Furniture designer. In 1929 he founded the firm of Wells Coates and Partners, with the name changing to Isokon in 1931. The name was derived from Isometric Unit Construction.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Jack Pritchard
Commemorated ati
Isokon Building
The plaque is in the foyer of the flats. It was unveiled by John Pritchard, g...
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George Tinworth
Ceramic artist. Born 6 Milk Street, SE5. The whole area has been rebuilt but Milk Street used to run parallel to Red Lion Row, just to the east. From Mapping of Sculpture: "... enrolled at Lambeth...
4 memorials
Hamilton T. Smith
Furniture designer, founding member of the Design and Industries Association and director of Heals.
1 memorial
Joanna A. Migdal
Horologist. Born Chiswick. Has been a maker of sundials, clocks and public sculpture since 1982 and has a purpose-built studio in Bix, near Henley-on-Thames. Other work in London: a bronze armillar...
2 memorials
Kindersley Workshop
From the Workshop's website: "David Kindersley, lettercutter, sculptor and inventor, started his workshop near Cambridge in 1946, having been apprenticed to Eric Gill. He was joined in 1976 by Lida...
1 memorial
Dame Mary Quant
Fashion designer. Born Barbara Mary Quant in Blackheath. She and her husband Alexander Plunkett Greene opened their first shop called Bazaar in the Kings Road, Chelsea, selling clothes designed to ...
1 memorial