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Adam style fireplaces

The Adam style (or Adamesque) is a style of neoclassical architecture and design as practised by Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728- 1792) and his brothers. A book of engraved designs made the "Adam" repertory available throughout Europe. A parallel development of this early phase of neoclassical design is French "Louis XVI style.

Robert Adam's main rivals were James Wyatt, whose many designs for furniture were less known outside the wide circle of his patrons, because he never published a book of engravings, and Sir William Chambers, who designed fewer furnishings for his interiors, preferring to work with able cabinet-makers like John Linnell, Thomas Chippendale and Ince and Mayhew. So many able designers were working in this style in London from ca. 1770, that the style is currently more usually termed Early Neoclassical.

Georgian fireplaces.

Large adam pine mantel inspired by Robert Adam Designs

A customer asked today which wax is use on Knapp woodworking's pine mantels, well the wax is called Fiddes and the colour is called Stripped pine, there is another manufacturer Brixax and the colour for this one is called P7. either of these two waxes will match in perfectly. If you need to apply some wax to an area of your mantel, you first apply the wax with a cloth wait for a couple of minutes and then with a clean brush, brush the area briskly to remove any fragments of wax, then with a lint free cloth buff the area to a lovely shine. The more you buff the more the shine, best not to have it to shiny.