Hill House (Architecture in Detail) Book

This study presents a record of Hill House, one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's domestic masterpieces which underwent substantial renovation in 1992. The house combines Arts and Crafts honesty with Art Nouveau decoration and the ruggedness of a 17th-century Scottish laird's home. Built for the publisher Blackie, Mackintosh designed not only the house with its fixtures and fittings, but also the outbuildings, garden gates, walls, terraces and pergolas - all as part of a unified aesthetic conception. Charles Rennie Mackintosh is regarded as the most inspired of British Arts and Crafts architects and is now recognized as a pioneer of the Modern Movement. An outstanding furniture designer and painter, as well as an architect, Mackintosh was feted abroad - especially by the Viennese Secession - whilst remaining largely unrecognized in Britain. James Macaulay has also written "The Gothic Revival 1745-1845".Read More