Designs for Peterlee New Town, Co. Durham

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Victor Pasmore, R.A. (1908-1998)
Designs for Peterlee New Town, Co. Durham
pencil drawing and wood maquette on card, unframed
21¼ x 14¼in. (54 x 36.2cm.)
and a maquette for the terraced housing, an unframed ink and gouache sketch for Sunny Blunts housing Estate, and a number of black and white photographs of Peterlee New Town.

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Lot Essay

The South West area, called Sunny Blunts, of Peterlee New Town in Co. Durham was constructed between 1963 and 1966. It was the first architectural project on a grand scale in this country to combine the ideals of an artist, the concepts of an architect and the realities of a town planner.
In relation to this project Victor Pasmore wrote "While I believe that the architect is an artist just as much as any painter or sculptor, the professional architect today can't really deal with pure architecture. Building is a utilitarian business. But certain aspects of painting and sculpture have completely emancipated themselves from utilitarian factors and now you have some painting and sculpture that is more like pure music. I think the same could sometimes happen in architecture."
(Twentieth Century, Summer 1962, p.124)

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