Join us for our special launch event

We are celebrating the launch issue 2 of the modernist magazine at ferrious, Manchester.

the modernist is a magazine about 20th Century design in the NW of England.

Copies will be available to buy hot off the press and our contributors will be mingling.

You will also have to opportunity to see the a-z of modernist manchester drawings by Dan Russell, comissioned by the Modernist Society.

For details see here

Issue 2

HOLIDAYS IN UTOPIA
ben tallis visits orfordness, birthplace of radar, former nuclear testing ground & unlikely nature reserve

AN ARNDALE FOR LIVING
eddy rhead meets the city living pioneers, the arndale’s cromford court set

BRILLIANT LIGHT
stephen hale examines the short life of huyton born painter kit wood

CONRAN BEFORE HABITAT
planet vintage girl laura gaither on collectable conran

STELLA MARIS
can’t we save salford’s glorious star of the sea asks jack hale

LIGHT, MORE LIGHT
aidan turner bishop on the dazzling brilliance of dalle de verre glass

STIRLING’S SOUTHGATE
matthew whitfield puts the case for a long overdue re-evaluation of runcorn’s infamous southgate

WILLIAM MITCHELL; ARTIST, DESIGNER, INVENTOR
natalie bradbury pays a call on the guru of concrete…..

HARD BRILLIANCE
richard brook remembers the district bank, manchester’s space age banking hall

NEWS & REVIEWS
what’s happening in the north west and beyond?