Name: The Isokon Building (formerly Lawn Road Flats) Location: Hampstead, North London Architect: Wells Coates for Isokon Date Finished: 1934. It was made to look like wood and cost £6.

They are located in Lawn Road, Hampstead, north London, behind the Belsize Park tube station. How to get there: the Isokon building is just a short and pleasant walk from Belsize Park tube.

Marcel Breuer, Agatha Christie and Walter Gropius are among the illustrious figures that called London’s Isokon Building home, but their modest apartments paled in comparison to its wood-panelled penthouse. - to understand usage via Google Analytics We’re half expecting World War Two to be declared at any moment.”. - to limit how many times you see an ad Isokon Dining Table. 1 bed flat for sale in The Penthouse, Isokon Building, London NW3, selling for £950,000 from The Modern House. Designed by Wells Coates for Jack and Molly Pritchard, the Isokon Building (or Lawn Road Flats) opened in 1934 as a progressive experiment in new ways of urban living.

‘The terrace is bizarrely big and is actually bigger than the flat,’ says Englund.

Would-be owners can learn more about the Isokon building in the ground floor gallery, which explores its rich history. The Isokon Building - also known as Lawn Road Flats - opened in 1934.

This building doesn’t just look amazing—it also has an amazing history. See property details on Zoopla or browse all our range of properties in The Penthouse, Isokon Building, London NW3. Avanti Architects, specialists in refurbishing modernist buildings, beautifully restored the Isokon in 2004, and many of the flats now provide accommodation for key workers under a co-ownership scheme. gdpr, woocommerce_cart_hash, woocommerce_items_in_cart, _wp_wocommerce_session, sucuri_cloudproxy_uuid_*. The communal garden has a patio area and attractive planting. Status. Calls to local numbers beginning with 01, 02 and 03 numbers will incur standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles. This apartment is favourably situated on the end of the building, with its own front door. With the help of the National Trust, and to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the building, they have created an exhibition space on the ground floor, which tells the remarkable story of its architecture, its residents and its iconic Isokon furniture. Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh. A seasonal exhibition devoted to one of the landmark’s former residents – Bauhaus professor and artist, László Moholy-Nagy – has just opened and runs until 28 October. Many are just 250sq feet (23m2), designed to function as bedsits, for modern professionals with little time for housekeeping. - remembering privacy and security settings It has easy access to huge amounts of green space, with Hampstead Heath to the north, and Primrose Hill and Regent’s Park to the south. However, it’s the fact that this now Grade I listed building was so ahead of its time that we include it here. And it is here that you start to see that the structure known as the Lawn Road Flats was much more than just a striking building. Three years later it was acquired by Camden Borough Council, and it gradually deteriorated until the 1990s, when it was abandoned completely.

There’s also a Bakerlite radio designed by Wells Coates in 1934, the same year that the Isokon building opened. This company worked almost exclusively with plywood and it created all the original furniture for the flats. If you’re in the area, and are in any way interested in any of this, you should head over and have a look at this lesser-known London landmark. To one side of the entrance hall is a galley kitchen, and to the other a south-facing reception room. - ensuring secure, safe transactions With special thanks to Magnus Englund of Skandium for supplying the archive images.

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Amazon See price. The Isokon building is superbly located along Lawn Road being just a short walk from Belsize Park tube, the excellent shopping facilities of both South End Green and Haverstock Hill and the open spaces of Hampstead Heath. See price £ 32. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. And it is perhaps for this reason that the building can list Agatha Christie (author), Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus) and Marcel Breuer (legendary mid century furniture designer) among its residents. Now, before we begin and before anyone gets upset, we are aware that this building doesn’t strictly fall within the mid century period as we have defined it (1940-1970). - basic site functions Calls from other networks may vary, and calls from mobiles and outside the UK will be higher. It was made to look like wood and cost £6.

The very first of Isokon's Donkey series, conceived by Egon Riss. As it happened, one of my employees lived in the block, and we used her place for the film. Le Courbusier's ideal also manifested itself in the shape of built-in storage and furniture designed specifically for the space. All proceeds support the gallery. Price: £25.00. The Vinyl Factory Group, trading as: The Vinyl Factory, Vinyl Factory Manufacturing, Phonica Records, FACT Magazine, FACT TV, Spaces Magazine, Vinyl Space, and The Store X, uses cookies and similar technologies to give you a better experience, enabling things like: Please note that all areas, measurements and distances given in these particulars are approximate and rounded. Buying options > 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. For starters, this was the first block to be made almost entirely of reinforced concrete. Unfortunately the Gallery is now closed due to the latest Covid restrictions. The first block ever to be built chiefly using reinforced concrete, it was the subject of an exemplary restoration by Avant Architects in 2004.

We’re half expecting World War Two to be declared at any moment.” The Isokon Gallery. Other on-site services included shoe cleaning and bed-making. It was the first block ever to be built chiefly using reinforced concrete.

The apartment is packed with ply Isokon furniture, both new and old. (The original advertising slogan for the properties was actually: “All you have to bring with you is a rug, an armchair and a picture”.). The flat is offered for sale in good condition, having been newly carpeted and decorated. Original sliding doors link to the bedroom, allowing it to be opened up or closed off as required.

That in itself probably doesn’t mean a great deal but when you learn that the original apartments didn’t have a full kitchen you start to see a different picture. Pritchard, director of the Isokon firm (formerly Wells Coates and Partners) that designed the building, also went on to establish the Isokon Furniture Company. This was due in part to the backing of Allen Lane, founder of Penguin Books (hence the name of the design) and resident of the building. These technologies are used for things like:

- personalized search, content, and recommendations We probably shouldn’t admit that but, well, we just did. Sadly, the building fell into disuse and disrepair towards the end of the 20th century but it has since been painstakingly brought back to all its splendour. You see, furniture and the Isokon name are actually inextricably linked. Richards, the architectural critic, wrote that it was “more like the machine a habiter than anything Le Corbusier ever designed”. Your personal data will be sent to Hadleigh Residential - Belsize Park so that they can respond to your request. Isokon Penguin Donkey. And he’s right – the terrace is larger than the entire interior of the flat, so spacious in fact that it recently hosted Magnus and Gjøril’s wedding, a charming case of history repeating itself, as Jack and Molly Pritchard’s son Jonathan got married up here in 1955. Designed by Wells Coates for Jack and Molly Pritchard, the Isokon Building (or Lawn Road Flats) opened in 1934 as a progressive experiment in new ways of urban living. Amazon. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. I spot an Isokon Long Chair, an Isokon Short Chair, an Isokon sofa and an Isokon dining table with matching chairs, all originally designed by Marcel Breuer in the 1930s. The Isokon was actually finished in 1934.

Jack Pritchard had been Sales Manager of the Estonian company Venesta, the largest manufacturer of plywood in the world at the time, so it is perhaps no surprise that the interior walls and floors in his flat were clad with plywood – Finnish birch ply to be precise. It is the optimism, and the thinking, behind the original concepts for this building that we find so interesting. In 1969, the building was sold to the New Statesman magazine, and the Isobar was converted into flats. And this is where this building and its history start to become relevant for a London mid century furniture store like us.

Visit our Supporters page to see the companies and individuals who have made the Isokon Gallery possible. - to ensure that we understand the audience and can provide relevant ads Isokon Plus is a furniture maker. Over the coming weeks and months, we aim to look at some of the best mid century London landmarks. He tells me, “I moved to Britain because I am an anglophile; I grew up as a Mod driving a Vespa and listening to British music, I loved the whole sub-culture.

This bar became the number one hangout for the intelligentsia of the time. Please also consider visiting our Just Giving page to help secure the Gallery for the future. - remember your login, general, and regional preferences All fixtures, fittings and furniture not specifically itemised within these particulars are deemed removable by the vendor. Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly. Years after it was first conceptualised, the new Ballot chair is here. Englund and his wife married on the terrace in 2014, following the example set by Jack and Molly’s son Jonathan, who wed there in 1955. Name: The Isokon Building (formerly Lawn Road Flats)Location: Hampstead, North LondonArchitect: Wells Coates for IsokonDate Finished: 1934.

Designed by Wells Coates for Jack and Molly Pritchard, the Isokon Building (or Lawn Road Flats) opened in 1934 as a progressive experiment in new ways of urban living. The Isokon Gallery is a permanent exhibition telling the remarkable story of the Isokon building, the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934 as an experiment in new ways of urban living.

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Its birch-veneer walls and chequered wooden floors have been fully restored, and while the apartment itself is ultra compact, the pièce de résistance is its generous terrace.