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Tag: Isokon

  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition

    Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Exhibition

    During the mid-1930s and 1940s the Isokon flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.

  • Jacques & Jacqueline Groag

    Jacques & Jacqueline Groag

    The dramatic and fascinating story of two former Lawn Road Flats residents, brought to life by their biographer, Ursula Prokop.

  • Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

    Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain: Talk with authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund

    The hugely influential Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by architect Wells Coates. Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (Batsford) by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund tells the extraordinary story of Isokon, and how its network of residents helped shape modern Britain.

  • Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon

    Edith Tudor-Hart, the Bauhaus and Isokon

    Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, authors of new publication ‘Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain’ will speak about Bauhaus graduate Edith Tudor-Hart, her photography of the Isokon building and the émigré community in 1930s London.