Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland’s Romantic North

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Featuring breathtaking photographs of a few of Scotland’s most remarkable and little-known houses, this book tells the story of how incomers adopted the North of Scotland as a recreational paradise and left an astonishing legacy of architecture and decoration inspired by the romanticized image of the Highlands.  Referred to as shooting lodges because they were designed basically to accommodate the parties of guests that flocked north for the yearly sporting season, these houses range from Picturesque cottages ornées and Scotch Baronial castles to Arts and Crafts mansions and brand new eco-lodges. Whilst their designs respond to a few of Britain’s wildest and most stirring landscapes, inside many were equipped with the up to date domestic technology and boasted opulent decoration and furnishings from the smartest London and Parisian firms.  A good number continue to exist little altered in their original state, and a few are still owned by descendants of the families that built them.

Images from the famous Country Life Picture Library and specially commissioned photographs evoke the dramatic settings and arresting detail of these houses, making the book as appealing to decorators and architectural historians as it is to travelers and sportsmen.

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