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

Sketch plan for the Snowball Appliance House

November 1957

• design development drawing

Graphite, red pencil and pen and black ink

sheet: 25.5 x 17.5 cm

DR1995:0049

• line drawing
• freehand drawing

• sketch plan (drawing)

• plan view

- Sheet attached to the secondary support at u.l. and u.r. There is a tear at c.l. Graphite is smudged at c.r. There is a piece of tracing vellum attached, with transparent tape, to the l. edge, verso of the secondary support and folded over the drawing. The vellum has a plan (?) from u.l. to l.l.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, l.r.: "[gna sfint] (red)" dated - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, l.r.: "NOV 57" inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite and red pencil, on the sheet, throughout: with room and appliance locations stamped - in red ink, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, r.: "ALISON AND PETER SMITHSON - ARCHITECTS -"; and "Cato Lodge, / 24 Gilston Road, / London, SW10 9SR / 01-373 7423/3838" [the stamp consists of two circles, the outer circle contains the architects' names and the inner circle contains the address] stamped - in red ink, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, l.c. to l.r.: "PLEASE RETURN" [the letters "RN" are cut off] imprinted and dated - by an unknown hand, in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, u.l. to l.l.: "SNOWBALL APPLIANCE HOUSE / November 1957 / (Called rabbit's house / by children) / .... form shedding ... / gropeing [sic] in a new / world of ideas ..... / Sketched:AMS [sic] / Pencil and red crayon on / scrap traci ng [sic] paper" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tracing vellum covering the drawing, u.r. to c.r.: "CVA FOLIO 8" [sideways]

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• house
• appliances