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Identifier: robertadamhisbro1915swar (find matches)
Title: Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Swarbrick, John, b. 1879
Subjects: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Adam, James, d. 1794 Architecture Decoration and ornament, Architectural Furniture
Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford, ltd., New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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e invariablyreceived from Mr Harry Batsford in all matters affecting the publica-tion of the book. JOHN SWARBRICK. June 1915. CONTENTS CHAPTER PREFACE INTRODUCTORY NOTE: the Classic Influence onEnglish Architecture and Furniture up to thetime of the Brothers Adam - 3 I. THE WORKS OF THE ELDER ADAM AND THE EARLY DESIGNS OF THE BROTHERS - 34 II. THE CONTINENTAL TOUR OF ROBERT ADAM - 49 III. THE EARLY WORK OF ROBERT ADAM 62 IV. THE CONTINENTAL TOUR OF JAMES ADAM - 114 V. THE ALTERATIONS AT SYON HOUSE AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WORK - 143 VI. KEN WOOD, BOWOOD, AND LANSDOWNE HOUSE - 173 VII. HAREWOOD HOUSE, NOSTEL PRIORY, LUTON HOO, AND OSTERLEY • - 193 VIII. THE BUILDING OF THE ADELPHI AND CERTAIN CONTEMPORARY EVENTS - - 219 IX. THE EVE OF THE AMERICAN WAR - - 237 x CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE X. AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN WAR - - - - 265 XI. THE ERECTION OF THE EDINBURGH UNIVER-SITY BUILDING AND SOME CONTEMPORARYEVENTS - - - - 290 INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS - 303 INDEX TO TEXT ------ 309
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Robert Adam and his BrothersTheir Lives, Work, & Influence INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THE CLASSIC INFLUENCE ON ENGLISH ARCHI-TECTURE AND FURNITURE UP TO THE TIMEOF THE BROTHERS ADAM. The story of the lives and work of Robert Adam and his brothersforms a significant episode in the history of English Renaissancearchitecture. The character of their work is distinctive, and con-sequently easily recognisable, so that it has come to be popularlydescribed as the Adam style. The delicacy and refinement of Adam interior decorations are somarked, and the work has such individual charm, that it has alwaysevoked interest and admiration, and has exercised a definite and oflate an increasing influence on the trend of English architectural art.Typical examples are shown in Figs. 1-3 and throughout the book. It seems advisable, before studying the actual work of thebrothers Adam, to consider very briefly the course of Renaissanceinfluence in England which led up to it, in order to appreciate thepart they

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