The Door to a Secret Room: A Portrait of Wells Coates Arup this book records

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Islington and Romford

By John Allan (Chairman of the Isokon Gallery Trust)

while also being praised as alternative 'guidebooks' for curious travellers

a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War

The Door to a Secret Room: A Portrait of Wells Coates Arup this book recordsNOTE: THIS IS A VINTAGE COPY AND NOT NEW. RARE AND OUT OF PRINT. Hardback, 240 pages By Laura Cohn Wells Coates is regarded as a seminal figure in the modern movement in architecture in Britain. In this work, his daughter, Laura Cohn, illustrates the conflicts, qualities and disappointments of the man. A portrait rather than a biography, it traces his ambitions, successes and disappointments. The unhappy story of his marriage shows one part of his