Cohen House is a private house on

Old Church Street Old Church Street is a street in London, England in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelseabr> It runs from Chelsea Embankment to Fulham Road, crossing Kings Road. The section to the north of Kings Road is sometimes called Upper Old Church S ...

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. It was designed and built in 1935–1936 by the architects

Erich Mendelsohn Erich Mendelsohn (21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic Functionalism (architecture), functionalism in his projects for department ...

and

Serge Chermayeff Serge Ivan Chermayeff (born Sergei Ivanovich Issakovich; russian: link=no, Сергей Ива́нович Иссако́вич; 8 October 1900 – 8 May 1996) was a Russian-born British architect, industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of ...

for the Cohen family. It adjoins the house at 66 Old Church Street built at the same time by

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

and

Maxwell Fry Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987), was an English modernist architect, writer and painter. Originally trained in the neo-classical style of architecture, Fry grew to favour the n ...

for a cousin of the Cohen's.Alan Powers,'Bauhaus Goes West'London 2019, pp 62-64 The latter house has been altered beyond recognition but by comparison Cohen House is well preserved. The large conservatory, to the design of

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, was added at the south end of the house in the 1970s for Sir

Paul Hamlyn Paul Hamlyn, Baron Hamlyn, (12 February 1926 – 31 August 2001) was a German-born British publisher and philanthropist, who established the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in 1987. Early life He was born Paul Bertrand Wolfgang Hamburger in Berlin, Ger ...

. The house and its immediate neighbour were prominent modernist housing in a city still then largely untouched by

Modern architecture Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form ...

. It 1970 it was listed

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on the

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Grade II* listed houses in London Grade II* listed buildings in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Houses completed in 1936 Erich Mendelsohn buildings Modernist architecture in London Houses in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea {{London-struct-stub