Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 149.—Side Table, Music-Room, Harewood House, Yorks. of contemporary work were prepared with so much care and so admir-ably finished. In this case the work was enriched with an inlaidveneer, as in the case of the two side tables in the Music-Room,but it was further adorned by the use of chased brass mountings,which were worked so excellently as to rival the work of Gouthierehimself. Like the Music-Room side tables, rosewood, satin-wood,and tulip-wood are again the principal veneers
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 149.—Side Table, Music-Room, Harewood House, Yorks. of contemporary work were prepared with so much care and so admir-ably finished. In this case the work was enriched with an inlaidveneer, as in the case of the two side tables in the Music-Room,but it was further adorned by the use of chased brass mountings,which were worked so excellently as to rival the work of Gouthierehimself. Like the Music-Room side tables, rosewood, satin-wood,and tulip-wood are again the principal veneers employed. Theskill with which these were used shows that the art, though quite 204 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM. HAREWOOD HOUSE 205 an innovation in this country, was being practised here with adegree of dexterity that recalls the excellence of some of the bestcoeval French work. An excellently inlaid top occurs on a semi-oval side table, which stands between the Dining - Room andthe south Drawing-Room (Fig. 13). In this instance the lightveneer upon the table top is almost entirely satin-wood, the festoonsand other forms having been made from wood dyed a variety ofcolours. The Gallery (Fig. 151) is an apartment which extends along thewhole of the south-western facade of the house and so attains a lengthof 77 ft. In addition to the fine collection of objects of vertu whichthis room contains, the elaborate ceiling always attracts portion is shown in detail in Fig. 152. In any photographicreproduction, the effect of a ceiling of this kind is to some extentlost, owing to some of the colours looking unduly dark and thegilded enrichments almost black. The colours introduced in theceiling
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