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Shipwrights in Hadleigh is the only house the architect Wells Coates designed in a career which included larger domestic buildings such as the Isokon block of flats in Hampstead.
The Grade II listed house is thought to show the influence of Le Corbusier’s modernist Villa Savoye in Poissy outside Paris in its slim pillars and continuous run of windows. It was built for John Wyborn, the director of radio manufacturers Ecko, and Coates went on to design a range of radios for the company.
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Benfleet Rd, Benfleet, SS7 1RF (View on Map)Radical Essex is a project re-examining the county in relation to radicalism in thought, lifestyle, politics and architecture. A programme of events will take place across Essex throughout 2016 and 2017, shedding light on the vibrant, pioneering thinking of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The project will celebrate the crucial role Essex has played in the history of British Modernism and its utopian ideologies under the themes ‘The Modernist County’ and ‘Arcadia for All’.
The Radical Essex site is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio and Alex Rich, developed by Twelve.
Radical Essex is led by Focal Point Gallery in collaboration with Visit Essex and Firstsite. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England it forms part of the country wide Cultural Destinations programme, a partnership with VisitEngland, supporting arts organisations to work with the tourism sector to deliver projects that maximise the impact culture has on local economies.
If you are a business or arts organisation interested to be involved in the project or learn more information, please contact us here
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our project partners: