Cantor lectures on the architecture and decoration of Robert Adam and Sir John Soane.. (1920)
Bolton, Arthur T. (Arthur Thomas), b. 1864 · London: W. Clowes & Sons, Ltd. · leaf 12
application.Similar success at-tended his employ-ment of the Doricin the various hallsof his houses fromSyononwards; and,in his latest greatwork, the Edin-burgh University,the great entranceis a magnificent ex-ample of the samestyle on a grander Rotunda, which are commonly regarded as ofa date… … It is a curiousfact that whereasthat pillar of ortho-doxy. Sir WilliamChambers, R. A.,was mainly respouTsible for the Chinesemania, having atKew Gardens prac-tised an eclecticism of the wildest character,Robert Adam, on the other hand, recalled thetaste of his age to the veritable antique. Current…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837 · Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) · Architecture
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