PP/1/5/2-4 - The Ideal Client, The Guardian, 26/9/63

Reference code

PP/1/5/2-4

Level of description

Item

Title

The Ideal Client, The Guardian, 26/9/63

Date/s

1963

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Press cuttings

Personal name

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Breuer, Marcel
Coates, Wells
Race, Ernest
Morris, Henry, 1889-1961
Harben, Philip
Moholy-Nagy, L.
Fry, Maxwell
Howell, William Gough
Jones, Colin (architect)
Jones, Jennifer

Subject

Furniture Development Council
Lawn Road Flats
Isokon Penguin donkey bookcase
Isokon Furniture Company
Blythburgh (Suffolk). no. 8, Angel Lane

Creator

Rowntree, Diana.

Scope and content

3 copies (1 photocopy). Retrospective of Jack Pritchard's career on the occasion of his retirement from the Furniture Development Council. The article focusses on Lawn Road Flats, discusses Pritchard's collaboration with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, and refers to the relaunch of a piece of Isokon furniture, the Penguin Donkey [bookcase]. Mentions Wells Coates, Isokon Furniture Company, Ernest Race, Henry Morris, Philip Harben, [Laszlo] Moholy-Nagy, Maxwell Fry, Bill Howell, and Colin and Jennifer Jones. Includes photographs of the Pritchards' house at Blythburgh, and Lawn Road Flats.

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/1 - Biographical Papers of Jack Pritchard
  - PP/1/5 - [Articles and photographs about or relating to Jack Pritchard]
    - PP/1/5/2-4 - The Ideal Client, The Guardian, 26/9/63

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