Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . stern extremity as a Library and Reception the exterior of this portion of the house cement stucco wasvery largely used, and it does not seem improbable that the contractmay have been one of the earliest in which this method of treatmentwas adopted. Possibly at this time the brothers might havecompleted the purchase, which they effected with Dr David Warkof Haddington, who sold to them his patent rights for some kindof stucco composition, which he invented in the year 1765. I
Robert Adam & his brothers; their lives, work & influence on English architecture, decoration and furniture . stern extremity as a Library and Reception the exterior of this portion of the house cement stucco wasvery largely used, and it does not seem improbable that the contractmay have been one of the earliest in which this method of treatmentwas adopted. Possibly at this time the brothers might havecompleted the purchase, which they effected with Dr David Warkof Haddington, who sold to them his patent rights for some kindof stucco composition, which he invented in the year 1765. Infront <jf the southern facade, extending away to a considerable 1 Created Baron Mansfield in 1756 and Earl of Mansfield in 174 THE LIVES AND WORK OF ROBERT AND JAMES ADAM distance, lies the well-wooded park, which contains a fine sheet ofwater. The finest apartment in the house is the Library: in the eastpavilion (Fig. 125). This room is terminated at each end by asemicircular recess, separated from the rest of the apartment byan order of Corinthian columns. Without these recesses, the apart-. Fig. 124.—The South Front of Ken Wood, Hampstead, from the Park. ment measures 36 ft. in length, but with them this dimension isincreased to about 59 ft. The width of the room is 22 ft. and itsheight to the top of the cornice 18 ft., while that to the highestpart of the segmentally curved ceiling is about 24 ft. 6 in. Thepainted ceiling panels were executed by Antonio Zucchi, and the 1 The original drawings of the Library are preserved in vol. xiv. of the Adam Seriesin the Soane Collection.
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