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Another and slightly more ornamented example of the Adams Brothers influence on fireplace design, with the characteristic Adam vase and the slender, graceful legs typical of all this justly famous furniture.

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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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The classic art of the Brothers Adam flourished in the latter part of the 18th Century. Thefamous vase or knife urn was perhaps their best known embellishment. Here it is shown com-bined with the Greek classic influence in a radiant fireplace heater.
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Another and slij;htly more ornamented example of the .Adams Brothers influence on fireplace de-sign, with the characteristic Adam vase and the slender, graceful legs typical of all this justly famous furniture. September, 1930 ARCHITECTAND LNGINEER, 85 character. So great was his impress uponthe art and architecture of his time that itbecame and is still known as the AdamPeriod. Adam furniture is light and graceful. Itimparts a feeling of admirable restraint anddignity and its straight structural line givesa contour of beauty and satisfying propor-tion. Classic ornamentation was used freely,but the outstanding and best known embel-lishment was the characteristic Adam vaseor urn. Their avowed purpose was to ap-propriate the beautiful spirit of antiquity,transfer it with novelty and varietythrough all and distinguish their designby the clever selection and application ofcultured ornament. As would naturallyfollow from the fact that Robert Adamderived his inspiration from ancient Greecea

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