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Highland retreats : the architecture and interiors of Scotland's romantic north

Title
Highland retreats : the architecture and interiors of Scotland's romantic north / Mary Miers ; with photography by Paul Barker, Simon Jauncey and Country Life.
Author
Miers, Mary
Publication
  • New York : Rizzoli, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Barker, Paul, 1935-2016
Description
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 29 cm
Summary
"Featuring breathtaking photographs of some of Scotland's most remarkable and little-known houses, this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of the Highlands. Known as shooting lodges because they were designed principally to accommodate the parties of guests that flocked north for the annual sporting season, these houses range from Picturesque cottages ornés and Scotch Baronial castles to Arts and Crafts mansions and modern eco-lodges. While their designs respond to some of Britain's wildest and most stirring landscapes, inside many were equipped with the latest domestic technology and boasted opulent decoration and furnishings from the smartest London and Parisian firms. A good number survive little altered in their original state, and some are still owned by descendants of the families that built them"--
Uniform Title
Country life (museum gallery)
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Genre/Form
Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9780847844760
  • 0847844765
LCCN
  • 2016053017
  • 40027192130
OCLC
  • ocn964065759
  • 964065759
  • SCSB-5891618
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Columbia University Libraries