Robert Adam & his brothers : their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 41
nded that certainapartments of their houses should be decorated with colours like thoseon the vases or in the Etruscan taste, as they called it, supposingthat the ancient pottery had been produced in Etruria. So greatwas the demand for reproductions of ancient vases, that, it is stated, inthe short… … Fig. ir.— DiNiNG-RooM Chair, HarkwooiiHouse, Yorkshire. INTRODUCTORY NOTE 19 In this age the brothers Adam took their place, and exercised aremarkable influence, that extended even to the merest details ofinternal treatment. The task was so great that only those who heldthe foremost places in their…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture
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