Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.	Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon		House Preller : Dombeya Hartbeespoort, North West Norman Musgrave EATON: Architect

Date: 1960 Client: Alexis Preller Type: Homestead Style: Critical Regionalism Status: Extant

See more photographs Dombeya was designed by NORMAN EATON for his friend Alexis Preller, the well-known South African artist. Apparently Preller had a great influence on the design and story has it that he used to climb the nearby windmill to plan the footprints of the buildings from there. When Alexis Preller died he was buried in a walled graveyard on the estate. His partner, who was killed in a motor accident on his way to arrange Alexis' funeral, was buried next to him. See photos. Dombeya has been documented by students at the University of Pretoria's Department of Architecture under the guidance of Prof Roger Fisher and Nicholas Clarke and a more detailed history of the buildings as well as 'as built' drawings will soon be published on this site. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. References: Berman, Esmé. 1983. Art and artists of South Africa: An illustrated biographical dictionary and historical survey of painters, sculptors and graphic artists since 1875. Cape Town : Balkema. pg 350 Fisher, RC, Le Roux, SW & Maré, E (Eds). 1998. Architecture of the Transvaal. Pretoria: UNISA. pg 128, 175-196, 128, 175-196, 214, 215, 216