Hat Boxes
VERNON BROWN and Peter Middleton, who have been contrapuntally speaking on Houses from 1YC, have provided goads stout enough to prod into life the most sluggish of troglodytes. In their concise treatments of planning, sites, materials and furnishings, they have avoided the two extremes of the neo-Le Corbusier box and the Builder’s Stereotype No. 2 and have established @ conception of a place to hang your hat which incorporates the best elements in modern functionalism with comfort and individuality. "Suburbia" did keep bobbing in and out of Vernon Brown’s talks; but I was especially interested to hear him condemn the fanatical pursuit of "modernity" and bareness for their own sake, and stress the folly of confusing what is actually a new and limiting fashion with indiyiduality of design. Although these talks would have been even better on television, where diagrams and pictures might have reinforced the points, the pair surmounted the lack of props with real skill. The rather racy approach of Peter Middleton balanced Vernon Brown’s clipped and more formal style, while both were sufficiently businesslike to sound more like residents of Zenith than denizens of
Cool Clary.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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192Hat Boxes New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 11
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