Notebook » LESSONS FROM THE RECENT PAST
Tidying up in the office recently, I came across a card with a pencil sketch of a house on it.
The drawing was of a Henning Hansen and Dines 1970’s house in Avonhead Road in Christchurch.
In 1978 I was earning some money, as a student, by sketching people’s houses.
The design of the house in the sketch still looks good to me some 30 years later.
I like the verandah, the good trees and planting, the well proportioned windows,
the nice mix of stained weather board and fair face concrete block, the large Japanese paper lampshade in the corner window seat.
When I did this work 30 years ago, this sketch was the ‘rough’ on site working sketch. I went home and did, what I thought at the time, a more sanitized neater version.
The owners took one look and really wanted the rough, real drawing and weren’t too interested in the clean, careful one.
They turned the rough drawing into a card and that’s why I have a record of the sketch today in 2012.