Modern British Architecture

In 1938, the renowned architect Erno Goldfinger began to build 2 Willow Road for himself and his family in Hampstead. The house was completed in the summer of 1939, very shortly before the start of the World War Two in September of the same year.

At 2 Willow Road, Goldfinger merged more traditional Georgian styles with the concepts celebrated by the Parisian avant garde movement of the nineteen-thirties. This allowed him to create a house that was both widely different in its organization from traditional structures, but one that also blended with the surrounding Georgian architecture.

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