Motorchef. Burtonwood on the M62 was built in 1974, with a pair of dramatic roof forms swooping up like a swirl of whipped cream. Materials and design As well as building design, Gwynne also advised on furnishings and landscaping to create a complete ensemble. His use of plastic finishes included a special grass paper which was also his own product. "People seem to recognise my work as being from my hand in spite of the strong influence of client and site", he wrote in 1984. His later houses became more curvilinear, with rounded corners; one in Blackheath (22 Park Gate, designed for Leslie Bilsby) is designed as a series of linked pentagons, a space-age capsule that references the proportions of neighbouring Regency buildings. His clients included the actors Jack Hawkins, for whom Gwynne designed a house in Bournemouth for his parents-in-law in 1959, and Laurence Harvey, who commissioned a house in Hampstead, the pianist Clifford Curzon, and Sir Charles Forte. The largest was built at Witley Park, Godalming, Surrey, for Gerald Bentall in 1962. Gwynne retained the European quality of 1930s modernism in his careful choice of materials, delight in gadgets and neo-Baroque sensibility. His obituary in The Times notes his genius for his residential work "with his faultless sense of placing, innovative plan forms, novel techniques and materials, and meticulous concern for interior arrangement and detail." National Trust Following the National Trust's successful campaign to acquire Ernő 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. Further reading Neil Bingham's essay The Houses of Patrick Gwynne (2000), The Journal of the Twentieth Century Society, pp. 30-4 Michael Pick The English Room, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1985), Images of The Homewood Patrick Gwynne National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/36) with Patrick Gwynne in 1997-99 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library. References 1913 births 2003 deaths People educated at Harrow School Architects from Hampshire Restaurant design Royal Air Force personnel of World War II People from Portchester