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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 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. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced for him and other clients during their brief sojourn in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain.0This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and the infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand, working for Le Corbusier's practice, who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930.0The book is beautifully illustrated with archive photography - much of which is previously unseen - and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive.

Artists --- Persons --- Homes and haunts --- History --- Bauhaus --- Isokon Building (London, England) --- Staatliches Bauhaus --- Baohaosi --- Bauhaus Dessau --- History. --- 72.036.1 --- 745.036 "193" --- 72.036 <420> --- 72.036 <420> Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw--Engeland --- Bauhaus. Stijlbeweging --- 745.036 "193" Bauhaus. Stijlbeweging

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Designers from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland have long pursued the shared goal of social equality through design, believing that well- designed everyday goods not only enhance daily life, but should also be the birthright of all. Modern Scandinavian Design is the ultimate guide to the distinctive design tradition arising out of these five Nordic countries since 1925. Bestselling design authors Charlotte and Peter Fiell have extensively researched all aspects of the aesthetic, along with contributions from Magnus Englund of Skandium. With sections on architecture, furniture, lighting, glass, ceramics, metalwork, woodenware, plastics, textiles, jewellery and graphic design, this will be an indispensable resource for any design enthusiast, collector or casual reader seeking inspiration for their home.

Design --- Interior decoration --- Product design --- 749.038(48) --- Architectuur ; Scandinavië ; 20ste en 21ste eeuw --- Meubeldesign --- Productdesign; glas; keramiek; hout; metaal; plastics --- Textielontwep --- Juweelontwerp --- Grafisch ontwerp --- design --- productdesign --- vormgeving --- meubelkunst --- meubilair --- glaskunst --- keramiek --- textielkunst --- textiel --- juwelen --- juweelkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- Scaninavië --- 745.036 --- Commercial products --- New products --- Industrial design --- Decoration, Interior --- Home decoration --- House decoration --- Interior design --- Art --- Buildings --- Decoration and ornament --- Home economics --- Furniture --- House furnishings --- Upholstery --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Design and construction --- Environmental engineering --- Product strategy --- Architecture --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- design [discipline] --- architecture [object genre] --- Scandinavian modern --- Scandinavia and Iceland