The reductivist simplicity of a chimney piece designed 200 years ago by Sir John Soane explains the architect’s reputation as a founding father of Modernism.
It’s one of those beautiful moments of disruption in history, when it’s as if someone’s experienced time travel and is able to see into the future to create something the like of which has never existed before,’ says Jamb’s Will Fisher of the white marble chimneypiece that, in the rich red…
