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Hace 3 días · Credit: © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Fanciful Figures at Sir John Soane’s Museum is the first ever exhibition about ‘staffage’ – people in architectural drawings – according to curator Frances Sands, the museum’s curator of drawings and books. ‘I’m entirely biased, but I think the golden age of staffage is Soane.
30 de mar. de 2024 · The second panopticon belongs to the latest extension at the John Soane House-Museum in London, known as The Monk’s Palace, 1820. In that basement, the architect designed the space as a satire of the Gothic style demanded by society, where the glass panopticons come from a 17th-century church in Cologne, Germany (Knox, 2009) (Fig. 7).
Hace 2 días · London’s Sir John Soane’s Museum will present an exhibition entitled Fanciful Figures, which explores the history of the figures used in architectural drawing, known as ‘staffage’. Drawing on the drafting practices of past and present, the exhibition will illustrate staffage’s ability to animate architects’ visions, both for built ...
Hace 2 días · Sir John Soane’s Museum opens gloriously charming mini exhibition on ‘staffage’ or mini people One never needs a good reason to return to Soane’s – but this brilliant new show gives you an extra one just in case
Hace 3 horas · In the Glass House’s nearly 20 years as a museum, though, there was one corner of the grounds, just 80 feet from the Glass House, that was off-limits: a 900-square-foot bunker-like structure ...
Hace 4 días · Richmond Gate, designed by Sir John Soane. When the park was enclosed in 1637 there were six gates in the boundary wall: Coombe Gate, Ham Gate, Richmond Gate, Robin Hood Gate, Roehampton Gate and Sheen Gate. Of these, Richmond Gate has the heaviest traffic. The present gates were designed by Sir John Soane and were widened in 1896.
Hace 5 días · No 13, Lincolns Inn Fields was purchased in 1806 and rebuilt to house the collections of Sir John Soane. The building is amongst the finest examples of Georgian architecture, with perfect symmetry, white stone, and a beautiful pair of female caryatids inspired by the Erechtheion of ancient Athens.