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A "Brutal" experiment in solar power |
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Bob Clark, artist, photographer and writer bought the house from the Smithsons in 1982 after a chance sighting of a small picture in a Salisbury estate agent window.
He describes one of the Pavilion's unique attributes: "It's more than a home - it's a home and a garden combined. It goes back to an idea the Smithsons had in their 1956, London Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, "This is Tomorrow".
© Bob Clark
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"It was seen as 'Patio and Pavilion', with the garden combining inner space and outer space… it is a very spiritual place which I became very attached to over the 20 years I owned it."
In sympathetic hands
Naturally, with such a personal attachment to the Pavilion, when Bob Clark decided to move, only after the death of his wife, he was insistent on selling to someone who shared the same understanding for the integrity of the building.
Luck had it that the current owners, Ian and Jo Cartlidge, do.
Their London home is at the Barbican, another example of modernism, but on a comparatively gigantic scale. So their feelings were already established.
One of their loves of the place, as their country retreat, is the way in which the garden is in concert with the building. It could be exposed to the elements and in touch with nature.
"All the doors on the ground floor fold back, so in summer days, they can open the whole elevation up to the garden - it relates to the garden in a very strong way," says Ian.
© Ian Cartlidge
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But the Smithson's experiment with solar power was unsophisticated, and its efficiency has always been questionable.
Ian explained: "You could not rely on solar heating for any season - we supplement it with a wood burning stove, but that is what the Smithsons did too."
"We have taken the Pavilion on as a serious project, and are now lovingly restoring it," - the Smithsons and indeed Bob Clark can rest assured.
Please note: this is a private residence and not open to the public.
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