The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists (History of British Intelligence)

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Recently the Isokon Gallery Trust has been established by John Allan and Fiona Lamb of Avanti Architects, and Magnus Englund, MD and co-founder of the design retailer Skandium. Keats House is the beautiful Regency villa, where Romantic poet John Keats found inspiration, friendship and love.

Where available, we have linked to detailed online information about the building, such as the Historic England listing description. The area containing Lawn Road, Camden, London contains a higher-than-average level of social housing - 76% of household spaces. Listed here are the 20 closest Tube and Docklands Light Railway stations to Lawn Road, Camden, London, NW3 2EN. Marketed with no onward chain, this well-proportioned two bedroom detached bungalow is positioned in BS16 with a driveway and garage. The first manager was Tommy Layton, later of Layton's Wine Merchants, who was succeeded by the chef, Philip Harben, famous later as the first BBC television chef.Some pages may have the AddThis social plugin to allow you to share pages to your social network and for Foxtons to view reports on which pages were shared and how. Broadband data is based on information provided by the major fixed internet service providers in the UK, including Virgin Media and BT. Countrywide Residential Lettings Limited is a member of and covered by the ARLA Propertymark Client Money Protection Scheme. This beautiful 1 bedroom apartment is an ideal first home offering a spacious open plan Kitchen, Living and Dining Area with two windows. Coates’s utmost mastery of materials, space and form (and this his first complete building) and their synthesis into a distinctive language of architecture make this a real turning point in the development of English modernism.

The building is now partly occupied by key workers under a shared-ownership scheme whilst the larger flats have been sold outright. Originally a late 19C coachman's living quarters and stable, this mews house combines an award-winning architect's studio and spacious light-filled maisonette after a 2-phase carbon-reducing retrofit. Coates was inspired by Le Corbusier, who believed that buildings should be “machines for living”, and as a result the 32 flats were designed to create the greatest possible utility and comfort out of constricted dimensions.The building now has a smooth external finish and is the palest tint of pink in colour, as it was originally—not pure white as has been assumed from black and white historical photos. The first block ever to be built chiefly using reinforced concrete, it was the subject of an exemplary restoration by Avant Architects in 2004. The Isobar, the dining room and club on the ground floor, also attracted many interesting people including Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Naum Gabo and Serge Chermayeff.