I have had a residual memory of delivering a brown paper parcel down an alleyway to a Tudor house somewhere in Mayfair when I was working on a holiday job at Heywood Hill in the mid-1970s. I realised where it was when I was walking down Mount Row this morning. In amongst the normal Wrenaissance of Mount Street is a perfect Tudor house designed by Frederick Etchells, the Vorticist and translator of Corbusier’s Vers une architecture, in 1929. It is as un-Corbusian as it is possible to imagine, complete with wood carving and a plaster ornamental wall:-




Thank you. An amazing ‘discovery’. It would be good to hear how, why and when Etchells, a key Voticist, came to this.
What I wonder was in the brown paper bag?
Robert
A book delivery ! Charles