Put a fist through it
Harriet Baker: The Hampstead Modernists, 8 October 2020
Circles and Squares: The Lives and Art of the Hampstead Modernists
by Caroline Maclean.
Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £30, April,978 1 4088 8969 5 Show More
by Caroline Maclean.
Bloomsbury, 296 pp., £30, April,
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour
by Shelley Klein.
Chatto, 271 pp., £16.99, April,978 1 78474 310 9 Show More
by Shelley Klein.
Chatto, 271 pp., £16.99, April,
“... an engineer at the Venesta Plywood Company, his wife, Molly, a bacteriologist, and the architect Wells Coates. They would follow the European example: a new style of urban living, one that freed people from the clutter and labour of daily life. ‘How do we want to live?’ Molly asked at the building’s opening in 1934. ‘What sort of framework must we ... ”