Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation

has been referred to in the press as “New York’s Poshest Architectural Fan Club.”It is also noted for its patrons in the design and architecture fields as well as its

anglophilesand key supporters in New York City and the regional area,

San Francisco, Chicago and nationwide in over 30 states and abroad.

The Soane Foundation is pleased to announce our next Gala Celebration 2008!

2007 images shown here are from the Gala entitled Mood Inigo Jones honoring David Macaulay and Richard H. Driehaus. The evening included a special performance in the spirit of a 17th Century court masque (left).

Gala Dinner Dance Celebration 2008

Thoroughly Modern Soane

benefitingSir John Soane’s Museum FoundationWednesday, 23 April 2008

The Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center, New York City

7:00 p.m. Reception8:00 p.m. Dinner , Dancing and Presentation of

THE SOANE FOUNDATION HONORSto

Robert A. M. Stern

The Monacelli Press

Mrs. Deborah BriceINTERNATIONAL CHAIR

 Joel Barkley

Elissa CullmanCharles Gwathmey

Elizabeth F. H. ScottKathleen E. Springhorn

GALA CO-CHAIRS

In celebration of Sir John Soane as architect and educator, our evening honors a remarkable professional who is also an ardent public advocate for excellence in architecture and an influential educator. We also honor a publisher who has helped to expand awareness of and appreciation for fine architecture throughout the world.

The Soane Foundation Honors are presented to:

Robert A. M. Stern, practicing architect, teacher and writer, is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.  He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and recipient of the Board of Directors' Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America and the Athena Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism. In 1986 Mr. Stern hosted the documentary television series "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream." He is co-author of a series of books documenting the development of New York City's architecture and urbanism from the end of the Civil War through the millennium, including most recently New York 2000. He is founder and senior partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects.

Gianfranco Monacelli started his own publishing house, The Monacelli Press, with the goal of originating books of the highest graphic and literary quality. Since 1994, the Press has published more than 300 books and has received international recognition and numerous awards.  Gianfranco Monacelli, born in Italy, first visited New York in 1965 to study music at Mannes College and Columbia University. At the same time he started to work at the legendary Rizzoli bookstore on Fifth Avenue. He subsequently founded Rizzoli International Bookstores, which expanded throughout the United States, and Rizzoli International Publications, which became one of country’s most renowned publishers of illustrated books.

Our theme… Thoroughly Modern Soane

Some of the most innovative architects practicing in the late 20th and early 21st centuries often refer to and discuss their inspiration from the early 19th-century architecture of  Sir John Soane.

Soane is well-known for his use of simple masses, clean lines

and forms, and his dramatic manipulation of light and

reflective surfaces.  

Three examples of use of natural light in spaces.

(lighting fixtures in the picture on the far left are obviously contemporary)

Opportunities for Leadership

Thoroughly Modern Soane Gala Celebration 2008

Platinum Sponsor @ $75,000 -- includes:- Company/Logo on all printed materials (invitation, program, promotional materials including press releases, based on printing deadlines)

- Corporate Chair status- Two (2) Premium tables of ten (10) - Twenty (20) tickets to VIP Reception prior to dinner- Company/logo on Sir John Soane's Foundation Website for one year with link to company's own web-site.- Right to provide approved giveaway and promotional materials - Exclusive benefit: Private candle-lit dinner at Sir John Soane's Museum in London for up to 30 people (catering and insurance not included)

Gold Sponsor @ $30,000 -- includes:- Company listed on all printed materials (invitation, program, promotional materials including press releases, based on printing deadlines)

- Corporate Vice-Chair- One (1) Premium table of ten (10)- Ten (10) tickets to VIP reception prior to the dinner- Right to approved giveaways and promotional materials- Exclusive Benefit: Private Cocktail reception at Sir John Soane's Museum in London for up to 30 guests (catering and insurance not included)

Silver Sponsor @ $15,000 includes:- Company listed on all printed materials (invitation, program, promotional materials including press releases, based on printing deadlines)

- Silver sponsor status - One (1) Preferred table for ten (10)- Ten (10) tickets to the VIP reception prior to the dinner- Right to provide approved giveaways and promotional materials

Additional Table and Ticket opportunities are also available.

A Quick Look at our Participants

2005 images shown here are from the Gala celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the founding of the SJSMFdn.The honored guest was Viscount David Linley (right of photo).

Below is an approximation of the splitof attendees and their professions or avocations at our Gala Celebrations.

Benefit Committee – Additional Opportunities for Participation

Thoroughly Modern Soane Gala Celebration 2008YES, I/we would like to join the BENEFIT COMMITTEE.

Donors providing support at $2,500 and above will additionally be welcomed into the Soane Patron’s Circle*.

❏ I/we would like to serve as a VICE CHAIR of the COMMITTEE:tables of ten: ____ Platinum Benefactor Soaniac Table(s) at $25,000*

individual tickets: ____ Golden Benefactor Soaniac Ticket(s) at $2,500* each

❏ I/we would like to serve as a ASSOCIATE CHAIR of the COMMITTEE:tables of ten: ____ Gold Soanophile Patron Table(s) at $10,000*

____ Silver Soanophile Supporter Table(s) at $7,500*

individual tickets: ____ Bronze Soanophile Patron Ticket(s) at $1,250 each

❏ I/we would like to serve as a MEMBER of the COMMITTEE:individual tickets: ____ Dinner Committee Ticket(s) at $750 each

Note: Regular tickets to the dinner at $600 each will be available, on a limited basis, once the invitation is printed and mailed.

SUPPORT from this EVENT

Most of the funds raised at the event will support a project at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London for current and planned multi-million restoration program of No. 12 and No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields.

With No. 14 having been successfully completed, "The House Next Door" will allow further changes and refinements for returning spaces in No. 12 and No. 13 to their near-original state at the end of Soane’s life in 1837.

Further, there are also important education programs and activities at the Museum for all ages from pre-school to adult and seniors – including new iPod tours for kids (pictured below right).

Additionally, funds raised at the Gala event will support operations and programs in the United States.

SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM FOUNDATION

is a United States registered non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Tax ID Number: 13-

3624437.

A BRIEF HISTORY of SIR JOHN SOANE and what is today the MUSEUM

The architecture of Sir John Soane, R.A., was highly idiosyncratic. Soane was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer, and died after a long and distinguished career, in 1837. As an English architect of significant influence during the last quarter of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Soane worked within the parameters of the classical idiom to create unique commercial and residential structures. The Dulwich Picture Gallery and portions of the Bank of England are among the few remaining examples of his distinctive style of public architecture. His London home, located at Numbers 12 and 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, has become the Sir John Soane’s Museum and remains the best example of his genius in the design of the residence.

Soane was a visionary who used his home as a laboratory for his ideas, the repository for his vast collections of 30,000 drawings; paintings including works by Canaletto, Hogarth and Turner; architectural models; Greek and Roman sculpture and Egyptian Antiquities; 10,000 rare books, including first editions of Milton and Shakespeare, as well as his very personal dwelling space.

No discussion of his work would be complete without mentioning his use of light. The Museum is filled with mirrors, domes, fantastic ceilings and skylights with colored glass, used not only to light the rooms but also to create dramatic effects and to highlight the numerous plaster casts and marble fragments that are artistically arranged in every available space throughout the house. Due to his foresight in leaving his home to the public by Act of Parliament in 1833, Soane’s house and its contents survive today, exactly as they were in his time, giving the visitor a rare glimpse into a middle class home of the period.

MISSION of FOUNDATION here in the UNITED STATES

The Foundation provides unique educational programs for professionals (AIA credits are often offered) and the lay-person who relishes in-depth exploration of issues of architecture and the fine and decorative arts. The Foundation also provides a traveling fellowship each year for an American graduate student or scholar to go to the Museum to further their work and research.

MEMBERS of the BOARD of the FOUNDATION

Suzanna S. Allen, Laura Blanco, Margaret Hatfield Carey, Gifford Combs, Faye Cone, Page Ayres Cowley, Anne Edgar, Richard A. Griffiths, Chippy Irvine, Thomas A. Kligerman, Susan P. Magee, Patricia Matson, Katherine McCormick, Wendy Lyon Moonan, Marita O’Hare, Barbara G. Pine, John F. Saladino, Richard Sammons, J. Thomas Savage, Elizabeth H. Scott, Victoria Lea Smith, Kathleen E. Springhorn, Cynthia W. Spurdle, Suzanne Stephens, Stephanie Stokes. Director Emeritus: Samuel C. Miller. Advisory Board: Paul Byard, Michael Graves, Peter Pennoyer, Robert Venturi, Stuart Wrede. Some of the other Founders, past Members of the Board and Advisors have included: J. Carter Brown, Murray Douglas, Stephen A. Drucker, Brenden Gill, Edgar Howard, Keith Irvine, Philip Johnson, Charlotte Moss, Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Eugene V. Thaw, Bartholomew Voorsanger, Somers White Farkas, Bunny Williams.

For additional information please contact the Executive Director, Chas A. Miller IIItelephone 212 223-2012 | e-mail: Chas@SoaneFoundation.com

Sponsorship Opportunities and Corporate Support, please contact, Sara Vasstelephone 212 620-7636 | email: saravass1@aol.com

Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, 1040 First Avenue, No. 311, New York NY 10022

The Foundation is a registered 501(c)3 organization – Tax ID Number: 13-3624437

Profiles of our Gala Co-Chairs for the Gala Dinner Dance Celebration 2008 benefitting SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM FOUNDATION

Thoroughly Modern SoaneJoel Barkley - Principal, Ike Kligerman Barkley Architects

Joel is an architect as well as a watercolorist, who tries to bring a painterly approach to thecomposition of houses. Proportion, material, color, and light behavior are important pictorial tools inthe forming of domestic space, from inside to outside. Joel is presently working on residences in NewYork, Connecticut, Florida, Texas, California, and Hawaii. Each region offers new challenges andinspiration for original architecture. Joel received his Master in Architecture from Princeton Universityin 1993, after receiving a Bachelor of Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. He received theThesis Prize at Princeton and also received a scholarship to attend the Ecoles d’Art Americaines en FranceFontainebleau in 1989. Joel joined John Ike and Thomas Kligerman to form Ike Kligerman Barkley in1999. Before joining Ike Kligerman Barkley, Joel worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill; RobertA.M. Stern Architects; and Diller + Scofidio.

As a watercolorist, Joel has illustrated several gardening books. He is a member of theNortheastern Organic Gardening Association, where he pursues a dream of beekeeping in suburbanNew Jersey. Joel is also partner with Ronald Castellano in a biodynamic/ community-supportedvegetarian restaurant, Broadway East, soon to open on New York City’s Lower East Side.

Elissa “Ellie” Cullman - Principal, Cullman & Kravis, Inc.Elissa Cullman and the late Hedi Kravis founded Cullman & Kravis, Inc. in 1984. Known

as “interior decorators for collectors of fine art and antiques,” Cullman & Kravis is known for itsbroad versatility of design. Cullman & Kravis interiors have been featured in Architectural Digest,HG, The New York Times, Interior Design, Antiques, and other fine publications. Ms. Cullman,who was born and raised in Brooklyn, is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of BarnardCollege. After attending the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in AsianStudies, she became an exhibition assistant at Japan House Gallery. In 1977, she joined the Museumof American Folk Art as guest co curator for “Andy Warhol’s Folk and Funk.” In 1980, she cocurated the exhibition “Small Folk: A Celebration of Childhood in America”, and co-authored abook of the same name which was published by E.P Dutton in 1980. She has lectured on decoratingwith antiques, and wrote the “Solutions” column for the magazine, To The Trade until September2001. She has been a member of the Museum of Modern Art’s Contemporary Council since 1973,and a board member of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc. since 1974. She was a trustee ofBarnard College from 1989 to 1996, and joined the board of the Brooklyn Museum of Art in the fallof 1998. She also sits on the board of “Friends of Florence,” a non-profit organization dedicated topreserving the arts of Florence.

Elissa Cullman is, and has been, listed in Architectural Digest's definitive "AD 100" bestdesigners and architects since 2000. She was included in the Architectural Digest January 2005 listof “The Deans of American Design” which heralded “30 of the United States’ best architects andinterior designers, whose outstanding achievements have propelled them to the top echelon of theirfields.” Cullman & Kravis’ last presentation in Architectural Digest was November 2007. Decorating Master Class: The Cullman & Kravis Way by Elissa Cullman and Tracey Pruzan, will bepublished in spring 2008.

Charles Gwathmey - Principal, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects, LLCHaving received his Master of Architecture degree in 1962 from Yale University, where he

won both The William Wirt Winchester Fellowship as the outstanding graduate and a Fulbright Grant.In the decades since, Mr. Gwathmey has been honored with the Brunner Prize from the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters in 1970 and elected to the Academy in 1976. In 1983, he won the Medal

of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and in 1985, he receivedthe first Yale Alumni Arts Award from the Yale School of Architecture. Three years later, the GuildHall Academy of Arts awarded Mr. Gwathmey its Lifetime Achievement Medal in Visual Arts, followedin 1990 by a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York State Society of Architects.

Mr. Gwathmey has served as President of the Board of Trustees for The Institute ofArchitecture and Urban Studies and was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in1981. From 1965 through 1991, Mr. Gwathmey taught at Pratt Institute, Cooper Union for theAdvancement of Science and Art, Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Texas,and the University of California at Los Angeles. He was Davenport Professor (1983 and 1999) andBishop Professor (1991) at Yale, and the Eliot Noyes Visiting Professor at Harvard University (1985). Mr. Gwathmey was the spring 2005 William A. Bernoudy Resident in Architecture at the AmericanAcademy in Rome.

Elizabeth F. H. Scott - Member, Board of Directors of Sir John Soane’s MuseumFoundation

Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott grew up in North Yonkers, Westchester County and in Hastings-on-the-Hudson. Elizabeth and her husband spend a considerable amount of time each year in GreatBritain, where they have close family and personal ties. A former president of the Soane Foundation,she has served as Chairman, President, Trustee, Director and officer of a host of Anglo-AmericanOrganizations and Charitable Foundations. These include the English-Speaking Union of the UnitedStates, the American-Scottish Foundation, the American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust, theWinston Churchill Memorial and Library in the United States, the Canterbury Cathedral Trust inAmerica, the Washington National Cathedral Association, the International Center in New York, theColonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution and numerous museumsand libraries in England and the U.S. Her husband has owned a publishing company and a fine qualityprinting company and is real estate developer.

Kathleen E. Springhorn - Member, Board of Directors of Sir John Soane’sMuseum Foundation

Kathy grew up on the South shore of Long Island, studied in England and graduated witha double major of English and Art History from Marymount College. She began her Wall Street careerat Morgan Guaranty Trust, now J.P. Morgan. She retired after 18 years as partner and senior vicepresident of institutional equity sales at The Buckingham Research Group, an independent institutionalequity research firm begun in 1983.

She is a member of the Colonial Dames of America and serves as second vice president ofthe board of directors. She is a sustaining member of the Junior League of the City of New York,where, among other contributions, she served as co-chairman of the Winter Ball. She was leader of theU. N. International School Girl Scout troop for 10 years and began and ran the "High Camp" Gala tobenefit the campership program for nearly 10 years. She served on many New York non-profitcommittees, including the Friends of Thirteen, for whom she chaired two galas. She is a foundingmember of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and serves on the NationalAdvisory Board and the Business and Professional Women's Council. She is a member of the boardof directors of The American Friends of the Hermitage and Chaired the "Imperial Easter Gala", as wellhaving a role in the initiation of the exhibition of "An Imperial Collection: Women Artists from theState Hermitage Museum", at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2003. Kathy lives inManhattan and Palm Beach with her Westie, Lilly.

For more information on theSoane Foundation, please visit –www.SoaneFoundation.com

Pop-Up 3-Deminsional Invitation Cards - photos of Gala invitations for 2007 (far left) with an Inigo Jones archway; and 2005 (right) depicting the Museum’s façade. Images below of the Museum.

Past Gala photos and details on the “Coming Up” page – then in the box with Gala info, there are links to the past events…

For more information onthe Soane Museum in London, please visit –www.Soane.org