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

Plan for the middle level showing the arrangement of the furniture, House of the Future, Daily Mail Ideal Homes Exhibition, London, England

between 1955 and March 6 1956

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

• design development drawing
• dessin préliminaire

Graphite, charcoal, pen and black ink and red ink on tracing paper

sheet: 52,4 × 65,56 cm (20 5/8 × 25 13/16 in.)

DR1995:0011

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

• plan (drawing)

• plan view

- Pinholes at u.l., u.r. and l.r. There is a 10cm strip of tracing vellum adhered to the bottom of the drawing with white tape which has an inscription, and the architects' stamp.

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; stamped between the number and the scale] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, u.l. to u.c.: "HOUSE OF THE FUTURE sheet 2"; u.r.: "IDEAL HOMES"; and l.l. to l.r.: with title, "HF5501" and with scale inscribed - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, l.r.: "(PRELIMINARY)"; and in graphite, throughout: with furniture names and notes

London; England; United Kingdom;

• architecture
• design d'intérieur

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

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