Dorich House Museum, Kingston Vale

Dorich House Museum, Kingston Vale, London, SW15 3RN, England

Dorich House, tall and narrow in the style of Eastern European architecture and influenced by the modern architecture of the Thirties, was built on a double plot of land on Kingston Hill in 1936 by Dora Gordine and her husband The Hon. Richard Hare. The name 'Dorich' is a conflation of the names Dora and Richard. Designed by its owners it reflected their devotion to sculpture and art with two studios and a spacious gallery. The private apartment is on the top floor with a roof terrace.

As Dora Gordine and Richard Hare died without an heir,the executors of their estate entrusted the house and its contents to Kingston University to provide a permanent home for the sculpture of Dora Gordine and the Russian art collection of Richard Hare.