Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 112. THE STATE DINING ROOM, SYON HOUSE. AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WORK 16? In the description in the Works we read : The ante-rooms oneach side (of the Hall) are for the attendance of the servants outof livery, and also for that of tradesmen, etc. ; these are relieved by. Fig. 113.—The Entrance Hall, Syon House. the back stairs in the towers. That on the side of the great apart-ment is square, and is decorated with columns of verde antiquemarble, as represented in the plan and sectio
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . Fig. 112. THE STATE DINING ROOM, SYON HOUSE. AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY WORK 16? In the description in the Works we read : The ante-rooms oneach side (of the Hall) are for the attendance of the servants outof livery, and also for that of tradesmen, etc. ; these are relieved by. Fig. 113.—The Entrance Hall, Syon House. the back stairs in the towers. That on the side of the great apart-ment is square, and is decorated with columns of verde antiquemarble, as represented in the plan and sections, which standingisolated serve to form the room and heighten the scenery-. In this 164 THE ALTERATIONS AT SYON HOUSE description, Adam referred to the room at the south-west corner,now called the Vestibule, which is reached by ascending the stair-case in the rectangular recess at one end of the Hall (, 115-117). In this room a space of 25 ft. square was formedby a series of columns, standing free from the walls, though adjacent on all sidesexcept the south,where an ambulatorywas formed betweenthe columns and thewall, as in Fig. order is onlyabout 15 ft. 6 in. inheight, and leaves aspace of about 6 in. below the this space figurescopied from a numberof famous antiquestatues were placed,one over each of theinternal elevati
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