by Hare Humphreys | Oct 7, 2020 | News
Hand-carved cobblestones, six pools and twelve designers: Daniel Pembrey on the decade-long creation of London’s most exclusive address or the past decade, London’s One Hyde Park has reigned supreme at the top of the residential property ladder. Many believed...
by Hare Humphreys | Mar 26, 2019 | News
Sir John Soane’s dream house has been painstakingly restored and re-opens to the public this weekend. In the early 1800s, Sir John Soane used to walk in the mornings from his house in Lincoln’s Inn Fields to his country house Pitzhanger Manor in Ealing. The journey’s...
by Hare Humphreys | Mar 22, 2019 | News
Previous renovations had nearly wiped out Soane’s interiors at this mansion, but a three-year project revived his designs and installed a new, modern art gallery. Sir John Soane liked to party, so much so that in 1804 the architect built himself a weekend...
by Hare Humphreys | Mar 19, 2019 | News
Work of a genius: architect Sir John Soane’s Pitzhanger Manor is testament to his family’s turbulence and tragedy. As you approach this neoclassical jewel box of a house, it almost seems to glow, lifted by its primrose and indigo glass skylights. Four...
by Hare Humphreys | Mar 12, 2019 | News
Soane’s ‘country’ home is reopening after a three-year, £12m restoration. It gives us a glimpse into the mind of a gouty, prickly, melancholic genius, says Laura Freeman. See the article:...
