Alban Patrick Gwynne [commonly known as Patrick Gwynne] was born in Portchester, Hampshire, England, on 24 March 1913. On leaving school he was articled to the New Zealand-born architect Ernest William George Coleridge (1875-1949). He then worked in the office of Wells Coates (1895-1958) whilst at the same time designing 'Homewood' in Esher, Surrey (1937-39), a house for his parents. He also designed furniture for the house including a dining table, card table, occasional table, writing table, dressing table and desk and a cocktail bar.
During World War Two, Gwynne served with the Royal Air Force in Canada. Following the war he lived at Homewood from where he ran his architectural practice. He died in Esher, Surrey on 3 May 2003.
'Homewood' in Esher (1937-39), Crescent Restaurant and a series of semi-circular tented structures for Battersea Pleasure Gardens in London (1951), a house on the Firs Estate in Hampstead, London (1957), 31 Glenferness Avenue in Bournemouth, Dorset, for Mr & Mrs Jack Hawkins (c.1958), Rotherfield Road in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, for Dr & Mrs Salmon (1958-59), 3 Beechworth Close in Hampstead, London, for Mr & Mrs Hornung (1961-62), Witley Park near Godalming, Surrey (1965), The Dell Restaurant by the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London (1964-65), Grovewood House (also known as Sunningdale) in Virginia Water, Surrey, for Mr & Mrs David Shaw (1965-68), an extension to the Theatre Royal in York (1974), and 'Winterdown' in Esher, Surrey, for Mrs B K Fawcett (1984-85).
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