Isokon Gallery

Isokon Gallery Experience the remarkable story of the Isokon apartment building, opened in 1934 as a progressive experiment in new ways of urban living.

Planning to give someone Isokon furniture for Christmas? We keep stock of the Gull and Donkey Mk I, but the rest is made...
03/09/2026

Planning to give someone Isokon furniture for Christmas? We keep stock of the Gull and Donkey Mk I, but the rest is made to order and the lead time is three months, so get your orders in now! You can place them on isokongallery.org

Isokon furniture will launch a special collection during London Design Festival. The Masur Edition comprises four enduri...
01/09/2026

Isokon furniture will launch a special collection during London Design Festival. The Masur Edition comprises four enduring designs by Marcel Breuer reimagined in rare masur birch veneer. The edition will be sold exclusively by leading London design gallery Béton Brut, an East London gallery for form-led design. Founded in 2013 by design dealer Sophie Pearce, its distinct aesthetic coheres around functional art and sculptural forms. Isokon furniture has worked in close collaboration with the team at Béton Brut to bring this exciting special edition of iconic Breuer designs to a new audience. The exhibition is open 12th to 20th September with opening hours Saturday & Sunday: 11am to 5pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 11am to 6pm, Thursday and Friday: 11am to 8pm. Béton Brut, Unit 2, 30 Felstead street, London E9 5LG.

When English Heritage made a blue plaque for the Bauhaus masters at Isokon Flats back in 2018, they also made t-shirts! ...
31/08/2026

When English Heritage made a blue plaque for the Bauhaus masters at Isokon Flats back in 2018, they also made t-shirts! We are now selling the very last ones, all size XL, only available at isokongallery.org and at the gift shop.

Isokon Flats forms part of Hampstead's heritage, an area of London shaped by centuries of cultural, intellectual and arc...
29/08/2026

Isokon Flats forms part of Hampstead's heritage, an area of London shaped by centuries of cultural, intellectual and architectural history. From the open landscape of Hampstead Heath to the streets and squares that have long attracted artists, writers, architects and émigré communities, the area offers a rich mix of historic buildings and places of cultural significance. Several of these buildings participate in London Open House during September, including Isokon Flats where you can visit three flats 19-20th September 2026.

Tomorrow is the last Friday of the month, and that means that the Isokon Gallery is open 11am to 4pm - and that we offer...
27/08/2026

Tomorrow is the last Friday of the month, and that means that the Isokon Gallery is open 11am to 4pm - and that we offer 15% off all books in our gift shop to visitors. Lawn Road, London NW3 2XD. Only four minutes walk from Belsize Park underground station.

On Thursday 24th September, we are showing a film about graphic designer FHK (Frederick Henry Kay) Henrion, who lived an...
18/08/2026

On Thursday 24th September, we are showing a film about graphic designer FHK (Frederick Henry Kay) Henrion, who lived and worked around the corner from Isokon Flats. FHK Henrion (1914-1990) was a German-Jewish émigré who arrived in London in 1936, having fled Germany for Paris in 1933. He worked on wartime propaganda projects for the UK Ministry of Information, before moving to the Hampstead house in 1947 with his first wife, sculptor Daphne Hardy Henrion (1917-2003). FHK Henrion went on to design some of the world's most recognisable brands including the packaging for Tate & Lyle sugar and the corporate identity for KLM. The award winning film 'Designing From Home' is directed by Harriet Atkinson and Sue Breakell, who will both be present for a Q&A. Designing from Home draws on little-seen original material from Henrion’s archive, held at the Design Archives, as well as interviews with Henrion’s four children, filmed in the extraordinary house which was the family home for almost 80 years. The documentary was made with Banyak Films, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Brighton School of Art & Media and School of Humanities & Social Science, and the Centre for Design History. Tickets through Eventbrite.

We now have a family of Isokon fridge magnets available in our gift shop at Lawn Road and online at isokongallery.org
05/08/2026

We now have a family of Isokon fridge magnets available in our gift shop at Lawn Road and online at isokongallery.org

Architectural photographer Adam Štěch has been to Melbourne, and documented Cairo Flats, the Australian sister building ...
03/08/2026

Architectural photographer Adam Štěch has been to Melbourne, and documented Cairo Flats, the Australian sister building of Isokon Flats. The Australian architect Best Overend had been an assistant of Isokon architect Wells Coates in London, before returning home and designing Cairo Flats in 1935. Also known as the Cairo Bachelor Flats, each apartment was designed to "provide maximum amenity in minimum space for minimum rent". Like Isokon, Cairo Flats was designed for the middle-classes, with wardrobes, dressing tables, cupboards, shelves, kitchen tables, chairs and the bed all incorporated as built-in elements. Only a suitcase of clothing was required when moving in.

Wells Coates the radio man. The BBC had started in 1922, and Broadcasting House opened in 1932, employing Wells Coates, ...
01/08/2026

Wells Coates the radio man. The BBC had started in 1922, and Broadcasting House opened in 1932, employing Wells Coates, Serge Chermayeff, Raymond McGrath, Reginald Maufe and Dorothy Warren Trotter to design the sound studios. The number of licensed radios in Britain grew from about 3 million in 1930 to nearly 9 million by 1939, so it's no surprise that radio manufacturer EKCO (E.K. Cole Ltd.) turned to Wells Coates, Serge Chermayeff and Raymond McGrath for product design. The first radio designed by Wells Coates for EKCO was the iconic AD65, introduced in 1934 after being designed in 1932, the same period as he worked on Isokon Flats. The AD65 radio was occasionally made in green (often referred to as onyx or mottled green), though exceptionally rare. While standard production models were walnut brown or black, special-order colours were produced using urea-formaldehyde instead of standard Bakelite. You can see several Wells Coates' radios on display at the Isokon Gallery.

Tomorrow Friday 31st July is the last Friday on the month, and that means that the Isokon Gallery museum is open 11am to...
30/07/2026

Tomorrow Friday 31st July is the last Friday on the month, and that means that the Isokon Gallery museum is open 11am to 4pm. As a special treat, we offer 15% off all books in our gift shop, only to visitors to the Gallery. We have hundreds of titles relating to 20th century architecture, modern art, design and social history!

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Isokon Building
London
NW32XD

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Saturday 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm

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+447713507018

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