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

Sketch plan for the Snowball Appliance House

November 1957

• design development drawing

Graphite

sheet: 12.9 x 12.6 cm

DR1995:0050

• line drawing
• freehand drawing

• plan (drawing)

• plan view

- DR1995:0050 and DR1995:0051 are attached, at their u.l. and u.r. corners, to the same secondary support with DR1995:0050 at t. and DR1995:0051 at b. The graphite is smudged at various places on both drawings. 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 is folded again to fit the size of the secondary support. There is a black line from u.r. to l.r. on the vellum. There is a partial perspective drawing on the verso of DR1995:0050 and pinholes at u.r. There are graphite and pen and black ink lines on the verso of the secondary support.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in graphite, on the sheet, l.c. to l.r.: "[our] sketch was Nov '57. / small copy Oct 59" 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" 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 [+ October 1959] / A pair of roof views. / (Called rabbit's house / by children) / .... form shedding ... / gropeing [sic] in a new / world of ideas ..... / Sketched:A.M.S. / Pencil on rear of scrap dyeline / Pencil on scrap / tracing paper" [text in square parenthesis is hand written in graphite] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, l.l.: "CVA: 85c" [written in bubble font; located between "new / world of ideas ....." and "Sketched:A.M.S."] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, verso, l.r.: "9" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tracing vellum covering the drawing, c.r. to l.r.: "CVA FOLIO 8" [sideways]

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• house
• appliances