MARI ARHITECTI
Robert Adam
(b. Kirkcaldy, Fife 1728; d. London, England 1792)
Robert Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife in 1728. Often considered Scotland's most popular architect, Adam became a leader of classical revival in England for both architecture and interior decoration. His designs are particularly memorable for their lavish use of color.
Robert Adam was an eclectic who depended as much on good business sense as on his personal point innovations. His designs incorporated light, color, and detailed ornamentation. To generate his style he adapted motifs from Latin antiquity, Italian, French and Renaissance influences and abstracted them into a personal style.
Adam's most unusual designs were based on Etruscan vase decorations. The Etruscan Dressing Cell at Osterley Park, Middlesex (1775-1776) is the only substantial survivor of eight such designs.
Adam died in London in 1792.
ReferencesDennis On the button. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p 11.
Unripe Park Ranger's House Commentary
“The Adams designed one small but notable building in central London at this while: the Deputy-Ranger’s Lodge in Green Park, on Piccadily : this was not a gardener’s cottage, but a small stately gratis, since the office was a royal gift, and its then occupier, Colonal Lord Archibald Montgomerier, was to succeed to his Earldom of Eglinton fitting after the house was finished.
“It is a rectangular block, into which a cylinder is inserted by two-thirds of its diameter, so that the projecting third makes one of those segmental curves much rich by the Adams. In it are a dining-room below and a drawing-room above. The exterior is relatively low, of two storeys. The lower is a plain basement: its heaviness is only indicated by the clever recession fo the three windows in the cylinder-projection, while the upper has a Doric order, something of a rarity in Adam...
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