Show famous for ability to design furniture important as an influence on furniture forms ol 01 0 eighteenth century america was the work of the four adam brothers of england eh chiefly lefly tile the work of robert adam whose in influence flu on the furniture of england from 1700 1760 to 1780 was marked he was a man of moans menns a traveler but lid he was not a cabinet maker ile he never made a piece of furniture in his life though it Is on his furniture that tits his fame rests rest when he designed a house he also designed the furniture to go in it even going so BO far as to mark chalk spots on the floors to show where each piece of furniture was to stand IHS designs were painstaking exquisite in the spirit of antiquity ty says sarah lockwood author of antiques he drew tits his inspiration directly from ancient pompeii uninfluenced by tits his trip through france his furniture legs were straight his lines were straight his backs round or oval ilia hla decoration was purely classic he often employed the well known classic urn adam may have snubbed chippendale pen dale for not one trace of adams influence la Is found in the others work exchange |