Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
Daybelge, Leyla2019
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In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László 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 response to the question 'How do we want to live now?' it was England's first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers.
Main title:
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain / Leyla Daybelge & Magnus Englund.
Author:
Daybelge, Leyla, authorEnglund, Magnus, author
Imprint:
London : Batsford, 2019.
Collation:
240 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Illustration on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781849944915 (hbk)
Dewey class:
728.31409421
LC class:
NA7863.G7
Local class:
728.314
Language:
English
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BRN:
2433835
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