#robert adam

[livesunique]

Kedleston Hall, Kedleston, Derbyshire, United Kingdom,

The marble hall with its elaborate plasterwork executed to the designs of Robert Adam. The fluting of the alabaster columns was carried out in situ.

Photo: Paul Highnam/©Country Life

[vox-anglosphere]

Atop its mediaeval origins, Culzean Castle became a Georgian villa

[septembergold]

Kenwood House, Hampstead Heath, London

[thesixthduke]

[ripplefactor]

Inlaid marble fireplace at Syon House .. 📷Christopher Simon Sykes .. @ad_magazine ..

[blueiskewl]

An Adam Style Gilt-Bronze Overmantel Mirror, Early 20th Century In the manner of Robert Adam, of architectural outline, cast overall with anthemion

Height 60 in.; width 60 in. 152.5 cm; 152.5 cm.

[ngpopgun]

American Emptiness

Robert Adam spent a lifetime recording the vast open spaces of the American west and the slow steady encroachment of humanity. The homes and signs and gas stations seem like unwelcome interlopers in the desert landscape, which always appears to be deeper and more permanent than anything mankind can conjure up.

[fuzzysparrow]

Bowood House

Bowood, a Georgian country house in Wiltshire, has remained in the Fitzmaurice family, the Earls of Shelburne, for over 250 years. The house, featuring interiors designed by Robert Adam (1728-92), is surrounded by vast grounds, including a garden created by the famous landscaper Lancelot “Capability” Brown (1716-83). Unfortunately, most of the house was demolished in 1956. The first Earl of…

[davidbrussat]

How modernism got square

Editor’s note: Here is a post from December 2013, almost a decade ago, shortly after the Providence Journal booted my Journal blog from its roster of staff-written web logs, which is where the word “blog” comes from. I used to write two or three of these per day, even while I was also writing editorials and my weekly column. Maybe that is why the Journal put a stop to it. *** The title of this…

[smbhax]

18th-century Pulteney Bridge, designed by Robert Adam

Photo by MichaelMaggs

[livesunique]

The vestibule in Syon House, London, United Kingdom,

designed by Robert Adam. 

Photo: DeAgostini / Getty Images

[vox-anglosphere]

Even in winter, Bath's power to sooth the soul remains undimmed

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pspspsps nerdy men lovers pspspspsps

[thesixthduke]

[pierppasolini]

Forbidden Letters (1976) // dir. Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.

[browsethestacks]

Dan's Guide To The Cinematic Batmen

Dan's Guide To The Cinematic Batmen

Art by Dan Schkade