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Article: Bauhaus in our house; Homes & Property.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2002
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Byline: KATRINA BURROUGHS
A modernist Hampstead home is for sale complete with its rare 1930s furniture. Katrina Burroughs reports
IT SEEMED a charmed life. Michael Ventris, Cambridge's most glamorous postwar academic, had it all: fame for cracking the Minoan script Linear B; screen-idol looks and a cutting-edge modernist home in Hampstead packed with furniture designed by Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. Then, in 1956, he was killed in a car crash aged 34.
His house, at 19 North End, together with its iconic fitted interior, has now come onto the market. In recent years it has been the home of architect John Renton, who reared his family in its ...