This was the pattern of the Smithsons' last years: agreeable small-scale commissions for private clients and friends, well away from the glare of the publicity they had once so assiduously courted. This sequence of house extensions for the German industrialist Axel Bruchhauser is a world away from the all-plastic future they had envisaged in 1956. At first glance a rather conventional pitched-roof timber house in a forest, it nevertheless has some rather fine, even eccentric, interiors. Including a ceiling like an inverted upturned volcanic crater, and lots of zig-zag woodwork. Peter finished it after Alison's death in 1993, after which he retreated into teaching and writing until his own death early in 2003.