Collection: Local Collection Non Fiction

This book provides the opportunity to look behind the facades of great houses, small castles and inner-city dwellings. With the exception of Mackintosh's masterpiece at Helensburgh, now owned by the National Trust for Scotland, all the properties included are private homes, although a few are ope...

Drawing on the unrivalled collections of the National Museums of Scotland's Scottish Ethnological Archive, it provides a unique insight into the work of farmers and fisher folk, the pastimes of children, transport and trade, craft work and house work during the closing decades of the 19th and fir...

This book, with illustrations that include specially prepared plans and sections, takes a clear-eyed view of Mackintosh and his achievements, revealing a designer of extraordinary sophistication and inventiveness.