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Quirky cabinets frame a curious new collection at Sir John Soane’s museum
Inspired by British neo-classical architect Sir John Soane’s ... are borrowed from the Soane collection. You’ll find a set of false teeth, a World Trade Center group admission ticket stub, a fragment ...
This Year’s Vanity Fair Oscar Party Channeled an Age-of-Aquarius, Hedonistic Aesthetic
Though the broadcast itself was last night, for Basil Walter and Will Cooper, Oscar season starts in the summer. That’s when ...
Look up: creative ceiling design inspiration
These immersive installations, says Fiona, are making us aware of the impact of colour – and pattern – on our senses. “The ...
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An Exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum Examines the Neoclassical Architect’s Role as Modernist Forebear
Visitors to John Soane’s extraordinary house-museum in London can have no doubt that he was steeped in history. Its sepulchral basement is filled to bursting with a collection of antiquities befitting ...
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Sir John Soane
Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the architect Sir John Soane (1753 -1837), the son of a bricklayer. He rose up the ranks of his profession as an architect to see many of his designs ...
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‘Soane and Modernism: Make it New’, ‘The Brutalist’ and County Hall Pottery
We find out how Sir John Soane was a forerunner of modernist architecture and discuss the award-winning feature film, ‘The ...
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Sir John Soane and London
We think of Soane as a lonely genius, creating eccentric masterpieces of advanced spatial complexity with mysterious top lighting, as in his strange house and museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields. In this ...