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Photo by Douglas Atfield
drawings copyright Christopher Chestnutt1/05/2010page copyright Judith Chestnutt 1/05/2010
| | Christopher Chestnutt is an award winning architect. He designed and illustrated 3 books for The Suffolk Preservation Society- 'About Hadleigh', 'Discovering Southwold' and 'Clare- the Place and the People'.
He has advised on and contributed material and illustrations for the book' Patterns for Suffolk Buidings" edited by Celia Jennings and published by the Suffolk Building Preservation Trust.
His buildings have been illustrated in national architectural journals and have won various awards.
He was on the council of the Suffolk Association of Architects 1976-1998.
He served on the national council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, on the boards of the British Architectural Library and the RIBA National Architecture Centre 1995-1998.
He was a joint honorary director of the Architecture Gallery, Cambridge 1996-1998 and curated, in 1994 with Colen Lumley, the exhibition 'Cabbages and Kings - A sense of Region' together with the accompanying book, at The Architecture Gallery, Cambridge.His architectural background is revealed in his sensitive pen and pencil observations of East Anglia's built form and its relationship with the regions landscape.Bank House, Southwold above Snape Maltingsleft The old Adnams BrewerySouthwold fisherman's hut. Images such as this one have been the basis for collage where use has been made of a variety of technology and media. These works are often on a large scale.
His sketchbooks are full of his personal memories.
Tallin Design MuseumA life long delight and escape has been the use of caricature in illustration work.Our beach hut appears in many a drawing. Here,in one of the Chestnutt family's Christmas cards, Santa visits Southwold and longs for summer.
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