Erno Goldfinger was a Hungarian-born architect and furniture maker. When he built this home in 1939 in Hampstead, across from the Heath, it caused a scandal for its modernist design. From the outside, it looks rather bland but inside it oozes with character and looks very much like it did decades ago when Erno and his wife resided there. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to take photographs due to copyright issues. Erno and his British wife Ursula were friends with such artists as Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore and the original work of these artists fills the house.
Aside, the writer Ian Fleming lived in Hampstead and used Goldfinger's name as the title of his 1959-published James Bond series book. Erno, reportedly, was not pleased.
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