tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post6177794762275970540..comments2024-02-03T17:37:27.803-08:00Comments on Cogitations and Meditations: London Trip ... Part ThreeKeira Soleorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post-90099252148580968412010-10-03T18:38:29.921-07:002010-10-03T18:38:29.921-07:00Ammanda, it certainly gives a good sense of physic...Ammanda, it certainly gives a good sense of physical spaces that the Regency folks inhabited. For me, I'm amazed how the nobility could adjust from their ostentatiously spacious country estates in the summer to these narrow town homes in the spring (and fall). Can you imagine two hundred people crushed into those rooms and corridoors for a ball? OMG!Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post-7310957096873015682010-10-03T15:43:29.765-07:002010-10-03T15:43:29.765-07:00Thanks for the vicarious enjoyment of going on the...Thanks for the vicarious enjoyment of going on the trip with you, Keira! :) Especially the glimpse of the Soane museum--when I went there I was overwhelmed with a sense of claustrophobia and had to go out and sit in the park before I finished going through it...Amanda McCabe/Amanda Carmack/Laurel McKeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15575437197334661544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post-4511377485127034882010-09-27T13:14:11.695-07:002010-09-27T13:14:11.695-07:00Victoria, if that is what my blogs have been doing...Victoria, if that is what my blogs have been doing, then I've been highly successful in conveying my enjoyment of my trip. Thank you.Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post-24759070565045326692010-09-27T13:13:23.727-07:002010-09-27T13:13:23.727-07:00Diane, over the years, the curators have been busy...Diane, over the years, the curators have been busy winnowing out the obviously damaged and now worthles stuff. He had curiosities aplenty, but 'aplenty' being the operative word, there's lots of good stuff that the curators can put on display. Most of it is still unlabeled. So I suspect that either they consider it not worth the expense of having it expertly appraised, or they realize it's junky and leave it, because some of the value of the museum is that it is preserved as if Soane just left the house for an hour or two.Keira Soleorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440213826734580889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post-70984252935742818252010-09-27T08:53:30.599-07:002010-09-27T08:53:30.599-07:00You're making me want to visit London again!You're making me want to visit London again!Victoria Janssenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12259793807283856761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34763566.post-23105121919632894932010-09-27T07:15:57.475-07:002010-09-27T07:15:57.475-07:00My impression of Soanes was that he had some hoard...My impression of Soanes was that he had some hoarding tendencies. There were lots of pieces of "antiquity" that looked just like broken bits. Didn't he also have a table with a skull in the center in his basement? <br /><br />The Hogarths were amazing, though. <br /><br />You do a great job of describing these places!Diane Gastonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14770373530197339170noreply@blogger.com