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Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain - an illustrated talk
Presented by: Keats Community Library| 0 | LONDON: Keats Community Library |
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| P | Thursday 13th June, 2019 |
| N | 7:30pm |
Event information
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
Presented by :Leyla Daybelge, Magnus Englund
The talk 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 of architect firm Le Corbusier, who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930.
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.
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.
In Spring 2018, the Isokon building and Breuer, Gropius and Moholy-Nagy were honoured with a Blue Plaque from English Heritage. 2019 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Bauhaus, so the book is a timely celebration of European design.
Publication of this new book – featuring many never-before-seen images –
coincides with the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus in
2019.
Books will be available to buy.
Venue information
LONDON: Keats Community Library| 0 | 10 Keats Grove London NW3 2RN |
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| > | www.keatscommunitylibrary.org.uk/index.php |
| ! | 020 7431 1266 |
