in Fawley, Buckinghamshire.  Kit's Close was designed and built between 1936 and 1937, by Christopher Nicholson, for Dr. Warren Crowe.  


==Background==
==Background==
[[File:KitClose1.jpg|300px|right]]Connell was heavily influenced by the work of French Modernist  architect Le Courbousier, and 'High&Over' is aggressively [['Moderne' Houses|'Moderne']]<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3314399/The-century-makers-1929.html</ref>. It is listed as Grade II*, or “of more than special interest,” by the English Heritage organization, which notes the house is “of outstanding importance as the first truly convincing essay in the international style in England.” 
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In 1931, the news organisation British Pathé produced a short film about the High and Over home called 'The House of a Dream' (still available on the Pathe news site [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-house-of-a-dream| here]). The documentary opines that: “for centuries houses have been built to meet the needs of each age. Today, we dream of houses open to sun and air, embodying everything that modern science can offer"<ref>http://www.britishpathe.com/video/the-house-of-a-dream</ref>.
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[[File:KitClose3.jpg|300px|right]]The documentary describes the home as such: “for centuries houses have been built to meet the needs of each age. Today, we dream of houses open to sun and air, embodying everything that modern science can offer.”  Here at Chimni, we love it because it is in a number of Poirot episodes (see below)!
[[File:KitClosePoirot.png|300px|right|Poirot In the Main Drawing Room]]
 
[[File:KitClosePoirot.png|300px|right|Poirot In the Main Drawing Room]]In 2010 the house was fully restored by the then owners, the designers Paolo Guidi and Katherina Harlow, who were quoted as saying High and Over has a large circular drive and a hexagonal central hall. A circular void in the hall ceiling, which Mr. Guidi calls the “ocular,” allows views of the first and second floors, and a small shallow fountain sits on the floor.
 
“The Ashmoles used to give great parties here and we were told people were always accidentally stepping into the fountain set into the floor of the hallway. When we had our own parties we discovered it was true.”<ref> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/26/greathomesanddestinations/an-art-historians-modernist-gem.html?_r=1</ref>


==Poirot & Other Media Coverage==
==Poirot & Other Media Coverage==
[[File:KitClosePoirot2.png.jpg|300px|right|Poirot In the Main Drawing Room]]High & Over was used in [[Homes Used In Poirot Episodes|a number of episodes of the ITV drama series 'Poirot']].  It featured in Series 1, Episode 9 [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0676178/?ref_=fn_al_tt_7 'King of Clubs'] filmed in 1989, where it was used as the home of the character 'Henry Reedburn'<ref>http://www.tvlocations.net/kingclubs.htm</ref>. Played by David Swift 'Harry Reedburn' is the head of the Parade Film Studio entertaining starlet Valerie Saintclair' (played by Niamh Cusack) at High & Over, when his murdered body is discovered. Poirot is called upon once again!
[[File:KitClosePoirot2.png.jpg|300px|right|Poirot In the Main Drawing Room]] In the ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' Kit's Close was used to portray the home of the victim - industrialist Roger Ackroyd.


==See Also In Chimni==
==See Also In Chimni==
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==Other Interesting Sites==
==Other Interesting Sites==
Investigating Poirot - http://investigatingpoirot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/episode-by-episode-murder-of-roger.html
Investigating Poirot     http://investigatingpoirot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/episode-by-episode-murder-of-roger.html
 
British Listed Buildings  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-46657-kit-s-close-fawley-buckinghamshire#.V-LR6fkrJhE
 
Moderne Houses In Buckinghamshire  http://daveanderson.me.uk/houses/england/bucks.html


British Listed Buildings  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-46657-kit-s-close-fawley-buckinghamshire#.V-LR6fkrJhE
The Modern House Today  http://www.nickdawe.co.uk/gallery/the-modern-house-today/


==Books We Like==
==Books We Like==

Latest revision as of 19:12, 21 September 2016

Kit's Close is a Grade II listed 'Moderne' Detached house in Fawley, Buckinghamshire. Kit's Close was designed and built between 1936 and 1937, by Christopher Nicholson, for Dr. Warren Crowe.

Background[edit]

Poirot In the Main Drawing Room
Poirot In the Main Drawing Room

Poirot & Other Media Coverage[edit]

Poirot In the Main Drawing Room
Poirot In the Main Drawing Room

In the ITV adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' Kit's Close was used to portray the home of the victim - industrialist Roger Ackroyd.

See Also In Chimni[edit]

ChimniWiki Is My House 'Art Deco'?

Chimni Wiki Homes Used In Poirot Episodes

Chimni Wiki Page: Homes Used As TV & Movie Locations

Other Interesting Sites[edit]

Investigating Poirot http://investigatingpoirot.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/episode-by-episode-murder-of-roger.html

British Listed Buildings http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-46657-kit-s-close-fawley-buckinghamshire#.V-LR6fkrJhE

Moderne Houses In Buckinghamshire http://daveanderson.me.uk/houses/england/bucks.html

The Modern House Today http://www.nickdawe.co.uk/gallery/the-modern-house-today/

Books We Like[edit]

References[edit]

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