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Sir John Soane's Museum, London
Tim Knox
Photography by Derry Moore
The celebrated British architect Sir John Soane (–) created his extraordinary house-museum from three properties in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. There, in houses that embody both his architectural framtidsperspektiv and his passion for collecting, Soane exhibited a marvellous array of artefacts, including an outstanding collection of plaster casts, thousands of books and such spectacular items as the sarcophagus of the Egyptian king Seti I. Soane intended the collection to become an ‘Academy of Architecture’ that would inform and inspire students for generations to come, and today, perfectly preserved in all its idiosyncratic style, it continues to attract more than , oss
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Soane Arranger
The Sir John Soane’s Museum has had a long history of distinguished curators, most notably Sir John Summerson who presided over the museum for 47 years, during which time he wrote Architecture in Britain and The Classical Language of Architecture. When Tim Knox arrived in he deliberately eschewed writing. ‘The museum had the reputation of a throne for writing great works,’ he says. There was too much to be done: setting the finances in order, cataloguing, implementing the £7m Opening Up the Soane developments and raising the money to do so. In order to match the job he got his title changed to director. A better calling card for fundraising, especially in America. And when he moves on in March to become director of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum he will leave the funds and structures in place for the next stage of the museum’s life.
Whether it’s job title or dress, Knox likes to know how to fit in. As architectural