05/06/2026
Our Osaka exhibition Forms Across Time (Products of Modernism) is now closed. A final thank you to all at B.O.H. and staple studio ( plus best wishes to the next-in-line ) and some last impressions of our show there.
“Alongside importing the philosophy of European modernism into Britain, Isokon revolutionised furniture production through the persistent promotion of a single material – plywood.
In 1935 plywood was a truly revolutionary counter to everything that had come before; it was light, strong, flexible, and it could be formed without expensive machinery. When plywood’s unique material qualities demanded a new visual expression Marcel Breuer duly obliged. He pioneered an approach that expressed the structural strength and flexibility of the material and put the economy of form before adornment.
These same principles of design have continued to guide Isokon throughout our history.”
Forms Across Time, excerpt.
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