National Trust
Following the National Trust's successful campaign to acquire Erno Goldfinger's house in Willow Road, Hampstead, in 1993 Gwynne offered the Homewood, the last great pre-war modern house with its fittings and grounds intact. Avanti Architects worked with Gwynne to painstakingly restore the house.
Even at the end, despite increasing frailty Gwynne was still developing designs for a new house in the grounds to create an income for the Trust.
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