Restorative Powers

摘要

The small seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea lies on England's south coast, facing the Channel and its notoriously inconstant weather. It offers visitors a promenade and a coarse-sand beach, but no bay, port, or fishing industry; its present population of about 40,000 is mainly elderly. As a resort, it must compete with the larger, more established Eastbourne and glamorous Brighton to the west and with the rich history of Hastings and Rye to the east. But Bexhill possesses what none of these have: one of the finest buildings constructed in England between the two world wars, the creation of the unlikely partnership between an English aristocrat and an architect who fled Hitler's Germany.