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Peter Pennoyer and Fairfax & Sammons, takes an admira-
ble step towards restoring terminology as well as the thing
itself to our awareness and practice. As decorative arts his-
torian Martha Blythe Gerson wrote in 1981, in her article,
A Glossary of Robert Adam's neo-Classical ornament, "As
with people, so too with ornament: we need to know the
names of the phenomena we observe if we are to appreci-
ate, analyse and discuss them without mistaking one thing
for another." As a prodigious student of Latin and Greek,
even before he was an architect, Robert Adam knew and
employed the proper names of the visual and sculptural
components that would come to make up his core design
repertoire.
One of SYMM's clasically trained
craftsmen applying the finishing
wax to a Doric entablature
crafted from English Oak.
Symm
