You are invited: Scotland’s finest stately home as a well-researched coffee-table book
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Hopetoun
Scotland’s Finest Stately Home
Hopetoun House, on the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, is the seat of the Marquess of Linlithgow. The lavishly illustrated book presents the architecture (initially designed by Sir William Bruce in the 1690s and greatly extended by William Adam and his sons from the 1720s), sumptuously decorated rooms and art collection, as well as the landscape and gardens.
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This volume discusses Hopetoun both as the historic seat of a noble family and as a complex work of art. It covers its architecture, interior design and furnishing, its collection of paintings, its designed landscape and also the family who have built, inhabited and developed it since the late 17th century. The text is a joint production by eminent specialists. Appealing photographs of the interiors by Frank Dalton and of the new Walled Garden by Claire Takacs form an important part of the book. Chapters written by members of the family, Lord and Lady Hopetoun as well as Lord Alexander Hope, connect the historic place to the present and the future of the estate.
press commentaries
Den Liebhabern britischer Country Houses sei dieser neue Bildband wärmstens empfohlen.
Fresko
In this volume Hirmer Publishers have celebrated so worthily one of the architectural achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment and it is to be hoped they will devote future volumes to other historic houses and art collections in these islands.
The Georgian
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Photographer Frank Dalton, Claire Takacs
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Contributions by A. Bantelmann-Betz, P. Burman, C. Dingwall, A. Farnusch, J. Hardy, J. Holloway, Lord A. Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, Countess of Hopetoun, D. Jones, L. Schmidt, A. Skedzuhn-Safir, C. M. Vogtherr
Foreword by The Marquess of Linlithgow240 pages, 209 colour illustrations
25.4 × 29 cm, linen with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3439-1
Keywords
Architecture, Interieur, design, 17th century, 18th century
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