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A romantic vision of the finest Arts and Crafts architect.
Practicing from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott exerted a profound influence on English Arts and Crafts architecture and design as well as on the nascent modernist movement. As a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, Baillie Scott adhered to the philosophy that good design should be made available to everyone and should extend from the planning of towns to the creation of dishes and doorknobs. Baillie Scott maintained a characteristically English dedication to the domestic landscape, designing houses and gardens whose exterior forms and interior details were rooted in a romantic vision of vernacular construction and craftsmanship. But his spatial planning signaled a revolution in the organization of interior space, with the development of the open plan—and the introduction of the demotic, modern living room—around the same time that Frank Lloyd Wright was engaging in similar experiments across the Atlantic. Photographer Ian Macdonald-Smith has captured thirty of the most characteristically innovative and charming extant houses designed by Baillie Scott, as well as their delightful gardens, in spectacular full-color photographs taken for this book that express the vibrant craftsmanship and prescient planning of this early-twentieth-century master.
Practicing from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott exerted a profound influence on English Arts and Crafts architecture and design as well as on the nascent modernist movement. As a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, Baillie Scott adhered to the philosophy that good design should be made available to everyone and should extend from the planning of towns to the creation of dishes and doorknobs. Baillie Scott maintained a characteristically English dedication to the domestic landscape, designing houses and gardens whose exterior forms and interior details were rooted in a romantic vision of vernacular construction and craftsmanship. But his spatial planning signaled a revolution in the organization of interior space, with the development of the open plan—and the introduction of the demotic, modern living room—around the same time that Frank Lloyd Wright was engaging in similar experiments across the Atlantic. Photographer Ian Macdonald-Smith has captured thirty of the most characteristically innovative and charming extant houses designed by Baillie Scott, as well as their delightful gardens, in spectacular full-color photographs taken for this book that express the vibrant craftsmanship and prescient planning of this early-twentieth-century master.
About the Author
Ian Macdonald-Smith grew up in a house outside London designed by Baillie Scott. He now resides in New York City and in Bermuda. He is the photographer for Rizzoli’s Bermuda Style.
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Master of the Arts and Crafts movement, April 21 2010
By Pamela Robinson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Arts and Crafts Master: The Houses and Gardens of M.H. Baillie Scott (Hardcover)
Spacious design, thoughtful planning and quality from the smallest to the largest decorative elements figure in the long and productive career of the architect featured in "Arts and Crafts Master: The Houses and Gardens of M.H. Baillie Scott (Arts & Crafts Master)."The book examines and explains 30 homes designed by the English architect, a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, which adhered to a belief in simple forms and a commitment to quality craftsmanship, and influenced architecture, interior decorating and decorative arts. Baillie Scott, in particular, integrated landscaping concerns into the home's design, with themes and the same care applied both indoors and out.
All but one of the structures are in Britain or Europe, with the exception being The Close in Short Hills, N.J., designed by Baillie Scott but built under the direction of the famed New York firm, McKim, Mead & White, completed in 1913. This home features a chapel off a courtyard, window seats in the main house, a sleeping porch and plenty of open spaces, but above all, half timber design. Among them are the stone Castletown police station in Castletown, Isle of Man, completed in 1902; the White Lodge in Wantage, Oxfordshire, 1899; the Havisham House in Rough Common, Canterbury, Kent, 1912, and Dove's Nest, in Uckfield, East Sussex, 1904.
The look of all the homes is inviting, with the photos seeming to encourage readers to step into the rooms or at least touch the walls and fine woodwork or stone through the pictures. Clever camera angles show sunlight streaming across rooftops or brightening the stone paths to gardens and open spaces. The effect of the architect's work is comfort surrounded by quality, not a cold estate designed to make the architect look good.
Architecture students, interior design aficionados and others will enjoy the beauty of these pages and the history it reveals about design principles of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
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Color Makes the Book, Jun 2 2010
By Stuart Cohen - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Arts and Crafts Master: The Houses and Gardens of M.H. Baillie Scott (Hardcover)
If you are a fan of English Arts and Crafts architecture this book is a must own because of the beautiful contemporary color photographs of Baillie Scott's houses. The text, sadly, adds nothing to the critical assesment of Baillie Scott's work or to his biography. For this Kornwolf's book is still the definative work. It, however, is poorly illustrated with small balck and white photos, and if you want to "see" how good Baillie Scott was, buy this beautiful coffee table book from Rizzoli.Stuart Cohen, FAIA, SAH
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Arts and Crafts Master. The Houses and Gardens of M.H. Baillie Scott - Ian Macdonald-Smith, Jan 26 2012
By Warren F. Sanderson - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Arts and Crafts Master: The Houses and Gardens of M.H. Baillie Scott (Hardcover)
There is an enormous homeliness about arts and crafts architecture and one of the key points is the feeling of shelter that one gets from a visible roof which includes living quarters within its volume, not merely underneath it. The 40 houses designed by Baillie Scott and reviewed here exemplify how the architect repeatedly meets this primal need. As you would expect in a book published in 2010 the colour pictures are superb and there is no reliance on old b&w photographs. Many more houses are shown than in the Academy Editions monograph " Baillie Scott - The Artistic House" by Diane Haigh but these two publications read together clearly reveal to the reader Baillie Scott's marvellous talent.I would have appreciated the addition of more plans on a slightly larger scale than those presented.
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