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Description: | The Pritchard Papers are the personal papers of Jack Pritchard (John Craven Pritchard, 1899-1992). The collection is contained in approximately 75 archive boxes. It includes business records of the Isokon Furniture Company which produced items like the Isokon Long Chair and the Penguin donkey bookcase.
Jack Pritchard described himself as an entrepreneur, although he trained at Cambridge as an engineer and economist. Together with his wife Molly (Rosemary) Pritchard and the architect Wells Coates, he built the Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead, London in the 1930s. The flats are now a listed building and an early example of modernism. Tenants' correspondence and papers relating to the construction and management of these serviced minimalist flats and its restaurant,The Isobar, are included in the archive.
The Pritchards assisted in bringing across and settling a number of refugees from Europe during the period 1938-1940; this included the architect and designer Walter Gropius. Correspondence is included with a variety of architects, designers and educationalists including Marcel Breuer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Henry Morris. Pritchard was a leading member of the Design and Industries Association, and he was a founder member of (PEP) Political and Economic Planning. From 1949 until his retirement in 1963, he directed the Furniture Development Council. Papers relating to activities of the MARS Group (Modern Architectural Research Society) from 1937-1947 are also included. | Format: | Manuscripts | Subjects: | Furniture Furniture industry Architecture Refugees Furniture design | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44(0)1603 591010 | Telephone: | +44(0)1603 592421 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7484 | Format: | Manuscripts | Go to resource |
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