The Shaper of Things to Come; At the Octagon, Robert Adam's Original Drawings

The Washington Post | July 25, 1998| | Copyright

An exhibition of drawings by the prolific 18th-century British architect Robert Adam could hardly find a better home in America than the Octagon, the beautiful Adamesque mansion near the White House, built nearly 200 years ago.

Sensitively restored over the past decade at a cost of more than $5 million, the Octagon is a sparkling host for the show of 66 drawings by Adam and his talented friends and employees -- "Robert Adam, the Creative Mind: from the sketch to the finished drawing."

Passing through the house to the second floor galleries is reason in itself to head for the Octagon ...

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