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Description: | A brochure showing ten new types of semi-detached and detached houses on the Edgware Golf Course Estate 'a highly residential neighbourhood of superior character.' The choice was between a modern or a Tudor style house, depending on whether you saw yourself as a Modernist or a traditionalist The cover implies that it is A W Curton himself who is presenting the house, putting the human touch into speculative building.
The specifications and options for the houses are set out in detail and are interesting for the combination of real and imitation materials that went into making the 1930s semi. They included:' Portland Cement Concrete' foundations, 'large selection of Sanderson wallpapers', paintwork 'in realistic imitation of actual oak', and English oak 'half timbering to all Tudor houses.'
(JA) | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | Cityscape Home and Family | Temporal: | 1939 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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