Title & Author:

Lawn Road & the 1930s / [presented by] Jack Pritchard.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1979.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (28 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Jack Pritchard -- Le Corbusier Design For Venesta Stand At Building Trades Exhibition, London 1930 -- Venesta Stand At Building Trades Exhibition, 1931 -- Wells Coates' First Design For House In Lawn Road, London, For Jack & Molly Pritchard -- Wells Coates' Front & Back Perspectives Of Lawn Road Flats -- Floor Plans Of Lawn Road Flats -- Sections Through The Lawn Road Flats -- Full-Size Mock-Up Of Lawn Road 'Minimum Flat' For Exhibition -- Advertisement For The Lawn Road Flats -- The Lawn Road Flats Under Construction -- Wells Coates & His Lancia -- Lawn Road Flats At Night -- Walter Gropius' Bauhaus, Dessau 1925 -- Gropius' Project, St. Leonard's Hill Apartment Hotel, Windsor. 1935 -- Impington Village College, By Gropius & Fry -- Impington Village College, By Gropius & Fry. Pictured In 1979 -- Isokon Furniture Advertisement In MARS Exhibition Catalogue (Top). The Long Chair In The Pritchard Home At Lawn Road Flats (Bottom) -- Marcel Breuer's Isokon Stacking Chair -- Egon Riss' Isokon 'Penguin Donkey' -- Egon Riss' Isokon 'Pocket Battleship' -- The Isobar, By Breuer & Yorke -- Jack Pritchard (Right) In The Isobar, By Breuer & Yorke -- The Lawn Road Flats In 1979.

Summary:

Jack Pritchard was all his life involved with furniture design and architecture in Britain. In retirement, he looked back and chatted about the 1930s, and the famous people with whom his life interacted. It started in the late 1920s, when he got involved with the engineer-architect Wells Coates. Before long they had formed a personal friendship that led to a piece of real estate development. Lawn Road Flats was the name of the building in Hampstead, London, which Pritchard commissioned from Coates and which, the moment it was completed, became a centre for the pioneering architects of the time. Pritchard recounts the anxieties and pleasures he underwent in the process. He was by now involved with the Modern Architecture Movement in Britain and, with writer Morton Shand and architect Maxwell Fry, contrived to get Walter Gropius out of Nazi Germany, finding work for him and offering accommodation in the Lawn Road Flats. Marcel Breuer too. He also engineered the coming together of Gropius and educationalist Henry Morris, which led to the design of Impington Village College by Gropius with his new partner Maxwell Fry.

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architectural design Great Britain.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Design architectural Grande-Bretagne.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Pritchard, Jack, 1899-1992, narrator.

Lawn Road and the 1930s