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5 unusual facts about Detmar Blow


Detmar Blow

His clients belonged chiefly to the British aristocracy, and later he became estates manager to the Duke of Westminster.

Blow designed various properties for Hugh "Bendor" Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, including Château de Woolsack, a hunting lodge in Mimizan, France, near Bordeaux.

From 1916 to 1933 Blow was almost exclusively working for the 2nd Duke of Westminster, as manager of the Grovesnor estates, and as private secretary.

Listed buildings in Eccleston, Cheshire

The tomb is a bronze enclosure with an openwork surround designed by Detmar Blow and Fernand Billerey.

Mimizan

The hunting lodge Château de Woolsack was built in 1911 for the British Duke of Westminster (the architect was Detmar Blow).



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