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Glebe Place

This new build house in Chelsea occupies a prominent corner site on Glebe Place. It is around the corner from a Voysey house and diagonally opposite a house by Phillip Webb in which Kubrick directed his last film Eyes Wide Shut.

Plain oak and painted panelled wainscoting, bronze casements with leaded lights, base bed Portland stone floors, barrel-vaulted ceilings, clay peg tiles, bath stone, pebble dash and exposed oak trusses were used in this immersive study of the techniques and technology of the Arts and Crafts movement.

“New houses of this quality are rare in London, and Gorst has responded to his commission with verve.”

Perspectives on Architecture, March 1998
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James Gorst’s work has helped to heal one of the most unnecessary and painful wounds in contemporary British architecture: between the traditionalists and the modernists. Like Louis Kahn in the United States or Peter Zumthor in Switzerland, Gorst reminds us that modernism can be beautifully reconciled with the underlying principles of classicism and that modern materials and idioms can carry all the elegance, dignity and grandeur associated with historical masterpieces.

Alain de Botton

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Design: Tom Green Design. Build: Designagogo.