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The Picker House and Collection
A Late 1960s Home for Art and Design
The Picker House and Collection
A Late 1960s Home for Art and Design
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Description
Picker House is a remarkable late 1960s modernist home specifically designed to accommodate a significant international collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture.
Situated on the outskirts of London, in Kingston upon Thames, Picker House is a rare surviving example of a spacious and progressive late modern house and garden that remains unaltered.
Designed by the British modernist architect Kenneth Wood in 1965, for the businessman Stanley H. Picker (1913-1982), it still retains its period interior decor, contemporary furnishings acquired through the then recently established Terence Conran Group. It also preserves the distinctive art collection of its owner - including works by Chagall, Frink, Hepworth, Lowry, Rodin and many more - which was an integral part of its conception.
Based on previously unpublished material and photographs, this heavily illustrated publication brings together leading researchers in their respective fields who examine in depth every aspect of this unique place.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction & Foreword
Stanley H. Picker: An introduction
Jonathan Black
Chapter One The Picker House: A British House With An International Outlook
Fiona Fisher
Chapter Two The Picker House Interior
Penny Sparke
Chapter Three 'A Living Green Background to the Works of Art': The Gardens of Picker One
Rebecca Preston
Chapter Four A Fascinating and Personal Collection: Stanley Picker's Paintings, Prints and Drawings
Jonathan Black
Chapter Five Inside and Outside: Stanley Picker's Modern and Contemporary Sculpture Collection
Fran Lloyd
Chapter Six The Occupants: Contemporary Perspectives on The Picker House
David Falkner
Stanley Picker Fellowships: Art & Design
Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 03 Oct 2012 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781781300053 |
| Imprint | Philip Wilson Publishers |
| Illustrations | 265 colour |
| Dimensions | 275 x 235 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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