Rising up graciously out of the wind-blasted pebble landscape of Romney Marsh in Kent, the Shingle House is startling in its isolation. One of the first buildings to prompt Dungeness’ status as ‘a new Mecca for architecture enthusiasts’, the house is featured in Chrissie Rucker’s book For the Love of White.
Living a mere 200 metres away, it was Mark Robinson who contrived much of the homely qualities of the property. Mark, who is the director of Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture enterprise, was entrusted with overseeing the development of Shingle House back in 2008. ‘Living Architecture was founded in 2006 to enhance the appreciation of modern architecture through extraordinary holiday rentals. We wanted people to be able to experience architecture first-hand through actually living in it,’ Mark explains. ‘Alain liked the atmosphere in Dungeness, so we decided to build one of our first projects here.’
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