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The eating room also has decorative panels over the doors. The two doors at the centre of the east wall are framed by pilasters and an entablature. As in the drawing room, the ceiling is shown unornamented and the floor has a simple oval pattern.
The music room is entered from the south via two doors framed by Ionic columns. The columns support decorative lintels, each surmounted by a semicircular arch. The centre bay has fluted pilasters supporting a third semicircular arch. Identical pilasters line the room on the east and west walls between the windows and supporting semicircular arches.
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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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Contents of Designs for finishings to the drawing room, eating room and music hall (3)
- [93] Design for finishings to the drawing room
- [94] Design for finishings to the eating room
- [95] Design for finishings to the music hall