8, Mount Row

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:-

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3 thoughts on “8, Mount Row

  1. Mark Fisher's avatar Mark Fisher says:

    Thank you. An amazing ‘discovery’. It would be good to hear how, why and when Etchells, a key Voticist, came to this.

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