For Danish architect Johan Hybschmann, a modern house was key to how he wanted to live. “Victorian houses are nice to look at, but I don’t want to live in one,” he laughs. “The idea of home is dated in the UK, period features are considered quality, but modern homes from the 60s and 70s, deemed perhaps ugly, are more suited to modern living.”
We are standing in his immaculate kitchen with his wife, Anita Freeman, a clinical psychologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Their home was built in the 1970s and stands on a street in east London among a hodge-podge of Victorian houses and midcentury estates, built on bomb sites following the blitz of the Second World War.
