Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1916)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 41
ded that certainapartments of their houses .should be decorated with colours like thoseon the vases or in the Fltruscan 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… … Fig. II.—Di.MM.-RouM Chair, HarewoodHouse, Yorkshire. INTRODUCTOR\ .NOTl-; 19 III this age the brothers Adam took their place, and exercised aremarkable influence, that extended even to the merest details otinternal treatment. The task was so crreat that onlv those who heldthe foremost places in…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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