HOUSE OF THE WEEK: The Stanley Picker House

December 18th, 2013

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The Stanley Picker House in Kingston Upon Thames was designed in 1968 by British modernist architect Kenneth Wood for the businessman Stanley H. Picker (1913-1982). In 1976 Kenneth Wood returned to build a private gallery in the garden, dedicated to Picker’s growing art collection.

The house features contemporary furnishings, acquired through the then recently established Terence Conran Group.

In 2012 a book was published by Philip Wilson Publishers about the house and its interior, The Stanley Picker House and Collection: A Late 1960s Home for Modern Art and Design.

A Modernist in Suburbia is a short film by Fiona Fisher and Gilly Booth/hijack which examines architect Kenneth Wood’s wider career. It was created to accompany The Occupants exhibition at the Stanley Picker Gallery in 2012.