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Adam Adam style Adam's appearance architect architecture artists became bedroom building built Burlington cabinet-makers cabinets cabriole leg carved Castle ceiling chairs Chinese Chinoiserie Chippendale Chiswick classical Colen Campbell colour country house designs dome drawers drawing room eighteenth eighteenth-century English entrance halls especially example façade fact fashionable feature frame French frieze front garden glass Gothic Greek Hepplewhite Horace Walpole imitation important influence Inigo Jones interior decoration Italian J. C. Loudon Jacobean Jacobethan James Wyatt Kent later legs London Lord Burlington mahogany manor marquetry medieval mirror motifs Museum original ornament Osterley painted Palace Palladian Palladio panels pattern pediment perhaps period pieces of furniture plaster plates popular portico prodigy houses Regency Renaissance Robert Adam Rococo Roman seat seventeenth century shape Sheraton sideboard staircase Strawberry Hill stretchers tables taste Tudor typical veneer Victorian Victorian era Villa Vitruvius walls walnut Walpole William Kent wood Wyatt