PP/23/1/89 - [Letter, Wells Coates to Graham Maw, 7/2/33]

Reference code

PP/23/1/89

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Wells Coates to Graham Maw, 7/2/33]

Date/s

1933

Quantity & Format

5 leaves Letters (typescript)

Subject

Exhibition of British Industrial Art in Relation to the Home (1933 : Dorland Hall)
Isokon Ltd
Sunspan houses

Creator

Coates, Wells.

Creator

Maw, Graham.

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Reply to Graham Maw's letter 1/2/33. Coates comments on the "delays which have occurred" and "the work of solving the shelter-problem". Coates discusses his ideas on "unit-construction". Plans of different type houses are discussed, and the constraints in the manufacturing and building of them. Coates remarks on his research work being halted due to a lack of reserve resources. Coates forsees that the Isokon designs for dwellings at the Dorland House Exhibition will not materialise.

An entirely new plan-form, revealed to Coates "by the gods" during his illness, is described. [This was later to be known as Sunspan Houses]. Coates' relationship with Isokon Ltd is discussed.

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/23 - Wells Coates
  - PP/23/1 - Wells Coates: Lawn Road Houses, 1930-1933
    - PP/23/1/89 - [Letter, Wells Coates to Graham Maw, 7/2/33]

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