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            [Thematic House]
            CJA-TCH-a-33 · File · [1983-1984]
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a box file found in a box labelled 'Thematic House: 3 files + slides'.

            Includes:
            -copy letter to Ruth regarding sketches for the architecture & art [icons]
            -manuscript notes regarding glazing to the outside stairs and repaintings of [cills]
            -typescript list with manuscript annotations titled 'Thematic House: must be finished and painted September 10th' with a list of remaining tasks to be completed. Notes of addresses and telephone numbers on reverse.
            -typescript letter from Ianthe Ruthven sending 49 transparencies of the house and details of credit required.
            -manuscript letter from Eileen Harris thanking Maggie and Charles for their hospitality and enclosing a photocopy regarding Thomas Wright of Durham.
            -colour polaroid photograph of the columns of the Future Pavilion
            - manuscript letter from Randolph, addressed from Lugano regarding the symbolism of trees and his critique of the house
            -b&w polaroid photograph of Summer with the sun chairs but a different table
            -manuscript letter from [unidentified] thanking Charles and Maggie for the visit to their house
            -typescript letter from Peter Tigg, architect, enclosing a photograph of the house
            -typescript letter from Mauro Peruchetti of Peruchetti Associates promoting their paint effects
            -photocopied Labour Time Sheets with details missing/obscured
            -typescript list titled 'Window Cleaning'
            -typescript list titled 'Lansdowne Walk October 28. To finish for Nov L8th [sic] move'.
            -red ink sketches of stool designs
            -manuscript notes of names and addresses
            -manuscript list of total number of days spent completing tasks in relation to the house
            -typescript list with manuscript annotations titled 'Lansdowne Walk July 18, 1983 to finish by Sept 10th move'.

            Themes
            CJA-TCH-a-7 · File · 1978-1984
            Part of Charles Jencks Archive

            Contents of a folder labelled 'Themes'.

            Includes:
            -colour polaroid of the Cosmic Oval
            -correspondence between Charles and Barbara Hoyle regarding Sir Fred Hoyle's contributions to the house
            -program for the Entrance Ellipse
            -correspondence between Charles and D McNally at the University of London Observatory, regarding an introduction to Fred Hoyle and new research in astronomy
            -manuscript and photocopied lettering designs
            -cuttings from Country Life 14 July 1983 regarding Villa Kerylos, French Riviera
            -typescript with manuscript alterations title 'The Thematic House'
            -astrological designs on tracing paper
            -photocopied typeface designs and details of a course on letter design for architects
            -colour, b&w photographs and floor plans of the [National Gallery of Art, Washington]
            -I.M. Pei & Partners program and statistics and press release for the National Gallery of Art [Washington] Expansion
            -manuscript notes on the National Gallery of Art, the Willow Tea Rooms, temples, Edzell castle
            -design for the sink in the Cosmic Loo
            -notes on the word 'cosmos' and for a frieze
            -contact sheet and negatives of built-in furniture within the house
            -manuscript notes listing rooms in the house and columns labelled 'drawings, sketches notes etc: what we have', 'Photographs: what we have' and 'What we need' dated 14 Dec 1984. There are coloured dots to indicate Maggie and Charles' preferences.
            -cutting from the Guardian 'The House that Jencks built' 1984 and photocopies
            -typescript notes titles 'Cultural History July 25th 1984 MK CK WS' relating to the frieze
            -news cuttings on astronomy
            -typescript notes titled 'Cultural Time' with manuscript annotations listing historical figures
            -typescript notes titled 'Seventeen Themes of the Thematic House The Matic How See' divided into general, historical & architectural and personal
            -printed typescript document titled 'Program for the Entrance Ellipse - The Cosmic Egg and Cultural History by Charles Jencks' with manuscript annotations and sketches on reverse.
            -manuscript and typescript draft lists of themes
            -typescript document titled 'William Stok December 2 1984: Thoughts on the Mural' with a manuscript sketch at the bottom of the page
            -typescript documentitled 'Allegory MK: Architecture defeated; architecture triumphant'.
            -manuscript quotations
            -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the personification of architecture
            -pencil sketches on tracing paper of doors, with photocopies
            -incomplete typescript document titled 'The Thematic House: Charles Jencks'
            -photocopy from an unknown publication relating to the symbolism of the seasons
            -typescript and manuscript notes titled 'Future Pavilion' with aphorisms about the future
            -photocopy typescript article titled 'The Thematic House (A brief Summary); Charles Jencks'.
            -typescript letter from Mark Girouard sending captions [not included] and returning the slides and transparencies
            -typescript notes on Autumn, Aphrodite, Artemis and Spring
            -horoscopes from Vogue June 1972
            -typescript notes titled 'Thoughts on Reading E.H. Gombrich 'The Museum: Past, Present and Future' in Ideals and Idols, Phaidon, Oxford 1979'
            -pencil and ink sketch frieze designs
            -colour polaroid photograph of the Bathpool
            -receipt from Harriet Wynter Ltd for an Orrery and colour reproduction labelled 'This is the ceiling of the famous planetarium built by Eise Eisinga'
            -letter from D McNally at the University of London regarding the entrance ellipse and returning Charles' program (attached) and regarding introductions to Sir Fred Hoyle
            -pencil lettering designs
            -typescript notes titled 'Museum of Cultural History'
            -private view card for 'Ornament and Decoration: Architectural Drawings by Arthur Brown Jr and Bakewell & Brown' at Phillippe Bonnafont Gallery, San Francisco, with manuscript annotations
            -colour polaroid photographs of the Cosmic Oval