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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]

Contents of a box labelled 'Thematic - Autumn + Indian S'.

Comprises colour slides showing Autumn, Indian Summer including close-ups of the spoonglyphs, and the Sundial Arcade.

Contents of a box labelled 'Egypt Spring 4'.

Comprises colour slides showing Spring, the Egyptian Room and the Sundial Arcade as well as designs for the London Columns

7 whiteprint designs for 19 Lansdowne Walk; 1 design on tracing paper; 1 A4 paper annotated 'Thematic House - Bill Reed'.

The whiteprints consist of:
-Terry Farrell Partnership, Final Design Drawing, First Floor Plan, 1 Oct 1980 [two copies]
-Terry Farrell Partnership, Final Design Drawing, Second Floor Plan, 1 Oct 1980 [two copies]
-Terry Farrell Partnership, Cabinets & Kitchen, Aug 1981 [two copies]
-Farrell- Grimshaw Partnership, Section Thro' Annex, April 198[0] [damaged]

The tracing paper design is unlabelled but relates to the Sundial Arcade.

Contents of a folder labelled 'Thematic House: Ground Floor; Winter Spring rejects; Sundial rejects'

Includes:
-b&w photographs of clay head, one labelled 'Early Spring'
-colour slides of the Samuel Eliot Morison sculpture by Penelope Jencks
-pencil designs for furniture
-pencil designs on tracing paper for seating in Spring
-photocopy elevations of the Spring fireplace
-typescript list of marble colours for the Spring and Winter fireplaces on Michael Graves headed paper
-photocopy design for astrological symbols
-photocopy titled 'Jencks Fireplace: wall stencil' with colour key, and used stencils
-photocopy of Botticelli's Primavera from an unknown publication
-typescript 'Sculptural Program for Spring Fireplace'
-whiteprint by Michael Graves Architect titled 'Spring Fireplace: Terrace House', 1983, folded
-manuscript letter from [Penelope Jencks] to Charles regarding sculpture costs on the back of a photocopy letter relating to the Morison Monument
-typescript notes on Winter and Hephaestus
-photocopy from an unknown publication relating to Hephaestus
-pencil plans for terrace seating in the Architectural Library
-pencil sketch plan on tracing paper
-b&w polaroid photographs of Spring annotated in pen with numbers and attached to a piece of paper. Pencil annotations on the paper regarding the use of the photographs
-whiteprint by Michael Graves Architect titled 'Terrace House Fireplace, Mar 1982', folded. Two copies, one has the bottom corner cut out but still with the whiteprint, the other has some pencil annotations
-whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Terrace House: Survey - Winter Chimneybreast', Nov 1981, folded. Two copies, one has a fireplace drawn on in pencil.
-pencil and pen designs for seating in the Sundial Arcade
-pencil manuscript notes titled 'Hephaestus Program'
-copy letters from Charles to Michael Graves regarding commissions for the fireplaces and possible sculptors for Spring
-colour photograph of an unidentified sculpture
-pencil sketch on tracing paper of the ceiling in Winter
-heavily annotated Ground Floor plan with alternative room arrangements and notes of problems
-sundial diagram by Mark Lennox-Boyd with covering note

Contents of a folder labelled 'Plans - Designs - Sketches: Lily's Room - Lilies; Bathroom; Floor plans'.

Includes:
-whiteprint plan of Lily's Room, coloured in with coloured pencil (folded)
-whiteprint plan of Nan's Room, coloured in with coloured pencil (folded)
-photocopy design for the Room of Doubles with pen annotations
-whiteprint plan of the kitchen with appliances indicated (folded)
-photocopies plan of Nan's bathroom with pencil annotations
-pencil perspective sketch of the Bathpool
-photocopy sketch of decorative elements of Indian Summer
-photocopy perspective sketch of Winter and Spring
-photocopy sketch designs for furniture in the Architectural Library
-photocopy sketch of designs for the Moonwell
-photocopy sketch of designs for Jacob's Ladder labelled 'CJ Dressing Room'
-pencil and coloured pencil sketch with measurements of the Sundial Arcade
-photocopy plan by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Main Bedroom Plan' dated 20 Apr 1982 with detailed list of work to be done across the house handwritten in pencil on reverse and titled 'Punch List'.
-photocopied designs for Lilies by various artists from an unidentified publication
-pencil sketches of lilies
-pencil perspective sketch of the Bathpool with design for bathroom cabinet
-pencil design for a mirror and sink titled 'Shower bathroom'
-pencil plan titled 'MK's Study'
-pencil design with measurements for a bookcase
-bundle of papers with a sheet labelled '2 Themes and an Allegory: The Thematic House'. Includes photocopy typescript document titled 'The Thematic House - The Matic How See' regarding the passage of time and listing 15 themes in the house; pencil manuscript notes titled 'Foursquare Room'; typescript notes on Los Angeles; School of Architecture and Urban Planning notepaper titled 'Allegory: MK. Architecture Defeated/Architecture Triumphant'.
-pencil drawings of birds and flowers
-pencil plan of the Bathpool titled 'Main Bedroom Bathroom'
-pencil design for the bed and desk in Lily's Room
-whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Cabinets & Kitchen' Aug 1981 (folded)
-whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Final Design Drawing First Floor Plan' Oct 1980 (folded)
-whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Final Design Drawing Second Floor Plan' Oct 1980 (folded)
-whiteprint by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Final Design Drawing Lower Ground Floor Plan' Oct 1980 (folded)
-pencil and coloured pencil sketches of the Sundial Arcade with notes; one page is on the reverse of a draft submission to the International Design Yearbook [submission date 1 Dec 1984]
-pen sketches of Egyptian wall paintings titled 'Sun well'
-pen sketch plan on tracing paper showing the ground floor
-photocopied final drawing for Lily's Room, Spoonglyphs, Architectural Library and Bookhouses
-biro drawing
-pencil notes and sketch titled 'Lily's Room' with names of lilies
-pen and pencil plans and sketches for Lily's Room, including measured plan dated 31 July 1982 and initialled 'M'
-biro sketches for intertwining C/J/M/L initials
-photocopied lily designs from unknown publications
-pencil sketch on tracing paper labelled 'Lily's Room'
-sketches for lilies [ON LOAN]