The Elemental House

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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]