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From: ed schultz
Category: Exhibitions
Date: 17 November 2004
Someone is always telling me go the Soane's museum. Go and see it I Think you'll really like it. It reminds me of the way they recommend the pitt rivers museum in Oxford, which I boycott because of over-enthusiastic recommendation.
Anyway, by accident I did go, and I didn't like it. The toilet with its wooden seat and ye olde brown wall was clean and quiet and was my favourite room. The rest of the rooms were either shut up for repair, or boring, what was open was befouled by contemporary teapots, the lowest form of design cliche I have seen exhibited on earth. There was also a show about a reactionary architect who designed Oxbridge college libraries to look old, and a couple of nice Canalettos. The door staff were brusque. John Soane was the son of bricklayer who became a rich architect, which is the sort of snobbish detail we always have to be told, either eton or son of tradesman, that is the British class system in its entirety. Soane should have stuck with Bricks.
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