Property News In 2020, Phil Dale and Sophie Hewett left their jobs and sold their flat in London to move to a five-bedroom Art Deco house in Saltdean. Now, it is for sale for £1 million Phil Dale and his wife, Sophie Hewett, had been looking for a Modernist or Art Deco property for two years when they found the impressive white Art Deco house that would persuade them to sell their home, leave their jobs in London, and move to Saltdean, near Brighton , in 2020. Designed by the architect E.
William Palmer and built in 1934, the semi-detached house has a distinctive curved façade, metal casement windows, a roof terrace and a vertical column to the right of the front door. Dale, a businessman-turned-triathlon coach, and Hewett, an artist and art teacher, had been living in a flat in Camberwell at the time, but had lusted after Art Deco architecture since they met at art school in the 1980s, even though “it wasn’t particularly fashionable at the time”. “By our mid-50s, we figured that it was time to concentrate on getting [an Art Deco property], but they are few and far between,” says Dale, now 62.
“We were very lucky to find this place. I made a full asking price offer the first time that I saw it, and we completed dead on eight weeks after the offer was made. We were motivated buyers.
” As well as the architecture , the couple were drawn to the property’s outdoor spaces: its east-facing, modernist-style rear garden and its two terraces, one leading off the bedr.
