The Modernist artists who based themselves in Hampstead in the 1930s had, it's fair to say, a mixed reception from critics. At one show a critic wrote that 'having paid two shillings and sixpence for seeing the exhibition, I would willingly pay five shillings for not having seen it.'

If if was rocky for the artists, the Modernist architects bringing their ideas to this leafy corner of north London were even more divisive, sparking outrage among traditionalists at the time. 'The amazing thing is that any of their work was built at all,' wrote Corin Hughes Stanton in a Country Life article in 1976. 'The fact that it was is probably due as much to the weaker planning laws than exist today as it is to any other circumstances.'

Thankfully, they did, and today many of these buildings are rev

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