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Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill, The Modern House

Mark Magazine is a curated, design-led journal for architecture lovers. They recently interviewed our Founding Directors Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill to find out more about a decade working with specialist houses.

How did the idea to open a real-estate agency come into being?
AH: When we founded The Modern House in 2005, we felt there was a gap in the market for an estate agency with a real understanding of the value of good design. Modern design, in terms of the property market, was generally treated with uncertainty and a level of suspicion, and we wanted to change the way people approached it. We wanted to create an agency that met our own expectations in terms of service, integrity and a genuine appreciation of architecture, and we looked towards the art and technology industries to create, what we hope, is a much more powerful way of selling property …

Read the full interview here.

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