"Many people know of the Isokon Flats for its most famous occupant, Agatha Christie, who lived at what was then called the Lawn Road Flats from 1940-46. While people might also know of the project's other war-era tenants (Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Lazslo Moholy-Nagy), the building itself is unfortunately, to most, nothing more than a 'giant liner without any funnels' or as a pretty picture snapped in its heyday. The reinforced-concrete housing project is the work of Jack and Molly Pritchard and their architect Wells Coates. Together they envisioned a block of serviced flats (combined living/bedroom with kitchenette, bathroom and dressing room) to be fitted out with the Pritchards line of innovative furniture, Isokon. Featuring a communal restaurant (the Isobar -- designed by Marcel Breuer), laundry facilities and a roof garden, the building was distinctively modern in function as well as appearance."
