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Robert Adam and Scotland: Portrait of an Architect
Robert Adam and Scotland Portrait of an Architect Author:Margaret H. B. Sanderson Drawing on many original sources, and on the results of recent research, this book gives an all-round picture of Robert Adam's career as a major architect. For many people, he has become a style, mainly in interior design. Above all, the book focuses on his ambiguous relationship with his native Scotland, the "narrow-place" on which as a young m... more »an he turned his back, but which continued to employ and inspire him and was to present him with an unexpected second career in the last decade of his life. His response to this challenge is inspiring.« less