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Robert Adam redesigned
another colossal Elizabethan mansion three miles northwest of Syon at
Osterley Park, which maintains the impression of being in the middle
of the countryside, despite the presence of the M4 to the north of the
house. The park itself is well worth exploring, and there's a great café
in the Tudor stables, but anyone with a passing interest in Adam's work
should pay a visit to Osterley House itself. If you arrive by
public transport, you get a £1 reduction off the price of your ticket.
From the outside,
Osterley bears some similarity to Syon, the big difference being Adam's
grand entrance portico, with its tall, Ionic colonnade. From here, you
enter a characteristically cool Entrance Hall, followed by the so-called
State Rooms of the south wing. Highlights include the Drawing Room, with
Reynolds portraits on the damask walls and a coffered ceiling centered on
a giant marigold, and the Etruscan Dressing Room, in which every surface
is covered in delicate painted trelliswork, sphinxes and urns, a style
that Adam (and Wedgwood) dubbed "Etruscan", though it is in fact derived
from Greek vases found at Pompeii
Park: daily 9am-7.30pm or dusk; free. House: April-Oct Wed-Sun 1-4.30pm;
£4.20. Tube: Osterley
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