Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . ed to secure. Theseeffects were largely due to the dispositionand form of the reception rooms and otherprincipal apartments. The types of designreferred to are illustrated in the projectedscheme for Syon House and in the plansof the house for Lord Stanley, afterwardsEarl of Derby, in Grosvenor Square, andof the one for Sir Watkin Williams Wynnin St Jamess Square, now the residenceof the Earl of Strathmore (Fig. 205). Inthese cases, the brothers not only designed 1 HE 1. Eating-Room. 2.
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . ed to secure. Theseeffects were largely due to the dispositionand form of the reception rooms and otherprincipal apartments. The types of designreferred to are illustrated in the projectedscheme for Syon House and in the plansof the house for Lord Stanley, afterwardsEarl of Derby, in Grosvenor Square, andof the one for Sir Watkin Williams Wynnin St Jamess Square, now the residenceof the Earl of Strathmore (Fig. 205). Inthese cases, the brothers not only designed 1 HE 1. Eating-Room. 2. Porters Hall. 3. Great Library. 6. Sir Watkins Dressing- Room. 7. Powdering-Room. 8. Stables. 9. Coach-house. Fig. 205.—Ground Plan ofSir Watkin WilliamsWvnns House, 20 StJamess Square. 272 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM the reception rooms en suite, so that vistas might be obtainedin various directions, but also varied the form and height of theapartments, in order that monotony might be avoided and thatone cumulative effect might be produced. Thus, oval rooms and. Fig. 206.—The Round Room, Lansdowne House. sometimes domed rotundas (Fig. 206) were introduced, togetherwith apartments containing semicircular or segmental exhedrae, asin Figs. 207, 208. Forms of this kind had been used in Englandon previous occasions, but usually in a more or less capriciousmanner and not generally with the same consideration and witha comprehensive and unified scheme of effect in view. In this AFTER THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE AMERICAN WAR 27-
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