Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 118.—Inscription on Carpet, Red Drawing-Room, Syon House. AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WORK 167 frayed and show the marks of time. The floor of the room iscovered in the centre with a large carpet, around the border ofwhich the old oak boards are exposed to view. This carpet ispractically certainto have been de-signed by RobertAdam, seeing thatit bears the fol-lowing contempo-rary inscriptionin one corner: By ThomasMoore, 1769 (asseen in Fig. 118).The most con-spicuous featureswithin th
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 118.—Inscription on Carpet, Red Drawing-Room, Syon House. AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WORK 167 frayed and show the marks of time. The floor of the room iscovered in the centre with a large carpet, around the border ofwhich the old oak boards are exposed to view. This carpet ispractically certainto have been de-signed by RobertAdam, seeing thatit bears the fol-lowing contempo-rary inscriptionin one corner: By ThomasMoore, 1769 (asseen in Fig. 118).The most con-spicuous featureswithin the roomare the entrancedoorways and theelaborate chim-ney-piece, but it isdoubtful whetherRobert Adamwas responsiblefor the design inthese cases, eitherwholly or in chimney-piece is of whitemarble, with care-fully chased ormolu enrichments. The pilasters, entablature and liningsaround each of the two doors are of a warm cream colour, but all theenrichments and reliefs are either gilded or in ormolu. (See Fig. 119.)Mountings of the latter material occur in the frieze and the panels. Fig. 119.—Doorway, Red Drawing-Room, Syon House. 168 THE ALTERATIONS AT SYON HOUSE
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