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Split-level apartment full of houseplants set in a 1937 modernist building, Peckham, Southwark, southeast London, UK [2400×1602]

by ManiaforBeatles

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  1. ManiaforBeatles

    [More pics and information, including floorplans](https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/pioneer-centre-ii-2/). The Pioneer centre was originally designed by [Sir Owen Williams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Williams_(engineer)) in 1935 as a purpose-built health centre for the [Peckham Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peckham_Experiment), a unique study into the nature of health, led by Dr George Scott Williamson and Dr Innes Pearse. The scheme was devised to observe families in a community setting and to monitor the factors that contributed to human health. It is now a fully residential development, configured around communal tennis courts and a [recently refurbished indoor residents’ swimming pool](https://i.imgur.com/egqtAz7.jpg). The Centre is characterised by [elegant facades with expansive sections of glazing and simple cubic massing of white concrete](https://i.imgur.com/mEQ9WDV.jpg), and was described by Walter Gropius as “an oasis of glass in a desert of brick.”

  2. Any info on the shelf system? Looks like metal rails in the wall.

  3. bethanyjane77

    I’m relieved to see someone else can’t get their pilea to grow upright.

  4. madcaplarks

    Kate Moss?!? Is she all green and fuzzy and mossy?

    But I have the very same poster in my home, bought it at the exhibition

  5. HoodsFrostyFuckstick

    Does anyone actually read these books or is it just decoration? It kinda looks like one of these “buy books just to fill the room” shelves.

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