The definitive book on the most influential English country house architect and designer.
 
This beautifully produced book celebrates the work of Robert Adam, the great eighteenth-century architect who influenced generations by stamping his distinctive neoclassical aesthetic vision on the English country house interior.
 
Lavish new photography provides a deeply visual exploration of Adam’s most important surviving country houses, to which the author and photographer gained unparalleled access. Included are magnificent country houses such as Syon House and Harewood House — styled and inspired by the ideal of the neoclassical — as well as Adam’s castle-style Mellerstain and townhouses such as Home House — all captured in splendid detail. Original Adam design drawings, from Sir John Soane’s Museum, illustrate the boldness of planning, colour, and creative interpretation of Adam’s domestic interiors. A biographical and contextual account of Adam’s life and work describes his unique design process, his patrons, and the legacy of his design achievement.
 
This richly illustrated volume will appeal to designers and homeowners as well as traditional architecture enthusiasts, promising to become an important addition to any architecture and interior design library.

About the Author

Writer and broadcaster Jeremy Musson was architectural editor at Country Life from 1998 to 2007. The co-writer and presenter of the BBC television series The Curious House Guest, he is the author of many books, including The Drawing Room and English Country House Interiors.

Sir Simon Jenkins, a leading journalist and author, was chairman of the National Trust from 2008 to 2014.

The late Paul Barker was one of England’s premier interior and architectural photographers.

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The Palladian style dominated British architecture for most of the 1700s, until the rise of the Adam style, which held sway for the final decades of the eighteenth century. Brothers Robert and James Adam were almost single-handedly responsible for infusing Georgian architecture with the sensibilities and elements of classical Hellenic and Latinate design. Their elegant, sophisticated form of Neoclassicism affected not only architecture, but also interior design, furniture design, and landscaping.

The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam, one of the most celebrated books in architectural history, consists of the brothers' own selections of illustrations from their commissions. Dating from the 1770s, these 106 illustrated plates epitomize the style that influenced generations of British and American architectural and furniture designs. Created by some of the finest commercial engravers of the age — including four plates by Piranesi — these illustrations are painstakingly reproduced in perfect detail and clarity. The original text imparts the Adams' own esthetic and practical aims, and an informative introduction places the brothers' work in historical perspective.

Unabridged republication of the edition published in three volumes by Priestley and Weale, et al., London, 1778-1822.

Robert Adam Architects has an international reputation for classical and traditional architecture and design informed by the latest technology. The firm has offices in the UK with work throughout Britain, the USA, continental Europe, and Asia. Their portfolio of award-winning projects covers a range of commercial and institutional developments, master planning, historic buildings, and country houses within the UK and abroad. A variety of classical styles abound in the firm's spectacular residential work, including Georgian, Victorian, Gothic, Medieval, Colonial, Arts & Crafts, Baroque, Queen Anne, Palladian, and Regency. The firm's unique ability to combine a modern interpretation of the classical tradition with the latest developments in solar energy research is evident in projects such as its 'solar house' on the Sussex Downs. This handsome volume presents more than 100 projects in categories including commercial developments, private residences, and country houses. Robert Adam Architects has an international reputation for classical and traditional architecture and design informed by the latest technology. The firm has offices in the UK with work throughout Britain, the USA, continental Europe, and Asia.

Robert Adam Architects has an international reputation for classical and traditional architecture and design informed by the latest technology. The firm has offices in the UK with work throughout Britain, the USA, continental Europe, and Asia.

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