Yet more of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s designs for Hill House. See link and posts passim.

Library Entrance. Typical Mackintosh square insets on the cupboard:-

Note curved wooden detailing:-

The detailing is continued through the bookshelves:-

Dining Room dresser – probably brought to the house by the Blackie family. The portrait is of Walter Blackie for whom Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House.

Even the pantry has Mackintosh designs – heart-shaped cutouts in the lower cupboards:-

Some more of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s designs for Hill House. See link and posts passim.

Ceiling Lamps:-

Floor standing lamp:-

Pendant lamp:-

Ceiling lamp:-

Wall lamp. Note also stencilled wall decoration:-

One of the most emblematic “Mackintosh” style parts of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House is the stairwell. See link and posts passim.

Stairwell entrance:-

Stairwell and window:-

On right hand wall compared to above:-

Lamp above Stair Landing:-

Carpet on stair landing:-

Iconic Mackintosh chair design. On Hill House stair landing:-

The main bedroom of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Hill House in Helensburgh contains many typical Mackintosh motifs.

Bed. Behind the bed are panels by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh:-

At the foot of the bed there is a window niche and small dresser:-

Washstand (see bed to left):-

Furniture, fireplace and table plus Mackintosh chair from foot of bed:-

Wardrobes and chair:-

Wardrobe, stool and dressing mirror:-

Windows, lamp and dressing mirror:-

The hallway is the first part of Hill House you see when entering.

Table: chair and clock in background:-

Chair with a book whose cover was one of Mackintosh’s designs for Blackie:-

The chair was in a different position in 2017:-

Wall clock:-

Niche in hall:-

Hall door:-

I forgot to post this detail of the drawing room fireplace in my previous post:-

The interior of Hill House, Helensburgh contains wonderful examples of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s designs.

The photos below of the Drawing Room are from two different visits to the house. To preserve the pigments of the fabrics etc I didn’t use flash so some of the photos aren’t as clear as they might be.

Window seat (facing you as you enter the drawing room):-

Window Seat Niche:-

Fireplace:-

Fire iron:-

Cupboard (to left of fireplace in above photos):-

Lamp. (As I recall this is not a lamp original to the house but a reconstruction. Some of the carpet are also faithful replavements of originals):-

Located above the fireplace is a gesso panel by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh:-

Settee:-

Windows and lamp:-

Furniture:-

Wall decorations, chairs and cabinet:-

Recess with piano:-

Another bench seat. (I can’t remember if this was in the drawing room or not):-

Hill House in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, was designed by famous Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. His wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, provided some of the interior designs.

Drawings of Hill House:-

The house was designed by Mackintosh for the publisher, Walter Blackie, (for whom Mackintosh also designed book covers.) Almost every aspect of the house is due to the Mackintoshes. Sadly it suffered from damp ingress and a cage has had to be erected to protect it until remedial steps can be taken to prevent water penetration.

The cage has, however, allowed a walkway to be built to give visitors unusual views of the house – and its roof. These show off some typical Mackintosh features:-

One of Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s designs for Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms.

I featured the exterior and lower tea room with one photograph of the Chinese Room here.

Mackintosh chair halfway up stair to Chinese Room:-

View of Chinese Room from stairs:-

Alcove above stairs:-

View from above stairs:-

View back to stairs:-

Mackintosh print, tea-room tables, menu and chairs:-

Demi-lune chair opposite till:-

Not the Chinese Room:-

This Oak Room was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms, Ingram Street, Glasgow.

After those tea rooms closed for business the room was for many years stored by Glasgow Corporation and then Glasgow Museums.

The construction of the V&A Dundee provided a space for the rooms to be on show to the public once more.

Dutch towns have interesting architectural features. Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether a building is Art Deco or not. Others are distinctively Dutch/Low Countries as on the right here:-

The doorway to the middle building above has Art Deco features to it. Certainly there’s “rule of three” in the windows above it and the door itself has a very 30s feel. The ironwork on the gates is good too:-

The brickwork on the canalside house below is very distinctive and there’s more than a hint of Deco to the double doors in the centre. Also a Charles Rennie Mackintosh feel to all the doors:-

And is this Deco or merely Dutch style?:-

Note the squares in the window highlights. And there’s an Art Nouveau touch to the decoration just above the windows but below the brick arches:-