Stephen Bayley

Clean lines and dirty habits: the Modernists of 1930s Hampstead

The Isokon building, where distinguished Bauhaus emigrés took up residence, soon became a byword for suspect liaisons of all kinds

The Isokon building in Hampstead, designed by Wells Coates, had fallen into dreadful disrepair before it was rescued in 2003
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  • Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists

    Caroline Maclean

    Bloomsbury,, pp. 290, £25

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