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 93
-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… … Fig. 43.—Designs for Door Furniture by Robert Adam. (From drawingsin the Soane Collection.) (For Executed Examples, see Fig. 57.) order of columns, with their bases, capitals, and entablatures : nothingmore sterile and disgustful than to see for ever the dull repetition ofDorick, Ionick, and…
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 · Adam, James, d. 1794 · Architecture · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Furniture
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