Robert Adam's London
Published on 30. November 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-1-78491-462-2 (ISBN)
Description
The iconic eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam was based in London for more than half of his life and made more designs for this one city than anywhere else in the world. This book reviews a wide variety of his designs for London, highlighting lesser-known buildings as well as familiar ones. Each of Adam's projects explored in this book is plotted on Horwood's map of London (1792-99), enabling the reader to recognise Adam's work as they move around the city, as well as to envisage London as if more of his ingenious designs had been executed or survived demolition.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Archaeopress
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 202 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78491-462-2 (9781784914622)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Dr Frances Sands is Curator of Drawings and Books at Sir John Soane's Museum.
Content
Foreword; Map of London; Introduction; Whitehall; Westminster Abbey - funerary monuments; Northumberland House, Strand; The Adelphi; Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Charing Cross; King's Bench Prison, Southwark; Lloyd's Coffee House, Cornhill; Aldersgate Street; Lincoln's Inn; Southampton Row; Soho Square; Charlotte Street; Mansfield Street and New Cavendish Street; Portland Place; Clerk House, Duchess Street; Chandos House, Queen Anne Street; Portman Square; Grosvenor Square; Hill Street; Berkeley Square; Curzon Street; Hertford Street; Lock Hospital, Grosvenor Place; Buckingham House; Piccadilly; Deputy Ranger's Lodge, Green Park; Arlington Street; Dover Street; Pall Mall; Haymarket Opera House; St James's Square