Isokon Flats — Attraction in London

A British Modernist masterpiece; home to Agatha Christie, spies and centre of an intellectual circle. Isokon Flats, also known as Lawn Road Flats and the Isokon building, on Lawn Road in the Belsize Park district of the London Borough of Camden, is a reinforced-concrete block of 36 flats (originally 32), designed by Canadian engineer Wells Coates for Molly and Jack Pritchard. Celebrated residents included: Bauhaus émigrés Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and László Moholy-Nagy; architects Egon Riss and Arthur Korn; writer Agatha Christie (between 1941 and 1947) and her husband Max Mallowan, art historian Adrian Stokes, the author Nicholas Monsarrat, the archaeologist V. Gordon Childe, modernist architect Jacques Groag and his wife, textile designer...

Beautiful building with an interesting history. The small exhibition on the history of the building and the people who lived there is very interesting. Volunteers are very helpful and lovely. It is a bit sad that it isn't possible to see one of the flats on...

Small museum in the former garage of the Isokon flats on Lawn Road. If you are interested in modernist architecture I strongly recommend a visit; if you're not, it's worth going to find out about the people who have lived there...