Most excitingly for architecture nerds, Ladbroke Hall’s garden will include a 6×6 Maison Démontable by Jean Prouvé — the only publicly accessible one in the UK. Prouvé, a self-taught architect and Le Corbusier collaborator, engineered low-cost prefabricated homes for his fellow French people left homeless by the Second World War. Now, like many post-war socialist design icons, they are rare collectors’ items; an 8×8 house was on sale at Design Miami in 2013 for $2.5 million (£2 million). At Ladbroke Hall, the compact wooden house will be an artwork that doubles as a private dining space that seats 18 below a branching Frederik Molenschot chandelier. “We had the chance when we found this building to do something special with it,” says Le Gaillard.
Peak al fresco? Buzz around Ladbroke Hall grows with designer garden
