John Winter and Associates' recent restoration of William Lescaze's High Cross House - built in 1932 on the hillside below Devon's Dartington Hall - has brought this early Modern dwelling vividly back to life. Approaching up the narrow lane that leads to the medieval core of Dartington (with its fourteenth-century Great Hall and tranquil courtyard), there is a sudden flash of blue amid the trees - the blue, newly re-instated, of the former servants' block of High Cross House. Beyond the door in the centre of this blue block is another shock of colour - a vibrant yellow that floods the hall. As in the Connell Ward and Lucas exhibition now touring the country, the myth of Modernism as a white architecture is persuasively dispelled.
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