Soane's commissions up to 1791 had been mainly for country houses. In Wimpole Hall in that year, he first put into practice the idea of top-lighting, a domed interior lit from above, which would become a leitmotif of his work.
The photo shows the interior of the Yellow Drawing Room, which is constructed over a square with two lateral apses and a barrel-vaulted long axis. Over the centre space, Soane combined a a pendentive and umbrella dome, which opens into a large glass lantern.
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