Home House: Adam versus Wyatt

• Autores: Eileen Harris
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 139, Nº 1130, 1997, págs. 308-321
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The interiors of 20 Portman Square, London,' built for Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Home, are rightly regarded as among Robert Adam's masterpieces. It has, however, passed unnoticed that the first architect of the building, from 1772 to 1775, was not Adam but his competitor James Wyatt, the star of the Oxford Street Pantheon,2 and that at least three of Wyatt's ceilings still survive. That Adam should have been called in to transform Wyatt's architecture was a triumph of tremendous significance: he could not have wished for a more appropriate place to display his superior genius than Home House.