#holthanger

[ultimatepad]

“Holthanger,” Wentworth Estate, Virginia Water, Surrey, United Kigndom,

Built in the 1930s by British architect Oliver Hill for Katherine Hannah Newton

[simon-martin]

CHERRY HILL: here’s some modernist house escapism for a Monday morning. This exceptional International Style house was designed by the architect Oliver Hill and completed in 1935, and now it’s all been refurbished: it’s just gone on the market (yours for £30million). Situated on the Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water, it was originally called Holthanger and Southern Court, and was built for a wealthy single woman called Katherine Hannah Newton. It has everything one might one in a modernist house: curving sweeps of glass and white concrete, a spectacular staircase, cubic elements and open views. The property was featured in an American exhibition titled ‘Modern British Architecture’ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1937. Originally it had curtains designed by Marion adorn (who incidentally was married to E.McKnight-Kauffer - see my previous post). It is straight out of an Agatha Christie Poirot mystery, although I’m not sure it ever featured (it’s not listed as a location). One of its former owners was John Hay Whitney, United States Ambassador to the UK, publisher, art collector, philanthropist and investor. Whitney bought it in 1958 and renamed it after the exclusive Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver, Colorado where he and President Dwight D. Eisenhower enjoyed playing golf, close to Eisenhower’s “Summer White House”. Thanks to @theojwright for flagging this up. #cherryhill #oliverhillarchitect #modernistsrchitecture #architecturelovers #architecture #internationalstyle #architecturephotography #modernarchitecture (at Wentworth Estate) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKLfPEJlqyk/?igshid=1njjdwerbiqa7