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The eventual construction of this highway opened access to the Willamette Valley and beyond for many formerly isolated coastal communities. 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Given his pre-eminence it is not surprising that barely a year has passed since 1913 in which \"Country Life\" has not featured at least one article on Adam's work, and the magazine has accumulated an unrivalled archive of photographs of his buildings and their interiors. In this new book, Eileen Harris sets out to provide a pictorial survey of Adam's country and town houses arranged in chronological order to show the development of his genius, including designs for furniture and interior fittings as well as temples and estate buildings,. The book also illustrates the way in which the use and presentation of Adam's houses has changed over the course of the past one hundred years, making it a record of social change as well as architectural achievement. The country houses which are featured range from the works of the early 1760s, such as Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, Syon House in Middlesex and Audley End in Essex, through the masterpieces of his maturity, which include Osterley Park and Kenwood near London and Harewood House in Yorkshire, to the later designs of the 1770s and 80s, including Culzean Castle in Scotland and Headfort House in Ireland. The book also covers ten of his most important town houses and a variety of other buildings from Croome Church to Kedleston's Fishing Temple. No visual survey of Adam's work on this scale for the general reader has appeared for over thirty years and the superb quality of the photography and the reproduction make this book an unrivalled record of the most versatile and productive architect of the eighteenth century. This title is the latest addition to the sumptuous \"Country Life\" series. It covers the work of the man who was one of the greatest British architects and certainly the country's most famous interior designer. It is illustrated with the pick of \"Country Life's\" archive of photographs of Adam houses taken over the past ninety years. 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It is however, more than a work of reference, and will fascinate anyone interested in British cultural and social history, the relationship between Britain and continental Europe, and the history of the book trade. For each of the 220 authors covered there is an essay discussing his interests, the purpose and the genesis of his publications. A detailed bibliographical description of the author's architectural publications follows each essay and gives details of the first and subsequent editions of some four hundred titles. The main body of the text is preceded by general essays on books on the Orders, bridges, archaeology, engraving, publishing and bookselling; manuals of carpentry and design; and pattern-books. 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Most of Adam's enormous body of work was in pre-existing houses, the challenges of remodeling stimulated his inventive imagination, and he became a master at turning awkward situations to advantage. Harris has mined archival sources, including the large collection of drawings from the Adam office at Sir John Soane's Museum in London, and fully examined the houses themselves to discover exactly what Adam did in each project and why. Taking into account later alterations and renovations, Adam-revival additions, and so-called accurate restorations of the last twenty-five years, Harris brings to light how much of Adam's original work was conditioned by circumstance and how much was left to invention. In her detailed discussions of the planning, decoration, ceilings, carpets, chimney pieces and furniture of such interiors as those at Kedleston, Syon House, Osterley Park, Newby Hall, Culzean Castle, and Home and Lansdowne Houses in London, Harris uncovers the full extent of Adam's prodigious achievements.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50436876828945,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50436877091089,"sku":"GOR007791909","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300081294.jpg?v=1751291650"},{"product_id":"british-architectural-books-and-writers-book-eileen-harris-9780521283243","title":"British Architectural Books and Writers","description":"Originally published in 1990, this account of architectural books printed in Britain surveys a body of complex literature largely uncharted in bibliographical terms. 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