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050 00 $aNA997.A4$bH368 2001
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100 1 $aHarris, Eileen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81139436
245 14 $aThe genius of Robert Adam :$bhis interiors /$cEileen Harris.
260 $aNew Haven :$bPublished for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $a378 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c33 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [367]-370) and index.
520 1 $a"Robert Adam was one of the greatest British architects of the later eighteenth century. So widespread was his influence as a decorator and furniture designer that his name has become a household word. But it is the synthesis of architecture, planning and decoration that stands at the heart of Adam's achievement as Eileen Harris shows in this elegantly illustrated book.
520 8 $aShe considers in detail the interaction of each of these elements in nineteen of Adam's most accomplished interior projects, including some of the most famous British country houses and London town houses.".
520 8 $a"Most of Adam's enormous body of work was in pre-existing houses; the challenges of remodelling stimulated his inventive imagination, and he became a master at turning awkward situations to advantage. Harris has mined archival sources, including the large collection of drawings from the Adam office at Sir John Soane's Museum in London, and fully examined the houses themselves to discover exactly what Adam did in each project and why.
520 8 $aTaking into account later alterations and renovations, Adam-revival additions, and so-called accurate restorations of the last twenty-five years, Harris brings to light how much of Adam's original work was conditioned by circumstance and how much was left to invention.".
520 8 $a"In her discussions of the planning, decoration, ceilings, carpets, chimney pieces and furniture of such interiors as those at Kedleston, Syon House, Osterly Park, Newby Hall, Culzean Castle, and Home and Lansdowne Houses in London, Harris uncovers the full extent of Adam's prodigious achievements."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aAdam, Robert,$d1728-1792$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aInterior architecture$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aArchitecture, Domestic$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101300
650 0 $aArchitecture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009115474
600 14 $aAdam, Robert,$d1728-1792$xCriticism and interpretation.
710 2 $aPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109777
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