The Bauhaus influenced 1930s modernist Isokon apartment building, designed by Wells Coates, in Hampstead, London.
The Isokon Flats were commissioned by Jack Craven Pritchard, a salesman for the Venesta Plywood Company, and his wife Molly, a child psychiatrist, in 1933. The architect, Wells Coates, produced a concrete-framed building of 22 single flats, four double flats and three studio flats together with staff quarters, kitchens and garage. A club, the Isobar, was added to the complex in 1937. The flats were aimed at the market of new young professionals and were to embody contemporary modernist living. Tenants only had to bring their personal belongings as most furniture was fitted and the Isokon company subsequently designed furniture and fittings - many of them from plywood. After falling into disrepair the flats were fully restored in 2004 by Avanti Architects for the Notting Hill Housing Trust. The flats are also famous for the people who lived there including, Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and various Soviet agents. The building is now Grade I Listed.
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Location: Isokon Flats, Hampstead, London, UK
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