Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . ed isstated to have been of green satin richly embroidered with colours,and to have had eight columns. Round the outside of the dome,Walpole added, are festoons of artificial flowers. Reference wasalso made to the Etruscan dressing-room. This room derived itsname from the character of its decoration, which was suggested bythe colour schemes of antique vases, which were then supposed tohave been made by the Etruscans. There can be little doubt that NOSTELL PRIORY, LUTOX HOO, AND OSTERLE
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . ed isstated to have been of green satin richly embroidered with colours,and to have had eight columns. Round the outside of the dome,Walpole added, are festoons of artificial flowers. Reference wasalso made to the Etruscan dressing-room. This room derived itsname from the character of its decoration, which was suggested bythe colour schemes of antique vases, which were then supposed tohave been made by the Etruscans. There can be little doubt that NOSTELL PRIORY, LUTOX HOO, AND OSTERLEY Robert Adamwas influenced toadopt such treat-ments by con-noisseurs anddilettanti, whowere very deeplyimpressed by thebeauty of some ofthe pottery whichhad then beenquite recently dis-covered. In v i i. of theAdam Series inthe Soane Collec-tion there is adesign in the so-called Etruscantaste for a chair,which is of severecharacter, havingtapering, squarelegs and a rect-angular drawing hasbeen inscribed,Chair for theEtruscan Dress-ing Room atOsterley — Ad-elphi, Janry Walpoles. Fig. 161.—The State Bed at Osterley. (From adrawing in the Soane Collection.) description of the bed, in his letter to Mr Mason, agrees substan-tially with that of the present State Bed, the only variation of any 28 218 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM moment being a difference in the number of columns. Four alone nowremain, but the difference may be due to a subsequent design for the State Bed, which is now preserved in of the Adam Series in the Soane Collection, bears the date1775 (Fig. 161). In the Dining-Room some of the chairs with lyrebacks, to which Walpole referred, are still retained. The GobelinTapestry Room, which the same writer described as the mostsuperb and beautiful that can be conceived, remains intact, just as itappeared in 1778 when the words were written. A design for theceiling of this room is among the drawings in the
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