Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture (1915)
Swarbrick, John, b. 1879 · London, B.T. Batsford, ltd., New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 105
ote, and went alongwith him to the Palazzo Vecchio, wherethere are in the Cortile some columnswrought in the antique style in a mostsuperb manner. The apartments ofthis palace are full of grotesque orna-ments, but of a kind superior to any Iever saw, which made me form theproject of employing a… … Fig. 52.—Ironwork from theStaircase, HarewoodHouse, London. (Nowdemolished.) (See Fig.202.) and covered with fallen ruins, had been dug up and cleared by the modern Italians,who for these reasons give them the name of grotte ... It was in this way thatthe Arabesque decorations of the Cinquecento…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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