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Honoring
Peter Pennoyer & Thomas Struth
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
7 PM Cocktails
8 PM Dinner

A Black Tie Evening

The University Club, One West 54th Street,
New York, NY 10019

Our annual Soane Honors dinner returns on October 21, 2025. We are planning a festive evening University Club in New York City, and hope you will join us to celebrate Sir John Soane’s Museum, greet old and new friends, and honor two outstanding figures who embody the Soanean spirit:


Peter Pennoyer is a distinguished architect, author and oversees his eponymously named, AD100-listed firm based in New York with studios in Miami and Palm Beach.  The firm’s recent works include a new art deco inspired apartment building on Madison Avenue, the renovation of Guild Hall in East Hampton and a townhouse for Jeff Koons. 

Peter has co-authored five books on American architects and contributed essays to several other books. He has taught at New York University and is the recipient of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize and the Arthur Ross Award among other honors. 

Peter serves as a trustee of The Morgan Library and President of the Whiting Foundation. He lives in New York with his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder.


Thomas Struth is a Berlin-based artist celebrated for his diverse body of work. He continues to advance his vocabulary with each new body of work, while maintaining the same principles core to his practice. Reconciling forms of documentation and contemplation, Thomas Struth has been capturing our time since the late 1970s.

Comprehensive solo exhibitions of Struth’s work have been presented at institutions including High Museum of Art in Atlanta, National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Museo del Prado in Madrid, Museum Folkwang in Essen, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Haus der Kunst in Munich. In addition to many important private art collections, his works are also part of various public
collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthaus Zürich; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London, Galleria d’Accademia, Florence; the Art Institute of Chicago; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.         


Last year, Struth received the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award for Raising Public Awareness on Cultural Heritage. In 2018, Struth received the Honorary Magister Artium Gandensis from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium. In 2016 he was elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the Centenary Medal and Honorary Membership from The Royal Photographic Society, London. In 2014 he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Between 1993-1996 Struth was the first Professor for Photography at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. He is the winner of the Spectrum-International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony (1997) and the Werner Mantz Prize for Photography, The Netherlands (1992).


Based in New York City, the Foundation supports Sir John Soane’s Museum in London and offers a rich and growing array of lectures, travel opportunities, and fellowships for young scholars to study the Museum and its collections.


By joining us on October 21, you help safeguard the future of Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation. We would be most grateful for your continued support!


**To purchase tickets using a personal check, please email: info@soanefoundation.org