Sir John Soane (1753-1837), builder's son and bricklayer from Goring, Berkshire, designed some of the most imaginative buildings and interiors not just of his age, but of all time. His Bank of England, begun in 1788 (spoilt from the 1920s) was his grandest work, yet the trio of common, stock-brick Georgian terraced houses he transformed into London's most romantic, beautiful and inspirational museum between1792 and 1834 was by far and away the finest. These houses in Lincoln's Inn Fields constitute what, in 1833 and by Act of Parliament, became the Sir John Soane's Museum with the intense, me...
