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The Estonian Embassy in London is excited to host a special event as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Come along to the Estonian Embassy on Wednesday 5th June to hear authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund talk about their new book Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain. This illustrated talk will cover the story of the groundbreaking Isokon building, its artistic network and the legacy of Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, the Bauhaus professors who lived there during the 1930s. Special guest Dr Yael Reisner (Yael Reisner Studio), head-curator of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2019, will also be unveiling this year’s program.

Built in 1934, the Isokon on Lawn Road in Hampstead was England’s first modernist apartment building, and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. Its flats, bar and dining club would become an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

Leyla Daybelge is a Journalist and Broadcaster, with a background in news and current affairs, as a newscaster, correspondent and producer for BBC Radio Four, ITN, ITV News and Sky News. She currently writes travel and culture features for the Daily Telegraph amongst others. She was previously Head of Press for Contemporary and Design at Sotheby’s.

Magnus Englund is the current resident of Jack and Molly Pritchard’s penthouse in the Isokon building. He has championed the building’s revival and is a trustee of the Isokon Gallery. He is the co-founder of the popular interior design company, Skandium.

When: Wednesday 5th June, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Where: Embassy of Estonia in London, 44 Queen’s Gate Terrace, London SW7 5PJ
Price: Free entry upon registration

For more information and to reserve your place please visit the Eventbrite website.

*Please bring photo ID*

Come along to the Keats Community Library on Thursday 13th June to hear authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund talk about their new book Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain. This illustrated talk will cover the story of the Isokon, and the artistic network and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. All ticket proceeds will go to the library.

Built in 1934, the Isokon on Lawn Road in Hampstead was England’s first modernist apartment building, and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. Its flats, bar and dining club would become an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

Leyla Daybelge is a Journalist and Broadcaster, with a background in news and current affairs, as a newscaster, correspondent and producer for BBC Radio Four, ITN, ITV News and Sky News. She currently writes travel and culture features for the Daily Telegraph amongst others. She was previously Head of Press for Contemporary and Design at Sotheby’s.

Magnus Englund is the current resident of Jack and Molly Pritchard’s penthouse in the Isokon building. He has championed the building’s revival and is a trustee of the Isokon Gallery. He is the co-founder of the popular interior design company, Skandium.

Where: Keats Community Library, 10A Keats Grove, Hampstead, London NW3 2RR
When: Thursday 13th June, 7.30pm
Price: £10

For more information and to book tickets, please visit the Keats Community Library website.

Come along to the Isokon Gallery on Thursday 11th April to hear authors Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund talk about their new book Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain. This fast-paced talk takes in the whole Isokon story with over 100 slides, and has previously been given at Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habition building in Marseilles, Daunt Books and Ernö Goldfinger’s 2 Willow Road – but the Isokon Gallery is its obvious setting. All proceeds from the sale of tickets will go to the Isokon Gallery Trust.

Built in 1934, the Isokon on Lawn Road in Hampstead was England’s first modernist apartment building, and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. Its flats, bar and dining club would become an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

Leyla Daybelge is a Journalist and Broadcaster, with a background in news and current affairs, as a newscaster, correspondent and producer for BBC Radio Four, ITN, ITV News and Sky News. She currently writes travel and culture features for the Daily Telegraph amongst others. She was previously Head of Press for Contemporary and Design at Sotheby’s.

Magnus Englund is the current resident of Jack and Molly Pritchard’s penthouse in the Isokon building. He has championed the building’s revival and is a trustee of the Isokon Gallery. He is the co-founder of the popular interior design company, Skandium.

Where: Isokon Gallery, Lawn Road, London, NW3 2XD
When: Thursday 11th April, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Price: £10, includes wine and a discount on the price of the book

For more information and to book tickets, please visit the Eventbrite page.

The story of Batsford began when Bradley Thomas Batsford opened the doors to his bookshop on High Holborn in 1843. Before the end of the century, Batsford had established itself as the publisher of specialist non-fiction books for the general reader for which it is still known.

This exhibition tells the Batsford story, with highs and lows, through a selection of books and archive materials from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. From the first publication released under the Batsford imprint in 1874 to recent bestsellers, along with volumes by Gertrude Stein, Cecil Beaton, Stevie Smith, John Betjeman, John Piper, Constance Howard and many more. Books from the much-loved and highly collectable Batsford Heritage Series are on display, instantly recognisable through Brian Cook’s iconic cover designs. Other key publishing areas are also explored including architecture, art, textiles, craft and fashion.

Today, Batsford is an award-winning and thriving imprint of independent publisher Pavilion Books, based just a ten-minute walk from Batsford’s original location on High Holborn.

An exhibition at:

Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre
2nd Floor, Holborn Library
32–38 Theobalds Road
London WC1X 8PA

8th April – 28th June 2019

Monday–Tuesday 10am–6pm
Thursday 10am–7pm
Friday 10am–5pm
Alternate Saturdays 11am–5pm (13 Apr, 27 Apr, 11 May, 25 May, 8 Jun, 22 Jun)

FREE ENTRY

To celebrate the publication of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, The Aram Gallery will be hosting an exhibition on the Isokon building and its furniture from now until 30th March 2019.

Built in 1934, the Isokon building in Hampstead, London was England’s first modernist apartment building. Clients Jack and Molly Pritchard commissioned architect Wells Coates to design the building and explore the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s the flats and bar became a hub for creatives, including Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy. The three produced furniture, architecture and graphic art for Jack Pritchard’s Isokon design company.

The book – which features anecdotes by Aram gallery director Zeev Aram – tells the story of the Isokon, and examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. It is illustrated with archive photography – much of which is previously unseen – as well as documents from the Pritchard family archive.

In the year of the Bauhaus centenary, the launch and display of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain is a timely event for The Aram Gallery.

When: Thursday 7th March to Saturday 30th March, 10am to 6pm
Where: The Aram Gallery, 110 Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London, WC2B 5SG
Price: Free

For more information, please visit The Aram Gallery website.

Step into the living room of brutalist architect, Erno Goldfiner, to hear authors of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund, reveal the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day. They will examine the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and infamous dinner parties.

This talk is part of the After Dark series with the National Trust. This talk allows you access to the architect Erno Goldfinger’s modernist home in Hampstead. Built in 1939 as Goldfinger’s family home, 2 Willow Road is full of innovative design details that were ground breaking at the time. It is now maintained by the National Trust and contains Goldfinger’s impressive collection of modern art and intriguing personal possessions.

Leyla Daybelge is a Journalist and Broadcaster, with a background in news and current affairs, as a newscaster, correspondent and producer for BBC Radio Four, ITN, ITV News and Sky News. She currently writes travel and culture features for the Daily Telegraph amongst others. She was previously Head of Press for Contemporary and Design at Sotheby’s.

Magnus Englund is the current resident of Jack and Molly Pritchard’s penthouse in the Isokon building. He has championed the building’s revival and is a trustee of the Isokon Gallery. He is the co-founder of the popular interior design company, Skandium.

For more information, please visit the A Curious Invitation website.

When: Thursday 28th March, doors open at 6.30pm, talk commences at 7pm
Where: 2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London NW3 1TH
Price: £15 including a glass of prosecco

Come along to Daunt Books Hampstead on Wednesday 24th April at 6.30pm where Magnus Englund and Leyla Daybelge, authors of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain, will be giving an illustrated talk about the story of the Isokon, and the artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain.

Built in 1934, the Isokon on Lawn Road in Hampstead was England’s first modernist apartment building, and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. Its flats, bar and dining club would become an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy.

Leyla Daybelge is a Journalist and Broadcaster, with a background in news and current affairs, as a newscaster, correspondent and producer for BBC Radio Four, ITN, ITV News and Sky News. She currently writes travel and culture features for the Daily Telegraph amongst others. She was previously Head of Press for Contemporary and Design at Sotheby’s.

Magnus Englund is the current resident of Jack and Molly Pritchard’s penthouse in the Isokon building. He has championed the building’s revival and is a trustee of the Isokon Gallery. He is the co-founder of the popular interior design company, Skandium.

Where: Daunt Books, 51 S End Rd, Hampstead, London NW3 2QB
When: Wednesday 24th April, 6.30pm
Price: £5

For more information and to book tickets please visit the Daunt Books website.

Through the ages plants have been associated with beauty. Microscopes reveal that what’s true of plants in our everyday experience is also true of their micro-structure. Things that are invisible to the naked eye turn out to be stunningly beautiful.

Join Colin Salter, author of Science is Beautiful: Botanical Life and botanist Dr Louis Ronse De Craene for a journey into the inner workings of plants. The event is part of Edinburgh Science Festival, one of Europe’s largest festivals celebrating science and technology that takes place between 6th April 2019 and 21st April 2019.

The plant world has always been appreciated for its visual appeal, but its true beauty can be revealed when you look under the electron microscope. Science is Beautiful: Botanical Life unearths some of the most wonderful microscopic images of flowers, trees and grasses ever created, now made possible by technology. We get to see the wonder of pollen, seeds, petals, algae and leaves. The images are as beautiful as any art.

Colin Salter is the co-author of Everything You Need to Know About Inventions. He is a history and science writer with a fascination for how things work, and how they used to work. He has written about everything, including the private lives of marine gastropods. His contributions to Chambers’ Biographical Dictionary include the entries for 500 living scientists.

When: Sunday 7th April 2019, 2pm to 3pm
Where: Science Buildings: Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Arboretum Pl,
Edinburgh EH3 5NZ
Price: £5

For more information and to book tickets, please visit the Edinburgh Science Festival website.

Four weeks; seven categories; one ultimate winner. Alan Turing has been chosen as the greatest person of the 20th century.

ICONS, a new history series on BBC Two, asked the general public to assess the achievements of the 20th century’s most important and influential figures from seven different fields of human endeavour. Over the course of the series the public voted for the greatest Leader, Explorer, Scientist, Entertainer, Activist, Sports Star and Artist or Writer.

In the ICONS live final, which aired on Tuesday 5th February, Alan Turing was voted the overall winner, beating Nelson Mandela, Ernest Shackleton, David Bowie, Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali and Pablo Picasso.

If you’d like to find out more about the famed mathematician and computer scientist you can read Prof: Alan Turing Decoded or Alan Turing – The Life of a Genius, both written by Alan’s nephew, Dermot Turing.

Keep an eye out for Alan Turing – Remarkable Lives, a new Pitkin title coming July 2019.

Maps of London and Beyond by Adam Dant has been shortlisted in the Edward Stanfords Travel Writing Awards 2019.

The book, published by Batsford in conjunction with Spitalfields Life, is a spectacular, large-format collection of Adam Dant’s fine art maps of London, giving a unique view of our history and life today. It’s competing in the Photography and Illustrated Travel Book of the Year category alongside five other titles.

The Edward Stanford Travel Awards is presented by iconic travel bookshop Stanfords and celebrates the best travel writing and writers in the world. The winners of the 2019 award will be revealed on the 28th February.

View the full shortlist here.

Jim Christian’s fun and informative guide to coding How to Think Like a Coder, has been shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ 2018 Educational Writers’ Award.

The judging panel said: ‘This step-by-step guide for absolute beginners does exactly what it says on the cover, introducing key concepts in a very straightforward and accessible way. Offering a fine balance between information and fabulous illustrations, this colourful book provides a wonderful, rather substantial taster to a subject on the rise.’

How to Think Like a Coder was published by Batsford in 2017 and features puzzles and exercises that will help readers think logically, work within constraints and deconstruct problem. Readers will get to grips with the basics, from learning the language and types of data to algorithms, loops, conditional statements, functions, variables and debugging – all without touching a computer! Author Jim Christian is a consultant and developer with over 20 years’ experience of teaching technology privately and in international education. The book features character illustrations throughout by Paul Boston.

The 2018 Award focuses on books for 11-18-year-olds, published in 2016 & 2017. This year’s judges are: Philip Arkinstall, a curriculum leader for History in a Wiltshire secondary school; Elspeth Graham, a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction for children; and Océane Toffoli, a senior school librarian and Vice-Chair of CILIP YLG London.

How to Think Like a Coder competes with four other books and the winner of the 2018 Educational Writers’ Award will be announced at the All Party Writers Group (APWG) Winter Reception at the House of Commons on Tuesday 4 December. The winning author/illustrator will receive a cheque for £2,000.

Read more about the award on the Society of Authors website.

How to See Nature by Paul Evans has been nominated in the non-fiction category of the People’s Book Prize – the award where the public vote for their favourite books.

Written by the Guardian’s country diary writer Paul Evans, How to See Nature is nature writing for the modern reader. It is a book both for those that live in the country and those that don’t, but experience nature every day through brownfield edge lands, transport corridors, urban greenspace, industrialised agriculture and fragments of ancient countryside.

The award is decided exclusively by the public, and you have until 15th March 2019 to cast your vote.

Vote now!