Jan. 19, 2011 Benefit Evening for the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation
Carlton Hobbs and Stefanie Rinza hosted a benefit evening at their gallery for the Sir John Soane Museum Foundation, which coincides with the opening of their latest
exhibition “Inspired by Antiquity: Classical Influences on 18th and 19th Century
Furniture and Decorative Objects.” Forty pieces are on view including the Regency furniture by Thomas Hope from the collection of Philip Hewat-Jaboor. This is the single largest collection of Thomas Hope pieces to come onto the market since the Christie’s auction of the contents of Deepdene, Hope’s country estate, in 1917. Thomas Hope, the fabulously successful banker, connoisseur collector and designer, revolutionized British taste of the late 18th, early 19th century with his radical, classically inspired design ideas and came to be one of the key figures shaping the Regency taste.
Tim Knox, the director of the Soane, started the evening talking about the ‘marble
mania’ that gripped Britain in the 18th century, beginning with the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, who amassed a huge collection of Greco-Roman marbles at Wilton House in Wiltshire,
which he endlessly arranged and catalogued, attempting a chronological display to illustrate Roman history all the way to Sir John Soane who formed his own collection of
antiquities in the London salerooms. His idiosyncratic displays of Roman fragments and architectural ornaments conjure up the Roman palaces he recalled from his own Grand Tour in 1779-81, but were also a reference for the use of collectors and architects.
Among those in the crowd were Anne and David Mann, Chas Miller, Colin Bailey, Gerald Bland, Armin Allen, Stefanie Stokes, Catherine Cahill and Walter Bernhard, Sarah Coffin,Wendy Moonan, Mindy Papp, John Pope, Simon Redburn, Robert Stern, Mindy Papp, Shelby White, Herve Aaron, Michael Bruno, Alexander Jakowec, Jamie Drake, Emily Eerdmans, Marilyn White, Patrick Gallagher, Rod Winterrowd, Guy Regal, Darren Henault, Ian Irving, Alexander Papachristides and Scott Nelson, Robert Rufino, Carol Prisant, Cator Sparks, Alan Wanzenberg, Ron Wagner and Timothy Van Dam, Courtney Coleman, William Brochschmidt, James Andrew, Robert Allen, Anne Edgar, Faye Cone, Joan Davidson, Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Betty and Stanley Scott, Kathy Springhorn, and John Gunn and daughter Lisa Gunn.
Read Moreexhibition “Inspired by Antiquity: Classical Influences on 18th and 19th Century
Furniture and Decorative Objects.” Forty pieces are on view including the Regency furniture by Thomas Hope from the collection of Philip Hewat-Jaboor. This is the single largest collection of Thomas Hope pieces to come onto the market since the Christie’s auction of the contents of Deepdene, Hope’s country estate, in 1917. Thomas Hope, the fabulously successful banker, connoisseur collector and designer, revolutionized British taste of the late 18th, early 19th century with his radical, classically inspired design ideas and came to be one of the key figures shaping the Regency taste.
Tim Knox, the director of the Soane, started the evening talking about the ‘marble
mania’ that gripped Britain in the 18th century, beginning with the 3rd Earl of Pembroke, who amassed a huge collection of Greco-Roman marbles at Wilton House in Wiltshire,
which he endlessly arranged and catalogued, attempting a chronological display to illustrate Roman history all the way to Sir John Soane who formed his own collection of
antiquities in the London salerooms. His idiosyncratic displays of Roman fragments and architectural ornaments conjure up the Roman palaces he recalled from his own Grand Tour in 1779-81, but were also a reference for the use of collectors and architects.
Among those in the crowd were Anne and David Mann, Chas Miller, Colin Bailey, Gerald Bland, Armin Allen, Stefanie Stokes, Catherine Cahill and Walter Bernhard, Sarah Coffin,Wendy Moonan, Mindy Papp, John Pope, Simon Redburn, Robert Stern, Mindy Papp, Shelby White, Herve Aaron, Michael Bruno, Alexander Jakowec, Jamie Drake, Emily Eerdmans, Marilyn White, Patrick Gallagher, Rod Winterrowd, Guy Regal, Darren Henault, Ian Irving, Alexander Papachristides and Scott Nelson, Robert Rufino, Carol Prisant, Cator Sparks, Alan Wanzenberg, Ron Wagner and Timothy Van Dam, Courtney Coleman, William Brochschmidt, James Andrew, Robert Allen, Anne Edgar, Faye Cone, Joan Davidson, Philip Hewat-Jaboor, Betty and Stanley Scott, Kathy Springhorn, and John Gunn and daughter Lisa Gunn.
