A new exhibition of the work of Richard Rogers at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London affords an opportunity to play that game, ...

Sir John Soane had a singular vision for his home on Lincoln’s Inn Fields in London. The neoclassical architect, known for his work on the Bank of England, spent many years transforming it into ...

Visitors to John Soane’s extraordinary house-museum in London can have no doubt that he was steeped in history. Its sepulchral basement is filled to bursting with a collection of antiquities befitting ...

When he wasn’t designing notable buildings (among them the original Bank of England), Sir John Soane (1753-1837) obsessively collected art, furniture and architectural ornamentation. In the ...

American architects return to Sir John Soane’s house in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London as if on a pilgrimage. I’m no exception; I revisit every time I’m in London.

Neoclassical architect Sir John Soane was a rambunctious art collector. Since his death in 1837, his London home has been left like a mausoleum. Today, still untouched at his request, the parlours and ...

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Will Gompertz, artistic director at the Barbican arts centre in London, has been appointed the director of Sir John Soane’s Museum in a surprise move. He replaces Bruce Boucher who retires at ...