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Eileen Harris

The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors

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Eileen Harris

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22389

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BL	British Library, London
BM MS	British Museum Manuscripts, British Library, London
LMA	London Metropolitan Archives, London
NLI	National Library of Ireland, Dublin
NLW	National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
NH	Newby Hall Architectural Drawings, MS catalogue by J. Low
NMRS	National Monuments Record of Scotland, Edinburgh
PRO	Public Record Office, Kew
RIBA	Royal Institute of British Architects, London
SM	Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
SRO	Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh
V&A	Victoria and Albert Museum, London
WYAS	West Yorkshire Archive Services, Leeds
_____ HAR	Harewood Papers
_____ NH	Newby Hall Papers
_____ NP	Nostell Papers
_____ VR	Vyner Papers

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BOOKThe Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors

Eileen Harris

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00304

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22365

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 enlightening book. 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.

Most of Adam’s enormous body of work was in preexisting houses; the challenges of remodeling 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. In her detailed discussions of the planning, decoration, ceilings, carpets, chimney pieces, and furniture of such interiors as those at Kedleston, Syon House, Osterley Park, Newby Hall, Culzean Castle, and Home and Lansdowne Houses in London, Harris uncovers the full extent of Adam’s prodigious achievements.

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Eileen Harris

PublisherPaul Mellon Centre

Print publication date November 2001 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300081299

EISBN 9780300267518

Illustrations 506

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