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Sir John Soane’s private apartments are a public treasure

From the September 2015 issue of Apollo: subscribe here The journey around Sir John Soane’s Museum is a journey through the architect’s life. Now the second floor of No 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields has returned to its domestic plan after more than a century and a half. And so, the self-portrait that Soane (1753–1837) drew up in his continually evolving group of terrace houses, enshrined in an Act of…

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