T ONE TIME, COROMANDEL MANOR was the stuff of architectural legend - a multi-millionaire's 70s stone home on a farm between Dullstroom and Lydenburg. It was a long, low building, with narrow wings interlayered with planted courtyards, a series of bold buttresses and a planted roof; at once exotic - built by a foreign architect - and a high-water mark of “regional modernism”. It looked like nothing else on the architectural scene: unmistakably modern, but strangely, a new book that finally attempts to give the house and its architect their due.
