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Coates, Wells [1895-1958. Canada/UK. Industrial/Furniture Designer/Architect]

 

Wells Wintemute Coates [commonly known as Wells Coates] was born to Canadian par… subscribers only


Photograph of Wells Coates

Photograph of Wells Coates


Bibliography

1. Allan, John. ‘Lawn Road Flats (The Isokon) - a new version of urban living’, Docomono Journal no. 58, 2018 pp. 78-81 [A history of the Lawn Road Flats (also known as The Isokon) in Hampstead, north London designed by Wells Coates in 1934; and a report on its recent restoration by Avanti Architects]

2. Basham, Anna. 'Wells Coates (1895-1958): Modernist Japonmisme' in Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume VII. Compiled & Edited By Hugh Cortazzi. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2010 pp. 456–468 [Also available as an e-book ISBN: 9789004218031]

3. Boumphrey, Geoffrey. ‘The designers. 6: Wells Coates’. Architectural Review vol. 79, January 1936 pp.45-46

4. Cantacuzino, Sherban. Wells Coates: a monograph. London: Gordon Fraser, 1978

5. Coates, Wells. 'Notes on dwellings for to-morrow' in Flats: Municipal and Private Enterprise. London: Ascot Gas Water Heaters Ltd., 1938 pp. 50-55

6. Coates, Wells. ‘Wells Coates’ in Unit 1: The Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture. Edited by Herbert Read. London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1934 pp. 105-115

7. Cohn, Laura. The door to a secret room: a portrait of Wells Coates. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1999

8. Coulson, Anthony J. ‘Wells Wintemute Coates’ in Contemporary Designers. London: Macmillan, 1984 pp.125-126

9. Croft, Catherine. ‘Coates, the comeback kid’. Building Design no. 1657, 21 January 2005 pp. 12-17 [Discusses plans for the restoration of three buildings designed by Wells Coates: Lawn Road, London (by Avanti Architects); Embassy Court, Brighton (by Conran & Partners); and 10 Palace Gate (by John McAslan & Partners)]

10. Croft, Catherine. ‘Isokon; Architect (1934): Wells Coates, architects for restoration: Avanti Architects.’ Architects’ Journal vol. 223, no. 12, 30 March 2006 pp. 25-37 [A report on the restoration by Avanti Architects of the Lawn Road Flats (also known as The Isokon) in Hampstead, north London, originally designed by Wells Coates in 1934]

11. Darling, Elizabeth. Wells Coates Liverpool: Historic England in association with Liverpool University Press, 2012

12. Darling, Elizabeth. ‘Wells Coates: maker of modern British Architecture’. Architectural Review vol. 224, no. 1339, September 2008 pp. 82-87

13. Elgohary, Farouk Hafiz. Wells Coates and His Position in the Beginning of the Modern Movement in Britain. PhD., University of London, 1965

14. Hanson, Brian. ‘Wells Coates’. Architects’ Journal vol. 161, no. 13, 26 March 1975 pp. 652-653

15. Powers, Alan. Modern. The Modern Movement in Britain. London: Merrell, 2005

16. Richards, J. M. ‘Wells Coates 1893-1958’ Architectural Review vol. 124, December 1958 pp. 357-360

17. Thirties: British Art and Design before the War. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979 [Catalogue of an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, 25 October-13 January 1979]

18. Wells Coates: Architect and Designer 1895-1958. Introduction by Sherban Cantacuzino. Oxford, England: Oxford Polytechnic Press 1979 [Catalogue of Exhibition at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art]

Weblinks

Artnet 

British Listed Buildings - 10, Palace Gate SW7 A Grade II* Listed Building in Queen's Gate, London 

British Listed Buildings - Highpoint II A Grade I Listed Building in Highgate, London 

British Listed Buildings - Runnymede A Grade II Listed Building in Kingston, West Sussex 

British Listed Buildings - Shipwrights A Grade II* Listed Building in Boyce, Essex 

British Listed Buildings - Sunspan A Grade II Listed Building in Chadwell St Mary, Thurrock 

British Listed Buildings - Embassy Court A Grade II* Listed Building in Brighton and Hove 

Canadian Centre for Architecture. Wells Coates fonds 

Embassy Court 

Fiona MacCarthy, ‘Coates, Wells Wintemute (1895–1958)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [Subscription service] 

Hafiz Elgohary. Wells Coates and his Position in the Beginning of the Modern Movement in England. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1966 

Historic England - 10 Palace Gate, London 

Historic England - Broadcasting House, London 

Historic England - Embassy Court, King's Road, Brighton 

Historic England - Embassy Court, Kings Road, London 

Historic England - Isokon Flats, Lawn Road, Hampstead 

Historic England - Numbers I, 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and 2-32 Isokon Flats 

Historic England - Runnymede, Kingston, West Sussex 

Historic England - Shipwrights, 241 Benfleet Road, Benfleet, Essex 

Historic England - Sunspan, Sandy Lane, Chadwell St Mary, Thurrock, Essex 

Modern Mooch (c.s.) 

Modernism in Metro-land 

Museum of Modern Art, New York 

National Portrait Gallery, London 

Sherban Cantacuzino. Wells Wintemute Coates. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service] 

The Canadian Encyclopedia 

The Modern House 

The National Archives 

The Open University. OpenLearn - The Lawn Road Flats (Isokon Building)  

The Open University. OpenLearn - Wells Coates 

UK Modern House 

University of Brighton Design Archives 

Victoria & Albert Museum, London 

Vimeo. The Legacy of Wells Coates 

Vitra Design Museum 

Wikipedia 

WowHaus 

YouTube. GB Modern Architecture: Isokon, Hampstead and Embassy Court, Brighton 

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