Charles Rennie Mackintosh (British interior designer, 1868-1928); Margaret Macdonald (British artist, 1865-1933) Mackintosh, Charles Rennie 1868 1928 British Macdonald, Margaret 1865 1933 British 1902-1903 (creation) 1902 1903 [Mackintosh's wife, Margaret Macdonald, contributed fabric designs and a unique panel over the fireplace in the drawing room.] The entrance is on the short, western side, thus ensuring maximum privacy for the occupants since the public rooms face south. Immediately beyond the entrance are a library and business-room with small, slit windows overlooking the approach to the house. From the outer hall a short flight of steps leads up to the main, dark-beamed hall, providing circulation into the drawing-room and to the dining-room beyond. Thus the accepted principles of 19th-century country-house planning are followed, not only in the separation of zones according to function but also in the progression from public to semi-public to private areas. In the main hall, the principal staircase is partly enclosed by wooden uprights that repeat the vertical dimensions of the walls, which are interspersed with pale grey panels topped by coloured stencils. Characteristic oak furniture is pierced by squares; there are also squares on the pale grey carpet, emphasizing Mackintosh's comprehensive plan for the interior decoration. Hill House (Helensburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) Hill House Helensburgh Scotland United Kingdom Europe mosaic; gesso; stained glass; wood; textiles Hill House Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 1/27/2008) Art Nouveau; Glasgow style Glasgow style Art Nouveau architectural interiors; decorative arts; plants; Housing Housing construction; mosaic (process); painting and painting techniques; stained glass stained glass mosaic (process) painting and painting techniques construction Hill House: Interiors and Furnishings furnishings; furnishings; furniture; seating furniture; furnishings; lighting devices; lighting fixtures furnishing seat furniture lighting fixture Gilchrist, Scott 5/27/2007 (creation) 18 MB © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. Archivision, Inc. 1A1-MCR-HH-2-E10 Archivision, Inc. 1A1-MCR-HH-2-E10 hanging lamp Dining Room, view of the central hanging lamp Charles Rennie Mackintosh (British architect, 1868-1928) Mackintosh, Charles Rennie 1868 1928 British 1902-1903 (creation) 1902 1903 Much of Mackintosh's career as an architect might have remained unfulfilled had he not been encouraged and sustained by a few determined and discriminating patrons such as the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie (1860-1953). As a result of his friendship with Blackie's art director, Talwin Morris (1865-1911), Mackintosh was invited by Blackie in 1902 to design a family house, later known as the Hill House (now owned by National Trust Scotland). The chosen site, in upper Helensburgh, Strathclyde, is an exposed slope with a panoramic view of the Firth of Clyde. Although the plan of the Hill House generated the form of the building, the relationships and scale of the main units as seen from the south have an uncanny resemblance to Crathes Castle, Grampian, a late 16th-century L-plan tower-house to which was added a plain two-storey wing to provide more commodious accommodation. [Mackintosh also designed the gardens.] Hill House (Helensburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) Hill House Helensburgh Scotland United Kingdom Europe stone; stucco; slate Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/2/2008) Glasgow style; Modernist Modernist Glasgow style architectural exteriors; architectural interiors; Gardens; Housing Gardens Housing construction construction Hill House buildings; dwellings; houses house