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      • Los Angeles, California, USA

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          A+U Architect vs. Critic
          CJA-AVC-1 · File · 1982-1985
          Part of Charles Jencks Archive
          Contents of a folder labelled 'A+U Architect vs. Critic'. Folder contains 1 box of slides [catalogued separately as CJA-AVC-1-a] and also includes:
          -colour slides of Maggie by the Trompe l'oeil painting by Dorothy Girouard in their Chelsea flat, and colour printed versions of the same images
          -folder for FM Productions California used to hold a large number of photographs including b&w prints and polaroids and colour prints, mostly photographs used to illustrate the A+U article
          -manuscript notes headed 'Architect Versus Critic' with an outline of the article and headings ticked off, including a to-do list at the bottom; written on the reverse of handwritten notes about The Thematic House
          -photocopies of illustrations headed 'Die Lufft' and 'Die Erde', annotated on reverse 'Cesare Ripa, Baroque & Rococo Pictorial Imagery, Dover'
          -cutting from Building Design 10 Aug 1984, review by Sheena Wilson of Godfrey Golzen's 'How Architects Get Work'
          -leaflet from the Architecture Press titled 'Avoid litigation! 3 books to keep you out of trouble'
          -photocopy of the Jencksiana font
          -b&w photograph of the Elemental House
          -sheet of 16 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
          -sheet of 14 slides showing various furniture and designs by Charles
          -colour and b&w photographs of furniture designed by Charles for the Chelsea flat and 19 Landsdowne Walk [some are loose and some are glued to sheets of plain paper]
          -typescript letter from Officina Alessi enclosing colour slides of the tea and coffee set and giving news of its presentation in New York and Milan, 1983
          -manuscript letter on Patrizia Scarzello Architect headed paper regarding the Alessi collaboration, 1983
          -typescript document on yellow and white lined paper titled 'The Thematic House The Matic How See Design Credits'
          -manuscript to-do list relating to 19 Lansdowne Walk
          -typescript on pink paper headed 'Programme for an Anglo-Chinese Bed' with pencil sketches
          -pencil and coloured pencil drawings of a bed
          -copy letter from Charles to William on UCLA headed paper sending a symbolic programmes and drawings, 1985
          -copy letter from Charles to Caroline and William regarding the design for the bed
          -printed proofs of line drawings
          -pen and ink drawing on tracing paper used as illustration on the RIBA poster
          -poster for a lecture by Charles at RIBA titled 'Post-Modernism - the true inheritor of modernism', 1982 [folded]
          Extras
          CJA-TCH-b-36 · File · nd [1984-1985]
          Part of Charles Jencks Archive

          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]