The Isokon Dining Table is constructed entirely from birch plywood. The table is highly regarded for its harmonious use of material and the modernist realisation of plywood in furniture design. The folded tri-section plywood leg echoes the elevation of Breuer’s Nesting tables, but is a complex manufacturing achievement to create structural rigidity. An apparently simple design is achieved through reduction in design and sensitive understanding for material and process.
The Isokon Dining Table is present in the V&A and other major museum collections.
The table offered is believed to be a postwar example with a rich colour patina.
Isokon was founded by the visionary modernist Jack Pritchard. Bauhaus émigrés Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer were its Controller and designer respectively.
Other designers worked for Isokon, however its was Breuer’s Longchair and tables that established an international reputation for the company. The influence of Alvar Aalto’s work in Finland is clear, throughout the company’s philosophy and the designs created by Breuer. The appeal for soft curves and the warmth of wood appealed to the British customer, over the harder, colder European modernism in tubular steel.
Dimensions:
135w x 75d x 72cmh
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