ABSTRACT
Edward Cullinan and Partners It was about seven o’clock in the evening; I was in the office drawing and dreaming, first glass of wine almost empty. The phone rang, I picked it up; the phone said ‘Hello, hello, hi Ted, Ted; I’m at Heathrow, off to see Frotto. Had to ring, brilliant news, at last we’re going to work together, best job ever, brilliant, can’t wait, must go, plane’s leaving.’ By then I’d realised that ‘Ted, Ted’, meant ‘Ted, this is Ted Happold’ and the brilliant job meant he’d got the engineering at our job for MEPC/IBM at Bedfont Lakes. I told him I was dead pleased too and off he flew. I didn’t put it together until later that Frotto meant Frei Otto who was co-engineer with Ted on that incredibly simple, inventive woodworking shop, the most elegant flowing interior for working wood there is, by Richard Burton at Hooke Park in Dorset.
