Isokon Furniture Co Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Wells Coates & Partners
- Venesta Ltd
- Pritchard, Jack
- Coates, Wells
- Gropius, Walter
- Brever, Walter
- Moholy-Nagy, Lszi
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Professional services
Architecture, interior design, & landscape & garden design services
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Professional services
Industrial & domestic goods design services exc fashion
Notes:
Traced origins to 1929 when Wells Coates & Partners was established by Jack Pritchard, 1899-1992, and Wells Coates, 1895-1958. Reorganised and known as Isokon Furniture Co Ltd from c1931 and closed 1939. Designed modernist residential buildings and fittings and furniture for them. Noted as an influential modernist design business associated with minimal living. Employed in 1930s noted designers Walter Gropius, Marcel Brever and Lszi Moholy-Nagy, emigres from Nazi Germany. Name revived by Pritchard in 1960s. Associated with Venesta Ltd, the British subsidiary of an Estonian plywood business, for which Pritchard worked as a senior manager and which made Isokon furniture
Publications:
- Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Daybelge, Leyla, & Magnus Englund
- Isokon. Architecture, furniture and graphic design, 1931-1939 by Buckley, C
- Isokon Exhibition by Unknown
- Isokon. For Ever. For Ease by Grieve, Alastair
- Isokon Furniture Co Ltd by Unknown
- Moholy-Nagy in Britain, 1935-1937 by Carullo, Valeria
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Wells Coates & Partners
- Venesta Ltd
- Pritchard, Jack
- Coates, Wells
- Gropius, Walter
- Brever, Walter
- Moholy-Nagy, Lszi
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Professional services Architecture, interior design, & landscape & garden design services
- Professional services Industrial & domestic goods design services exc fashion
Notes:
Traced origins to 1929 when Wells Coates & Partners was established by Jack Pritchard, 1899-1992, and Wells Coates, 1895-1958. Reorganised and known as Isokon Furniture Co Ltd from c1931 and closed 1939. Designed modernist residential buildings and fittings and furniture for them. Noted as an influential modernist design business associated with minimal living. Employed in 1930s noted designers Walter Gropius, Marcel Brever and Lszi Moholy-Nagy, emigres from Nazi Germany. Name revived by Pritchard in 1960s. Associated with Venesta Ltd, the British subsidiary of an Estonian plywood business, for which Pritchard worked as a senior manager and which made Isokon furniturePublications:
- Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Daybelge, Leyla, & Magnus Englund
- Isokon. Architecture, furniture and graphic design, 1931-1939 by Buckley, C
- Isokon Exhibition by Unknown
- Isokon. For Ever. For Ease by Grieve, Alastair
- Isokon Furniture Co Ltd by Unknown
- Moholy-Nagy in Britain, 1935-1937 by Carullo, Valeria