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Contents of a folder labelled "New Paradigm - Materials 0"

Includes:
-transparencies marked up for publication with tracing paper
-b&w photographs of JFK Airport
-a postcard from Lu Xiao-Wei to Charles and Maggie, showing 'an exterior view of the main building in District Three' thanking them for the Christmas card, 1991
-colour photographs of State of Illinois Center, Chicago
-postcard of Palazzo della Civilità, Rome
-slide labelled 'Graves 7 Dwarfs'
-colour photograph glued to perspex labelled 'Ter herinnering aan het project HKB 1987'
-photocopy of an [Archigram] drawing
-cover of The New Yorker 2 April 1966, attached to cardboard
-'The Emergent Paradigm: Changing Patterns of Thought and Belief' by Peter Schwarz and James Ogilvy Apr 1979, with typescript version and letter from James to Charles inside [found in plastic folder, removed for conservation reasons]
-leaflet for the National Museum of Australia: A celebration of Federation 2001, with a transparency and slide inside
-letter from OMA enclosing images of the ZKM
-printed-out emails regarding images for the 7th edition of the Language of Post Modern Architecture/The New Paradigm in Architecture, including copyright information
-cutting from Archis 1/2001 'The Canyon as Gathering Space' by Aaron Betsky
-published line drawing of St Peter's Square
-print-outs from www.archined.nl on MVRDV
-print outs on photographic paper of images relating to Gherkin building
-print outs on photographic paper of images from Batty and Longley's 'Fractial Cities' (1994)
-print outs on photographic paper of images by Madelon Vriesendorp
-plastic folder containing slides
-cutting from the FT Weekend 1/2 Dec 2001 on Route 66
-poster for 'Practice and Theory: Perspecta and the Fate of Architecture Discourse' at Yale School of Architecture, 2000 [folded] used as a folder for A3 designs for the Media Tower Vienna (former Generali Tower) by Hans Hollein
-envelope labelled 'LPMA PHOTOS IMAGES EVOL TREE 1960-2000 containing proof images [none of the evolutionary tree]
-slides of various covers of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture in english and in translation

File relating to furniture designed by Charles both for the Thematic House and Elemental House, and for commercial licensing.

For conservation reasons, the file has been split into two folders.

Folder one includes:
-slides of Window-Seat-Window, Egyptian Room furniture, Hermitage Chair, the Face Table, Spring and Winter Furniture, screens, the Light House lamps, the sundial arcade, the Bookhouses and the Slidescrapers, and Leon Krier and Rita Wolff sat in the Spring Chair.
-photocopies of light designs and the Alessi tea and coffee service designed by Charles
-a letter from Derek McNally regarding the exhibition at Aram
-transparencies by Richard Bryant.
-colour slides from Sawaya & Moroni of the furniture
-b&W photographs of the Sun table & chairs in Summer and a matching stool and chair set.

Folder 2 includes:
-cutting from Building Design Interiors Supplement 1985 on the exhibition at Aram with colour reproductions of the furniture [duplicate]
-b&w negatives, colour polaroids and b&w photographs of furniture
-colour photographs of Sun Chairs produced commercially
-private view card for an exhibition at Sawaya & Moroni spa, Milano, opening 8 April 1987 and including work by Charles
-estimate from Albert E Chapman Ltd Upholsterers to Maggie for making, supply and fitting of blinds and curtains, 1984 and invoice for the supply of 2 hair-stuff circular seats, 1985
-MODO design magazine Nov 1986 including a discussion between Bruno Zevi and Charles, 'Post-moderno: si chiude?' [Italian language]
-House & Garden Jul 1987 cover and article titled 'The Riddle of the sphinx' by Nonie Niesewand featuring the Nile collection and Sun chair and table by Charles, available from Aram
-article from London Portrait 1988 titled 'English Modern Classics' on furniture design
-correspondence with Aram Designs regarding credit for the manufacture of Charles' furniture, statement of accounts, contracts and publicity
-invitation to a photographic exhibition at RIBA from Morley von Sternberg
-manuscript notes of costs
-typescript 'Symbolic Furniture: invoice for work done Nov 12 1985'
-typescript letter from Wendy to Charles regarding approximate prices for dining room table and chairs
-Retail price list for Charles Jencks: Symbolic Furniture
-typescript list of repairs to 'C. Jencks Furniture' 1985
-typescript list 'Symbolic Furniture: rough quotes'
-copy licence between Aram Designs Limited and Eileen Gray Designs
-typescript notes with manuscript annotations titled 'Meeting Sept 16 Zeev, Andrew, CJ'.
-manuscript notes regarding light fittings
-typescript notes with manuscript annotations titled 'Conversation with E.P. Moroni July 18, 1985'.
-typescript notes with manuscript annotations titled 'Items to discuss with Zeev July 23 1985'
-typescript notes with manuscript annotations titled 'Symbolic Furniture: items for production'
-photocopied manuscript estimation of costs for work on Dice Stools, Kitchen Chairs, Kitchen Table and Extension [Sun Table and Chairs], invoice titled 'Exibition Furniture' [sic] and 'Day Work sheet no. 1'
-letter from Aram Designs listing people who accepted and declined the exhibition invitation
-letter from Seaboard International regarding the Medite reception, 1985.
-rough drawings of furniture with measurements
-telegram correspondence between Charles and Paolo Moroni regarding contracts
-copy manuscript notes titled 'World Rights' and also listing photographs
-letter from Dan Woodside and Wendy regarding repairs to the lights
-statement from Sandell Perkins plc
-pencil and pen sketch designs titled 'Dome Chair'.
-postcard from 'Juliet & John' regarding the exhibition
-Financial Times Oct 28 1985 'The post-modernistic house that Jencks built' [photocopy duplicates]