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Please join us on our May 2015 tour when we will explore this capital city of the once mighty and majestic Austro-Hungarian Empire. As always, our focus will be exploring historic and contemporary architecture, decorative arts and the arts. In addition, we will enjoy a morning performance of the Vienna Boys Choir, an evening set aside to-do-as-you-wish with four optional performances of music and opera, and you can feel free to breakaway for viewing a morning exercise session of the famed Lipizzaner horses at the Spanish Riding School, or to explore the Jewish Quarter. We'll also have private visits with some designers, architects and others that will enhance our experience of this dynamic city. Our trip consists of six-nights at the Park Hyatt Hotel -- unpack and relax in the luxury of this new hotel property completed in 2014. Full details are included in the brochure. Please call with any questions or to reserve your spot. Deadline for reservations is February 10th - Space is limited. Contact Chas Miller to confirm your interest | T. 212-223-2012 or chas@soanefoundation.com |
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This talk is in memory of and a tribute to Samuel C. Miller. Following Mr. Pierce's opening remarks about Sam's outstanding contribution to the museum world, Mr. de Montebello's lecture will explore the Soane
Museum as archetype to show how museums are anything but neutral environments for the display of works of art; how their multiple installation styles create narratives that alter context and accordingly, meaning and affect. Mr. de Montebello also approaches the museum from the outside in to show how the architecture sets up expectations and the frequent disparity between these and the contents, works of art. He further argues that, in museums, these are shown invariably in conversation with each other and at times even argumentatively.
LOCATION: The Century Association, 7 West 43rd Street (north side, between 5th and 6th), New York City
ATTIRE: Business - jacket and tie required for men.
TICKETS: Advance Reservations Required
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Sir John Soane's Museum has a rich history full of adaptation and re-use. During Soane's time the buildings existed in a number of states, and performed a number of functions – private home, the site of a busy architectural office, a space for teaching and, of course, a museum. This lecture explores these four characteristic qualities of Soane's great house museum and examines the embedded layers of adaptive experimentation and "tinkering" that continue to this very day.
LOCATION: The Union Club, 101 East 69th Street (northeast corner of Park), New York City
ATTIRE: Business - jacket and tie required for men.
TICKETS: Advance Reservations Required – Lecture Patrons $100, Members $35, Non-Members $45, Students $10
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A LINE UNBROKEN: INHERITING AN ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
A talk by JAMES PEILL, Curator, Coodwood House
English houses dating from medieval times to the early 20th century that have passed by inheritance and never been sold. Mr. Peill will describe houses owned by both the aristocracy and the gentry along with familial chapels and churches. The owners' taste and status are revealed through the extraordinary interiors featuring wood paneling, opulent textiles, and plasterwork ceilings. The talk is based on his recent book The English Country House.
LOCATION: Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets), New York City
CO-SPONSOR: The Soane is pleased to partner in support of this Royal Oak Foundation lecture.
TICKETS: Advance reservation required -- Member $30, Non-Member/Standard $40. Please use the Royal Oak web site for registration Use code 14FSJSM to receive the discounted member price.
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This promises to be a dream adventure for architects, designers and lovers of the built world as we explore an amazing collection of some of the more than 400 models, 200 architectural drawings, and 50 sculptures created over the past fifty years. The Richard Meier Model Museum opened in March 2014 in a 15,000 square foot loft space which is part of a larger cultural complex called Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.
We will get a chance to privately explore the collection, enjoy a glass of wine and converse with Richard Meier and other members of Richard Meier & Partners, as well as members of the Soane Foundation's Executive Committee, including Tom Kligerman, Wendy Moonan, Suzanne Stephens, Walter Chatham, Anne Edgar, Maggie Carey and other members of our Board.
Most prominent in the museum are large scale presentation models and study models of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, an institution widely regarded as Mr. Meier's most ambitious project and one that required fifteen years to complete. Some of the other iconic projects exhibited in the space include the Smith House, the Neugebauer Residence and the High Museum of Art. Other projects on view are well-known architectural projects such as the Perry Street Towers, the Ara Pacis Museum, and the recently completed Arp Museum in Germany. In addition, some unbuilt competition proposals for the World Trade Center Memorial, the New York Avery Fisher Hall, and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France can be seen. Visitors to the space will have an opportunity to study Meier's complex design process seeing prominent buildings and projects from his entire work history. Mana Contemporary is a two million square foot contemporary art center and home to a community of artists. Inside Mana, one can find 100+ artists' studios, galleries, a foundry, dance studios, a silk screening studio, exhibition space, art services, and more. It is housed in a historic brick three-building complex at 888 Newark Avenue which dates from the 1920's, originally for the American Can Company.
Transportation will be offered from the westside of midtown Manhattan or one can get to the museum by the Path Train. You may also drive – there is an off-street free parking lot.
TICKETS to the EVENING – please use the included response form for your selection and payment. Options:
(1) Visit and Reception $50 per person
(2) Visit, Reception, Transportation* from westside of midtown Manhattan $75 per person
* For those taking the bus, we will plan to meet at 4:15pm for 4:30pm departure; return will be around 8pm.
– Event Flyer and Reply Form for 16 July 2014
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The Soane Museum is pleased to join as a Cultural Partner for this fair.
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Press Release
See recent picturs on NewYorkSocialDiary for the American Committee kick-off event
Coverage on the DailyAD from Architectural Digest
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Saturday, 17 May 2014 – 9:30am to 5pm
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Thursday, 10 April 2014 - 6pm lecture followed by a 7pm reception and book signing
LOCATION: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York (between 37th and 38th Street)
TICKETS: Advance Reservations Required – $35 members of Royal Oak or Soane Foundation; $45 non-members
TO REGISTER: please visit www.royal-oak.org/lectures/ or call 212-480-2889, ext. 201.
ONLINE - Use discount code 14SSJSM online to receive the discount;
PHONE - when calling, mention your affiliation with the Soane Foundation.
Castle Howard–300 Years of Tradition and Change
Home to the Howard family for over 300 years, Castle Howard is a magnificent 18th-century building set in 1,000 acres in North Yorkshire. Today, the house and its monumental landscape are familiar to audiences as Evelyn Waugh's fictional "Brideshead," from both the 1981 television adaptation and the two-hour 2008 movie. Building at Castle Howard began in 1699, under the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Much of the building was constructed between 1699 and 1714 by architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, to a design by the Earl's friend Sir John Vanbrugh. The result was a Baroque masterpiece—exuberantly decorated with coronets, cherubs, urns, and Doric and Corinthian pilasters—featuring a central block crowned by a central dome, with east and west side wings. By 1725, when an engraving of the house appeared in Vitruvius Britannicus, most of the exterior structure had been completed and its interiors opulently finished by designers such as Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini. Later parts of the building, including the Palladian-style West Wing, were completed over following decades and the remaining rooms completed by 1811. Tragically, a fire swept through the building in 1940 destroying principal and upper levels as well as the dome, which collapsed into the Great Hall. Successful rebuilding and restoration by the Howard family began 20 years later. Now the house contains exquisitely decorated rooms filled with family's collection of 18th and 19th-century paintings, porcelain, furniture, and antique sculpture. The world renowned painting collection includes Canaletto and Zuccarelli paintings purchased by the 4th Earl; Italian and Flemish Old Masters and portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough collected by the 5th Earl in the late 18th century; and 19th-century works by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones commissioned by the 9th Earl and Countess. Join The Hon. Simon Howard as he lectures about Castle Howard and gives a visual personal tour of the house and its extraordinary landscape with temples, lakes, and fountains. Mr. Howard will talk about the generations of his family who have contributed to the house's rich history. He also will describe modern living at Castle Howard and the ongoing preservation and restoration projects that will ensure its survival into the future.
THE HONORABLE SIMON HOWARD
The Hon. Simon Howard is Chairman of Castle Howard Estate Ltd. He is the third son of the late Lord Howard of Henderskelfe. Called back to Yorkshire in 1979 to supervise the filming of Brideshead Revisited, he became Managing Director of the Estate, and in 1984 became Chairman of Castle Howard Estate Ltd. Deeply involved in the Historic Houses Association, the body that represents some 1500 historic houses in private ownership in the UK, The Hon. Simon Howard served as Chairman of the Yorkshire Region from 1986 to 1997; Chairman of the National Tourism and Commercial Development Committee from 1995 to 2005; and from 1996 he was a Director of the Association. He has also been the Chairman of the Treasure Houses of England since 1995 and represents them in The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. He was High Sheriff of North Yorkshire in 1995, and has been a consultant to Sotheby's since 1998. Educated at Eton College, The Hon. Simon Howard then read Rural Estate Management at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester in Gloucestershire. |
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Talk by BARRY BERGDOLL, the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University; and Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art
Tuesday, 28 January 2014 - 6:45pm
Doors open 6:30pm, wine reception following
LOCATION: Union Club, 101 East 69th Street (northeast corner at Park Avenue), New York City
TICKETS: Advance Reservations Required — Lecture Patrons $100; Members $35, Non-members $45; Students $10
ATTIRE: Business - jacket and tie required for men
Sir John Soane, Henri Labrouste and Frank Lloyd Wright produced quite independently places of numinous presence and great luminous effect for tasks that might otherwise be considered mundane -- banking, reading, and typing. This talk will look at the structural innovations, sources, and aesthetic elaboration of a series of spaces that transformed everyday civic actions into elevated participation in larger social and intellectual frameworks from Labrouste's two libraries, via Soane's Bank of England, to the great work rooms of the Larkin Soap Company and Johnson Wax of Frank Lloyd Wright. The talk will also give a quick preview of the themes of the upcoming exhibition of Frank Lloyd Wright's Urban visions.
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Exhibition now on view to 9 February 2014
The Gallery at the Bard Graduate Center
18 West 86th Street, between Columbus and Central Park West.
Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm, Thursday, 11 am to 8 pm
http://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/gallery-at-bgc/main-gallery.html
The Trustees of Sir John Soane's Museum, London have loaned to the exhibition eight drawings:
seven by William Kent, and one by a Soane pupil showing a William Kent interior, which has subsequently disappeared.
(following Bard, the exhibition then opens in London at the Victoria & Albert Museum) |
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Sunday, 9 February to Friday, 14 February 2014
Joining us will be HERMES MALLEA, a Cuban American architect, designer and author of
The Great Houses of Havana
Five nights in Havana exploring architecture, design, the arts / music / dance and Cuban culture.
Our trip will feature visits with local architects, urban planners,
contemporary artists, homeowners and more.
More details to come . . .
Please be in touch if you have an interest in learning more asap!
Please contact the Soane Foundation to receive a print copy of the brochure, or for more information:.
telephone 212-223-2012 or email: chas@soanefoundation.com
Take a look at pictures from our January 2012 trip {click here} and then click on the photo to start a slideshow.
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013 - Soane Patron Circle members are invited to a private visit:
at Columbia University in the City of New York to see and explore some of the new Frank Lloyd Wright Archives and enjoy some varied highlights from the overall collection.
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Talk by HELEN DOREY, Acting Director and Inspectress, Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 6:45pm (doors open 6:30pm)
LOCATION: Union Club, 101 East 69th Street at Park Avenue
ATTIRE: Business – Jacket and Tie required for men
TICKETS: Lecture Patrons $100, Members $30, Non-Members $40, Students $10
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24 October – 27 October 2013
Benefiting Enterprise for High School Students, back for its 32nd year. The oldest international art and antiques fair on the West Coast, it features over 60 distinguished dealers from North America and Europe, along with a renowned Lecture Series, and complimentary Guided Tours of the show and "Cocktail Hour in the Cafe", a series of informational talks for arts enthusiasts.
Show: October 24-27, 2013
Preview Gala: October 23, 2013 7-10pm
Location: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.
Tickets: Show: $15 in advance/$20 at the door / Lecture Series: $15/$18 at door / Preview Gala tickets $250 and up.
For more information and tickets: www.sffas.org (415) 989-9019, sffas@ehss.org
Discount tickets for SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION members (ID with either e-blast or member card, though will also honor verbal identification at the door) are: $12 general admission, $12 per lecture (based on availability)
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The Soane Foundation is pleased to offer a special last-minute opportunity to join friends of the Dulwich Picture Gallery on an upcoming tour in October 2013
A Dulwich Picture Gallery Tour
Sunday, 13 October to Thursday 17 October 2013
This tour is presented in conjunction with the exhibition
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames
Please see attached brochure and reply form for full details.
Reservations due by September 20th.
For details on Dulwich Picture Gallery, please visit: www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation and Sir John Soane's Museum, London are not associated with this tour offering or with any of the arrangements. This is a fully independent tour offer by Dulwich Picture Gallery and their operator Arts Abroad Limited. We offer this information as a service to our members and supporters and wish to thank Dulwich Picture Gallery for extending this offer.
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Saturday, 5 October to Saturday, 12 October 2013
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Please contact the Soane Foundation to receive a print copy of the brochure, or for more information:.
telephone 212-223-2012 or email: chas@soanefoundation.com
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During a journey aboard the elegant sailing yacht Sea Cloud II, cruise from charming Honfleur to cosmopolitan Hamburg. Cruise to five maritime countries bordering the English Channel and the North Sea, beginning in the charming French port of Honfleur. From Portland, England, explore the 18th-century home and extensive gardens of Athelhampton House. Dock at Newhaven for a private visit to Firle Place, ancestral home of the Gage family, then discover Belgium's enchanting medieval town of Bruges. Continue to Amsterdam to see the Rijksmuseum before either taking a delightful city tour via private canal boat or visiting the Van Gogh Museum. Spend a morning in Haarlem or remain in Amsterdam for time at leisure before disembarking in Hamburg.
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Talk by TODD LONGSTAFFE-GOWAN, Garden Designer & Landscape Historian
Monday, 11 March 2013 - 6:00pm – This lecture is following by a book signing
LOCATION: Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue, southwest corner of 57th Street. Advance Reservations Required
TICKETS: $30 members, $40 non-members
Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses. These green enclaves, known as squares, are among the most distinctive features of the metropolis and are England's greatest contribution to the development of European urban planning. Some of the first London squares were laid out in the 17th century, including Lincoln's Inn Fields; and by the 18th and 19th centuries, squares were laid out in Mayfair, Bloomsbury and Westminster, sometimes planned by notable designers such as Humphry Repton, Charles Barry and Edwin Lutyens. Traditionally, inhabitants who overlooked these gated communal gardens paid for their maintenance and retained special access. As such, they have long been synonymous with privilege, elegance, and prosperous metropolitan living. Many of these countryside oases have survived and adapted to become part of modern London's living urban panorama. Mr. Longstaffe-Gowan will delve into the history, evolution and social implications of London's squares, which have played a crucial role in the development of urban life.
In this lecture, Mr. Longstaffe-Gowan will also discuss his recently finished redesign of the pleasure grounds at Kensington Palace in honor of HM The Queen's Diamond Jubilee in spring 2012 — the largest new garden to be laid out at a British Royal Palace for over a century. Kensington Palace — part of which is now open to the public — was built in the late 17th century for William III and Mary II, and has been a favorite place of residence for various members of the royal family, including Queen Victoria, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. It will soon become the London home of Prince William and Princess Catherine (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) and Prince Harry.
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a prominent landscape architect and historian. He is Gardens Adviser to Historic Royal Palaces, and has responsibilities at five royal palaces in greater London, including Hampton Court, The Tower of London and Kew. He also serves as President of the London Parks and Gardens Trust. Todd is the author of several books, including The London Town Garden (Yale University Press, 2001), and The Gardens and Parks at Hampton Court Palace (Frances Lincoln, 2005). His most recent book, entitled The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town, was published by Yale University Press in May 2012 (available for signing). |
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Talk by David Pullins
Monday, 11 February 2013 A 6:30 pm (doors open 6:15pm)
LOCATION: Union Club, 101 East 69th Street at Park Avenue
ATTIRE: Business- Jacket and Tie required for men
Reservation Form
TICKETS: Lecture Patrons $100, Members $30, Non-Members $40, Students $10
Robert Adams: Carpet design for Elizabeth Montagu's salon at 23 Hill Street, dated 1766. Collection of
Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
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Robert Adam, Chinoiserie looking-glass design for the state bedchamber, Harewood House (detail)
Feb. 1769. Sir John Soane's Museum, London (20:73) |
| Apart from a chimneypiece at Kenwood House that incorporates panels from a Chinese marble screen, Adam's chinoiserie works either do not survive or have been greatly modified. His dressing room for Elizabeth Montagu in Mayfair was quickly reconceived by Adam's competitor James Stuart and his looking-glass designs for Harewood House were probably never executed due to the discouragement of Thomas Chippendale. In the absence of extent work, an important group of drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum provides the principal source of information about this unexpected facet of Adam's career. Through a close examination of these drawings in conjunction with archival research conducted in London, Leeds, Edinburgh and Los Angeles made possible by the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation, this lecture attempts to reconstruct what we can know about Adam's chinoiserie designs and his motivation and tactics in producing them. |
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| David Pullins is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and currently a David E. Finley Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. David received a B.A. in art history from Columbia University and a M.A. as a Peter Jay Sharp Scholar at The Courtauld Institute of Art, where he began his work on Robert Adam. With the support of a Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation Traveling Fellowship in 2011, David was able to return to work begun in his M.A. and complete the necessary archival research in London and Edinburgh to prepare a forthcoming article on the subject of Adam and chinoiserie. |
Talk by Richard F. Sammons
Thursday, 17 January 2013 – 8pm
LOCATION: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South
ATTIRE: Business
TICKETS: No advance reservations required, admission is free.
EVENT SPONSORED BY: The Architecture Committee of the National Arts Club
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Does Sir John Soane (1753-1837) represent a prefiguration of Modernism, or was he the ultimate Classicist? His fascinating, unique, and immensely eccentric house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, preserved in his will as a museum, is a built tome of his theories, with an amazing collection of art, artifacts, drawings and models of his work. Through a visual tour of the house, we will try to understand the architect's intentions and explore the sources of his theories.The son of a bricklayer, in his prime Sir John Soane was at the pinnacle of the architectural profession in Britain: architect for the Bank of England. His influence on the profession was small, however, and his reputation at the end of the 19th century was relatively obscure. Interest in Regency Architecture was rekindled in the early 20th century, but then time, the rise of Modernism, and the London blitz took their toll on his works. Once Postmodernism created an interest in connecting Modernism and history, interest in Soane revived.
Richard F. Sammons is design director of Fairfax & Sammons Architects P.C., an internationally-recognized firm of classical architects specializing in residential architectural design which he founded with his wife and partner Anne Fairfax. He serves on the Council of Advisors of the Institute of Classical Architecture& Art (ICAA), of which he is a founding director, and on the board of directors of the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation. |
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Talk by OLIVER BRADBURY
Tuesday, 13 November 2012 - 6:00 pm (doors open 5:45pm)
LOCATION: Union Club, 101 East 69th Street (at Park Avenue) ATTIRE: Business- Jacket and Tie required for men
TICKETS: Advance Reservations Required — $30 for members; $40 non-members.
Various American architects and designers have responded to Soane from the 1790s onwards and research has revealed, perhaps unexpectedly, just how influential he has been, particularly on the east coast and even as far as New Orleans, the Deep South. Careful observation reveals a near continuum from Benjamin Henry Latrobe's work up to Philip Johnson and so we have Latrobe introducing Soane's manner into the young nation during the 1790s; then William Jay (at Savannah and Charleston) bringing the English Regency style over; Maximilian Godefroy (as in the original interior of the First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, 1817-18); Asher Benjamin's influential pattern books; Edward C. Jones (Charleston); Charles Bulfinch (the 'Ether Dome' of Massachusetts General Hospital); certain aspects of the Eastlake-style; and then Johnson exploring Soane's legacy repeatedly from 1953 to 1972 (and 1982-3). Although isolated instances of Soane's American influence have been noted before, this talk might well be the first occasion ever to explore this influence as a historical continuum over two centuries.
Oliver Bradbury, MLitt, is a former Listed Building Consultant for English Heritage and has also undertaken research for the same organisation's London Blue Plaque scheme. From 2006 to 2008 he was the Assistant Architectural Adviser to the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, London. He now works on historical research commissions; his largest to date being the former Hôtel Métropole, Northumberland Avenue, London, reopened in April 2011 as Corinthia Hotel London; and more recent clients being the Royal Academy of Arts, London; Nos. 1-2 Lincoln's Inn Fields, a few doors down from the Soane Museum and to be home of the sculptor Anish Kapoor; and the soon-to-open InterContinental London Westminster hotel. Bradbury has published two books: Cheltenham's Lost Heritage (2004) and The Lost Mansions of Mayfair (2008), and Ashgate Publishing Company (U.S.A.) will be publishing his third, Sir John Soane's Influence on Architecture, 1800-1980 – A Continuing Legacy in due course. An independent researcher from 2000, since 1995 he has written articles for The Burlington Magazine (with Nicholas Penny, Director of the National Gallery, London), Apollo, Country Life, The Tablet, The Times, The Georgian Group Journal and The Magazine of the Twentieth Century Society. His long-term research projects concern Sir John Soane's influence on the work of others from 1792 to 1980, subject of the talk above, as well as design, styling and entertainment in the 1970s.
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Presented as part of the Lecture Series at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show (SFFAS)
Talk by LADY HENRIETTA SPENCER-CHURCHILL, Interior Designer and Author
Friday, 26 October 2012 - 2:30 pm - book signing to follow of The Life of the House: How Rooms Evolve
LOCATION: Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center
SFFAS TICKETS: Advance registration suggested. Register online at www.sffas.org |
| A noted authority on period homes and historical styles, Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill will speak about architectural elements, layouts, and design of interiors, from medieval times to present day. She will trace industrial and social advances that have led to the evolution of room function and décor. Her presentation will feature a stunning selection of illustrations from her new book, The Life of the House: How Rooms Evolve (Rizzoli, 2012), among them Blenheim, her family's estate in England; Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island, where her great-grandmother Consuelo Vanderbilt spent much of her childhood; and homes she has worked on as a designer. |
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The Soane Foundation is pleased to serve as a Cultural Partner for a fifth year with the SFFAS.
Wednesday, 26 October 2012 - 7 pm to 9 pm - Preview Party Benefit Gala Opening Reception
LOCATION: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
SFFAS TICKETS: Advance purchase of tickets required. Register online at www.sffas.org, then go to Tickets |
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Talk by TODD LONGSTAFFE-GOWAN, Garden Designer & Landscape Historian
Tuesday, 23 October 2012 - 6:00pm – This lecture is followed by a reception sponsored by Freeman's
LOCATION: The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue (between Berkeley and Arlington)
ATTIRE: Business Attire - Jacket and Tie required for men
TICKETS: SOLD OUT
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor this talk with the Royal Oak Foundation and other cooperating partners. Lecture description and biographical information the speaker - please see under New York City
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Talk by HELEN DOREY, Deputy Director and Inspectress of Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Wednesday, 24 October 2012 - 6:00pm - This lecture is preceded by a reception, there is an optional dinner following
LOCATION: St. Botolph Club, 199 Commonwealth Avenue (between Exeter and Fairfield)
ATTIRE: Business Attire - Jacket and Tie required for men
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In 1935, Disraeli wrote to Sir John Soane, "Your Museum is permanently magical." And so it continues to this day. For many individual collectors, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, remains the quintessential 'collectors museum' – a source of inspiration and delight for 200 years and one of the best examples of its kind in the world. Sir John Soane, R.A, (1753 -1837) was an English architect of significant influence during the last quarter of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The highly idiosyncratic Soane worked within the parameters of the classical idiom to create unique commercial and residential structures. The Dulwich Picture Gallery and portions of the Bank of England are among the few remaining examples of his distinctive style of public architecture. Established as a public museum by an Act of Parliament in 1833, Sir John Soane's Museum remains as the best example of his genius in the design of houses.
Helen Dorey is Deputy Director and Inspectress of Sir John Soane's Museum, London. She read History at Christ Church, Oxford, and subsequently studied the History of Art at the Study Centre in London. Dorey joined Sir John Soane's Museum in 1986 as Secretary (only the second person to hold that key appointment – the only administration role in the Museum at the time and planned so that the post could double as a curatorial one), but gradually took on an increasing load of curatorial work and has been the Inspectress and Deputy Director since 1995. In recent years, she has been focused on the massive renovation and reinstallation project, known as Opening up the Soane undertaking all the painstaking research into the history of both fabric and collections necessary for such a complex authentic restoration project. |
Thursday, 25 October 2012 - 10:45am (for 11am entry) to 1pm, with optional lunch and additional tour till 3pm
LOCATION: 25 Evans Way (the Museum's main entrance)
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Join us as we get a chance to explore both the private side and the public galleries of this amazing museum complex - which is comprised of both the historic palace building completed in 1903 as a home and the new wing designed by architect Renzo Piano and opened earlier this year. Our group, limited to just 15, will tour the new building with James Labeck, Director of Operations, then we will go behind-the-scenes to see the new wing's Conservation Studio, and see a new special contemporary exhibition with Curator Pieranna Cavalchini "The Great Bare Mat & Constellation: Raqs Media Collective". Following lunch, we will have a visit and tour of the original palace building with Dr. Anne-Marie Eze, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow who will focus on how the original Gardner Museum has been changed and impacted by the new building.
This conservation visit will be the seventh in our series of exploring other museums to better understand conservation at the Soane. Also joining us will be Helen Dorey of the Soane Museum, who will be able to comment on the practices at the Soane and the newly completed John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Conservation Center. |
Ceremony and Reception
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Please be in touch if you would like to receive an invitation
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Join us for the Spring Show NYC, opening 2 May 2012. Click image for VIP Registration
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LOCATION: Lincoln Center – The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater of The Film Society of Lincoln Center, 144 West 65th Street, New York City (south side of the block, at the mid-block traffic light - between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.)
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED. SEATING IS LIMITED. Please download the PDF reply form or call 212-223-2012 to reserve tickets.
RESERVATIONS: ___ x $35 members | ___ x 40 non-members | __ x $250 Lecture Patrons
Images: top, Broad Museum, Los Angeles; bottom, Museum of Image and Sound, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio which integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Based in New York City, Diller Scofidio + Renfro is led by three partners who work collaboratively with a staff of 75 architects, artists and administrators.
Charles Renfro, RA, joined the studio in 1997 and became partner in 2004. He attended Rice University and received a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. Mr. Renfro has served as visiting professor at both Rice University and Columbia University, among others.
On Tuesday, 24 April 2012, the firm will be honored by Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation for its innovative work on museums and cultural institutions in the United States and worldwide. Recent projects in New York City have been the High Line and the redesign of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, to name only two. |
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Advance registration required: Please use form or reservations can be made by calling the Soane Foundation office at 212-223-2012.
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In 1818 Sir John Soane purchased a group of approximately three-hundred architectural drawings by the Italian architectural draughtsman Giovanni Battista Montano (1534-1621). This important acquisition provided Soane with a bounty of delightful, small-scale drawings for study, with most of the works depicting reconstructions of ancient Roman ruins and details of classical architectural ornamentation - subjects that had fascinated Soane for decades and influenced his own architectural designs. In fact, Soane would eventually use Montano's drawings, which he described as "full of rich fancy and elegant contrast," in his lectures at the Royal Academy to help dispute arguments that claimed ancient Roman architecture to be monotonous.
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This lecture will discuss the role of Montano's drawn reconstructions in Rome's antiquarian and artistic societies between 1570 and 1621. The production of such imaginative architectural designs testifies to the growing desire amongst Early Modern artists, antiquarians, and humanists to understand the original appearance of Rome's famed ruins and crumbling monuments. Although Montano was not the only artist producing such images of ancient Roman buildings, his works stand apart for the quality of the draughtsmanship, the inventiveness of the designs, and the sheer number of works produced. While Montano never achieved fame in his own lifetime, a large body of his intriguing designs became celebrated after his death thanks to their posthumous publications in books of engravings. The most important aspect of Montano's legacy, however, is his surviving corpus of original drawings, for which Sir John Soane's Museum holds the single most valuable collection.
Ms. Knight is a Ph.D. Candidate at Queen's University, Canada, working under the supervision of Dr. Pierre du Prey. As one of the 2011 Soane Foundation Traveling Fellowship recipients, she spent five weeks working in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in the autumn of 2011 and remained in London carrying out research through spring of 2011. She also has been the recipient of the Alfred Bader Travelling Fellowship when she carried out extended periods of research in Rome, Milan, and Vienna. Janina has presented papers on her dissertation research at the Renaissance Society of America's Annual Conference and at the Universities Art Association of Canada's Annual Conference. She has published papers on G.B. Montano and will be including her research on this artist in her dissertation, which explores artistic reconstructions of ancient Roman ruins produced by artists from the death of Michelangelo (1564) to the emergence of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (c.1625). |
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Images: photos by Janina Knight of Montano drawings in the
Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
This lecture is named in memory of Soane Foundation Board Member Marita O'Hare.
* Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org
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Advance registration* required: $30 members; $40 non-members.
Although not far from the center of London, near Richmond on the south bank of the Thames, Ham House has the atmosphere of a remote, secluded country mansion. Originally the home of an Elizabethan naval captain, it was inherited in 1649 by one of the charismatic women of her age, Elizabeth, Lady Tollemache. Her great beauty—enhanced by flame-red hair—was admired by Oliver Cromwell, but unbeknownst to him she was a secret supporter of the exiled Charles II and quickly became a court favorite after the 1660 restoration. In 1672 she married one of the king's most loyal and powerful supporters, the Duke of Lauderdale. The couple spent lavishly on Ham, enlarging the house and furnishing it in the most fashionable 17th-century taste including a sequence of state rooms for a royal visit from Queen Catherine of Braganza. As much of their collection and decoration survives—often due to neglect—Ham embodies the opulence and joie-de-vivre of Charles II's court more vividly than any house England. When in 1879 the diarist Augustus Hare visited, he wrote that 'the inhabitants of this palace, which looks like that of Sleeping Beauty in the wood, have wealth which is inexhaustible, though they have scarcely any servants, no carriage, only bread and cheese for luncheon, and never repair or restore anything'. Michael Hall will tell the story of Ham House and its swings of fortune under a succession of often eccentric owners. He will illustrate the remarkable interiors full of rare textiles, furniture, miniatures, and paintings. He also will brings the house's history up to date with an account of the restoration undertaken by the National Trust since it was given the house in 1948 by the Tollemache family, work that has included a major restoration of the tapestry collection which still remain in situ after more than 300 years. |
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| England is known for its great country houses with splendid interiors. The houses reflect not only the personalities and the taste of their builders and owners, but also a desire to create houses which celebrated the riches and culture of England itself. The magnificent late 17th-century interiors at Boughton and Chatsworth were inspired by the grandeur of Louis XIV's court at Versailles, but they sought to provide an English equivalent to glorify their own Protestant state and pride in the monarchy. In the early 18th century, Lord Burlington, Lord Leicester and William Kent at Houghton and Holkham created a new style of grandeur for the fashionable English country house interiors sourced more directly on the classical Palladian example. Robert Adam also brought new knowledge of the classical world to interiors such as those at Kedleston and Syon—intended not just as palaces of entertainment and glamour, but also as projects that influenced the patronage of the arts and taste of the nation. In the 19th century, styles and furnishings reflected different waves of taste, often in reaction to earlier styles, as well as the development of interior spaces for private use. The Egyptian Dining Room at Goodwood, the Gothic Revival interiors at Arundel and the French Louis XIV rooms at Waddesdon Manor retain an expression of magnificence that have a personal and private meaning as well as a public role. Architectural historian and author Jeremy Musson, will trace these resonant themes through six centuries of English country house interiors and illustrate using fine images specially taken for his book by leading architectural photographer Paul Barker and old photographs from the Country Life archive. |
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The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation. |
| The garden at Mount Stewart is one of the National Trust's beloved properties in Northern Ireland, but the garden owes so much of its mystery, magic and artistry to its creator, Edith, Lady Londonderry. Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, was a self-taught, highly gifted and passionate gardener, who first came to Mount Stewart in 1915. While the garden is now one of the most spectacular in Britain, Lady Londonderry described her first impression as "if ever there was a house bullied by trees, Mount Stewart was a pathetic example" and added that "no gardening of the modern type was attempted at Mount Stewart before the war [WW1]." By 1940, using demobbed labor and local craftsman, Lady Londonderry had completely transformed the plain lawns into a beautiful formal garden that resembled an Italian landscape. She used the wilderness and beauty of Strangford Loch as a dramatic backdrop by cutting a vista through to the man-made Sea Plantation, where she created a sea front paradise with a swimming pool, a Mediterranean garden, a rotating summer house and boardwalk leading out to the deeper water. In the formal gardens surrounding the house, she expressed her love of plants by lavishing the area with luxuriant and flamboyant planting schemes created in her unique gardening style. Mike Buffin will explore the early landscape of the garden at Mt. Stewart and focus on the unique influences of Edith, Lady Londonderry and her creative style. He will explain how as an untrained gardener, Lady Londonderry created one of the UK's greatest gardens. Mr. Buffin will also discuss the National Trust's role in caring for the garden since 1957 and the work currently underway to restore the garden to highlight Lady Londonderry's remarkable legacy.The garden at Mount Stewart is one of the National Trust's beloved properties in Northern Ireland, but the garden owes so much of its mystery, magic and artistry to its creator, Edith, Lady Londonderry. Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry, was a self-taught, highly gifted and passionate gardener, who first came to Mount Stewart in 1915. While the garden is now one of the most spectacular in Britain, Lady Londonderry described her first impression as "if ever there was a house bullied by trees, Mount Stewart was a pathetic example" and added that "no gardening of the modern type was attempted at Mount Stewart before the war [WW1]." By 1940, using demobbed labor and local craftsman, Lady Londonderry had completely transformed the plain lawns into a beautiful formal garden that resembled an Italian landscape. She used the wilderness and beauty of Strangford Loch as a dramatic backdrop by cutting a vista through to the man-made Sea Plantation, where she created a sea front paradise with a swimming pool, a Mediterranean garden, a rotating summer house and boardwalk leading out to the deeper water. In the formal gardens surrounding the house, she expressed her love of plants by lavishing the area with luxuriant and flamboyant planting schemes created in her unique gardening style. Mike Buffin will explore the early landscape of the garden at Mt. Stewart and focus on the unique influences of Edith, Lady Londonderry and her creative style. He will explain how as an untrained gardener, Lady Londonderry created one of the UK's greatest gardens. Mr. Buffin will also discuss the National Trust's role in caring for the garden since 1957 and the work currently underway to restore the garden to highlight Lady Londonderry's remarkable legacy. |
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R.s.v.p. to Chas Miller - chas@soanefoundation.com or at 212-223-2012 if you wish to attend. |
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The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talk with the Nichols House Museum of Boston: Reservations are for Members Only and invited guests. We regret this event is not open to the general public. |
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The British Ambassador's Residence in Paris is one of the most splendid historic homes in the French capital and the most impressive of all British ambassadorial residences abroad. Based on his new book on the subject, Tim Knox will tell the stirring story of the house, from its origins as the home of the Ducs de Charost, to its opulent heyday under Napoleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, much of whose luxurious furniture and decoration survives intact. Since 1814, when Pauline sold the house to the 1st Duke of Wellington, the mansion has served as the residence of successive British Ambassadors to France, who altered the house to suit their taste and character, notably Sir Duff Cooper and his beautiful wife, Lady Diana, whose Empire-style study is still redolent of their brilliant social circle in Post-War Paris. This beautiful house in the rue du Faubourg St. Honore, furnished with masterpieces of French Empire furniture and decorative arts, English silver, and paintings by British artists, remains a splendid, but hard-working setting for promoting the Franco-British relationship. The British Ambassador's Residence in Paris is published by Flammarion, 2011.
Tim Knox is Director of perhaps the most extraordinary historic house museum in the world, Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. An architectural historian with a particular interest in country houses and collecting, he was formerly Head Curator for the National Trust. |
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Reservations are for Members Only and invited guests. We regret this event is not open to the general public.
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Advance registration* required: $25 members and $35 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation. |
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Advance registration* required: $25 members and non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation.
Advance registration* required: $25 members and non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation. |
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Advance registration* required: $25 members and $35 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation.
Although generally portrayed in American schools as a controversial historical figure, whose "tyrannical" rulership and mad behavior cost him the colonies, King George III was neither a tyrant nor mad and was one of Britain's great royal patrons of the arts. During his 59 years reign—a record that only has been surpassed by his granddaughter Queen Victoria—he bought the future Buckingham Palace, re-inhabited Windsor Castle and refurbished Somerset House. He acquired thousands of Old Master drawings, paintings and decorative arts, including works by Michelangelo, Raphael, Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Canaletto, Zoffany, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. The King was especially interested in collecting books and maps (that later formed the nucleus of the British Library) and demonstrated his interest in science by commissioning time-keeping devices for every room in Buckingham House! This lecture will examine George III's artistic legacy still present in the Royal Collection and demonstrate how the King, described by a biographer, was "the most cultured monarch ever to sit on the throne of Britain" despite great political, military, and social upheaval.
Advance registration* required: $25 members and $35 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation. |
Tickets: general admission $15 - lecture $15 in advance, $18 at the door
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The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talk with the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show and other cooperating partners - The French Heritage Society and the Royal Oak Foundation:
Beginning in the late 16th century, Kunstkammern (literally "art chambers," also referred to as "cabinets of curiosities") were formed by princes for their own personal pleasure to share but with a select few. These predecessors of museums also served didactic purposes. They often contained some of the most valuable unalienable heirlooms of a family. Illuminating the hidden collections of the Ambras Castle of Archduke Ferdinand II; the Hradshin in Prague of Emperor Rudolf II, and the Munich Residenz of the Wittelsbach dukes, von Habsburg will acquaint us with the passion with which royalty obtained and vied with each other over their treasures. |
SFFAS TICKETS: Advance purchase of tickets required. Please call 415-989-9019 after September 7 or register online at www.sffas.org |
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Advance registration* required: $25 members and $35 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation.
Advance registration* required: $25 members and $35 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation. |
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ATTIRE: Business attire required. Gentlemen: jackets and ties.
TICKETS: advance purchase required. Individuals tickets are $100 per person. Patrons at $500 receive two tickets, and Underwriters at $1,000 receive two tickets. Patrons and Underwriters will be recognized on our web site and in the program of the evening.
All except $35 per ticket is tax deductible.
Please make checks payable to: Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation. Credit cards accepted.
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Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation and Checkerboard Film Foundation are pleased to present the premiere screening of Checkerboard's newest film. You are cordially invited to join us for this special benefit evening, featuring the screening of Checkerboard's newest film in their Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture series. A conversation with Robert A. M. Stern, moderated by Suzanne Stephens of Architectural Record will follow. The evening will conclude with a cocktail reception.
Even during the Great Recession of 2008, one new apartment house in New York City continued to raise the bar for real-estate prices: 15 Central Park West. Designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, the lavish, limestone-clad structure between 61st to 62nd streets is arguably one of the most luxurious residential buildings to rise in the city in decades. Stern deliberately evokes the grand era of New York apartments designed in the 1920s and 1930s, especially the intricately planned architecture of Rosario Candela.
Stern, Dean of the Yale School of Architecture, with his own practice in New York, has written a series of books on the history of New York City architecture, in which the high-rise apartment house plays a prominent part.
In this film, shot in High-Definition, Stern explains why apartment houses of past decades appealed to so many affluent city dwellers and the lessons learned by examining the buildings? design and construction. Amenities of 15 Central Park West, such as 10-foot-high ceilings, a private dining room for the inhabitants, along with a library and other common spaces, represent a return to features of New York City?s earliest apartment buildings dating to the 19th century.
Rounding out this exploration of the New York City apartment house are brief glimpses of certain modern residential towers in Lower Manhattan designed by today's vanguard architects. In addition, Elizabeth Hawes, author of New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869-1930) provides informative socio-cultural observations about this form of high-rise living.
Robert A. M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House
Producer: Edgar B. Howard Director and Editor: Tom Piper
Cinematography: Tom Piper, David Leitner Architectural Advisor: Suzanne Stephens
Principal Funding provided by: The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation
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Advance reservation are not required however you must have a valid entry to the antiques show. Seating is limited and on a first come basis. A limited number of seats may be requested in advance by Friday, April 22nd to the Soane Foundation office.
This talk is presented in conjunction with the Spring Show NYC of the Art and Antique Dealers League of America which runs from Thursday, 28 April to Monday, 2 May 2011.
Image: 'The Nubian Giraffe' 1827, Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767-1849), The Royal Collection © 2001, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II
Exotic birds and animals had long been prized as pets and curiosities in Britain, but the eighteenth century saw the establishment of menageries and aviaries as a fashionable adjunct to a country house garden or park. Inspired by descriptions of such collections from antiquity, and by the larger and much more ambitious menageries at Versailles and in the parks of German princelings, soon a menagerie was the boast of many a nobleman's seat. They often took the form of a lavishly decorated banqueting house, combined with pens and cages for fierce or unusual animals, and brilliantly plumaged birds. Particularly extravagant was the Earl of Halifax's at Horton, Northamptonshire – an elaborate domed pavilion with elaborate plasterwork and a subterranean kitchen – but others were simple affairs with wire and wicker cages. The most distinguished architects vied with one another to design these structures, there are menagerie and aviary buildings by Sir William Chambers, Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, and Humphry Repton, although Sir John Soane's experience of animal accommodation was restricted to domestic animals – a cow house, and a chicken coop for the Duke of Leeds! Eighteenth-century menageries housed an astonishing variety of birds and beasts – Horace Walpole saw 'tygers' and 'hogs with navels on their backs from Havannah' at Horton, while there was a moose at Goodwood, and a bear at Longleat. Ladies favoured gentler species – Mrs Child's aviary at Osterley Park – which had 'cranes that follow you around like dogs' - was the envy of her friends. As the century advanced, buildings got more elaborate, and the species more diverse. If the Prince Regent's glazed Parrot House at the Brighton Pavilion, inspired by a towering Buddhist stupa, never got built, then there were other equally bizarre structures that did. The earliest public zoological gardens of the Victorian era – enlivened with a wealth of whimsical animal houses – form the conclusion of this illustrated talk. |
Tickets: $35 members; $40 non-members (Tickets are limited, sorry if we cannot accommodate)
Advance reservations are required. Please contact the Soane Foundation. The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation.
The British Ambassador's Residence in Paris is one of the most splendid historic homes in the French capital and the most impressive of all British ambassadorial residences abroad. Based on his new book on the subject, Tim Knox will tell the stirring story of the house, from its origins as the home of the Ducs de Charost, to its opulent heyday under Napoleon's sister, Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese, much of whose luxurious furniture and decoration survives intact. Since 1814, when Pauline sold the house to the 1st Duke of Wellington, the mansion has served as the residence of successive British Ambassadors to France, who altered the house to suit their taste and character, notably Sir Duff Cooper and his beautiful wife, Lady Diana, whose Empire-style study is still redolent of their brilliant social circle in Post-War Paris. This beautiful house in the rue du Faubourg St. Honore, furnished with masterpieces of French Empire furniture and decorative arts, English silver, and paintings by British artists, remains a splendid, but hard-working setting for promoting the Franco-British relationship. The British Ambassador's Residence in Paris is published by Flammarion, 2011. |
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Includes works by Thomas Hope from the Philip Hewat-Jaboor collection of Regency furniture and works of art. Preview and opening reception to benefit Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation
Seating is very limited; we regret in advance if the lecture is sold out, but sincerely hope you will still join us for the benefit reception.
A contribution of one hundred dollars per person is suggested for the Soane Conservation Fund for Sculptures and Antiquities at
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.
Inquiries concerning the events: Chas Miller, Soane Foundation - T.
212-223-2012 | Chas@SoaneFoundation.com
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A joint program of the Soane Foundation and The Boston Athenaeum.
Support for this presentation provided by Waterworks.
Advance registration required: $25 members and non-members. Reservations can be made by returning the attached form or calling the Soane Foundation office at 212-223-2012. Seating is limited.
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PHOTO CREDIT: Derry Moore. IMAGE: A Roman bust of an elaborately coiffed woman catches a beam of light in the Dome space, Soane Museum |
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Tim Knox, Directorof that veritable antiquarian treasury, Sir John Soane's Museum in London, talks about the marble mania that gripped Britain in the eighteenth century - beginning with the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, who amassed a huge collection of Graeco-Roman marbles at Wilton House in Wiltshire, which he endlessly arranged and catalogued, attempting a chronological display to illustrate Roman history. Less systematic, but scarcely less acquisitive were the Grand Tourists, the Earl of Carlisle and the Earl of Leicester, whose impressive collections still provide heroic scenography in the corridors and galleries of Castle Howard, Yorkshire and Holkham Hall, Norfolk. At Newby Hall in Yorkshire, Robert Adam himself devised the gallery setting - complete with antique-style plinths, light fittings and stoves - for William Weddell's famous Barberini Venus, while the Hon. Charles Hamilton's Bacchus - reputedly the most expensive statue ever sold in England - occupied its own Adam temple in the gardens at Painshill, Surrey.
Many lesser English country houses still contain small collections of statues, bust, vases and sarcophagi, but few could compete with the omniverous Charles Townley, who never realized his dream of establishing his huge and varied collection at his Lancashire seat. His friend, the Catholic squire, Henry Blundell, did, building at Ince Blundell, Lancashire, a miniature copy of the Pantheon in Rome for his antiquities between 1801-10.
As opportunities for acquiring first-class ancient sculpture dwindled, collectors - like the Duke of Bedford and Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, and the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire - took to creating galleries of modern ideal sculpture inspired by the Antique. Sir John Soane formed his own collection of antiquities not in Rome but in the London saleroom, from the spoils of other collections.
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The 2010 Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation Fellows Talk
Talk by MICHAEL J. WATERS
LOCATION: The Union Club, 101 East 69th St., corner of Park. Jackets and Ties required for men.
Advance registration required: $30 members, $40 general, $10 students (if using a university email or id).
Reservations can be made by returning the attached form or calling the Soane Foundation office at 212-223-2012. |
North Italian Album at the Soane Museum, folio 64-65 |
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The rise of the illustrated printed architectural treatise in the mid-sixteenth century revolutionized architecture, providing architects throughout Europe with easily reproducible architectural models. It is often asserted that printing also led to the codification of architectural details and the five Orders, ending the mutable process of transmission through drawings and sketchbooks. Through studying the dialogue between sixteenth-century architectural drawings, treatises, and often overlooked, small individual prints of column bases, capitals, and cornices, this lecture propose that rather than ending the fluid sketchbook process of exchange and invention, the individual single-leaf architectural print not only emerged from a sketchbook tradition and but also played an active role in continuing that tradition. Like the drawings they were derived from such as the North Italian Album and the Codex Coner in the collection of the Soane Museum, these prints of architectural details were volatile objects of transmission that promoted ornamental variety that continued to be transformed through their use and replication. They ran counter to the printed architectural treatise and encouraged what the Renaissance theorist Sebastiano Serlio derided as “licentious” architecture. By revealing this dynamic, previously unstudied side of sixteenth-century architectural print culture, this lecture presents Renaissance architecture in a new light, bringing it out of the shadows of the architectural Orders.
Starting September 2010, Mr. Waters is spending a year in Rome on a Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome - returning to New York for just one week in November. Earlier this year, he completed a stay in London as our Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation Traveling Fellowship recipient for 2009. Michael is a PhD Candidate and Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. Before to coming to New York, he received a BFA in art history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a MA in architectural history from the University of Virginia. He is currently working on a dissertation on materials, materiality, and spolia in Italian Renaissance architecture in addition to an article and exhibition on sixteenth-century drawings and engravings of architectural details. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians, and has presented papers at the Society’s annual meeting as well as that of the Renaissance Society of America.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with the Royal Oak Foundation and other cooperating partners:
SYRIE MAUGHAM: STAGING THE GLAMOROUS INTERIOR
Talk by PAULINE METCALF, Historian and Author
Location: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Street) - doors open 5:30pm
SPEED, STYLE AND THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Talk by CURT DICAMILLO, Historian and Exec. Dir. of National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA
Location: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Street) - doors open 5:30pm
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $30 members, $40 non-members.
The Soane Foundation is pleased to co-sponsor the following talks with
the Royal Oak Foundation and other cooperating partners:
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BELVOIR CASTLE: 1000 YEARS OF FAMILY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Talk by THE DUCHESS OF RUTLAND, Owner, Belvoir Castle
THE STRANGE GENIUS OF SIR JOHN SOANE
Talk by TIM KNOX, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Location: The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 50 East Erie Street. Formal business attire required.
Advance registration required: $40 members, $50 non-members. Seating is limited.
Co-sponsored with The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $40 members, $50 non-members - please mention you are a supporter of the Soane Foundation to receive the member price. Seating is limited. |
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SOANE CHARTER MEMBERS RECEPTION A The Trustees and Tim Knox, Director of Sir John Soane's Museum are pleased to invite you to a reception for American supporters. There will be an opportunity to explore the Museum, which will be candle-lit for the occasion.
Location: Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London
- chas@soanefoundation.com or at 212-223-2012 if you wish to attend.
A ROYAL RESIDENCE: KENSINGTON PALACE
Talk by LUCY WORSLEY, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces
Location: UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East
Advance registration required: $25 members, $35 non-members
SYRIE MAUGHAM: STAGING THE GLAMOROUS INTERIOR
Talk by PAULINE METCALF, Historian and Author
Location: Beverly Hills Women’s Club, 1700 Chevy Chase Drive
Advance registration required: $58 members, $68 non-members
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. - please mention you are a supporter of the Soane Foundation to receive the member price.
A ROYAL RESIDENCE: KENSINGTON PALACE
Talk by LUCY WORSLEY, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
BELVOIR CASTLE: 1000 YEARS OF FAMILY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE
Talk by THE DUCHESS OF RUTLAND, Owner, Belvoir Castle
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
‘MANDARIN ONLY IS THE MAN OF TASTE’: CHINOISERIE IN BRITAIN 1650-1820
Talk by DAVID BEEVERS, Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
SPEED, STYLE AND THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Talk by CURT DICAMILLO, Historian and Exec. Dir. of National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA
Location: The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire Required
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $20 members and non-members.
A ROYAL RESIDENCE: KENSINGTON PALACE
Talk by LUCY WORSLEY, Curator of Historic Royal Palaces
Location: Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street - Business Attire Required
Advance registration required: $30 members, $40 non-members
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201 - please mention you are a supporter of the Soane Foundation to receive the member price.
SAN FRANCISCO FALL ANTIQUES SHOW with the Special Exhibition: Chinoiserie
The Soane Foundation is pleased to serve as a Cultural Partner for a third year with the SFFAS.
Location: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
: Advance purchase of tickets required. Please call 415-989-9019 or register online at www.sffas.org
SOANE CHARTER MEMBERS BREAKFAST A Please join BARBARA SALLICK, co-founder
of WATERWORKS, for a breakfast honoring TIM KNOX, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Location: Waterworks, 235 Kansas Street
- ghurtado@waterworks.com or at 415-431-7160
THE STRANGE GENIUS OF SIR JOHN SOANE
Talk by TIM KNOX, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
Location: Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street - Business Attire Required
$30 members, $40 non-members. Reservations can be made by returning the attached form or calling the Soane Foundation office at 212-223-2012. Tickets may also be reserved through the Royal Oak Foundation. |
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‘MANDARIN ONLY IS THE MAN OF TASTE’: CHINOISERIE IN BRITAIN 1650-1820
Presented as part of the Lecture Series, Chinoiserie Chic, at the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show (SFFAS)
Talk by DAVID BEEVERS, Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Location: Festival Pavilion of Fort Mason Center
: $22 members only (includes discount admission to the SFFAS); To Register, please call 415-989-9019 or register online at www.sffas.org
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show Brochure
PALLADIO AND HIS LEGACY: A TRANSATLANTIC JOURNEY
The Royal Institute of British Architects Trust and the National Building Museum are pleased to present this second showing of the exhibition here in the United States.
- by invitation only - please call the Soane Foundation if you would like to potentially attend the opening.
For more exhibition details, please go the National Building Museum web site
or the full address is > www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/palladio-and-his-legacy.html
Palladio and His Legacy offers a rare opportunity to see some of the most important drawings in the world of architecture—thirty-one, 16th-century works from the hand of the Italian Renaissance master Andrea Palladio. These illustrations link the splendor of ancient Rome to the power and wealth of the Venetian Republic and, ultimately, to the symbols of our American democracy.
Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation is pleased to partner with the RIBA Trust on this presentation of Palladio and His Legacy in the United States.
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ARCHITECTURAL RECORD – posted 16 April 2010
“Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey” – interview by Suzanne Stephens and William Hanley |
A CLASSICAL HOUSE IS STILL A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE
Talk by Gil Schafer III, AIA
Location: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 2nd Floor - corner of 18th Street
SPEED, STYLE AND THE ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Talk by CURT DICAMILLO, Historian and Exec. Dir. of National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA
Location: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 2nd Floor - corner of 18th Street
A FAMILY AFFAIR: TREASURES FROM THE ROTHCHILD COLLECTION AT
WADDESDON MANOR
Talk by DR. ULRICH LEBEN
Location: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1785 Massachusetts Ave., NW, 2nd Floor - corner of 18th Street
: Advance registration required. Please reserve through the Royal Oak Foundation online at www.royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. Tickets: $25 members, $35 non-members
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Palladio and His Legacy features thirty-one original Palladio drawings from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). These exquisite drawings, which were exhibited only once before in America and never in New York, will be on view to the public for the first time in over thirty years. They are being presented with rare architectural texts to illustrate the journey from Italy to North America of Palladio's design principles of proportion, harmony, and beauty.
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Palladio's work has significantly impacted American architecture from colonial times to the present day. Focusing on the artist's original drawings and following the trajectory of his ideas, the show also traces the story of American Palladianism. The drawings are supported by numerous architectural models. Three large examples—the Pantheon, Villa Rotunda, and Jefferson's unrealized design for the White House — programmatically illustrate the journey from Rome to America. Smaller models along with rare architectural texts and pattern books, through which Palladio's ideas were primarily transmitted, reinforce the themes of the exhibition. The exhibition is presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects in association with the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Models by Timothy Richards.
The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Regione del Veneto, Dainese, RIBA Library Trust Fund, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, British Architectural Library Trust, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Center for Palladian Studies in America, William T. Kemper Foundation, and Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation. The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York City: www.themorgan.org
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After acclaim received in America in the Fall 2009, this jointly organized exhibition comes to the Soane along with Promiscuous Assemblage, Friendship & The Order of Things, an extraordinary site-specific installation for the Breakfast Room of No.13 Lincoln's Inn Fields created by artist Jane Wildgoose to accompany and complement the exhibition. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle will explore the life, world and work of Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700 – 1788).
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Though best known for her almost one thousand botanical "paper mosaics" now housed in the British Museum, which she began at the age of 72, Mrs. Delany used her craft activities to cement bonds of friendship and negotiate complex, interlinked social networks throughout a long life passed in artistic, aristocratic, and court circles in Georgian England and Ireland.
Mrs. Delany and Her Circle has been co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum. Further details: www.soane.org
WORLD OF INTERIORS – April 2010
“Building The Lily” – current Soane Museum exhibition review
COUNTRY LIFE MAGAZINE – 17 February 2010
“Art of Scissors and Paper” – current Soane Museum exhibition review of Mrs. Delany and Her Circle |
This spring, the Frick presents a special exhibition of loans from Dulwich Picture Gallery, one of the major collections of Old Master paintings in the world. Heralding the London museum’s bicentenary in 2011, the exhibition will introduce American audiences to this institution’s holdings and history through nine of its most important and best-loved works.
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Dulwich is the oldest public art gallery in England. The collection is housed in one of Sir John Soane’s architectural masterpieces, especially built for the paintings that once belonged to the French art dealer Noel Desenfans (1744–1807) and his Swiss associate, Sir Francis Bourgeois (1753–1811). Included are signature works that seldom travel, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City. Featured are Anthony Van Dyck’s Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20; Nicolas Poussin’s Nurture of Jupiter, c. 1636–37; Rembrandt van Rijn’s Girl at a Window, 1645; Peter Lely’s Nymphs by a Fountain, c. 1650; Gerrit Dou’s Woman Playing a Clavichord, c. 1665; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Flower Girl, c. 1665; Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Les Plaisirs du bal, c. 1717; Canaletto’s Old Walton Bridge, 1754; and Thomas Gainsborough’s Elizabeth and Mary Linley - The Linley Sisters, 1771–72. The works will be on view in the Oval Room and Garden Court of The Frick Collection.
The exhibition is co-organized by The Frick Collection and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York City: www.frick.org. For infomration on Dulwich: www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk |
Richard L. Feigen & Co. will present this loan exhibition dedicated to the first great British landscape artist, Richard Wilson (c.1713-1782). This will be the first exhibition to be devoted to the artist in North America in over 25 years. Although his life ended in poverty and neglect, Wilson was greatly admired by the next generation of British landscape artists, notably Constable and Turner, on whom he had an important formative influence. By the early 19th century, Wilson came to be called the “founder of the English school of landscape painting.” as he is still often described today.
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Richard L. Feigen & Co., 34 East 69th Street, New York City - check for opening times. www.rlfeigen.com |
Advanced paid reservations are required for all lecture and events
An annual celebration event and presentation this year of The Soane Foundation Honors to A. Eugene Kohn, Susan Weber and Yale University Press.
Please see page for full details and response form
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From the Comte d’Artois – the future Charles X of France – to the long widowhood of the Empress Eugenie, successive members of the French Royal and Imperial families have spent time in exile in Britain. From a run-down Scottish Castle to a sprawling half-timbered villa perched on a hill in Surrey, the buildings which they called home provide a fascinating reflection of the changing fortunes of the future or former sovereigns of France. Tim Knox will discuss the British residences of Charles X, Louis Philippe and Napoleon III, and their families, paying particular attention to the British sojourn of Louis XVIII, who arrived in England in 1807 and recovered his throne in 1814. Louis stayed at Gosfield Hall and Wanstead House in Essex, and made a number of visits to Stowe in Buckinghamshire. It is, however, Hartwell House – recently given to the National Trust - that is the English house most closely associated with the deposed French sovereign, as it was home to the King and his considerable entourage from April 1809, until his return to France in 1814. This strange and varied selection of buildings, most of which survive, are as much a part of the heritage of France as they are of Great Britain.
TICKETS: WAIT LIST ONLY - $35 members; $45 non-members (both Royal Oak and Soane Foundation are sold out)
LOCATION: Upper east side, confirmed if cleared from wait list - Formal Business Attire required, no cell phones
A joint program of the Royal Oak Foundation with the Soane Foundation. |
Explore Palladio’s enduring transatlantic legacy in this illustrated lecture with Charles Hind, H.J. Heinz Curator of Drawings, RIBA British Architectural Library, and Calder Loth, Senior Architectural Historian, Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Hind begins by tracing the journey of Palladio’s drawings from Italy to England and the significant impact these drawings had on British architecture. Loth will then examine how Palladianism shaped the American architectural image beginning in the colonial period, through the works of Thomas Jefferson, and into the monumental architecture of the twentieth century. |
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TICKETS: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for members of the Morgan and Soane Foundation.
For more information and to purchase tickets go to www.themorgan.org or call 212-685-0008 ext. 560 to charge your order.
LOCATION: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue (between East 36th and 37th Streets)
A program of the Morgan Library & Museum with co-sponsorship by the Soane Foundation
For other Pallladio related programs, please see this PDF file for details. |
- Reception precedes at 6pm with cash bar; book signing follows Lecture; there is an optional dinner.
- Reception and book signing follows
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Romantic, turreted, ancient, Madresfield Court, with its 160 rooms, spectacular Tudor hall and medieval moat, has been the home of the Lygon family for over 900 years. The Lygons have played their part in history. They were the inspiration and model for the doomed Marchmain family in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited: Waugh was a regular visitor in the 1930s, one in a long line of writers, composers, painters, royals and rebels who passed through Madresfield’s doors. Simon Jenkins also rated Madresfield among the 50 best in his book on England’s 1000 Best Houses. In this lecture, which celebrates the publicationtion of her Madresfield: The Real Brideshead (Doubleday), Jane Mulvagh will speak about her experiences of accessing this very special and private house, and the treasures and secrets she explored. Drawing on a unique and virtually unknown archive, she will illuminate a rich and dramatic history, from the Lygon who conspired to overthrow Queen Mary in the Dudley plot, to the scandal of William Lygon, the disgraced seventh Earl Beauchamp.
lecture only $20 members and non-members, lecture and dinner $70 (non-refundable)
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
The Union League of Philadelphia, 140 South Broad Street - Business Attire required
$30 members; $40 non-members
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Street)
A program of the Royal Oak Foundation with co-sponsorship by the Soane Foundation; Library Committee, The Union League of Philadelphia; The American Friends of Attingham Summer School - Delaware Valley Chapter,; Inst. of Classical Architecture & Classical America - Philadelphia Chapter; The Decorative Arts Trust; The English-Speaking Union - Philadelphia Chapter.
JAQUELIN T. ROBERTSON, FAIA, FAICP of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, has devoted a long and distinguished career to architecture, urban design, education and public service; to retaining "human and local values" in both the design of the city and in regional architecture. His avid engagement with the ideas and issues of his time ranges from his early roles in the Lindsay Administration - founder of the New York City Urban Design Group, first Director of The Office of Midtown Planning and Development, a New York City Planning Commissioner - to his eight years as Dean of the School of Architecture and Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia.
Robertson's abiding interest in Palladio started in Virginia, many of whose best buildings are Georgian Palladian. This early exposure was strengthened over the years by a growing interest in Thomas Jefferson and his works - Monticello, The Academical Village at the University of Virginia, Popular Forrest and various small villas and additions. Moreover, Robertson grew up in one of William L. Bottomley's best Georgian Palladian houses; that is Palladio was "in the air" from the start.
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Jefferson famously referred to Palladio as "the Bible"; a view clearly held by Robertson who proclaims flatly, "Palladio if not the best is surely the most influential Western architect. He discovered Rome and Greece and set out the "rules of play" for those who came after - in a way that changed the course of architecture in both Europe and America.
Tickets and reservations are free for Patron’s, Supporter’s and Friend’s of the Soane.
Please inquire to rsvp@sirjohnsoanesmuseumfoundation.com | T. 212-223-2012
“Discover Palladio” , New York Times Style Magazine 03-28-10 |
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Fast living surrounded by bright young things; that’s the image we have today of the Interwar Years, between 1918 and 1939, when fast cars, fast women, lots of alcohol, and an abundance of glamour and glitter was the order of the day for England’s upper classes. This lecture will go back hundreds of years, beginning in the 17th century, when the turf ruled the aristocratic taste for racing and horses were de rigueur for gentry and upper class. From Goodwood House in Sussex, home of the Glorious Goodwood festival (Thoroughbred horse racing), one of the highlights of the English social season, to Higham Park in Kent, one of the first centers of auto racing in the early 20th century, this lecture will cover horse, auto, and airplane racing at Engl ish country houses. From the Rothschilds to James Bond’s ancestry and car, from the finest stables in the world to the Flying Duchess.
$25 members, $35 non-members
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East
$30 members, $40 non-members; SF Dinner reservations 415-362-9985 by 3/5.
Please reserve tickets directly with the Royal Oak: www.royal-oak.org or Robert Dennis, tel. 212-480-2889 ext 201
Metropolitan Club, 640 Sutter Street - Formal Business Attire required, no cell phones
A program of the Royal Oak Foundation with co-sponsorship by the Soane Foundation; The English-Speaking Union San Francisco Chapter; National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA; The Decorative Arts and Design Council of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The American Friends of the Attingham Summer School. |
This exhibition will explore the life, world and work of Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700 – 1788). Though best known for her almost one thousand botanical "paper mosaics" now housed in the British Museum, which she began at the age of 72, Mrs. Delany used her craft activities to cement bonds of friendship and negotiate complex, interlinked social networks throughout a long life passed in artistic, aristocratic, and court circles in Georgian England and Ireland. Mrs. Delany and Her Circle has been co-organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum.
Information: www.ycba.yale.edu |
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LOCATION: Exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, 1000 Chapel Street, New Haven (corner of York Street)
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