SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM FOUNDATION

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SOANE FOUNDATION HONORSto

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23 April 2008New York City

THOROUGHLY MODERN SOANE

ROBERT A. M. STERN

THE MONACELLI PRESS

GIANFRANCO MONACELLI

Whilst Soane’s idiosyncratic and very personal style of architecture and design had its share of critics, as well as fans, during his lifetime, his stripped down classicism found new admirers in the 20th century and continues to attract appreciation from new generations. Architects admire his handling of space and light, and his buildings and ideas are regarded as stimulating and relevant to architectural and interior design ideas of the 21st century.

The Directors of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation would like to recognize our corporate sponsors and lead supporters of this evening: Architectural Digest Mrs. Deborah Brice Richard H. Driehaus John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn George S. Loening Related Random House Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott Kathleen E. Springhorn Robert A. M. Stern Architects Taconic Builders

P R O G R A M

Welcome Kathleen E. Springhorn, Gala Co-Chair, Director, Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation

Entertainment A Thoroughly Soanian Mini-Cabaret

Remarks Tim Knox, Director, Sir John Soane’s Museum

Toast Paige Rense, Editor and Chief, Architectural Digest

Presentation of SOANE FOUNDATION HONORS to:

THE MONACELLI PRESS and GIANFRANCO MONACELLI and ROBERT A. M. STERN

Presented by Elizabeth F. H. Scott and Kathleen E. Springhorn Gala Co-Chairs, and Directors, Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation

Dancing Bob Hardwick and The Bob Hardwick Sound

Honorary Chairs Sir Alan Collins, KCVO, CMG, British Consul-General, New York and Lady Collins International Chair Mrs. Deborah Brice Chairs Joel Barkley Elissa Cullman Richard H. Driehaus Charles Gwathmey Elizabeth F. H. Scott Kathleen E. Springhorn Vice Chairs Lucy and Nat Day Alexander Gorlin Susan Zises Green Paige Rense Stephen M. Ross Stanley DeForest Scott Nicholas Stern

Gold Sponsor

Architectural Digest Silver Sponsors

Related Taconic Builders

Associate Chairs Laura Blanco and Robert Shainheit Cullman & Kravis, Inc. Anne Edgar Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects John Ike Thomas A. and Kristin Kligerman Richard Meier Wendy Lyon Moonan Barbara G. Pine Janine Rensch Robert A. M. Stern Architects Britt Tidelius Committee Diana Balmori Jack and Doris Bistricer Margaret H. Carey Birch Coffey Bridget and Mark Colman Joan K. Davidson

Judith DiMaio Lewis I. Haber and Carmen Dubroc Robert F. Herrmann Raymond Jungles, Raymond Jungles Inc. Tim Knox David Macaulay Chas A. Miller III Mike Nicholson Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan Marita O'Hare Sandra Ourusoff Jeremy and Adriana Payne Sandy Pershing and Marc Keller Platt Byard Dovell White Architects Frances Schultz Pam and Scott Schafler Cynthia W. Spurdle Stephanie Stokes Holly Wallace Mr. and Mrs. William B. Warren Martin Weinstein and Teresa Liszka Elizabeth and Samuel G. White Sara Vass

Our evening celebrates Sir John Soane’s dedication to architectural education. This evening we present honors for the second year. Our recipients are a publisher who has helped to expand awareness of and appreciation for fine architecture throughout the world, and a remarkable architect who is also an ardent public advocate for excellence in architecture and an influential educator.

SOANE FOUNDATION HONORS are presented to . . .

Gianfranco Monacelli started his own publishing house, The Monacelli Press, with the goal of originating books of the highest graphic and literary quality. Since 1994, the Press has published more than 300 books and has received international recognition and numerous awards. Gianfranco Monacelli, born in Italy, first visited New York in 1965 to study music at Mannes College and Columbia University. At the same time he started to work at the legendary Rizzoli bookstore on Fifth Avenue. He subsequently founded Rizzoli International Bookstores, which expanded throughout the United States, and Rizzoli International Publications, which became one of country’s most renowned publishers of illustrated books. Robert A. M. Stern, practicing architect, teacher and writer, is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and recipient of the Board of Directors' Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America and the Athena Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism. In 1986 Mr. Stern hosted the documentary television series "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream." He is co-author of a series of books documenting the development of New York City's architecture and urbanism from the end of the Civil War through the millennium, including most recently New York 2000. He is founder and senior partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects.

Thoroughly Modern Soane Gala The Directors of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation would like to greatfully recognize the following supporters of this evening: Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsors

Platinum Underwriters Mrs. Deborah Brice

Platinum Benefactors Richard H. Driehaus John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn

Golden Benefactors Random House, Inc. Robert A. M. Stern Architects George S. Loening Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott Kathleen E. Springhorn

Silver Benefactors Laura Blanco and Robert F. Shainheit Cullman & Kravis, Inc. Charles Gwathmey, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects Wendy Lyon Moonan and Duncan N. Darrow Janine Rensch and Dr. Nedim Peter Vogt

Platinum Patrons Nat and Lucy Day Alex Gorlin Susan Zises Green Mr. and Mrs. Jaquelin T. Robertson Arthur W. Zeckendorf and William L. Zeckendorf Silver Patrons Stephen D. Bernstein and Francesca Bettridge Anne Edgar Cynthia and John W. Everets Richard Meier Barbara G. Pine Britt Tidelius Bronze Patrons Robert E. Abrams Mrs. Russell B. Aitken Diana Balmori, Balmori Associates Pamela Banker Joel Barkley Michael Bierut and Tracey Cameron Margaret Hatfield Carey Birch Coffey Bridget and Mark Colman Joan K. Davidson Judith DiMaio Ferguson & Shamamian Architects Mrs. Henry C. Frick, II Lewis I. Haber and Carmen Dubroc Robert F. Herrmann

John Ike Raymond Jungles| Raymond Jungles, Inc. Thomas A. and Kristin Kligerman Marita O'Hare Sandra Ourusoff Jeremy and Adriana Payne Platt Byard Dovell White Architects Leslie Earl Robertson and Sawteen See Stephanie Stokes Holly Wallace Martin Weinstein and Teresa Liszka Elizabeth and Samuel G. White Mr. and Mrs. William B. Warren Supporters Donald Albrecht Michael Alfieri Tom Armstrong Cynthia Conigliaro Billy Cunningham Arthur Dunnam Hon. Richard K. Eaton and Susan Henshaw Jones Ronald L. Flemming Suzy Grote May Brawley Hill Chippy and Keith B. Irvine Tim Knox

David Macaulay Christy MacLear Chas A. Miller III Andrea Monfried Mike Nicholson Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan Sherida E. Paulsen Thomas Robinson, The I-Grace Co. Durston Saylor Cynthia W. Spurdle Contributors Judy and John M. Angelo Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Bozzi Jack and Doris Bistricer Tony and Elizabeth Comper Faye Cone Remmel T. Dickinson Jane and Michael Eisner M. Jane Gaillard Paul Gunther Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown Kevin and Chris Madden Samuel C. Miller Toshiko Mori Sandy Pershing and Marc Keller Daniel Romualdez Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Royce Pam and Scott Schafler Frances M. Schultz Joseph Peter Spang Listings as of 15 April 2008

Additionally, our appreciation goes to . . .

Design and Décor: Alex Gorlin, Alexander Gorlin Architects A James Males, James Male Design A The Monacelli Press for the loan of books A The Office of Robert A. M. Stern Architects for the loan of models. (Please note: the models and books are the property of The Monacelli Press and Robert A. M. Stern Architects) Creative Services: Robert Van Nutt for creating and designing the invitation, program cover and awards. Gift Bags: Architectural Digest for complimentary magazines And to the teams of: The Bob Hardwick Sound A Carroll Musical Instruments A Franklin Roosevelt Underwood A The Office of Maggie Fogel A The Office of ForwardMiller A James Male Design Patrick McMullan Photography A CitiView Audio Visual Services A Color by Pergament Calligraphy by Judith Ness A SBS Group A Sara Vass Public Relations and Consultation The Gifted Portfolio A Barbara Dana Tollis A Mark Hunsch and the team at the Rainbow by Cipriani.

Special thanks…

A Thoroughly Soanian Mini-Cabaret Chippy Irvine Keith Irvine Tom Kligerman

Franklin Roosevelt Underwood, pianist We applaud the energy, spirit, and sheer nerve put into this production.

Thoroughly Modern Soane SOANE SEMINARS 2008 – 2009 The Board of Directors is pleased to announce the underwriting support from the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust for our Soane Seminars 2008 - 2009 series of talks by architects who have been influenced in some manner by the work of Sir John Soane, and that this Soane Seminars series is presented in conjunction with Architectural Record Magazine. With thanks and appreciation to Richard H. Driehaus and Architectural Record, we present the speakers for Thoroughly Modern Soane.

March 2008 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien

Fall 2008 through February 2009 David Chipperfield

Daniel Libeskind

Thom Mayne

Elizabeth Diller and Richard Scofidio

As speaker dates are confirmed, they will be posted on the Soane Foundation web site, www.soanefoundation.com. To receive first notices by email, send your email address to Chas@SoaneFoundation.com. We hope you will be able to join us!

What is Thoroughly Modern about Soane?

It was not until the 1920s that Soane’s work found a persuasive champion in the unlikely figure of Roger Fry. As the organiser of two pioneering exhibitions in 1910 and 1912 Fry had brought the new French art from Manet to Picasso to a somewhat dull London art scene, and he had since become the English spokesman for Modernism. The controversial destruction of Soane’s masterpiece, The Bank of England, in 1925 ironically galvanized public attention on Soane’s work.

Others followed: Mario Praz, the Italian writer and connoisseur, and the architect and polemicist Professor Sir Albert Richardson were key figures in the first half of the twentieth century in promoting the Regency Revival, and Soane’s work and Museum in particular. English architects Sir Giles Gilbert Scott (the designer behind the famous K2 telephone box) and Raymond Erith owe much to Soane – whilst in the United States Robert Venturi’s ‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’ (1966) looked for ambiguities and complexities in the architecture of the past that would reinforce a contemporary architecture of richness and meaning. Venturi drew attention to many of these qualities in Soane’s work: the complex combinations of shapes in his ceilings, the partition of spaces in rooms in the form of suspended arches, the intricacies of planning and of spaces within spaces, and the layering of canopies and domes.

During the Postmodern era of the later 1970s and 1980s there have been many reflections of Soanean themes amongst a generation of architects and designers who find inspiration in Soane’s ideas. Philip Johnson, Michael Graves, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Rafael Moneo and Denise Scott Brown amongst many others have generously acknowledged their debt to Soane and have acknowledged how his Classicism manages to be both conventional and deviant.

The fact that Soane’s ideas continue to engage the attention of modern architects and designers working in the early 21st century without inhibiting their own powers of invention is probably his greatest legacy. And Sir John Soane’s Museum’s role as a place of inspiration for contemporary architects and designers from all over the world is perhaps more important today than ever before.

Letter from the Director of Sir John Soane's Museum Sir John Soane’s Museum is now 171 years old – the second oldest Museum in London (only the British Museum is older). It is therefore difficult for us in the 21st century to realise what a startlingly ‘modern’ and exciting place it would have been to visit in the early 19th century. Soane’s architecture, although rooted in the classical tradition, was nevertheless radical and ground-breaking and nowhere is this more visible than in the extraordinary procession of rooms and chambers – each startlingly different – that make up his house and museum at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. His collections too were unusual in that he collected and displayed contemporary art; his friendships with great and sometimes controversial artists of the day – Turner, Flaxman, Gandy and Banks - meant that Soane’s Museum became one of the few secular places that the public could see modern paintings and sculpture, displayed in galleries and spaces designed for just that purpose. His influence in this respect continues to resonate throughout the world of contemporary museum and gallery design as new generations of architects and designers strive to improve on Soane’s astonishingly original ideas.

To help today’s public gain a better appreciation of Soane and his achievements, the Museum is about to launch ‘Opening up the Soane’ a new, $12 million dollar project and a major part of the Soane Masterplan, which lays out our ambition to restore, refurbish and improve Sir John Soane’s Museum. The charming watercolour views that you can see here, record parts of the Museum as they were in the years immediately preceding Soane’s death in 1837. If they look unfamiliar to you that’s because after Soane’s death, for various reasons, these richly decorated and typically idiosyncratic Soanean chambers were dismantled and pressed into service as offices and staff accommodation. Thanks to the recent restoration of No.14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields we can move the offices next door. One of the principal aims of ‘Opening up the Soane’ is to restore these exquisite and intriguing rooms to their former brilliance for all our visitors to enjoy. ‘Opening up the Soane’ includes other improvements such as upgraded visitor facilities, the creation of a new Exhibition Gallery and Conservation Studios, and improvements that will allow full disabled access to the Museum. These changes will enable us to show more of the Museum and its collections and to look after them better - retaining and enhancing the special atmosphere of this unique museum.

All this will be completed by 2012 – the 200th anniversary of the building of No.13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields. It is an ambitious and complex project, arguably the most challenging the Museum has yet to undertake and we begin fundraising in the next month or so. But we have already been overwhelmed with offers of help and support – especially from our friends at Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation and others in the US. I am pleased to say that the Museum has already received pledges of more than $2M, which is very encouraging. Thank you for showing your support of the work of the Foundation and the Museum by attending this Gala. We’re thrilled with how successful this event has become, which does so much to help keep the name, achievements and legacy of Sir John Soane at the forefront of people’s thoughts.

Tim Knox Director

SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM FOUNDATION here in the UNITED STATES: The mission of the Foundation is to provide unique educational programs for professionals (AIA credits are often offered) and the lay-person who relishes in-depth exploration of issues of architecture and the fine and decorative arts. The Foundation also provides a traveling fellowship each year for an American graduate student or scholar to go to the Museum to further their work and research. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Suzanna S. Allen Laura Blanco Margaret H. Carey Gifford Combs Faye Cone Page Ayres Cowley, AIA, RIBA Anne Edgar John W. Everets Richard A. Griffiths Chippy Irvine, President Thomas A. Kligerman Susan P. Magee Katherine McCormick Wendy Lyon Moonan Marita O’Hare Barbara G. Pine John F. Saladino

Richard Sammons J. Thomas Savage Elizabeth H. Scott Victoria Lea Smith Kathleen E. Springhorn Cynthia S. Spurdle Suzanne Stephens Stephanie Stokes DIRECTOR EMERITUS Samuel C. Miller

ADVISORY BOARD Paul Byard Michael Graves Peter Pennoyer

Robert Venturi Stuart H. Wrede

FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE Jeanne Butler Tim Knox Peter Pennoyer, Chair Thomas Gordon Smith Robert A. M. Stern

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Chas A. Miller III Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation 1040 First Avenue, No. 311 New York, NY 10022 Tel. 212-223-2012 www.SoaneFoundation.com

COVER: The Breakfast Room of No.13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

Rendered by Robert Van Nutt

This Breakfast Room image is used on the crystal awards for the Soane Foundation Honors presented this evening.

One of two Breakfast Parlours on display in the Museum, the one in No.13 has been described as “the mostperfect room in England.” Its floating canopy ceiling has been an inspiration for similar rooms throughout theworld, including one by Philip Johnson in his Manhattan apartment at Museum Tower. The second Breakfast

Parlour is on view in No.12 and was restored with funds provided by Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, which took on the project in the early 1990s. Its successful refurbishment set a standard for future restoration projectswithin the Museum. We continue with our commitment to providing funds for current projects including the

recreation of Soane’s Model Room, the Robert Adam Study Center in No.14 and other projects.

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