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Our pictogram Christmas cards are available now.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Join filmmaker Graham Williamson and I, and @themodernist.bsky.social in Manchester, to see Graham's brilliant short film Song of the Suburbs, and to hear us in conversation about suburbia in all of its weirdness www.johngrindrod.co.uk/events/song-...
Song of the Suburbs — John Grindrod.
Screening of Graham Williamson’s short documentary film Song of the Suburbs , with an introduction to the film by Graham Williamson and a discussion between Graham and John Grindrod. A Manches...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Let’s celebrate Scotland’s endangered modernist architecture.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Tidying up and reunited with no 32 of @themodernist.bsky.social journal as edited by #RuthLang. My contrib was an exploration of the contemporary not-seeing of Elizabeth Denby.
Photo of a journal article Illustrations of errata slips Cover of the modernist magazine
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Elliott Sargent and I, representing the Bristol branch of @themodernist.bsky.social, are teaming up with Bristol Civic Society to lead a walk around Bristol's modernist buildings:

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November 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Modernist Scotland
Out now
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October 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Modernist Scotland - available now.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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We'll be at the Bound Art Book Fair at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, with over 90 artist publishers, all weekend. Come and see.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Staying in Penlan, in Caban Corgi as featured in @themodernist.bsky.social Cabin Crew and it's utterly fab. #midCenturyMiniBreak
Cabin Crew - This new book, Cabin Crew, retells the story of Hird & Brooks and its influences. Written in a lively and engaging style, it examines the people who ran the firm, the ethos behind their work, and how they became attracted to — then obsessed by — the pursuit of the perfect holiday house. Honda e parked in front of Caban Corgi in Penlan Holiday park Carmen the Podenco in the beautiful Caban Corgi in Penlan Holiday park
October 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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vitsoe.bsky.social
Meet the modernists… It began as an art-project inspired by the humble British red telephone box.

Full story: vitsoe.com/voice/modernist

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October 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Are you a fan of modernist, mid-century and brutalist architecture? We have good news for you: the Modernist Book Fair is coming back to our London shop this month.

Find more details and mark your calendars: instagram.com/p/DPWB_WZDEwX

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October 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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westcountrymodern.bsky.social
I’ve lots of photos to sort from today but here are a few to be going on with.

Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol
(Ronald H Sims, 1968)

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The interior of a large brutalist concrete church. The walls are clad over the alter with wavy panels of wood, and the ceiling is a zigzag with light streaming in through the glass. The cork flooring is picking up the sunlight, as are the long pine benches.
October 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The modernist book fair is back..
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October 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Brutal Bristol exhibition...from 08.10.25.
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BRUTAL Bristol
Group exhibition BRUTAL Bristol is a collaborative exhibition that celebrates the power and geometry of Bristol's overlooked brutalist architecture. Born from the success of Tom Benjamin's BRUTAL Bris...
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September 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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c20society.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: The campaign to save Bastion House and the former Museum of London (Powell & Moya, 1976-77) has won the right to present its case to the High Court. The Judicial Review will challenge the City of London's decision to demolish the buildings.

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Museum of London and Bastion House, City of London – Powell & Moya (1976-77)
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'm doing another tour of modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia for the @themodernist.bsky.social at their marvellous book fair. Quite possibly the only walking tour with an after party. Sign up here:

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Modernist Marylebone and Fitzrovia - walk Friday 17/10/25
An architectural walking tour around Marylebone and Fitzrovia with journalist and founder of London Mondern, Helen Barrett. Part of The Modernist Book fair 2024.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This October...the modernist book fair returns to Vitsoe @vitsoe.bsky.social

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The Modernist Book Fair is back
This October, for the third year, the Modernist Book Fair returns to Vitsœ Mark your calendars for what promises to be an exciting celebration of modernist design and architecture this autumn. Our min...
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September 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Huddersfield tours, now live on the free modernist app. the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
September 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Sheffield tours, now live on the free modernist app. the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
September 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Just 4 days left to support @themodernist.bsky.social’s Crowdfunder for the publication of Bruce Peter’s 'Modernist Scotland' — a fully illustrated guide to 150 transformative post-war Scottish buildings www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/08/mode...
August 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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FIVE days to go. Please consider chipping in to our crowdfunder to support the publication of Modernist Scotland by Bruce Peter. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/modernist-...
August 22, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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The joy of reading through the excellent "Red Square" book from @themodernist.bsky.social about BEA's corporate identity & Mary de Saulles has got me looking through my BEA collection; this c.1965 folder for London Heathrow shows the symbol/logo & some fine graphic design.

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BEA : Your guide to London Heathrow Airport : BEA Executive Club edition : folder : British European Airways : Sales Department : London : nd [c.1965]. A rather fine small format card folder issued by the BEA Sales Development department for members of the BEA "Executive Club"; I suspect this is why this is pocket sized and on stiff card to both give a feel of quality and durability. It shows the stamp of BEA's 1960's corporate identity developed by designer Mary de Saulles whose 'red square' identity came into use c.1958 - 1960 and included all elements of the company's fleet and publicity. Undated this shows, rather well, the tail of a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident and this aircraft, an early tri-jet, came into service with BEA in 1964. The upper two thirds of the cover are dominated by the graphic of a tail fin showing the BEA and Trident symbols and against the blue sky white 'thrust' lines to give the impression of speed.
August 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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raynewman.bsky.social
Catching up on copies of @themodernist.bsky.social I hadn't got round to reading and struck once again by the power of a strong frame, via Jeremy Parrett’s article about the Design Council slide collection. Taster here:

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A photo slide with The Design Council stamped in red on the frame with a four digit code number. The image is of a plastic traffic bollard in a blank grey space. Another slide labelled Toy Dolls, Peggy Nisbet Limited. The dolls are very 1970s folky little things. Miffy from Holland, I think.
August 19, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Ten days to reach our goal. Pledge to our crowdfunder and help bring this important book to life. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/modernist-...
August 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Excellent news via @themodernist.bsky.social – thanks to the Twentieth Century Society has succeeded in getting the Renold Building on the old UMIST campus Grade II listed. More details here: historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...
The Renold Building
August 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM