The Museum

Bexte, Peter
'Das Museum eines Einsamen Mannes', Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, January 1986

Britton, John
The Union of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, 1827

Buzas, Stefan
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, Tubingen/Berlin, 1994

Dorey, Helen
'Das Haus des Architekten John Soane in London nach der Renovierung', Deutsche Bauzeitung 1994

'Crude Hints towards an History of my House' ..., edition of the 1812 manuscript written by John Soane
with introductory essay and notes. In exhibition catalogue Visions of Ruin, Sir John Soane's Museum, 1999

Introductory essay on '12-14 Lincoln's Inn Fields' and catalogue entries on the Museum for John Soane: Architect, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy Publications, 1999 (see below under Stevens and Richardson)

'Sir John Soane's Courtyard Gardens at Lincoln's Inn Fields', The London Gardener (Journal of the London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust), 2000

‘Sir John Soane’s Museum’ in Laura Padgett, Conversation Pieces, Exhibition Catalogue, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2001

‘Soane’s pasticcio’ in The Georgian, the magazine of The Georgian Group, November 2003 (issue devoted to the 250th anniversary of Soane’s birth)

‘Exquisite Hues and Magical Effects’: Sir John Soane’s Use of Stained Glass at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields’, in The Stained Glass Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum, The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXVII, Special Issue and Extra Number (ed. Sandra Coley), 2004

‘Chronology’ of Soane’s stained glass installations at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields in The Stained Glass Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum as above

‘The History of the Installations of Stained Glass at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields since Sir John Soane’s Death in 1837’ The Stained Glass Collection of Sir John Soane’s Museum as above

‘Sir John Soane’s Casts as part of his Academy of Architecture at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields’ in Frederiksen and Marchand (eds.) Plaster Casts, Berlin, New York, 2010, pp595-610

Elsner, John
'A Collector's Model of Desire: The House and Museum of Sir John Soane', The Cultures of Collecting (ed. John Elsner and Roger Cardinal), 1994

'Architecture, Antiquarianism and Archaeology in Sir John Soane’s Museum’ in Tsingarida and Kurtz (eds.) Appropriating Antiquity/Saisir l’Antique: Collections et Collectioneurs d’antiques en Belgique et en Grand Bretagne au XIX siècle, Brussels, 2002, pp165-216

Ernst, Wolfgang
'Frames at work: Museological Imagination and Historical discourse in Neoclassical Britain', Art Bulletin, 1993

Feinberg, Susan G.
‘The Genesis of Sir John Soane’s Museum Idea: 1801-1810', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 43, October 1984, pp. 225-37

Fuchs, Rudi
'Het museum is green verzameling witte wanden: Het pleidooi meer draamtische museum architectuur', Museumarchitectur, 1987

Furjan, Helene
'The Specular Spectacle of the house of the Collector', Assemblage 34, 1997

‘Sir John Soane’s Spectacular Theatre’ in AA Files 47, 2001, pp12-22

Glorious Visions: John Soane’s Spectacular Theater, London, Routledge, 2011

Gerosa, Mario
'Le Stanza dell'Anima...., Sir John Soane's Museum', Bell'Europa, August 1984

Guilding, Ruth
Marble Mania: Sculpture Galleries in England 1640-1840, Exhibition catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 2001

Hine, Thomas
'The Gallery without end: British Architect Sir John Soane's Eccentric Legacy', Almanac, USA, 1988

'Antico postmoderno: Il gusto bizzarro di Sir John Soane considerato il "padre" degli architetti ingelsi', Architectural Digest (Italian and London editions) 1988

Jackson, Anthony
‘The Facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum: a Study in Contextualism’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol.51, December 1992, pp.417-29

Kerr, Rose
‘Hidden Treasures at Sir John Soane’s Museum’ in Apollo, Nov 2002, pp23-29

Kirklington, James
'The Soanian Sonnet', Interiors, April 1982

Knox, Tim
‘Sir John Soane’s Museum, London’, Merrell, London, 2009

Kräftner, Johann
'Versteinerte leidenschaft: Sir John Soane's Haus In London', Parnass, April 1990

Lorch, Richard
‘The Architectural Order of Sir John Soane’s House’, International Architect, vol.2, no.9, 1982, pp.43-48

de Maat, Anneke
'Sir John Soane's Museum: de Poëzie van de Architectuur', Vernissage (Holland), October 1997

Maggi, Angelo and Navone, Nicola (eds.)
John Soane and the Wooden Bridges of Switzerland; Architecture and the Culture of Technology from Palladio to the Grubenmanns, Mendrisio, 2003

Millenson, Susan Feinberg
Sir John Soane’s Museum, Ann Arbour 1987

Molok, Nick
'The Soane Museum: Architecture and voyage', published in Russian in World's Architecture 5, Moscow, 1996

Palmer, Susan
The Soanes at Home: Domestic Life at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1998

Richardson, Margaret
‘Model Architecture’, Country Life, 21 September 1989

Sir John Soane's Museum
A New Description of Sir John Soane’s Museum
(London 1955, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 2001, 2007)

A Short Description of Sir John Soane's Museum
(1984 and subsequent regular revisions)

Soane, Sir John
Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane, Architect, London 1830, 1832, 1835 [a French edition was also produced in 1835] Soane’s own description of his house: this is available at the Museum’s research library and in some other libraries but was printed privately in small editions of about 150 a time so is a rare volume. A copy of the 1832 Description [text identical to 1830] is available as a google ebook.

Memoirs of the Professional Life of an Architect between the years 1768 and 1835 written by Himself privately printed, London 1835

Stevens, Mary Anne & Richardson, Margaret (eds.)
John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy Publications, 1999

Summerson, John
‘Change, Decay and the Soane Museum’, Architectural Association Journal, October 1949, pp.50-3

‘The Union of the Arts’, in Lotus International, 35, 1982 II

Thornton, Peter and Dorey, Helen
A Miscellany of Objects from Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, 1992

Thornton, Peter
‘Lit up with Gorgeous Hues’, Country Life, 19 December 1985

‘An Architectural Kaleidoscope: Sir John Soane’s Museum in London’, in The Magazine Antiques, New York, January 1987

'Colour in Soane's House', Pa Klassisk Grund: Meddelelser fra Thorwaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, 1989

‘The Soane as it was’, pp. 228-232 in Sir John Soane’s Museum; A Special Issue of Apollo, Apollo vol.81, April 1990

Treschel, Ilse
'Das Soane Haus in London', Kunstler Hauser (ed. Eduard Huttinger), Zurich and Munich c. 1984

Watkin, David.
'Un Labyrinthe "pittoresque"', Magazine Beaux Arts, France 1985

Willmert, Todd
'Heating Methods & their impact on Soane's work: Lincoln's Inn Fields and Dulwich Picture Gallery', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) March 1993