Interior-general view of window seat in Hill House
BL 18650/15
Description Interior-general view of window seat in Hill House
Date 1904
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 18650/15
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Window Seat in the Drawing Room, Hill House, Helensburgh The drawing room of Hill House was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the publisher, Walter Blackie. This photograph, taken in 1904 by Harry Bedford Lemere, provides a unique record of Mackintosh's original stylistic design for the room. The walls are subdivided vertically by bands of silver with stylised roses arranged between. The rose provides the theme of the lights above the window seat, and the deep bay window, covered by gossamer-thin curtains, allows south light to flood the room. Hill House, now owned by The National Trust for Scotland, has become one of the west of Scotland's most popular tourist attractions. The Trust, using evidence from photographs and paint scrapes, has done much to restore its original interior decoration. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 71
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