Architecture
Drew, Jane. (9 of 9). National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives
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Type
sound
Duration
0:21:06
Shelf mark
C467/03
Subjects
Architecture
Recording date
1995-05-20 to 1995-05-21
Recording locations
Interviewee's home.
Interviewees
Drew, Jane, 1911- (speaker, female), Mitton, Oriana (speaker, female)
Interviewers
Garlake, Margaret (speaker, female)
Abstract
Part 9: Interview with Oriana Mitton [OM] (Jane Drew's [JD] great niece). Describes OM's childhood memories of Lake House, near Crawley (JD's and Maxwell Fry's home); her recollections of Fry working, and of conversations about artists; layout of the house; JD's taste in television programmes; JD's additions to the house; art collections in the house, including work by Paolozzi, Le Corbusier, Renoir, Maxwell Fry, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore; place of children in the household; characters of JD and Maxwell Fry; parties at the house.
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