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The Isokon Building
The London-based Isokon firm was founded in 1929 by the English entrepreneur Jack Pritchard and the Canadian architect Wells Coates to design and construct modernist houses and flats, and furniture and fittings for them. Originally called Wells Coates and Partners, the name was changed in 1931 to Isokon, a name derived from Isometric Unit Construction, bearing an allusion to Russian Constructivism.
In 1925, Pritchard had become employed as a sales and marketing manager for the British company Venesta, a subsidiary of the large Estonian plywood manufacturer A. M. Luther, based in Tallinn. After having met in Paris, Pritchard hired the designer Charlotte Perriand through the architect firm of Le Corbusier to design a trade fair stand for Venesta at Olympia, London in 1929. Despite his involvement with Lawn Road Flats and the Isokon company, Jack Pritchard continued to work for Venesta until 1936. Pritchard used Venesta to make his Isokon plywood furniture.
The Isokon company was never commercially successful. The end came with the outbreak of World War II when its supply of plywood from Estonia was cut off due to the Soviet invasion of the Baltic countries when the A. M. Luther company in Tallinn was confiscated. The Isokon Furniture Company ceased trading in 1939 but was restarted in 1963. Since 1982, the furniture is made by Isokon Plus, formerly known as Windmill Furniture, under licence from the Pritchard family.
Isokon Flats, also known as Lawn Road Flats and the Isokon building, on Lawn Road in the Belsize Park district of the London Borough of Camden, is a reinforced-concrete...
The London-based Isokon firm was founded in 1929 by the English entrepreneur Jack Pritchard and the Canadian architect Wells Coates to design and construct...
The Isokon Long Chair is a chair designed by Marcel Breuer for the Isokon company in 1935–36. The chair is considered one of the most important pieces...
Underground station (1907), the deepest station on the Underground network Isokon building (1932) Hillfield Court (1932) 2 Willow Road (1938) Swiss Cottage...
the most notable of which is the Modernist block of flats known as the Isokon building in Hampstead, London. The oldest of six children, Wells Coates...
During World War II, Christie moved to London and lived in a flat at the Isokon in Hampstead, whilst working in the pharmacy at University College Hospital...
to London. While in London, Breuer was employed by Jack Pritchard at the Isokon company; one of the earliest proponents of modern design in the United Kingdom...
the famous Lawn Road Flats, also known as the Isokon Flats. They later retired to a house also named Isokon on Dunwich Road, Blythburgh, Suffolk, designed...
Roth for Sigfried Giedion 1935 Isokon furniture company – Plywood Tables and Stacking Chairs– London, England — 1936 Isokon Furniture Company – Reclining...
community associated with Herbert Read in Hampstead, London, as part of the Isokon group. Gropius arrived in the United States in February 1937, while their...
Pool, London Zoo, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup. July 9 – Isokon building (Lawn Road flats), Hampstead, London, designed by Wells Coates...
that year. The album was recorded and mixed by D. James Goodwin at The Isokon Studio in Woodstock, New York. In November, Way revealed that he had flown...
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Hospital, now the Royal Free Hospital, at 2 Belsize Avenue Residents of the Isokon Flats: Agatha Christie, writer Naum Gabo, sculptor Walter Gropius, architect...
Palace, London Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire Isokon Flats, Hampstead, London King's College London Chapel, London Liverpool...
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re-assembled in Britain during the mid-1930s and lived and worked in the Isokon housing development in Lawn Road in London before the war caught up with...
1935 Erich Mendelsohn Weizmann House Rehovot, Israel 1936 Wells Coates Isokon building London, England 1934 Berthold Lubetkin Highpoint I London, England...
British examples of modernist architecture, such as Highpoint I or the Isokon building, according to The Guardian. Designed by Jan Kotěra and other Czech...
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String – violin, conducting D. James Goodwin – engineer, mixing at The Isokon, Woodstock, New York, United States Peter Greydanus – cello Cassandra Jenkins –...
espionage work in England. In the mid-1930s, Deutsch occupied Flat 7 of the Isokon building in Lawn Road, Hampstead, north London. The writer Nigel West (Rupert...
The Hive, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (engineered by Calder) The Isokon, Woodstock, New York, United States (engineered by Goodwin) Little Blue...
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