If you fancy yourself as a bit of a musician, this next property might be right for you… Previous owners include Sir William Berry and Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera, who installed a world-class recording studio where many of the band’s most celebrated tracks were recorded.
And nowhere has mastered the art of showing off the most desirable homes for both buyers and casual browsers alike than The Modern House, the cult British real-estate agency launched by former architecture journalists Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill in 2004.
This beautiful Dales barn conversion for sale near Clapham is a lesson in why good design matters.
The open-plan home, covering 1,600 square feet, is wrapped in a rust-colored steel shell and brings in light through a slender three-story atrium.
All in all, the amount of time that we have spent at home in the past year has emphasised how important it is to live somewhere we truly love, with the continuing popularity of the real estate agent The Modern House and now its sister site Inigo demonstrating how aspirational home ownership has become.
The open-plan kitchen/dining area is flooded with light from roof lanterns and Crittall-style doors open on to decking designed for al fresco entertaining. With intricate cornicing, wooden floors and exposed brickwork, it’s achingly trendy.
Forget the magnolia — artist and designer Morag Myerscough has brightened up her Shoreditch home with eye-popping colour.
New property inspiration courtesy of the founders of everyone’s favourite Insta-famous real estate agents.
Turrets at the ready: the team behind the Modern House, the boutique estate agency that redefined property porn for the social media age, want to make classical architecture cool again.
Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill unveil new venture named after the 17th-century architect who sparked a revolution in British building design.
A sister site to The Modern House is being launched, with a lot more pattern, colour and period features.
For the uninitiated, The Modern House is about as far removed from your KFHs and Bairstow Eves as it’s possible to get. It doesn’t have any premises, its imagery is The World of Interiors-worthy and its listings read more like a lovingly-written feature than a shouty list of descriptors.
Designed by BPN Architects, it was once shortlisted for the Riba house of the year. Built of glass and steel, with full-length Crittall-style windows and reflective pools on the roof, the property is tucked into the hillside and covers 5,446 sq ft.
The 1979 courtyard home beams with bright hues after a playful revamp by Studio MacLean.
The warm, timber-clad interior in soft colours is topped by a distinctively shaped planted roofline, which adds a green touch to this former industrial plot.
Despite the peaks and troughs of the past decade, the coming year is promising for luxury property… The Modern House has stealthily carved a niche in selling design-led properties since its launch in 2004.
Built in the early 1960s, the property, was filled with light thanks to an abundance of large picture windows and it was clear that the one-off, mid-century property had been thoughtfully designed by an architect.
One of Britain’s most architecturally significant modernist buildings, the 1950s Rossdale House by Geoffry Powell in London N3 is up for sale.
Sir David Adjaye’s seminal Lost House in London is up for sale for $8.2 million, offering a rare opportunity to buy a private residence by the acclaimed Ghanaian-British architect.
The Modern House website has boomed in 2020 as people flock to gaze lustfully at its properties, even if they have no intention of buying.
A Gothic church transformed into a four-bedroom home arranged over 6,000 sq ft, including an entrance hall within a conical-roofed turret, a bespoke bronze spiral staircase and a master bedroom with a vaulted ceiling.