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Fireplaces.(antiques)(Brief Article)
To discover a fireplace surround documented to a commission by someone as renowned as Robert Adam would be astonishing, and the cost, were it to enter the marketplace, would be prohibitive to many. Moreover, countries are making it more and more difficult for overseas buyers to obtain an export license for such historical objects. This can pose difficulties for collectors seeking fireplace surrounds appropriate for the rooms housing their collections.
One resource is the London firm Chesney's, which was the subject of this column in the January 1998 issue. It recently opened a showroom in the Decoration and Design Building in New York City, where it offers reproductions of more than fifty wood, marble, or limestone French and English period chimneypieces. The firm has also released a CD-ROM that enables collectors to select from a wide variety of decorative motifs in order to create a fireplace surround of their own design.
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- The drawings of Robert Adam and his office. (British architect)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Tait, A.A. April 1, 1994 700+ words
...the office of the British architect Robert Adam is unique by any standard since it shows...see Pl. II). [CHART OMITTED] Robert Adam was a better draftsman than his brothers...office in Edinburgh, Scotland.(2) Robert Adam's time in Rome between 1755 and 1757...
- Take a chair: for his latest exhibition, Hugh Buchanan has depicted furniture...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Harris, Eileen November 1, 2004 700+ words
...are set in the drawing-rooms of two Robert Adam houses, Osterley and Syon, is unlikely...subjects. This penchant he shares with Robert Adam, who believed that 'the more you keep...bigger the better. 'Hugh Buchanan and Robert Adam' is at the Francis Kyle Gallery, 9...
- Picture perfect: this survey of Robert Adam's houses offers new insights into...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Robinson, John Martin September 1, 2008 700+ words
The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life EILEEN HARRIS AURUM PRESS, 40 [pounds sterling] ISBN 9781905400560 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Adam is an architect who lends himself particularly well to photographic...
- Beyond the needle's eye: Robert Adam's Huntwick Lodge at Nostell Priory,...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Williams, Gareth J.L. April 1, 2006 700+ words
...Yorkshire, national and local media coverage ensured that Robert Adam's then ruinous pyramidal Obelisk Lodge (Fig. 3), on...interest in the York election of 1774, and his choice of Robert Adam as his architect (he replaced James Paine, who had worked...
- Robert Adam's World of Details; At Octagon, Remarkable Visions of the...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Benjamin Forgey November 21, 1987 700+ words
Robert Adam, the 18th-century English architect, was a man of superabundant gifts...and splendid architect. All of this is in evidence in the exhibition "Robert Adam and Kedleston: The Making of a Neo-Classical Masterpiece," currently...
- The Robert Adam rooms in Philadelphia and New York City.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Beard, Geoffrey June 1, 2007 700+ words
...It was designed by the eminent Scottish-born architect Robert Adam and begun in 1761 for John Stuart, third Earl of Bute (1713...the Adelphi development in London and later dispensed with Robert Adam's services altogether, sought solace in travel. He set...
- Critic's Choice: Robert Adam's Landscape Fantasies
- Newspaper article from: The Scotsman Duncan Macmillan July 28, 2009 700+ words
Robert Adam's Landscape Fantasies National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, Until 2 August ROBERT Adam was the master of neoclassicism, but he also had a Gothic side. He painted fantastic landscapes that conjure an imaginary world of castles on...
- Summer fare: Edinburgh.(FARTHER afield)(Robert Adam exhibition)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Young, Carolin C. July 1, 2009 700+ words
Robert Adam's inner world goes on public display at an exhibition of his picturesque...castles, and gushing waterfalls offer up a cooling tonic to summers heat. Robert Adam's Landscape Fantasies: Watercolors and Drawings from the Permanent...
Source: HighBeam Research, Fireplaces.(antiques)(Brief Article)