Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 1728 - 3 March 1792) was a Scottish architect, interior designer and furniture designer, born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

References

• During their lifetime Robert and James Adam published two volumes of their designs, Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam (in 1773-78 and 1779; a third volume was published posthumously, in 1822).
• A comprehensive account of Robert?s furniture work is given in The Furniture of Robert Adam by Eileen Harris (published by Alec Tiranti, London, 1963)
• John Fleming Robert Adam and his Circle (1962)
• Doreen Yarwood Robert Adam (1970)
• D. Stillman The Decorative Work of Robert Adam (1966)
• the Soane Museum, London, has a large collection of original Robert Adam drawings