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 92
in this country a kind of revolution in the whole sys-tem of this useful and elegant art. After making some further in-troductory re-marks, the bro-thers proceeded :We by no meanspresume to findfault with thecompositions or todecry the laboursof other authors,many of whomhave much meritand deserve… … -I >UA\VING-ROOM Chimney-pieck,20 Mansfield Street. 68 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM ourselves we have been able to seize, with some degree of success, thebeautiful spirit of antiquity, and to transfuse it with novelty and varietythrough all our numerous works. In order to…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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