PP/14/6/6 - Exciting Days of the Thirties - where did they come from?

PP/14/6/6

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Exciting Days of the Thirties - where did they come from?

[1979]

11 pp Lectures

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Breuer, Marcel
Morris, Henry, 1889-1961
Mansell, Harry

Isokon long chair
Isokon Penguin donkey bookcase
Isokon Furniture Company
Bauhaus
Village colleges -- United Kingdom
Royal College of Art

Pritchard, John Craven,

Typed copy of a lecture given by Jack Pritchard to the Royal College of Art, 20/11/80. Jack Pritchard discusses the causes and influences, "the exciting days as [he] saw them," includes Village Colleges and Henry Morris, Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus, Isokon Furniture Company, Marcel Breuer and Harry Mansell, the Isokon Long chair and the Penguin Donkey. Jack Pritchard also discusses education and calls for closer collaboration between art and science in education. Lecture probably given in conjunction with the "1930's" RCA exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, 1979-1980.