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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