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 28
fine interiorhas been evolved. The highly original ceiling with its large crossedbeams, doubtless arose from his wish to reducethe excessive height of the bare structure, andthe idea is worked out with great skill. A broad band of ornament frames the central oblong and ties the whole design… … Syon House. Door in Gallery. principal floor level at both ends of the Hall,are so cleverly worked in that they seem anadditional charm, rather than a difficultyovercome. To step up from the Hall to the Ante-roomis to pass into another world. It is Rome ofthe most lavish epoch of the Empire, when…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Soane, John, Sir, 1753-1837 · Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) · Architecture
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