Hill House was designed for publisher Walter Blackie. After the Glasgow Art School, The Hill House is one of Mackintosh's best known works. It is a powerful light-grey rendered house but quite a trip from Glasgow - if staying there probably best to allow an afternoon.
The facades at Hill House are typically strong with the limited apertures articulated with characteristic grids, and subtle non-orthogonal elements such as the chimney. Mackintosh's style is often seen as not only related to fin-de-siecle Art Nouveau but to the burgeoning Modern Architecture movement.
This project typically works with the Scottish traditional architecture, often referred to as the Scots Baronial, the rustic architecture of towers and crow steps.
Hill House is run by the National Trust for Scotland and is close to Loch Lomond, around half an hour's drive north-west from Glasgow.
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