1914

Adam Style

American, 1882 - 1971

This illustration appeared in The Brickbuilder, a monthly architectural magazine, as part of an article entitled “The Nomenclature of the Styles: a humorous theory illustrating in caricature familiar schools and phases of architecture.” Here, the artist satirizes the eighteenth-century British neoclassical mode of architecture and decorative arts—named after the Adam brothers of Scotland—by wittily suggesting its origins in the Garden of Eden.