GLASS ARCHITECTURE.
ULTRA-MODERN DWELLING. Raymond McGrath, a young Australian research student at Cambridge, has transformed a house of MidVictorian ugliness belonging to. a University lecturer into what is claimed to be the most modern dwelling in England. . It has a front door of wired glass opening into the entrance hall which contains a silvered glass ceiling with pilasters of cast glass sheets. Lemon and gold leaf mirrors are arranged to give It length. The dining room has a cast glass dome and a black glass fountain, from which lights and changing colours are reflected. The furniture is made of metal and glass.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 7
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102GLASS ARCHITECTURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 256, 27 September 1929, Page 7
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