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Coates, Wells (Wintemute)
(b Tokyo, 17 Dec 1895; d Vancouver, 17 June 1958). English architect and designer of Canadian descent. The son of Canadian missionaries, he studied engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and moved to London as a student in 1922. He became a journalist, frequented artistic circles and by 1927 had begun to design. Most of his executed designs date from the 1930s, the era of the MARS GROUP, of which he was a founder-member, and other manifestations of the rise of the English Modern Movement, in which he played a leading part. Although much of Coates’s work as an interior designer has been destroyed, his major architectural works survive.
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