Murray_Adams-Acton
Gladstone Murray Adams-Acton (known as Murray Adams-Acton) (1886–1971) was an English historian of art and architecture and interior designer of considerable flamboyance.[1][2]
Adams-Acton was the son of the sculptor John Adams-Acton and his wife Marion (née Hamilton), better known as the writer Jeanie Hering.[3]
He designed the dining room to Shirenewton Hall in 1910 and the interiors of a men's outfitter's shop, Swan & Edgar's in Piccadilly, renovating it before it reopened in 1927.[4] Book Review Digest described him in 1930 as a "charming draftsman".[5] He was also adept as a furniture designer and inventor, and made numerous items including a toaster.[6] As an expert, he also authored numerous publications on design, such as Domestic Architecture and Old Furniture and The Genesis and Development of Linenfold Panelling (1945).[7][8] He also produced work about ecclesiastical architecture in France.[9] Adams-Acton was also a keen gardener, noted in particular for his rhododendron cultivation in the 1940s.[10][11]