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Soane Foundation Gala Dinner
04/21/2009 - By The Rainbow Room

Soane Foundation Gala Dinner

Architect Jaquelin T. Robertson and Rizzoli International Publications were the honorees at the “very Jeffersonian” gala held by the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation at the Rainbow Room on Tuesday, April 21.

Bestselling novelists Tom Wolfe and John Behrendt were among the writers who showed up to support the Foundation, the “American friends” group of the eponymous museum in London so loved by the cultural cognoscenti. Many notable architects attended as well, such as Jacque’s partner Alexander Cooper; Robert A.M. Stern, last year’s Soane honoree; Toshiko Mori and James Carpenter; Samuel G. White of Platt Byard Dovell White Architects and his wife Elizabeth White of The Monacelli Press; and Tom Kligerman of Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects. Prominent designers present included Mica Ertegun, Keith Irvine, Stephanie Stokes, Laura Blanco, and Birch Coffey from the New York area, and Paul Wiseman, in from San Francisco for the occasion.

A number of New Yorkers who play prominent roles in the city’s cultural life and the development of its built environment were present, including Adele Chatfield Taylor of the American Academy in Rome, Emily Frick of The Frick Collection, and Holly Block of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Architectural leaders in other cites came in for the evening as well, including Richard H. Driehaus of Chicago and Cynthia and John Gunn of San Francisco.. Tim Knox, director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, was present to thank the group of Americans and describe the Museum’s plans for opening up its second floor to the public.

More details can be found at www.SoaneFoundation.com

HONOREES: In celebration of Sir John Soane as architect and educator, our evening honors a remarkable professional who is also an ardent public advocate for excellence in architecture and an influential educator. Then we honor a publisher who has helped to expand awareness of and appreciation for fine architecture throughout the world. The Soane Foundation Honors are presented to: JAQUELIN T. ROBERTSON, founding partner Cooper, Robertson & Partners architects, and former Dean of The School of Architecture at the University of Virginia; RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS with acceptances by Charles Miers, Publisher and David Morton, Associate Publisher for Architecture.

THEME OF THE EVENING: This evening we salute Thomas Jefferson and John Soane for their enormous legacies as architects, collectors, and educators. Although the gentleman architect in Charlottesville and the master practitioner in London never met, nor corresponded, each transformed his home into a unique “essay in architecture” that even to the present day nourishes the universal design imagination.

SUPPORT from this EVENT: Most of the funds raised at the event will support a project at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London for current and planned multi-million restoration program for No. 12 and No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields. Now that No. 14 has been successfully completed, "The House Next Door," will allow further changes and refinements returning spaces in No. 12 and No. 13 to their near original state at the end of Soane’s life. Additionally, funds raised at the Gala event will support operations and programs here in the United States.

A BRIEF HISTORY of SIR JOHN SOANE and what is today the MUSEUM: The architecture of Sir John Soane, R.A., was highly idiosyncratic. Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837. As an English architect of significant influence during the last quarter of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Soane worked within the parameters of the classical idiom to create unique commercial and residential structures. The Dulwich Picture Gallery and portions of the Bank of England are among the few remaining examples of his distinctive style of public architecture. His London home, located at Numbers 12 and 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, has become the Sir John Soane’s Museum and remains the best example of his genius in the design of the residence.

Soane was a visionary who used his home as a laboratory for his ideas, the repository for his vast collections of 30,000 drawings; paintings including works by Canaletto, Hogarth and Turner; architectural models; Greek and Roman sculpture and Egyptian Antiquities; 10,000 rare books, including first editions of Milton and Shakespeare, as well as his very personal dwelling space.

No discussion of his work would be complete without mentioning his use of light. The Museum is filled with mirrors, domes, fantastic ceilings and skylights with colored glass, used not only to light the rooms but also to create dramatic effects and to highlight the numerous plaster casts and marble fragments that are artistically arranged in every available space throughout the house. Due to his foresight in leaving his home to the public by Act of Parliament in 1833, Soane’s house and its contents survive today, exactly as they were in his time, giving the visitor a rare glimpse into a middle class home of the period.

RECENT CELEBRATIONS: The 2008 Gala was entitled Thoroughly Modern Soane and presented the Soane Foundation Honors to architect Robert A. M. Stern and The Monacelli Press with acceptance by Gianfranco Monacelli. In 2007 we held the Mood Inigo Jones Gala celebrating the spirit of the famed 17th Century architect and stage designer Inigo Jones. That evening we introduced the Soane Foundation Honors with presentations to David Macaulay (a hands-on educator and prolific author/illustrator) and Richard H. Driehaus (philanthropist and investor extraordinaire and tireless promoter of classical architectural education). In 2005 was the 15th Anniversary of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation in the United States was marked with the first major gala fund raising event hosted by the Foundation. It was held in the presence of one of England’s most accomplished contemporary designers, Viscount Linley (David A. C. Armstrong Jones). He was joined by her Majesty’s Ambassador to the United States, Sir David Manning, who with his wife, Lady Catherine, who served as Honorary Chairs.


MISSION of FOUNDATION here in the UNITED STATES: The Foundation provides 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.

MEMBERS of the BOARD of the FOUNDATION: Suzanna S. Allen, Laura Blanco, Margaret Hatfield Carey, Gifford Combs, Faye Cone, Richard H. Driehaus, Anne Edgar, John W. Everets, Emily T. Frick, Richard A. Griffiths, Chippy Irvine, Thomas A. Kligerman, Susan P. Magee, Wendy Lyon Moonan, Marita O’Hare, Barbara G. Pine, Richard Sammons, Elizabeth H. Scott, Victoria Lea Smith, Kathleen E. Springhorn, Cynthia W. Spurdle, Suzanne Stephens, Nicholas S. G. Stern, Stephanie Stokes, Paul V. Wiseman, Frederic M. Zonsius.

Director Emeritus: Keith B. Irvine, Samuel C. Miller, John Saladino. Advisory Board: Paul Byard, Michael Graves, Peter Pennoyer, Robert Venturi, Stuart Wrede. Some of the other Founders, past Members of the Board and Advisors have included: J. Carter Brown, Murray Douglas, Stephen A. Drucker, Brenden Gill, Edgar Howard, Philip Johnson, Charlotte Moss, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Eugene V. Thaw, Bartholomew Voorsanger, Somers White Farkas, Bunny Williams.

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