The Syon House,1760, Roberto Adam

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The Syon House

The Syon House is a 200- acre park located on the west side of London. This project was designed by Roberto Adam in the 1760s this belonged to the Duke of Northumberland and is now his family’s London residence. The park got its name from Syon Abbey which was a medieval monastery which was founded 1415 on a nearby site by King Henry V. In 1413 she moved in, she was one of the wealthiest people in the country.
During a certain time, Syon became the property of the Crown for a short time before leasing it to the 1stDuke of Somerset, who rebuilt the house during the Italian Renaissance style. Occurring to the urban dictionary “was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 17th century marking the transition between Medieval and Modern Europe”(). In 1557 the building was converted into a new building which was used to Elizabeth I which acceded to the throne before all the changes were in effect. They reopened it in 1594 by Henry Percy from (1564-1632) since it remained in his family. After going back and forth with people taking ….. In 1915 the house was open to the public for the 1sttime under the 10thDuke and Duchess. During 1995 the family rooms became open to the public as well, and the Percy family continue to live there they continue to enhance the house. During there power, they added a new central courtyard with the design of Marchioness Salisbury. But in late 2007, the house went under a massive restoration which had to do with the roof area. And then in 2008, they went through a long restoration process to restore the Adam room.
This Adam style has said that beginning with Syon House. They asked it to be built in the Neo-classical style and it was fulfilled, but this doesn’t end there because it was filled with many styles and inspirations like Romantic, Mannerist and a little bit of Gothic. In the drawings, Adam’s did they included a set of rooms on the main floor, with a circular inner colonnade, meant for the courtyard, five main rooms on the west, east, and south of the building. Adam’s famous suite remains exactly as they were built. The inside of the rooms is where the elaborate detail that shines through. In Adam has added “elaborate detail and color shines through. Adam added detailed marble chimneypieces, shuttering doors and doorways in the Drawing Room, along with fluted columns with Corinthian capitals” (Armstrong,Lauren). This building had a gallery that was 14 feet wide and high, which contains niches into the thick wall for books with rich and light decoration on the walls and ceilings. At the end of the gallery there’s a domed circle closet supported by eight columns, and halfway through the columns with an imitating niche. In the 1820s the north side wasn’t completed by Adam but by the 3rdDuke, he added stones in the bath and built a porch. All this remodeling was done by the architect Thomas Cady who worked on many previous estates which belong to the Percy family. So once again the plan was revised and included an entrance hall, ante-room, state dining, drawing, long gallery, study sitting room, private apartments on the top floor for the family to live in and a grand staircase.


SOURCES:

- Adam, Robert. Syon House: Interior: Anteroom. Architecture and City Planning, 1761-65.

- McAllister, Matt. "History of Syon House." The Cotswold Tour Company, 2001, www.britain-magazine.com/features/history/history-of-syon-house/. Accessed 2018.

-The History of Syon House, 2011, https://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/5523/the-history-of-syon-house/. Accessed 24 Apr. 2018.