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 336
Fig. 206.—The Round Room, Lansdowne House. sometimes domed rotundas (Fig. 206) were introduced, togetherwith apartments 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. 35 274 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM matter the brothers appear to have been influenced by Frencharchitects, who had not infrequently used curved forms in theplans of private houses : in fact, during the period of Louis XV.,
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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