Soane and the stars.(John Soane's collection of architectural drawings, Frick Collection, New York, New York)

House Beautiful | June 1, 1996| | Copyright

In the entire history of collecting, there cannot have been an acquisitor more passionate than Sir John Soane, the early-19th-century British architect who in our own day became the patron saint of postmodernism. Soane's inspired variations on classical themes prompted architects of the 1980s into many far less successful flights of historical fancy, which make his work--especially his own celebrated house-museum in London--seem all the more remarkable in retrospect.

Soane (whose wife inherited a fortune from her prosperous builder-uncle) spent vast sums on works of art ...

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