Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam

Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam
Title Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam PDF eBook
Author David King
Publisher Routledge
Pages 305
Release 2013-09-13
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1135142491

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This volume is a unique compendium of the works of Robert and James Adam, both built and unbuilt. It includes 900 illustrations. The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam is reprinted here in its entirety, updated and corrected. This title covers every one of the 230 or so built works, including 12 that have been recently discovered. It is complemented by a completely new title, Unbuilt Adam. This mentions all the brothers' important unbuilt projects, and it discusses and illustrates 130 of them. This volume gives an exceptionally thorough review of the brothers' designs. From public buildings to country houses, and monuments to ceilings, it is well informed and erudite. It provides a mine of information for both the expert and the general reader, and it uses the works covered to give an understanding of the Adam manner.

Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk

Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk
Title Dr Johnson's Friend and Robert Adam's Client Topham Beauclerk PDF eBook
Author David Noy
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 305
Release 2016-05-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1443893250

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Dr Johnson said that he would walk to the ends of the earth to save Beauclerk. Other people who claimed to be his friends rejoiced at his early death. How did the beautiful youth of Francis Coates’ 1756 portrait become a man whose greatest claim to fame was causing an infestation of lice at Blenheim Palace through lack of personal hygiene? A great-grandson of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, he lived a privileged life thanks to fortuitously inherited wealth. He employed Robert Adam to build him a house at Muswell Hill which has almost completely disappeared from the records of Adam’s work due to a dispute about the bill. He was one of the leading book-collectors of the time, with a library of 30,000 volumes whose sale after his death was a major literary event. He also used his wealth to indulge interests in science and astronomy and a passion for gambling. As a result, he ran through his inheritance as quickly as he could sell it, falling into ever-increasing debt as his lawyer grew richer. Beauclerk knew all the leading figures of the British and French Enlightenments. He was a friend of Johnson, Adam Smith, David Hume, Horace Walpole, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Wilkes and David Garrick. He met Rousseau and Voltaire, and immersed himself in French salon culture. He could charm people when he chose to, but did not always try. Recently he has been overshadowed by his wife, Lady Di (née Spencer), whose life by Carola Hicks (Improper Pursuits, 2001) has made her artistic talent and unconventional life well-known. The story of their adultery and marriage has not previously been told from Beauclerk’s point of view, and many other inaccuracies have crept into authoritative works such as the ODNB; he is regularly and unfairly dismissed as a bad husband. This biography shows that he was much more than the close associate of Johnson known from the pages of Boswell: a man of widely varied interests, from the Grand Tour to the contemporary theatre, who lived Enlightenment life to the full in a way which would not have been possible a generation earlier or later. Based on research in unpublished letters, legal documents and financial records, including some concerning the Adam house, as well as published diaries, letters and memoirs, it shows that he may have left no enduring legacy of his many talents, as even his friends admitted, but he made the most of all the opportunities available and lived a fascinating life which illuminates every aspect of Georgian elite society, from auctions to zoology, from care of one’s wig to building an observatory, and from mishaps in Venice to sea-therapy in Brighton.

The Mies Van Der Rohe Archive

The Mies Van Der Rohe Archive
Title The Mies Van Der Rohe Archive PDF eBook
Author Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 506
Release 1986
Genre Architects
ISBN 9780815301196

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The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam ;Unbuilt Adam

The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam ;Unbuilt Adam
Title The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam ;Unbuilt Adam PDF eBook
Author David King
Publisher
Pages 748
Release 2001
Genre
ISBN

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Robert Adam’s London

Robert Adam’s London
Title Robert Adam’s London PDF eBook
Author Frances Sands
Publisher Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Pages 160
Release 2016-11-30
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1784914630

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The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones.

The Education of the Eye

The Education of the Eye
Title The Education of the Eye PDF eBook
Author Peter De Bolla
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 300
Release 2003
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780804748001

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The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.

Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette

Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette
Title Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette PDF eBook
Author Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 192
Release 2002
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780892366361

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An impassioned plea for a Roman-Style eclecticism that draws freely on all artistic forms and traditions, Piranesi's Observations anticipates the contemporary debate between devotees of a rational, minimal architecture and advocates of an architecture rich in ornament and historical references."--BOOK JACKET.