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Design for conversion of The Mystery House, Chelsea, London

M340 Design for conversion of The Mystery House, Chelsea, London

Address: Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London
Date: 1920
Client: Arts League of Service
Authorship: Authorship category 1 (Mackintosh) (Mackintosh)

Photograph of Mystery House from S.E.

1920
18 February: Mackintosh draws a plan of the ground and first floors of the Mystery House in his Sketcher's Notebook. A plan of the second and third floors on the next page may be of the same date. 1
19 February: Mackintosh records a visit to the Mystery House in his diary. 2
27 March: Mackintosh meets Ana Berry, J. D. Fergusson and Margaret Morris at the Mystery House and shows them over the building, 'with a view to the Arts League of Service acquiring the property for their purposes.' 3
April: Mackintosh draws a plan of the Mystery House in his Sketcher's Notebook. 4
18 May: Mackintosh borrows plans of the Mystery House from 'Messrs Winn, 32 Lowndes Street'. 5
20 May: Mackintosh visits the Mystery House and records in his diary: 'made survey from plans and took measurements'. 6
20 December: Mackintosh records in his diary that he is 'to proceed with plans for Mystery House'. 7

Notes:

1: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 53015/50 (M340-001).

2: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

3: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

4: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 53015/48 (M340-003).

5: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

6: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.

7: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Mackintosh's diary for 1920, GLAHA 52408.