Amyas Connell

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

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  High & Over is a Grade II listed 'Moderne' Detached house in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

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

References

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