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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain

Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain

Daybelge, Leyla, author.
Book 2019

In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building (as it came to be known), was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in re...

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Artists Homes and haunts England London History 20th century
Bauhaus History
Isokon Building (London, England) History
Isokon Building (London, England) Pictorial works
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ISBN:
9781849944915
1849944911
Description:
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Jack and Molly
Wells Coates
The Bauhaus
Building the flats
The arrival of the Bauhauslers
Isokon furniture
The Bauhauslers work outside Isokon
Food, books and spies
The war and its aftermath
The 1950 and 60s
the rebirth of Isokon
The decline and rescue of Lawn Road Flats
The future
LCCN:
2018493503
Control Number:
2727389
Other Authors:
Englund, Magnus, author
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