A while back, Tim came to London to perform at the&nbsp;Isokon&nbsp;building in Belsize Park, and I managed to catch up with him to record this podcast.&nbsp;&nbsp;As a small boy in the Seventies, Tim quietly absorbed the lessons of modernist architecture.&nbsp;He remembers accompanying his parents to a dinner party at a modern house, where the sound of laughter reverberated around the circular lounge; his career seems to have been about trying to recapture that heady moment.&nbsp;In 2003, he bought his own modernist&nbsp;house in Sydney, a move which, he says, ‘changed my life for the better’.&nbsp;His fascination with architecture and design had previously been a solitary pursuit, but the house provided a way to meet like-minded people and a launchpad for his TV career.&nbsp;Tim is really great company, and we talk about all sorts of things.&nbsp;He explains how he’s an outlier in his family, and what it felt like to perform on stage for the first time.&nbsp;&nbsp;He tells me about&nbsp;the&nbsp;day the Beastie Boys came to visit and wouldn’t leave,&nbsp;why he’d rather learn to be a builder than go through the stress of another renovation project, and why he swears by the uplifting effects of tinted&nbsp;moisturiser.This episode was recorded in person in Brick Lane, London.For more:&nbsp;Visit <a href="https://www.themodernhouse.com/preview/journal/523519/?token=b5215ecc6fc11449a3f3ae8c20c516c7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Modern House website</a> to see images of the spaces discussed in this episodeDiscover more about <a href="https://modernisterbooks.com/pages/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tim Ross and his live shows</a>See more of his <a href="https://thedesignfiles.net/2015/02/tim-ross-and-michelle-glew-ross" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sydney home</a>Producer: Hannah PhillipsEditing: Oscar CrawfordGraphic Design: Tom Young and Ben TuckerMusic: <a href="https://wearefather.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Father</a><hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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