Syon House, (London, UK); 1547; Renaissance architecture

The exterior of Syon House was built in 1547 and owned by the First Duke of Somerset. Syon's current interior was designed by Robert Adam in 1762 under the commission of the First Duke and Duchess of Northumberland.
The house has three parts: The Conservatory, the House, and the Courtyard and Garden. Syon House's final plans include a hallway, an anteroom, a national restaurant, a national painting room, a promenade, a study, a living room, a printing room, a family painting room, a family restaurant, and a private family apartment on the top floor living on a grand staircase. The both sides of gateway has put four columns with sculptures. The middle of the gateway (entrance) is arch with two side gates which are tiny poles with curve. The top of the gateway is a lion.
The terms of “Adam style" started from Syon House. It was commissioned to build in a neoclassical style, which was completed, but Adam's style isn’t only like the same. Syon House is filled with different styles, including ancient Rome, Baroque and a little gothic style. In his decorative pattern, there is also evidence that he was influenced by Pompeii while studying in Italy. Adam's Syon House plan includes a complete set of rooms in the main building, a circular rotunda and a circular inner colonnade for the main courtyard (meaning "This rotunda was not built for lack of funds"), five West The main rooms facing the building, the east and the south of the building, a pillared lobby with its color, a hall, a grand staircase (although not as big as originally designed), and a long one. The gallery is a foot long. Adam's most famous addition is a set of state rooms, so they stay exactly the same.
The interior of the Adam room is more refined with fine details and colors. Adam added detailed shapes of marble chimneys in the painting room, template doors and porches, and columns of the Corinthian capital. The promenade is about 14 feet high and 14 feet wide. It has many depressions and niches, as well as heavy walls and ceilings. At the end of the gallery is a dome-shaped closet supported by eight columns; through the middle of the column is a doorway that imitates Niche.
In the 1820s, the northern extent of the house that was not completed by Adam was reshaped by the Third Duke. At this time, the house was resurfacing on Bath stones and the porch was rebuilt. This transformation was thought to have been done by the architect Thomas Cardi, who had been involved in the former manor house belonging to the Percy family.
Syon House was renovated again in the 1860s. The fourth Duke puts Renaissance-style plaster ceilings into the family painting room, family restaurant and printing room.
 cite page
http://www.britain-magazine.com/features/history/history-of-syon-house/
Musson, Jeremy (2 November 2000). "Syon House, Middlesex: A Seat of the Duke of Northumberland". Country Life: 94–99.




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