Detail of ceiling in drawing room. Digital image of DB 56.
SC 1769293
Description Detail of ceiling in drawing room. Digital image of DB 56.
Date 3/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 1769293
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DB 56
Scope and Content View of coffered ceiling in drawing room of Cairndhu, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute Cairndhu, a two-storeyed asymmetrical villa, was built in 1871 to designs by architect William Leiper (1839-1916), and the service wing was extended in 1902. The interior was decorated by artist Daniel Cottier (1838-91), and includes Japanese-style painted ceilings and fine stained glass panels. It was converted to a hotel in 1956, and a residential home in 1984. This shows the intricately hand-painted ceiling in the drawing room with its panels of both naturalistically-painted and stylised flower, bird and abstract motifs. The wooden ceiling and cornice are enriched with gilded highlights giving the effect of Japanese lacquer work. Daniel Cottier attended the Workingmen's College in London in the early part of his career and heard lectures by John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The values championed by the Arts and Crafts movement, such as truth to materials and the value of craftsmanship, are apparent in Cottier's later work. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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