The Scottish Chateau: The Country House of Renaissance Scotland - Hardcover

McKean, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0750923237 ISBN 13: 9780750923231

Verlag: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2001

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The author examines how the Scottish country house was transformed by romanticism (including the "discovery" of the mythical bard Ossian by Macpherson) and the picturesque, then revived mid-19th century as "Baronial" haunts, before a large scale reoccupation and restoration from the late 1970s. The houses occupied a European tradition as "castle-wise country houses", with ornamental battlements, large pleasure gardens and lavish vestments. Properties featured include Crathes, the House of the Binns, the Palace of Huntly and the Earl's Palace in Kirkwall. The book also focuses on the lives of the occupants, including Sir James Hamilton of Finart, the Earls of Morton, Huntly and Arran, and the Duke of Chatelherault, and discusses important architects such as Robert Adam, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and David Bryce. Using contemporary descriptions, archives and documents, mixed with reconstructions of buildings and some humour, this book is a lively read illustrated by portraits, gardens, interiors and landscapes.

Biografía del autor:

Charles McKean is Professor of Scottish Architectural History at the University of Dundee. He has written many architectural guides to Scotland plus a number of books including The Scottish Thirties (1987), which won the Thomas Ross Memorial Award for Scottish Architectural History, and the forthcoming Creating the Museum of Scotland (NMS, Nov 1998). He is a former award-winning architectural critic of The Times, the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, and is a frequent radio broadcaster. From 1979 - 84 he was Chief Executive of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, and he has been awarded honorary fellowships of both RIBA and RIAS.

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• Verlag: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0750923237
• ISBN 13: 9780750923231
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256