Vintage View: Why Robert Adam is a rock star of architecture

Kya deLongchamps explains why Robert Adam is a rock star of architecture.

Vintage View: Why Robert Adam is a rock star of architecture
Fri, 13 Sep, 2019 - 13:49
Kya deLongchamps

Kya deLongchamps explains why Robert Adam is a rock star of architecture.

GAZING out of the famous portrait by George Willison of around 1770, Robert Adam is something of a Ralph Fiennes-like, Georgian dish.

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