compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
was arguably in the furniture produced by Isokon in the
1930s. We asked Magnus Englund, Isokon furniture
collector and Managing Director of contemporary design
retailer Skandium (skandium.com), to share his advice on
buying vintage Isokan. While most Isokon furniture was
designed during the 1930s, it has a timeless look that
points forward to US and Scandinavian 1950s ply furniture.
The start of Isokon came about because of its founder
Jack Pritchard’s work for the British company Venesta, a
sister company of the Estonian plywood manufacturer
Luther. Plywood is therefore the material of choice for all
Isokon furniture. Alvar Aalto’s plywood furniture designs
from the 1930s certainly had an influence, which is hardly
surprising as Aalto furniture was widely sold in Britain
through Finmar at the time.
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