Sir John Soane's House Museum, Restored Private Rooms
Sir John Soane at Home: The restoration of private rooms in the London house museum of the innovative early 19th-century architect allows a broader look into his domestic life.
John Soane's private apartment, on the third floor of his extraordinary London house at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, was a refuge for the architect and his wife, Eliza, within a building that was also his office, salon, and showcase for a vast collection of art and antiquities. But while the house, completed in 1812, has been a site of pilgrimage for generations of architects since its conversion to a museum after Soane’s death in 1837, the apartment has been closed to the public for over 160 years. Its recent reopening, following a comprehensive restoration by Julian Harrap Architects (JHA), is a major milestone in a larger 20-year project to refurbish and improve the museum, and offers visitors an intimate experience of the most personal work by an architect of enduring influence.
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