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Adelphi Paper Hangings
Adelphi Paper Hangings produce the finest quality, block-printed wallpapers available on the market today by using the same methods and materials from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Founded in 1999, they have successfully reproduced wallpapers which date from the 1740s through to the 1930s. As a Licensing Partner, they have meticulously reproduced the original Adelphi wallpaper which covered the walls of Soane's private apartments. A range of colourways are now available, including the original.
Atkey & Company
Atkey and Company are makers of exemplary architectural joinery. They offer a catalogue of authentic, accurately reproduced designs from the best known periods of British architecture, each complete with its historical context.
They have taken inspiration from Sir John Soane’s architectural drawings, and his house-museum itself, to form a Soane Museum Collection.
Blackpop
Blackpop wallpaper collection based on Soane and Adam architectural drawings.
Award-winning interiors company Blackpop are a British independent label. Their 'Collector's' collection consists of wallpapers, fabrics, cushions and hand woven rugs. Directly working and reworking architect's drawings, paintings and objets d'art, this collection is undoubtedly their most opulent and dramatic work to date.
Burden
Burden, based in New York City, collaborates with local artists, blacksmiths, ceramicists, glass blowers and cabinet-makers to bring unique contemporary furniture and decorative arts to their clients. They also incorporate a restoration company that specializes in fine English and Continental furniture.
Taking inspiration from our Model Room they have created Soane-inspired model stands.
Chesney's
Chesney's has established itself over 25 years as the UK's leading supplier of luxury fireplaces and wood burning stoves. The company's success is based on a passionate commitment to good design, intelligent engineering, craftsmanship, innovation and outstanding service.
Chesney’s Soane and Adam fireplace collections are made exclusively for the Museum. Both collections comprise of exact replicas of designs from over 500 selected drawings from our Collection, chosen to represent the diversity and originality of the architects’ work.
Chisel and Mouse
Makers of precise architectural sculptures using a mixture of traditional and modern techniques. They are specialists in producing high-end models in plaster and 3D printed materials and the collection includes the Temple of Artemis the Huntress model.
Gainsborough
Founded in 1903, Gainsborough Fine Weavers & Dye House embodies over a century of British craftsmanship. The Sir John Soane range exemplifies the quality of the workmanship and versatility of Gainsborough’s fabrics.
Haddonstone
Haddonstone are the UK's leading manufacturer of fine garden ornaments and architectural stonework. Established in 1971, they have expanded to become an international group with offices and manufacturing facilities in both the U.K and the U.S.
Their Sir John Soane's Museum Collection consists of replicated historic works of art and artefacts on display at the Soane, which have been hand made by the company's own craftsmen in Northamptonshire.
Hector Finch Lighting
Hector Finch Lighting is a husband and wife partnership with roots in antiques and art history. Their joint aesthetic of proportion, balance, clean lines and functionality equip them to delve into the Museum’s Collection and use motifs, form and architectural details in new ways to create a Soane inspired lighting collection.
Using specialist artisan workshops in the UK and Europe, Hector Finch Lighting is proud of their reputation for high quality goods that are made for generations to come.
Hyde Park Mouldings
Our new licensee, Hyde Park Mouldings, Producers of custom-made architectural ornament, ceilings and mouldings, Hyde Park Mouldings utilise traditional methods and materials to hand craft each piece in their US studio.
Taking inspiration from Sir John Soane’s own architectural drawings and from the Adam drawing collection, they have created a new range available now.
Locker and Riley
Locker & Riley is an award-winning fibrous plaster specialist based in the UK. They are internationally renowned for the design, production and installation of the highest quality plasterwork with an exceptional portfolio covering luxury private residences, grand and historic landmark properties, palaces around the globe and high profile flagship stores. Their Sir John Soane Collection is inspired by hand-selected drawings from the Museum’s Collection by Robert Adam and Sir John Soane.
Ossowski
Established in 1960 on London's Pimlico Road, Ossowski are bespoke makers of finely carved mirror frames. Ossowski have collaborated with us to create a collection of exact replicas of a number of mirror designs by 18th century architects Robert and James Adam. Ossowski handcraft these exquisite made-to-order mirrors using the same techniques as were used during the Adam brothers’ lifetimes.
Learning from Las Vegas Back to top
In 1965 I grew my ideas further, at Berkeley then UCLA, where I was hired to help start a new architecture school. We spent our first year preparing and I continued photographing. My own research and my plans for studios at UCLA followed the advice of Penn planners – go where people go. In California this meant the highway or the beach. We explored both.
From Berkeley, I had visited Las Vegas, initiated my western auto-city collection and returned there several times in the next year. Then Bob and I were given teaching appointments at Yale, I proposed a new studio, wrote its work papers and suggested its name, Learning from Las Vegas. What we hoped to learn was not just its system of signs and symbols, but also how 1960s auto-cities worked and why people liked this one so much.
Driving The Strip for the first time I knew it was important, even profound. I also felt that it was ideally suited to take on the philosophies and methods I had derived from planning, and the architectural theories I continued to develop on a mannerist base. What I didn’t know, but hoped, was how much fun it would be, because Bob and I had a great time with our Yale students, analysing and documenting the city in a million different ways – through drawings, sketches, leporellos, stills and films, and through studies of its hotels, casinos, wedding chapels, gas stations, parking lots and signs, and in polemical provocations about its monumentalism and in all of its ducks and decorated sheds.
We even went behind, to those fantastically interesting spaces at the backs of the billboards and casinos. And back yet further, in the open desert that was then behind the casinos, I staged the famous portrait of Bob. I should also say that this was not how Bob normally dressed, but that morning we had been to a city agency asking for funding for our research and Bob wore his most serious suit. He had also spoken to a reporter, which produced a headline in the local paper, ‘Yale Professor Will Praise Strip for $9,000’. In the end, we secured free room and board for everyone at the Stardust Hotel and Howard Hughes lent us his helicopter for an hour.
After I took the photographs of Bob, he took my portrait – not as a faceless person aligned with other monuments but as a woman staring back at the camera. Today, when I look at this image and myself then, confidently standing there, hands on hips, I see someone who is happy with her professional life and happier still with her personal life. I also see someone who is feeling triumphant and daring anyone to say otherwise. But irony is there too, for in my mind was a poem, ‘I am monarch of all I survey’, and I was also spoofing Robert Moses.
Header image credit: Photo Denise Scott Brown © the architect
Disproportionate Burden Back to top
On shop.soane.org, there is incorrect use of ARIA attribute. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterions 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships) and 4.1.2 (Name, Role, Value).
We’ve assessed the cost of fixing the incorrect use of ARIA attribute. We believe that doing so now would be a disproportionate burden within the meaning of the accessibility regulations. We will make another assessment in December 2021, or if the Museum redevelops shop.soane.org.
Transparency Agenda Back to top
In response to the Government’s commitment to greater transparency of public information, we publish all expenditure over £25,000, which you will find below.
This is called a 'Chapter' Back to top
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Survey Drawing; Moggerhanger
Survey Drawing: Moggerhanger, 1790 3/3/15
This drawing is of an existing building, Moggerhanger Park, which was altered and added to by Soane. A rough plan was made of the building when the assistants visited the site, then all the measurements would be made and noted down on the drawing.
The drawing would often be done again more carefully back in the office. In Soane’s time, measurements were made in feet and inches, whereas today in Europe we use metric measurements. In fact, in Soane’s time there were different sizes of feet and inches in different countries, even in different parts of Italy – you can imagine how confusing that was. Plans, elevations and sections were drawn to a scale, which means reducing something as big as a building to fit on a piece of paper. The drawing would often be made to fit the size of paper it was drawn on and the scale shown at the bottom, from which you would measure the size of the windows, doors and so on.
Section: The Pantheon
Section: The Pantheon 45/3/53
This is a section of the Pantheon which shows a slice through the building as if it were a cake cut in half. It shows the height of spaces inside the building and how they are arranged. Note how carefully the shadows are drawn to give a real feeling of how the dome curves. The walls which have been cut through are coloured in pink – a colour which was often used in this way by architects. These drawings of the Pantheon were made in Rome in 1778 when Soane was a student.
Donors Back to top
We are delighted to acknowledge the support of the following major donors to the Opening up the Soane project;
The Monument Trust
The Heritage Lottery Fund
The Foyle Foundation
The Leche Trust
The Tana Trust
We are also deeply grateful to the many other charitable trusts and private individuals, both known to us and anonymous, who have given generously to support our project.
Chapter Back to top
You can also create chapters, but the downside is that you can't have media fields and chapters mix.
Highlights Film Back to top
Take a tour through the most interesting and special parts of the Museum in our newly-released Highlights Film. Narrated by Dr Emma Miles, the Highlights Film offers a fascinating introduction to the Museum, its vast collections, and the life and work of the brilliant and eccentric architect Sir John Soane.
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