{"id":2816,"date":"2017-06-25T08:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T08:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:30:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:30:20","slug":"george-best-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/george-best-house\/","title":{"rendered":"George Best House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commissioned by George Best himself during the height of his footballing career, Frazer Crane’s design was well ahead of its time. Best, with a minimal brief relative to that of the bachelor pad of today, requested only a billiards table and a sunken spa, but Crane’s design demonstrated thorough innovation from the inside out. With electronic curtains, sub floor heating and a retractable television encased in an extruded box form clad with glazed white tiling (earning the house the nickname ‘giant toilet’) –\u00a0the house was certainly a spectacle of modernity. Best himself\u00a0chose an Axminster wool carpet in tobacco\/neutral\/black for the living room, red and white mosaic tiles for the bathroom,\u00a0and the house was dubbed ‘Que Sera’ in light of the events\u00a0that occurred within its walls.<\/p>\n

For more, see a BD Online article here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commissioned by George Best himself during the height of his footballing career, Frazer Crane’s design was well ahead of its time. Best, with a minimal brief relative to that of the bachelor pad of today, requested only a billiards table and a sunken spa, but Crane’s design demonstrated thorough innovation from the inside out. With …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}