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Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)

Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 332

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Iit. 206.—1hk RouMi Room, I.ansdowne House. sometimes domed rotundas (Fig. 206) were introduced, togetherwith a])artments containing semicircular or .segmental exhedrae, asin Figs. 207, 208. Forms of this kind had been used in Englandon previous occasions, but usually in a more or less… … Fig. 207.—Main Staircase Hall, 20 St Jamess Square. 274 rHI. I.IVKS AND WORK OI ROBERT AM) JAMKS ADAM matter the brothers appear to ha\e been inHuencecl by Frencharchitects, who had not infrequently used curved forms in theplans of private houses : in fact, during the period ot Louis X\.,

Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture

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