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

Sketch plans for two Snowball Appliance Houses

November 1957

• design development drawing

Pen and black ink

sheet: 12.0 x 11.5 cm

DR1995:0052

• line drawings
• freehand drawings

• sketch plan (drawing)

• plan views

- Drawing was but is no longer attached to the secondary support at u.l. and u.r. There is a fold from u.l. to u.r. and the bottom of the drawing has been torn off. There is a piece of yellow tracing paper attached, with transparent tape, to the t. edge, verso of the secondary support and folded over the drawing. The tracing paper is folded again to fit the size of the secondary support.

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, u.l.: with title; and throughout: with appliance names 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.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 / (Called rabbit's house / by children) / .... form shedding ... / gropeing [sic] in a new / world of ideas ..... / Sketched: A.M.S. / Ink on scrap tracing paper" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on a paper label attached to the verso of the secondary support, c.l.: "CVA: 85d" [between "new / world of ideas ....." and "Sketched"; written in bubble font] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the paper over the drawing, b.: "CVA FOLIO 8" [upside down]

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

• house
• appliances