Braw Doocot
An occasional Blog on design, interiors, art and architecture form Scotland.
Friday, 9 April 2010
English Palladianism begun in Scotland?
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“Throughout the eighteen century the most imposing property in Glasgow was the Shawfield Mansion built in 1712 for Daniel Campbell by his na...
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Thursday, 8 April 2010
Sanquhar Knitting Patterns
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By the mid 1700s, as knitting skills spread throughout Scotland, a thriving cottage industry was established. It first produced mainly sim...
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Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Visit Scotland?
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The Scottish Tourist Board, now called Visit Scotland , might think of republishing the posters that once encouraged railway passengers...
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Cairness House
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Extendeding an 1781 Aberdeenshire mansion by the architect Robert Burn, Cairness House was transformed in 1789 by James Playfair. Inspired b...
Monday, 5 April 2010
Christopher Dresser
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"Among the first independent industrial designers, Christopher Dresser (1834-1904) championed design reform in 19th century Britain whi...
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A Scotland that never was?
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The 1911 Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry was held in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. While the major “palaces” housed...
Friday, 2 April 2010
State Appointed Sculptors in Scotland
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'Totalitarianism is the concept which subsumes three such seemingly different movements as the Leninist-Stalinist stage of Bolshevism, M...
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