• Peter Smithson (architect)
• Alison Margaret Smithson (architect)

House of the Future, Daily Mail Ideal Homes Exhibition, London, England: plan for five inches above the floor level

19 December 1954

- Plans for the one-storey house are drawn from the floor, middle and roof levels and from various heights in between.

• design development drawing

Black ink with some graphite and red ink stamp on tracing paper

sheet: 56,04 × 75,9 cm (22 1/16 × 29 7/8 in.)

DR1995:0017

• line drawing
• mechanical drawing (tool-aided drawing)
• freehand drawing

• plan (drawing)

• plan view

- Pinholes in each corner.

stamped - in red ink, on the sheet, l.r.: "ALISON AND PETER SMITHSON - ARCHITECTS -"; and "46. / Limerston Street, / Chelsea, / London, S.W.10." [the stamp consists of two circles, the outer circle contains the architects' names and the inner circle contains the address] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, l.l.: with scale; and l.c. to l.r.: with title and "HF5508" inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, b.: "REVISED 4:12:54 TO INCLUDE KITCHEN EQUIPMENT. / 19:12:54 TO INCLUDE WASHING EQUIPMENT."; and throughout: with section cuts, specifications and furniture functions

London; England; United Kingdom;

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• house
• bedroom
• living room
• kitchen
• lavatory (room)
• bathtub
• courtyard garden
• shower stall

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