George Mountford Adie (14 January 1901 – 29 July 1989) was a British architect, the co-founder (with

Frederick Button Frederick C. Button ARIBA (1901–1969) was a British architect, the co-founder of Adie, Button and Partners. Career Button was mentored by Thomas Wallis of Wallis, Gilbert and Partners. By 1934, Button was an ARIBA and one of five partners in ...

) of

Adie, Button and Partners Adie, Button and Partners was a British firm of architects, best known for designing the Grade II* listed Stockwell Garage, a large bus depot in Stockwell, London, which opened in 1952 and is still in use. It was founded by George Adie and Fred ...

in Mayfair, London. George Mountford Adie was born in the UK on 14 January 1901. He started as a stockbroker, before switching to architecture, and co-founding

in 1933. Notable buildings designed by the firm include the

Park Lane Hotel The Sheraton Grand London Park Lane is a 5 Star hotel on Piccadilly, London. The hotel opened in 1927 as The Park Lane Hotel to designs by architects Adie, Button and Partners, in a grand Art Deco style, and was constructed by the developer ...

in Piccadilly, the art deco apartment block at 59-63 Princes Gate,

South Kensington South Kensington, nicknamed Little Paris, is a district just west of Central London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically it settled on part of the scattered Middlesex village of Brompton. Its name was supplanted with ...

(1937-8), the 1930s mansion

Charters House Charters House is a Grade II listed building overlooking Sunningdale, Berkshire, built in 1938. The architects were George Adie and H. G. Hammond of Adie, Button and Partners. Charters was built for the industrialist Frank Parkinson on the site ...

Sunningdale Sunningdale is a large village with a retail area and a civil parish in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. It takes up the extreme south-east corner of Berkshire, England. It has a railway station on the (London) Waterloo to Reading ...

, Berkshire, which was used as a country retreat by Edward, Duke of Windsor and

Wallis Simpson Wallis, Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986), was an American socialite and wife of the former King Edward VIII. Their intention to marry and her status as a divorcée caused ...

, and Stockwell bus garage, which opened in April, 1952. Adie married the concert pianist and composer

Helen Perkin Helen Craddock Perkin (25 February 1909 – 19 October 1996) was a pianist and composer, best known today for her association with John Ireland (composer), John Ireland during the 1920s and 1930s.Richards, Fiona. 'Helen Perkin: Pianist, Composer a ...

in 1935.Richards, Fiona. 'Helen Perkin: Pianist, Composer and Muse of John Ireland' (Chapter 11 of Foreman, Lewis (ed.), ''The John Ireland Companion'' (2011) Three children were born before 1940. After the war they visited the Russian mystic

George Gurdjieff George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (; rus, Гео́ргий Ива́нович Гурджи́ев, r=Geórgy Ivánovich Gurdzhíev, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪd͡ʑ ɡʊrd͡ʐˈʐɨ(j)ɪf; hy, Գեորգի Իվանովիչ Գյուրջիև; c. 1 ...

in Paris and became active in the Gurdjieff spiritual movement, first in London, and (from 1965) in Sydney, Australia, where they emigrated and remained for the rest of their lives. They established the Gurdjieff Society of Newport.Azize, Joseph. 'Helen Adie: An Appreciative Essay' in ''The Gurdjieff International Review'' Vol. 6 (2003)
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