Ten years of Modernist Pilgrimage

Although my posting frequency has dipped in recent times, I have somehow managed to keep this blog going for ten years.

Thank you to anyone who has subscribed to the blog or read any of my content about the properties I’ve lived in/renovated, things I’ve bought and places I’ve visited over this period.

There are still a lot of places in the UK and abroad that I plan to visit, photograph and write about so the blog will probably still be around in another ten years, most likely looking just as basic and dated as it does now…!

Highlights from ten years of Modernist Pilgrimage (click on the photos to be taken to the full posts):

1. Finn Juhl’s House, 2014 – one of my first blog posts (please excuse the iPhone 4 quality photos) covering my first MP trip to Copenhagen
2. Dawson’s Heights, 2015 – an Open House visit to the Kate McIntosh-designed 1960s ziggurat estate
3. 19 Limekiln Lane, Bridlington, 2016 – a birthday stay in this AirBnB house on the North East coast
4. Isokon Lawn Road Flats, 2017 – an Open House visit inside several different apartment types in this modernist icon
5. The Homewood, Esher, 2017 – a trip to this spectacular National Trust property in Surrey
6. Marin County Civic Center, 2017 – a trip to one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s stranger builds during a holiday to San Francisco
7. Goodbye to the Firs, 2018 – a few photos of my first apartment just before I moved out
8. Where to look for a mid-century property in London, 2018 – a round-up of the areas that I searched during my protracted search for a modernist/mid-century property
9. Vitra sample sale 2019 – a write-up of one of the many furniture sample sales that I’ve visited over the years (this one resulting in the purchase of a still overpriced Eames lounge chair)
10. Palm Springs, 2019 – Palm Springs remains my favourite modernist destination of all time
11. Span Blackheath tour, 2019 – a write-up of a very comprehensive C20 tour of all of the Span estates in Blackheath led by the great Elaine Harwood
12. Great Brownings house tour, 2019 – a tour of our renovated Great Brownings house
13. Highpoint, 2019 – the second time I visited this incredible duplex flat in Highpoint on an Open House tour
14. Taliesin West, Phoenix 2020 – a visit to another Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece oddity in Phoenix, Arizona
15. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2021 – a visit to this museum which transitioned from a 1950s rustic cottage into a spectacular mid century modern space
16. La Cite Radieuse, Marseille, 2022 – a thoroughly unenjoyable stay in a photogenic but uncomfortable Airbnb apartment in this Le Corbusier icon
17. Barbican and Golden Lane Estate Tour, 2023 – this C20 tour took me deeper into both estates than I’d usually go and offered quite an illuminating insight into what resident life is actually like
18. Faro, 2024 – an excellent C20 tour of this underappreciated modernist city

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  1. charlenemullen's avatar
    charlenemullen

    Love your column and ended up buying a house on London Road, part of the Sydenham Hill estate. May I ask about the photo with the extension on there in the Dulwich Estate section? where is it please as my house being on the end I could possibly consider an extension so would be interested to see this one please, Thanks, Charlene

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      crash9080

      Thank you Charlene and congrats on your house purchase! I looked back at that photo and tried to identify where I found it (including by running a reverse google image search) but couldn’t find any more info about that particular property – apologies! It must have been a random google/listing that has now been taken down. Good luck with the extension if you go ahead with it.

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