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Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in [[Connell Ward & Lucas]]. He was the architect behind the wonderful [['High & Over']], a [['Moderne' Houses| Moderne house]] masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in [[Homes Used In Poirot Episodes| 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>. | Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in [[Connell, Ward & Lucas]]. He was the architect behind the wonderful [['High & Over']], a [['Moderne' Houses| Moderne house]] masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in [[Homes Used In Poirot Episodes| 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>. | ||
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Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in Connell, Ward & Lucas. 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>.
See Also In Chimni
ChimniWiki 'High & Over'
Chimni Wiki Homes Used In Poirot Episodes
ChimniWiki Is My House 'Art Deco'?
Other Interesting Web Sites
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
References
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