Modernist Estates
modernistestates.bsky.social
Modernist Estates
@modernistestates.bsky.social
Designer and writer (📚Modernist Estates, The Barbican Estate, Modernist Escapes and Golden Lane Estate)
🥾 Perambulations architecture walking guides 👉🏼 https://thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk
💻 Not-for-profit estate agency 👉🏼 modernistestates.com
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Maths was never my strong point but the 72hr Flash Sale is still on & my copies have arrived already! Big up to Stefi @modernistestates.bsky.social - another super edition in the Richmond to Ham guide, I still want to build a Span estate. Bring back reissues for housing projects & not just records.
September 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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72hr Flash Sale @modernistestates.bsky.social - just picked up some older Perambulations walking guides & the new (not in the sale, but still a bargain) Richmond to Ham edition, a route I walked & cycled a lot in olden days, but can now peer more closely at the architecture. thingsyoucanbuy.co.uk
Things You Can Buy
Things You Can Buy Stefi Orazi Modernist Estates Barbican Estate Perambulations Walking Guides Modernist Winter Cards Modernism
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September 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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New t shirt just dropped from @modernistestates.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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I endorse this @modernistestates.bsky.social message
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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As a fan of architecture I have followed some of the other walking routes by @modernistestates.bsky.social and now that we're getting a local one for Richmond and Ham I'll be getting that one too!
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September 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hello

Long shot.

The Riba library is shut (refurb)
I'm looking for a copy of the Architects
Journal, 29 July 1954
Can anyone help me?!
Thank you
July 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I went to see the new film/documentary about Eileen Gray and her E.1027 house. I wrote about it here: www.modernistestates.com/journal/e-1027
May 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Read about my ‘accidental’ purchase of vintage David Mellor cutlery, and the time I stole a spoon 😬. www.modernistestates.com/journal/davi...
April 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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If you’d like a boxed set of the ever popular North London Perambulations by @modernistestates.bsky.social (and who wouldn’t?) you’ll have to visit us at the @isokongallery.bsky.social shop. Open weekends 1100-1600.
March 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New Substack post: I wrote about my experience of living in a studio flat and some of the best ones currently on the market.
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A Room of One’s Own
The best Modernist studio flats in London currently on the market
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February 12, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Need a bit of reading time over the weekend with this fabulous new arrival, a comprehensive study of the Barbican Estate by Stefi Orazi @modernistestates.bsky.social.
Having not been for a proper wander round since a geography field trip over 30 years ago, I’m planning a Barbican visit soon too!
February 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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We're currently running a giveaway over on Instagram with @modernistestates.bsky.social of three copies of Ian Nairn's Outrage 🏢

Head on over for a chance to win a copy: www.instagram.com/modernistest...

#Booksky #Giveaway
January 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Only 20 days to go before days get longer again 🕶️
December 1, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Look at Life "Shopping by the Ton" … Smithfield market about 5 minutes in 😥

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Look at Life - Shopping by the ton, 1960
YouTube video by 47mrdoug
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November 28, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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As we head into the holiday season, please remember that small businesses are run by humans & have feelings to match.
November 28, 2024 at 8:53 AM
A reminder that these t-shirts are still available (they’re print on demand, so I’ll keep doing them until the housing crisis is fixed 🤪) All proceeds are donated to Shelter

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November 28, 2024 at 8:15 AM
I bought a very good book in Milan. Yet to devour.
November 27, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Camden council have done a great job of fixing the tiles on my estate. Really too quality work 👍🏻
November 26, 2024 at 6:39 PM
@mr-bingo.bsky.social yeahiiieee! Somewhere where we can take the piss out of each other again 🙌
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
I’m heading to Milan tomorrow, looking at Gio Ponti flats and houses, but if you have any suggestions of other modernist residential buildings, I’m all ears! 👂
Casa Laporte, Gio Ponti 1936

#milan #gioponti
November 21, 2024 at 5:45 PM
The Golden Lane Estate festive market is back this Sunday! I’m skipping around Milan so won’t be able to make it, but you should go anyway, lots of great stallholders this year!
November 21, 2024 at 1:40 PM
I've been punching away at my calculator this afternoon and have totted up sales of Perambulations over the last few months and can confirm we've raised another £284.75 for @sheltercharity and a total of £4,738.75 to date. Thanks everyone!
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November 19, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Emails like this make the ones complaining that their Perambulations have arrived bent almost worth it:

“we live in one of the few original and unchanged houses on the Royston Summers estate. If you would ever like to see our house and tour our estate I’d be very happy to host you.“

😍
November 18, 2024 at 7:44 PM
New Rental Property Alert!
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Whitecliffs
The Leas, Folkestone, Kent
2-bedroom Apartment
Architects: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon
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Available from 7 December 2024, offered part-furnished.
£1,550 pcm
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November 18, 2024 at 2:38 PM