PIN Isokon Building

Modernist Gallery

This very modern, white concrete building was designed by Wells Coates and finished in 1934. It formed part of a significant experiment in new ways of urban living and became the epi-centre of London’s avant-garde community. There is now a popular gallery there now to tell the story of the building and the movement.

The Isokon Gallery, as one might expect, is a public modernist gallery/museum with designers exhibiting the story of the Britain’s first building of it’s type and how and where writers like Agatha Christie used to live.

History

Opened in 9th July 1934 it was the first modernist block of flats in Britain and also the home of émigrés such as Marcel Breuer (designer of modernist furniture) and Laszlo Maholy Nagy (head teacher of art at the Bauhaus school.)

TripTide Thoughts

Isokon Gallery brings you a breath of how it was and used to be to live as a modern artist and writer.

How to get there

By London Underground : 5minutes from the Belsize station which is deserved by the Northern Line

Owner

William Souef

I am a passionate Frenchman who loves London with its history, culture and diversity. I am living in Wandsworth during a six month internship during which I am enjoying London life to the full....