• The cabin in the woods: 'When it rains, it’s loud but lovely'

    Created from sustainable sources by architect Piers Taylor, and parked in a Somerset valley, is a mobile home that’s both in and of the treesMobile home. It takes just two words to stir up the contradictions in British attitudes to that most basic of needs: where, and how, to live. On the one hand, prejudice, embodied in the phrase “trailer trash”, with all its snobbery and classism, and in the ever-present persecution of traveller communities. On the other hand, middle-class f

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