ABSTRACT
81In the 1930s the south-coast resort towns became showcases for the new International Style that had recently been imported from Continental Europe. Undoubtedly the most famous British building in the style is the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea, which was designed by a pair of German immigrant architects, Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff. They had flown from Nazi Germany and practised together in Britain until 1936, when Mendelsohn moved to the USA, but not before they, and other emigres such as Walter Gropius, would help to consolidate the Modern movement in Britain.
