Film
Poet LionHeart pens a love letter to the Barbican exclusively for The Modern House
When The Modern House first meets the spoken word artist, Rhael ‘LionHeart’ Cape he is fresh from a residency at the Fallingwater Institute and fizzing with new ideas. It has been 10 years since the 37-year-old gave up his day job to pursue life as a poet. He is now an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and hasn’t looked back. Apart from when asked to – which brings us here, to the Barbican, where his work with words began …
Interiors
Designed for moments: how Phil Coffey came to live in this compact but celebrated house, which he designed for a fellow architect
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My Modern House: Brigitte D'Angelo on life in a purist 1960s modernist house by John Penn in Suffolk
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Open House: costume designers Julian and Shaida Day invite us into their 1960s townhouse in Forest Hill
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Homing In Podcast
Sir Christopher Le Brun: the leading painter shares his artistic journey and the homes that have shaped him
Sir Christopher Le Brun is one of the leading British painters of his generation, with an eternal love of the blank canvas – "anything’s possible, it’s the best time, full of hope.” He intends to be as productive as possible across the next 10 years, so sitting down with him for our latest Homing In podcast in his rural Somerset home felt like ideal timing.
Photo Essay
A Day in the Life of a Listing: photographer Freya Najade captures Hackney 'letting its hair down'
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