Project

Chain of Children’s Toy Stores

1990

Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Commercial, Designed , Not built

National company selling children toys by mail order (6 million catalogs in circulation), starting a chain of retail stores, 20 planned on the West Coast, the first being in Oakland. The project scope was designing the stores, while providing a generic language for the design of the chain.

Client:

Hearthsong, Inc. - Tim Hicks, Vice-President

C.E.S. staff:

Christopher Alexander, Gary Black, others

Project cost:

Expected construction cost: $300,000/shop

Project stages:

Concept Design

Contents

Correspondence

Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Agreement that Hearthsong and Center for Environmental Structure will continue with work until contract is signed. Request for retainer's fee 10/04/1990

Contractual, Request for Payment

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Tim Hicks, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Notification of retainer enclosed and information as to where invoices should be sent 10/04/1990

Financial, Services Fee

Sender:

Craig A. Richlen, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Hearthsong Stores Design Fees. Letter with fees that should be settled for the work completed so far at the Berkeley store 09/05/1990

Financial, Request for Payment

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Tim Hicks, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Expressing support and willingness to help, if possible, during the interim time while this project is stopped. Hopping in future possibilities 27/06/1990

Status of Project, Notification

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Tim Hicks, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Addressing the issue of the project being stopped and asking about the possibility to transfer parts of the already developed project and its made payments to the next anticipated project. Also, clarifying issue with additional bill received 10/07/1990

Financial, Services Fee

Sender:

Craig A. Richlen, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Responding with explanations to questions about an additional bill sent and suggesting the need for discussing the transferability of money and work produced, to a new project 22/07/1990

Financial, Request for Payment

Sender:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Tim Hicks, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter
Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Accepting explanations about additional bill and informing of need to clarify as soon as possible, the possibility of money and work transferability to next year's projects 14/08/1990

Financial, Response to Request

Sender:

Tim Hicks, Hearthsong Inc., Sebastopol, CA, U.S.A.

Recipient:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA , U.S.A.

Medium:

Letter

SEE ALL Correspondence

Records

Chain of Children's Toy Stores: Hearthsong Stores For Professional Services 27/06/1990

Financial, Services Fee

Authors:

Christopher Alexander, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Invoice for dates 09-May-1990 to 27-Jun-1990.