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Adam Revival

Adam Revival

Adam style fireplace
See Colonial Revival.
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It had already become obvious during Eileen Harris's concentration on what Adam had actually executed that the 3rd Marquess's modernisation of 1877 had shown an unusual sensitivity to the fate of any Adam features that he felt obliged to alter, to an extent where Culzean may be the first genuine Adam commission to be altered in a self-conscious Adam Revival manner.
The new room will be more strongly focused on Culzean and will display architectural fragments of both the genuine Adam schemes and those of the Adam revivals, as well as tracing the castle's place in Adam literature.
Reinventing Culzean: between 1973 and 1983 the National Trust for Scotland made great changes to the interiors of Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, in order to emphasise the work by Robert Adam. Ian Gow, the Trust's curator, explains why many of those alterations are now being revised
Other connections with Wales at the auction include a Beaumaris vendor's Adam revival mahogany library bookcase and a Gillows rosewood and ebonised cabinet, valued at up to pounds 4,000 and pounds 1,200 respecti ve
Sir Kyffin William's work up for auction
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