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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 block of 36 flats (originally 32), designed by Canadian engineer Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard.[1]

  1. ^ Burke (2014) p.9

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Isokon Flats

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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...

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Isokon

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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...

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Jack Pritchard

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wife lived in 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...

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Belsize Park

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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...

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Best Overend

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draftsman for over eighteen months when the office was developing the Isokon Flats. In September 1931 he received a job offer from Serge Chermayeff (whose...

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Listed building

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London Humber Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire / North Lincolnshire Isokon Flats, Hampstead, London King's College London Chapel, London Liverpool Cathedral...

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Marcel Breuer

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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...

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List of Art Deco architecture in Europe

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Camden, London, 1933 Hillfield Court, Belsize Park, Camden, London, 1934 Isokon Flats, Hampstead, Camden, London, 1934 London Forum (formerly the Town & Country...

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Wells Coates

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England, 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...

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Belsize Wood

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undeveloped to become the nature reserve. The Grade I listed 1934 modernist Isokon Flats is adjacent to the site in Lawn Road. In 1938, the modernist landscape...

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Philip Harben

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Harben was invited to manage the Isobar restaurant in the Isokon building, a modernist block of flats in Hampstead, and he subsequently took over as its chef...

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Hampstead

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Underground station (1907), the deepest station on the Underground network Isokon building (1932) Hillfield Court (1932) 2 Willow Road (1938) Swiss Cottage...

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Blythburgh

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and vintner Sir John Seymour Lucas RA - portrait painter Jack Pritchard - Isokon designs Martin Shaw - hymn music Peter Harold Wright - World War II Victoria...

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Maxwell Fry

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houses and flats including Ridge End at Wentworth, Surrey and Club House at Sittingbourne, Kent 1933–34 R. E. Sassoon House (workers' flats), St. Mary's...

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Gane Pavilion

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After leaving Germany, Breuer spent 1935–37 working in London for the Isokon company, and in partnership with Yorke. At this time Crofton Gane was the...

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1934 in architecture

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Zoo, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup. July 9 – Isokon building (Lawn Road flats), Hampstead, London, designed by Wells Coates. July 17 – Circular...

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Berthold Lubetkin

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Ludwig Franck Arthur Korn Denys Lasdun Francis Skinner Ernő Goldfinger Isokon MARS Group Constructivist architecture "Berthold Lubetkin / Designing Modern...

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Agatha Christie

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forms." 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...

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Barber Osgerby

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was originally based out of Barber and Osgerby's flat in Trellick Tower. The studio moved to the Isokon workshops in Turnham Green, Chiswick and worked...

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Walter Gropius

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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...

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Bauhaus

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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...

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Arnold Deutsch

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for 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...

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International Style

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rejection of all ornament and colour, repetitive modular forms, and the use of flat surfaces, typically alternating with areas of glass." Some researchers consider...

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Andrew Pritchard

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his son Jack Pritchard (1899-1992) co-founded the Isokon design company, famous for the Lawn Road Flats. Andrew and Caroline's son, Ion (died 1929) and...

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Arthur Baldwinson

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involved in the design and drawings of Gropius's commissions including: Isokon 3 medium density project, Windsor; the E. W. Levy House, Chelsea; the Donaldson...

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