Interior View of Mrs Carnegie's private room from N Digital image of SU/771
SC 772656
Description Interior View of Mrs Carnegie's private room from N Digital image of SU/771
Date 1982
Catalogue Number SC 772656
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of SU 771
Scope and Content Mrs Carnegie's private room, Skibo Castle, Highland This shows Mrs Carnegie's private room which has wood panelling with an ornately carved dado. The doorway on the right has a broken pediment and a moulded surround, which is shouldered at the head, a feature known as a 'lugged' architrave. A mirror topped with an eagle surmounts the chimneypiece and the wallpaper is decorated with patterns of swags and figures. The frieze at cornice level is decorated with plaster flower heads and swags with a metal picture rail below and decorative plasterwork on the ceiling. As suggested by its name, this was a private room for Mrs Carnegie and was probably very rarely seen by visitors. Nevertheless the room has wood panelling and ornate plasterwork which is similar to the decoration found in the main public rooms where the family would do their entertaining. The housemaids would be expected to clean this room daily. 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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