Scottish Country

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SCOTTISH COUNTRY
CHARLES MACLEAN and CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES
oiW/writes Charles Maclean, 'is a spectacularly beautijiil place. And Scots throughout their turbulent history have lined in harmony with an environment that ojfered mostly hardship, yet inspired fierce loyalty and a passionate love of countiy.'
Scottish Countiy explores the union of the Scots with the great beauty of their land as manifested by Scodand's secluded country houses, its gardens, traditions and culture, revealing an authentic and highly diverse Scottish style. There is a world of difference between a Highland laird's manse and a seventeenth-century fortified house or a crofter's stone cottage. The full range of these various types of home is shown here, exhibiting the private and often eccentric elements that contribute to the Scottish look: a tiled Edwardian kitchen at Ardkinglas; a bright, richly decorated ceiling inside a thick-waUed Jacobean tower house; a lush garden carpeted with bluebells and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

SCOTTISH COUNTRY
CHARLES MACLEAN and CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES
oiW/writes Charles Maclean, 'is a spectacularly beautijiil place. And Scots throughout their turbulent history have lined in harmony with an environment that ojfered mostly hardship, yet inspired fierce loyalty and a passionate love of countiy.'
Scottish Countiy explores the union of the Scots with the great beauty of their land as manifested by Scodand's secluded country houses, its gardens, traditions and culture, revealing an authentic and highly diverse Scottish style. There is a world of difference between a Highland laird's manse and a seventeenth-century fortified house or a crofter's stone cottage. The full range of these various types of home is shown here, exhibiting the private and often eccentric elements that contribute to the Scottish look: a tiled Edwardian kitchen at Ardkinglas; a bright, richly decorated ceiling inside a thick-waUed Jacobean tower house; a lush garden carpeted with bluebells and sheltered from the wind; a wall decorated with fish in a lodge at Camasunary; the comfort of weU-stuffed furniture in living rooms and libraries. This welcoming civility is set against the splendours of the landscape, with windswept hills, craggy coastlines and lakes veiled in mist.
Many of the treasures of Scottish life are also explored, in sections on painted ceilings. Romantic painting, Harris Tweed, tartans, pottery, doocots, troUt and salmon fishing, deerstalking and grouse shooting. A directory lists houses and gardens open to the public, as well as island tours, inns, hotels and antique shows -even where to buy armour!
Scotiand has contributed more to world culture than any other country of its size, giving us everything from whisky to Robert Burns, golf to Adam Smith. Here is ample proof that it also has its own characteristic style to inspire and delight the beholder.
With over 400 colour illustrations On the jacket; Ardldnglas, hack Hatton Vissza