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21st August 2024

In Interwar, Gavin Stamp considers several 1930s Art Deco/Modernist factories such as the Hoover Building and the Carreras Cigarette Factory, but omits any mention of the influential and elegant Factory Offices for Aiton & Co (1931) in Derby, designed by Norah Aiton and Betty Scott. As the C20 Society writes, this is "a building which is little appreciated as the first modernist industrial building in Britain. It is built almost entirely of steel, glass and reinforced concrete with steel-framed construction, reinforced concrete floors and horizontal bands of metal-framed Crittall windows glazed continuously on all sides. Norah Aiton commented: 'Nothing like the Derby office has been seen before in England.'"

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