Glorious Visions

<p>Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments models drawings folios and publications this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London England built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences references connections extensions and productions at play in Soane's house-museum.</p><p>The house still a public museum was highly original in its period and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a dense complex series of spaces a strange accumulation of rooms objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light shadow color fiction and narrative vistas spatial complexity the fragment and the mirror to produce a spectacular space.</p>