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| | Robert Adam - Movement in Architecture |
 | | In 1773, with the damaging crisis of The Adelphi development recently put behind them, in an attempt to re-establish their reputation with the public, Robert Adam and his brother James produced the first part of a book entitled The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam. |
 | | however, must be set Kenwood House, London, where the south front, of 1773, has flat pilasters decorated with anthemion ornament (based on the flower of the honeysuckle), and string courses with continuous spiral scrolls, the whole being executed in stucco, a hard plaster used on the outsides of buildings. |
 | | The ornament on this facade does have strong parallels with Adams interior style, but the ornament is used to articulate the wall-surface, and it can be seen as an attempt to use different means of creating movement within another of the designs of which Adam seems to have been particularly proud. |
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