Withers House: Russell Withers

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"The house featured in David Mitchell and Gillian Chaplin's The Elegant Shed, 1984. The book (and TV series) imprinted on the New Zealand cultural landscape the reputations of almost all the architects and buildings that appeared in its pages. However strangely, almost uniquely, it somehow failed to do the same for the Withers House and it has not been published in the intervening forty years.

Many assumed it no longer existed. Yet it still exists, almost completely intact, at the end of a suburban cul-de-sac. It still fits the description Mitchell memorably gave it as 'the kind of optimistic tour-de-force that only a young and gifted architect could have produced.'"

—Giles Reid

This beautiful publication is rich in full-colour images and archival drawings, offering a rare and intimate tour through Auckland architect Russell Wither's very first built work; Withers House, dated from 1969.