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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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Architecture, Design and Heritage
My long term girlfriend is a life member of the National Trust, and as a result we often enjoy spending a weekend visiting National trust properties in the UK. Some of the properties we have visited in the past couple of years include:
- Lyme Park
- Gawthorpe Hall
- Speke Hall
- Shugborough Estate
- Moseley Old Hall
We have also visited some privately owned properties including:
- Beaulieu Palace House, Beaulieu Abbey and the National Motor Museum
- Holker Hall and Motor Museum
- Haynes Museum
I also enjoy Art Galleries and the theatre and have also visited in the past few years: - Manchester City Art Gallery
- URBIS (Manchester)
- The Lowry (Salford Quays)
- Birmingham City Art Gallery
- The Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool)* - My favourite gallery!
- The Tate Liverpool
- The Lady Lever (Liverpool) and Port Sunlight
- The Tate Modern (London)
- Sir John Soame's House (London)
- The Riena Sofia (Madrid)
- El Prado Gallery (Madrid)
- The Royal Exchange Theatre (Manchester)* - Probably my favourite!
- The York Theatre Royal
- The Blackpool Grande
- The Adelphi Theatre (Bradford)
- The JB Priestley Centre for the Arts (Bradford)
I have not yet had time to populate this section. However just as a stop gap I will briefly list the artists, designers and architects that I most admire, but the list is not exhaustive and I am fairly open minded and receptive to new ideas: - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Le Corbusier
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Richard Meier
- Edward Hopper
- Vincent Di Fate
- Charles & Ray Eames
- Sir John Soames
- Jacob Jacobson
- Jacob Jensen
- William Waterhouse
- David Lewis (Bang & Olufsen)
- Chris Bangle (BMW)
- Tadao Ando
- Ford Maddox Brown
- Richard Woolley (Rover/Lead Designer Range Rover)
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 May 2008 )
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