French style...

[Daniël Bos]

1924, designed by Rietveld.

 

Though I think a lot of the design dating is related to the inventions and necessities of the period.

Cars especially are quite easy to date, but a lot of their styling is/was to fold around/accommodate the new technologies of the time.

I think car design leads a lot of other popular movements (in design) as so much is spent on them and their marketing.

 

Houses on the other hand have known almost no novelties that require a change in design for the past few centuries, so their development is slow and any change from "the norm" seen as radical.

[Gnarlyoak]

Is the gate making a post modernist statement? Can't be a security thing, as there does not appear to be any fence on either side of the gate posts?

[Ty Korrigan]

The automatic gate is a total statement of wealth at approx. 5.5k installed.

You could hop over the hedge/fence in a trice.

The holes have yet to be blocked.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Is the gate making a post modernist statement? Can't be a security thing, as there does not appear to be any fence on either side of the gate posts?

 

Good spot, chuckle!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

And it looks like gravel / granite chip on the drive? That's what put me off, the thought of constantly picking granite chip out of the bottom runner.

[Ty Korrigan]

Not yet finished, the 'terrassier' or groundworks have yet to lay the tarmac.

Under the paths white washed gravel there is a plastic honeycomb structure that holds the gravel in place and also means you need less of it.

[codlasher]

I wonder if Jacques Tati ever visited the kitchen......?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9t98Gox60]Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle (Kitchen Scene) - YouTube[/ame]