The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors

Robert Adam's influence crossed the Atlantic, and numerous important buildings demonstrate his innovative introduction of various geometric forms into the floor plan and employ his delicate and restrained ornament based on a classical vocabulary. In fact, his firm had its greatest influence on interior design, and this volume, by an architectural historian who has authored several earlier titles on Adam's work, beginning with The Furniture of Robert Adam (1963), provides detailed analyses of the work, much of which took place inside buildings designed by others. From Library Journal In collaboration with his brothers Jame

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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. So widespread was his influence as a decorator and furniture designer that his name has become a household word. Taking 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. Robert Adam was one of the greatest British architects of the later eighteenth century. She 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. 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. Most of Adam's enormous body of work was in pre-existing houses, the challenges of remodeling stimulated his