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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

Contents of a folder labelled 'Ground Floor Cosmic Oval 4.41-4.43'

Includes:
-pencil and ink sketches on paper and tracing paper.
-photocopy of a drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership titled 'Detail of [Oval] Studwork Ground Floor Hall], Oct 1980 (folded)./
-pencil and coloured pencil sketch of the ceiling.
-photocopy of an untitled drawing by Terry Farrell Partnership with a plan for the Cosmic Oval showing measurements and doors.

Contents of a folder labelled 'London Column'.

Includes:
-ink designs for columns, coloured in with pencil, overlayed with tracing paper labelled 'TSA 136'
-pencil sketches of column designs on paper and tracing paper
-ink sketches of column designs
-photocopied column designs
-coloured pencil sketches of column designs
-prints on photographic paper of computer-generated column designs with numbers
-rough ink sketches and manuscript notes on headed paper for The Aga Khan Award for Architecture
-pencil sketches and coloured pencil sketches on paper and tracing paper
-pencil sketches on the reverse of University of California, Los Angeles headed paper relating to sun, rain and column symbols.
-pencil and ink sketches on notepaper showing the exterior of the house
-print outs of computer-generated designs with variables listed at the side including facets at shaft, facets at base and number of columns.
-ink drawing labelled 'London Column' with notes on the weather and hifi speakers on blue paper

Contents of an envelope labelled 'Drawings Mostly furniture'.

Includes:
-photocopied and pencil sketch chair designs
-magazine cutting of Jencksian motifs
-pencil drawings of a tall building labelled 'cosmos' at the top
-photocopied, photographic paper and pencil sketch lettering designs on paper and tracing paper
-manuscript letter from [illegible], Shepherd's Hill, Highgate and 70-71 New Bond Street regarding lettering and drawings of the house, 1984
-designs for the Sun table and chairs on tracing paper
-drawings of the Winter armchairs
-colour drawings of the Sun chairs
-coloured pencil drawings of the Danae light and House light
-colour drawings of the Spring sofas
-drawings of the Window Seat
-drawing of the Sun table
-Drawing of a Slidescraper
-photocopied cartoon 'All the wasms have become isms'
-pencil drawing on tracing paper 'Towards a symbolic architecture'

Contents of an envelope labelled 'Extras' containing slides, photographs, correspondence and transparencies.

Includes:
-compliments slip from Richard Bryant
-b&w photographs by Robin Laurence for NYT of Charles' Biedermeier chairs alongside some of the Symbolic Furniture, and Charles sitting on one of the Sun chairs, stamped on reverse,1985
-photograph from the collection of the National Monuments Record of a unidentified historic building
-colour polaroids of the Foursquare Room
-b&w photographs of Esna, Temple of Khnum, one with extensive annotations, and the pyramid of King Chephren
-colour transparencies by Richard Bryant
-b&w photographs of the Elemental House
-b&w photographs of the Architectural Library, John's Room and Lily's Room with the furniture installed but no other furnishings
-colour photograph of the West elevation
-b&w negative of Winter
-letter from Mark Lewis of Lewis & Horning regarding the work he did on Indian Summer, 1985
-cutting from an unidentified magazine
-manuscript notes labelled 'Richard Bryant' with a list of rooms in a variety of different handwritings, including notes about Medite
-b&w polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval
-transparencies inside tracing paper, annotated for publication
-colour slides of rooms in the Thematic House labelled 'C Jencks: not used before. 20 slides - 4 Square RM + Bathpool' but including most of the ground floor, the Time Garden and the chimneys
-letter from William Stok regarding photography of this mural and enclosing a postcard of a work by Chagall [not included], 1985
-colour transparency of the Garagia Rotunda annotated 'Chapter 2'
-envelope enclosing b&w photographs with a message from 'Eamon of the shop'
-b&w photograph of Charles in front of the Spring fireplace [over-sized, damaged]
-b&w photograph of Charles and Maggie in front of the Spring fireplace. Charles is holding a mobile phone [over-sized, damaged]

Contents of a folder labelled 'Facades 3.3' with 'Face of the Vernacular' crossed out underneath.

Colour transparencies and ink drawings with tracing paper covers. The images have been prepared for publication with outlines and measurements drawn in pencil, attached to pieces of paper. The papers are labelled with TSA numbers (TSA88/89. TSA 100/101, TSA 102). The transparencies show the exterior of the house.

Bundle of photographs and an illustration.

Includes:
-b&w polaroid photograph of Spring, tracing paper attached marked for publication. Annotated 'A/A files/Book reviews p110 A'.
-colour photograph of the Spring fireplace
-colour photograph of the Cosmic Oval
-colour photograph of the shelves in Indian Summer
-colour photograph looking into the Sundial Arcade
-b&w print on photographic paper of the bookplate design inside Towards A Symbolic Architecture, with some of the text glued on

Colour transparencies overlaid with tracing paper, marked up for publication with outline and measurements in pencil. There are three pieces of paper; two of the papers each have two transparencies attached, the third has four attached. Each image is marked with a 'TSA' number.

Images include:
- the Tulip Stairs in the Queens House at Greenwich, London.
-the Face of the Vernacular
-Studiolo