PP/24/8/26 - [Letter, Ise Gropius to Jack & Molly Pritchard, 25/1/52]

Reference code

PP/24/8/26

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Ise Gropius to Jack & Molly Pritchard, 25/1/52]

Date/s

1952

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Gropius, Ati
Forberg, Charles
Rudofsky, Bernard, 1905-1988
Beaudouin, Eugene Ellie

Subject

Unesco
Unesco Headquarters Building (Paris)

Creator

Gropius, Ise.

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Ise thanks the Pritchards for their Christmas present which she used to get tulip bulbs. Gives news of daughter Ati and her husband Charles [Forberg]. Charles now teaches and Ati brings in freelance commissions. The Gropiuses have been busy preparing Walter's exhibition, put on by Kepes, which will now tour and may reach Europe. Mentions R.F. Jordan's reports on Corbu's L'Unite, Walter's invitation from UNESCO to judge Beaudouin's plans for HQ building, Walter's award for architectural writing and Rudofsky's book 'Are clothes modern'.

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/24 - Walter and Ise Gropius
  - PP/24/8 - Section 8. 1951-1955 Gropius/Pritchard Correspondence
    - PP/24/8/26 - [Letter, Ise Gropius to Jack & Molly Pritchard, 25/1/52]

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