Harris, Eileen.

The genius of Robert Adam : his interiors / Eileen Harris.

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, ©2001.

378 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

"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. 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 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. 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."
"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."--Jacket.

0300081294 (alk. paper)
9780300081299 (alk. paper)

Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Criticism and interpretation.
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792 Critique et interprétation.
Adam, Robert, 1728-1792.
Adam, Robert 1728-1792
Adam, Robert, (1728-1792)
Adam, Robert Architekt, 1728-1792.
Interior architecture Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Architecture Great Britain History 18th century.
Architecture Great Britain 18th century.
Architecture intérieure Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture domestique Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne 18e siècle.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Interior architecture.
Ausstattung
Bildband
Innenarchitektur
Interieurkunst.
Décorateurs d'intérieurs Angleterre (GB) 18e siècle.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Quotations (texts)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Location: Library main 220678
Call No.: NA44.A194.4 H3 2001
Status: Available