Sir John's House
Irwin Viner - Last week was Design Week in London. Unfortunately our visit to the UK this time ended a day before the design festivities. But that’s not to say that we didn’t soak up much of the beautiful design offerings in the Big Smoke. On a beautiful spring day in Holborn, we toured Sir John Soane’s Museum, the smallest museum in the UK’s National Museum system, but for design aficionados, it’s a must stop on the edge of Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Here is an assortment of photos we took inside this must-see home, filled with antiques, antiquities, art, skylights, and surprises at every turn. Highly recommended.
Lincoln’s Inn Fields on the right; Sir John Soan’s Museum is halfway up the street on the left
Standing in line to get into Sir John’s house; small groups allowed at a time to avoid overcrowding
“The Soane Museum is the extraordinary house of Sir John Soane, one of the greatest English architects, who built and lived in it two centuries ago.
The Museum has been kept as it was at the time of his death in 1837. It displays his collection of antiquities, furniture, sculptures, architectural models, paintings – including work by Hogarth, Turner and Canaletto – and over 30,000 architectural drawings. It’s a vast, extraordinary collection, full of curiosities and surprises.”
