Interior View of Mrs Carnegie's bathroom on first floor Digital image of SU/773
SC 772658
Description Interior View of Mrs Carnegie's bathroom on first floor Digital image of SU/773
Date 1982
Catalogue Number SC 772658
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of SU 773
Scope and Content Mrs Carnegie's bathroom, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows Mrs Carnegie's bathroom which has a mosaic floor with marble insets underneath the toilet furniture. The walls are completely tiled with plain and flower headed tiles which are light coloured above the dado and dark coloured below. The dado is topped with tiles in the pattern of fruit hanging from branches and the frieze is decorated with tiles in the pattern of bows and swags of fruit. The cornice has also been shaped with coloured tiles. The bathroom shown here was very luxurious for its time and would have been kept warm by the heated towel rail on the left, a central heating radiator on the back wall and a chimneypiece on the right. Andrew Carnegie employed about 85 servants on his estate, and several housemaids would be expected to clean the room and the grate for Mrs Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born in Scotland and made a fortune in the steel industry in the United States of America. Once his daughter was born he decided that she should have a Scottish home, and at the end of the 19th century he bought a large Baronial house at Skibo built in 1880 by Clarke & Bell. In addition to the £85,000 purchase price, he spent a further £2 million in the creation of an even larger mansion, constructed between 1899 and 1903 to the designs of Ross & Macbeth. In 1981 his daughter Margaret decided to sell the estate, and the castle lay empty until 1990 when Peter de Savary paid £10 million for the castle and the 2,832-hectare estate. Some £30 million was then invested in its transformation into the Carnegie Club, a private residential golf and sporting club. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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