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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 that...

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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...

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 retreat in...

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 caryatids are...

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: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-house-that-soane-built-5zm63pqks

Sir John Soane’s country house, in what is now the London suburb of Ealing, has been restored to its Regency glory and is reopening to the public John Soane was brilliant, inventive, self-important and controlling. He was passionate, moody and difficult. And, if he...

I began my internship in Architectural Paint Research (APR) with Hare & Humphreys in May 2015, working primarily with the company’s Architectural Paint Researcher, Rosie Shaw. The internship was focused upon a  fascinating APR project at Pitzhanger, Sir John...

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Our Director Paul Humphreys is one of the ‘Artists with the golden touch’ that Country Life Magazine spoke to about the history and craft of gilding. The full article can be read in the following PDF. Country_Life_article

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