Posted on 1/12/2016
'The biggest challenge was knowing which stories to tell,' says Magnus Englund, managing director of furniture store Skandium. He's referring to the new gallery which opens today in the Isokon Building - also known as the Lawn Road Flats - in Hampstead. Built in 1934, the daringly modern apartment block was the epicentre of North London's avant-garde circle during the 1930s and 1940s
The Isokon Gallery, once the residents' garage, certainly has no shortage of material to exhibit. Walter Gropius, Paul Nash and Agatha Christie were among its famous residents, and its gatherings of leading architects, artists, writers and thinkers in the building's Isobar restaurant were legendary.
Englund lives in the penthouse, and has immaculately restored it to i...