A Designer Couple Restore One of Britain’s Most Revered Modern Houses
Christian Harvey and Victoria Davies take on the restoration of a Grade II-listed masterpiece: the Farnley Hey house by Peter Womersley.
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"It has lots of names: the wood house, the glass house, the James Bond house," says Christian Harvey of Farnley Hey, one of Britain’s most notable midcentury-modern homes, which Harvey and his partner, Victoria Davies, now own. "When it was built, it was like a spaceship had landed."
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