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The Genius of Robert Adam
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Eileen Harris
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies

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"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
The Education of the Eye
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Peter De Bolla
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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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 ey
The Country Houses of Robert Adam
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Eileen Harris
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: White Lion Publishing

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Providing a pictorial survey of Robert Adam's distinctive architectural style, this book looks at the architecture, furniture and interior design from some of h
Robert and James Adam, Architects of the Age of Enlightenment
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Ariyuki Kondo
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of
The Genius of Earth Day
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Adam Rome
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-16 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

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The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone