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This series includes all materials relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk and its conversion into The Thematic House.

It includes:
-correspondence with architects, builders, designers, artists and craftspeople
-research materials on themes represented in the house
-financial records relating to the purchase of the house and payments for materials and work
-photographic documentation of the building work

Bundle of plans and drawings of elevations of the the Thematic House and b&w photographs.

Includes:
-Final Design Drawing Side Elevation by Terry Farrell Partnership Oct 1980 (folded)
-copy of a sketch showing a detailed view of the back of the house (folded)
-photocopied sketch headed '4 symmetrical sets'
-felt tip pen sketch of windows
-b&w contact sheet prints showing work in progress
-typescript notes on plain paper with pencil manuscript alterations titled 'Personification of Art and Architecture July 2, 1982'.
-Polaroid photograph of the rear of the house
-Details Side [Elevation] by Terry Farrell Partnership Feb 1981 (folded)
-pencil sketch on tracing paper of windows
-photocopied drawings for a staircase annotated 'TFP Jan '82'
-Render - End [Elevation] by Terry Farrell Partnership (folded)
-pencil sketches of columns on Architectural Association School of Architecture headed paper
-perspective drawing of the house and garden (folded)

Bundle of designs, plans and photographs. Each consists of a card support, with a the original drawing or photograph attached to the card with tape, and then tracing paper layered over the top with dimensions for reproduction.

Includes:
-Room of Doubles
-'South Elevation - CJ design'
-'Ground Floor - CJ design'
-[Ground Floor] - 'MK's original layout'
-'West Elevation'
-'MK's Garden Design Dec 78/Jan 79'
-'First Floor Alternative: A Stepped Study'
-detailed pencil plan with details of columns annotated 'Feb 19, 1979 This must be full page as it is described at length!!!'
-Front elevation annotated 'only bottom drawing'
-photocopied front elevation
-'TFP proposed longitudonal[sic] section Jan 1979'
-'CJ Sketch Nov 78'
-b&w photograph of Nan's Room and of a staircase pre-renovation.
-'First Floor CJ Design'
-section of the house
-photocopy of a sketch of the Room of Doubles with birds drawn around it
-typescript text on The Sun Chair
-CJ sketch Oct 78 annotated 'must be Nov?'
-b&w photographs of chairs

Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Plans and designs for the Bathpool, Jacob's Ladder and the second floor'.

Includes:
-photocopied plans, sections and sketches
-pencil sketch plans with annotations
-First Floor/Terrace by Farrell/Grimshaw Partnership May 1979 (folded)
-unlabelled plan with pencil annotations (folded)
-pencil scale drawing of shelves, MK's study (damaged)
-photocopy design with pencil annotations labelled 'shower bathroom'
-pencil plan drawing of MK's study with annotations
-Survey Bathroom by Terry Farrell Partnership with annotations labelled 'Master Bathroom and Old Stair'
-manuscript note with an extract from the Bible Genesis 27-28 regarding Jacob's Ladder and a series of pencil drawings of stairs and cupboards signed CJ and dated Dec 81.

Contents of a folder labelled ' Thematic House Designs; Product magazines; Johnny Grey; David French'.

Includes:
-Art & Design Oct 1985: cover includes Charles Jencks: The Thematic House and Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau. Yellow post-it note attached to page 15 annotated 'symbolic NOT signolic architecture' [the title of the article]. There is also a loose pencil and ink sketch on torn tracing paper tucked inside the front cover, and two copies of p80 from TWA Ambassador Feb 1986 tucked inside the back cover showing grandfather clocks by Wendell Castle.
-'Gaggenau: New built-in appliances for the kitchen' brochure, Jul 1981
-'Campi & Calegari: arredamenti per cucine' brochure of kitchen cupboards and handles
-'Amtica originals' vinyl tiling cataloguing, folded to pages 8/9, 1980
-untitled and undated axonometric drawings with measurements
-Duct to Dining Area by Terry Farrell Partnership with annotations and sketches around the design (folded)
-Internal Balcony by David French & Partners May 1982 (folded)
-Johnny Grey Design C Specification Sheet - Jencks' Kitchen - typescript with annotations
-correspondence from Johnny Grey Design to Hobbs Interior Decorating and Design on headed paper, July1982
-photocopied sketches
-Jencks/Keswick Kitchen plan by Johnny Grey Design, Feb 1981 (folded)
-'The Bath Studio - Sole UK agents for Vola' brochure for taps, Jan 1979