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Absurd and amusing, solemn and scholarly: Charles Jencks’s Cosmic House reviewed

This mad and marvellous house will, in time, become as cherished a place as the Sir John Soane Museum or Kettle’s Yard

Mad and marvellous: the library of Charles Jencks’s Cosmic House. Credit: © Sue Barr
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