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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 4h

Opening today: ‘A House in Hampstead’ featuring work by Karin Kneffel inspired by the Isokon Flats, at Dirimart London dirimart.com/en/Exhibitio....

Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 1d

Carlo Scarpa: drawing with light. ✍️💡😍

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 1d

Opening soon, “A House in Hampstead”, a solo exhibition with new work by Karin Kneffel, centred on the Isokon Flats, in which the artist invites us to re-imagine a fragmented past, discernible only through undated scenes.
Dirimart London, 09.10–15.11.2025
dirimart.com/en/Exhibitio...

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 3d

Some pictures of Carlo Scarpa’s intervention in the Aula Magna of the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Note the wooden blocks which are the floor of the rostrum: not fixed, so as. to allow for movement of the building over time.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 4d

Moving water at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice. Carlo Scarpa.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 4d

At the Olivetti Showroom in Piazza San Marco, Venice, by Carlo Scarpa. Opened in 1958 and restored a few years ago. The floor tiles are made of glass.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 5d

Villa il Girasole, outside Verona. A folly on a monumental scale: a rotating villa built in the 1930s. The pale L-shaped upper portion rotated on a circular railway track. Used as a summer home by the engineer Angelo Invernizzi and his family. villagirasole.org

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 6d

More Carlo Scarpa. Here the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona where he placed a modern structure in a multilayered historical complex.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 7d

We’re on a Carlo Scarpa trip and today we visited the Brion Memorial. A really beautiful place with extraordinary spaces and surprising details everywhere

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Sir Terry Farrell www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Spies, eggcups and penthouses: Sir Terry Farrell’s best buildings – in pictures

Sir Terry Farrell, the UK’s leading architect-planner and postmodernist, has died aged 87

www.theguardian.com

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 11d

A fascinating book talk and signing yesterday on modernist and brutalist architecture in Hong Kong by Alex Yuen, Jeff Chan and Bob Pang. The talk was in Cantonese 廣州話, but we’re hoping to host it next year in English 英文.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 12d

In 1934, the minimum space deemed necessary for a comfortable existence was 25 sq m. You can see what that feels like tomorrow, Sunday 28 September, 11 am - 1 pm, in a 25 sq m Isokon minimum flat. We ask for a donation of £10 per visitor. There may be a wait. See you then 👋🏼

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 12d

First Isokon Friday Late: before and during. We’re still open, until 2100.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 13d

👇 Come and visit us this evening! 👇

Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 16d

The first of our Friday Lates takes place this week on 26 September! We’ll be open from 6-9 pm. Do drop by for a visit.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 15d

This season at the Isokon Gallery is a busy one! We have four fantastic events coming up. Follow us on Eventbrite for notifications as soon as tickets go on sale 👇🏻
www.eventbrite.com/o/10598755560

Isokon Gallery Trust

Isokon Gallery - The story of a new vision of urban livingThe Isokon Gallery tells the remarkable story of the Isokon building, the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934 as an experiment in...

www.eventbrite.com

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 16d

The first of our Friday Lates takes place this week on 26 September! We’ll be open from 6-9 pm. Do drop by for a visit.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 17d

On the final day of Open House London we visited the BT Tower. Great views over London on a glorious sunny morning from the former revolving restaurant. Note the 1970s menu on display: all in French, as was then the practice for a certain class of restaurant. This one was operated by Butlin’s.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 18d

The Mini Guide to Erno Goldfinger is now on sale at the Isokon Gallery. Also available at our online shop isokongallery.org/products/mim...

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 19d

You might know the Penguin Donkey Mk 1, and even the Mark 2, but have you seen the Mark 3? Designed by Shin and Tomoko Azumi in 2003, this version has a continuous flat surface on top, unlike the earlier iterations. Get yours from the Isokon shop isokongallery.org/products/iso...

Isokon Penguin Donkey Mark 3

Shin & Tomoko Azumi, 2003 Isokon Plus invited the Azumi’s to create their own take on the Penguin Donkey in 2003. Their design remains true to the spirit of the original designs by Egon Riss and E...

isokongallery.org

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 20d

Oh, we missed them. Next time …

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 20d

Brutalist pier at Deal, which replaced the previous one that was damaged during WW2. Sir W.Halcrow and Partners, opened in 1957. Sculpture at entrance, “Embracing the Sea” by Jon Buck (1998). Cafe by Niall McLaughlin (2008). Named “Pier of the Year” in 2008.

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 22d

Ever wondered about life in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille? www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

Living the modernist dream at Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse

Peek inside 12 apartments as residents of Marseille’s utopian vertical village invite us in

www.wallpaper.com

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 22d

Coming up at Docomomo: a talk on estate map signboards.
www.docomomo.org.uk/events/you-a...

You are here: a history of the estate map signboard — Docomomo UK

A talk by Julian Williams RIBA 19.00-21.00 on 16th September 2025 at the Alan Baxter Associates Gallery, 77 Cowcross St, London EC1M 6EL and online.

www.docomomo.org.uk

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 24d

Open House at the Isokon was an outstanding success, with more visitors than ever before. We’re now looking forward to doing some Open House visiting of our own in the week ahead 😊

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 25d

Day one of Open House at the Isokon was a great success. We look forward toward to welcoming another 300 visitors tomorrow, Sunday Sept 14. Do join us, but please be prepared for a long queue (although we’ll do our best to keep you entertained while you wait).
programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/768

Isokon Building (Lawn Road Flats)

Grade I listed 1934 residential block of flats in Hampstead, designed by the Canadian modernist architect Wells Coates for clients Jack and Molly Pritchard. English Heritage blue plaque for Bauhaus ma...

programme.openhouse.org.uk