Will the real Goldfinger stand up? Enter the home of the architect who inspired James Bond's rival
In a leafy corner of Hampstead, north London, is a terrace of three houses that bring together controversy, trailblazing modernist design and a James Bond villain who took on 007 in the 1964 film Goldfinger – the third instalment of the all-conquering spy movie franchise. In the middle of the three houses sits 2 Willow Road, the modernist masterpiece home of Hungarian born, French educated architect and leading light of the British modernist movement, Ernő Goldfinger. His very personal ode to European modernism heralded the birth, or at least the difficult early childhood, of the British moder...