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‘A talk by Professor Harry Charrington<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 19.00 – 20.30<\/p>\n

at The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1, and streamed<\/p>\n

Tickets in advance: Docomomo UK non-members: \u00a313.70 incl fees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets on the door: Docomomo UK non-members: \u00a315<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets for Docomomo UK members: free<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Westminster students (id required): free<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first ever exhibition of Aino and Alvar Aalto\u2019s work took place at Fortnum & Mason in London in November 1933. Between then and 1939, 70% of all Aalto furniture produced was sold in London, primarily through the Finmar company who supplied clients as diverse as Heal\u2019s, Highpoint and Alexander Korda.<\/p>\n

This lecture explores the unique qualities that made Aalto furniture so appealing to architects and the public in London, the actors and agents involved in promoting it, such as Laszl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Read and Philip Morton-Shand, how Finmar became the model for the Aaltos when they later set up Artek in Helsinki, and how furniture became the basis for the enduring connection between Finnish and British architecture.<\/p>\n

Dr Harry Charrington<\/strong>, an architect and academic, was Head of the School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster from 2014-24. He has combined academia and practice in the UK and Finland, including working for Elissa Aalto at the Aalto atelier in Helsinki and was a co-developer of Springhill CoHousing in Stroud.<\/p>\n

Dr Charrington has a particular interest in the history of modernism, housing, and the relationship of architecture and planning. He was the founding editor of\u00a0Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and his book,\u00a0Alvar Aalto: the Mark of the Hand<\/em><\/strong> won the RIBA President\u2019s Award for Research.’<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"docomomo-aalto-in-london-a-talk-by-professor-harry-charrington","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2024-12-03 19:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"12","day":"03","hour":"19","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2024-12-03 20:30:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"12","day":"03","hour":"20","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2024-12-03 19:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"12","day":"03","hour":"19","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2024-12-03 20:30:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2024","month":"12","day":"03","hour":"20","minutes":"30","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"GMT","cost":"Free \u2013 \u00a315","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"\u00a3","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":["0","15"]},"website":"https:\/\/www.docomomo.org.uk\/events\/aalto-in-london","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"IHBC Area of competence \u2013 Evaluation","slug":"compeval","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":20,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":467,"filter":"raw","id":20,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/20","collection":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":12586,"author":"5","status":"publish","date":"2023-12-18 13:45:54","date_utc":"2023-12-18 13:45:54","modified":"2025-02-10 12:32:42","modified_utc":"2025-02-10 12:32:42","url":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?tribe_venue=the-gallery-alan-baxter-77-crowcross-street","venue":"The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street","slug":"the-gallery-alan-baxter-77-crowcross-street","address":"77 Cowcross Street","city":"London","zip":"EC1M 6EL","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street","description":"","url":"","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"77 Cowcross Street","addressLocality":"London","postalCode":"EC1M 6EL"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"events2600.live-website.com?id=12586","global_id_lineage":["events2600.live-website.com?id=12586"]},"organizer":[{"id":8357,"author":"4","status":"publish","date":"2019-05-17 14:37:16","date_utc":"2019-05-17 13:37:16","modified":"2019-05-17 14:37:16","modified_utc":"2019-05-17 13:37:16","url":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?tribe_organizer=docomomo","organizer":"Docomomo","slug":"docomomo","website":"https:\/\/www.docomomo.uk\/","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Docomomo","description":"","url":"https:\/\/www.docomomo.uk\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":"https:\/\/www.docomomo.uk\/"},"global_id":"events2600.live-website.com?id=8357","global_id_lineage":["events2600.live-website.com?id=8357"]}],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Docomomo – Aalto in London: A talk by Professor Harry Charrington","description":"<p>\\'A talk by Professor Harry Charrington Tuesday, 3 December 2024, 19.00 - 20.30 at The Alan Baxter Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1, and streamed Tickets in advance: Docomomo UK … <a href="https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?tribe_events=docomomo-aalto-in-london-a-talk-by-professor-harry-charrington" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Docomomo – Aalto in London: A talk by Professor Harry Charrington<\/span> <span class="meta-nav">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?tribe_events=docomomo-aalto-in-london-a-talk-by-professor-harry-charrington","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2024-12-03T19:00:00+00:00","endDate":"2024-12-03T20:30:00+00:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street","description":"","url":"","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"77 Cowcross Street","addressLocality":"London","postalCode":"EC1M 6EL"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Docomomo","description":"","url":"https:\/\/www.docomomo.uk\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":"https:\/\/www.docomomo.uk\/"},"offers":{"@type":"Offer","price":"Free \u2013 15","priceCurrency":"USD","url":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?tribe_events=docomomo-aalto-in-london-a-talk-by-professor-harry-charrington","category":"primary","availability":"inStock","validFrom":"2024-11-28T00:00:00+00:00"},"performer":"Organization"}}