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.
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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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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
or email to: lectures@royal-oak.org or by phone to Robert Dennis at 212-480-2889 ext. 201. |
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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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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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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
© 2011 by Checkerboard Film Foundation, Inc. New York, NY |
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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. |
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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. |
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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
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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 publication 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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