On Thurday 25th October the Art Department went on an excursion to the Hill House in Helensburgh designed by Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Standard Grade and Higher Pupils had the chance to see this unique house and have a guided tour of the interiors which feature many examples of Mackintosh chairs, lighting and stained glass motifs.
Pupils sketched various elements of Mackintosh’s designs in order to see his designs first hand and aid them in developing ideas for their course work.
The Standard Grade class are currently designing and creating lamps using willow withies, using the work of Mackintosh and Tiffany as inspiration.
October 26, 2007 at 9:44 am
Had a fab time yesterday! My favorite bit of info. about the lights were that they were gas lights originally and would have shimmered with movement from the gas flames and created a dappled effect in the hallway downstairs that looked like a forest- how cool is that!
October 26, 2007 at 11:21 am
The Trip Was Fun Except From Drawing The Lamps . . It Was Too Difficult Too Draw The Lamps Standing . . . It Was Hard Not Too Touch AnyThing Cause There Was A Comfy Bed That I Wanted Too Jump On x
October 26, 2007 at 11:22 am
It was good , the lamps were very well designed, the rooms were very different and the garden was massive.
October 26, 2007 at 11:23 am
the trip was fun and the lamps were difficult was to draw lol .
October 26, 2007 at 11:24 am
The trip was fun and the lamps were designed good. i would like too go again and spend a lot more time. the only thing i didn’t like was you couldnt touch anything. lol x
October 26, 2007 at 11:26 am
the trip was good and we had a great time lol i would like too go again but spend more time it was good and we had a good laugh x
October 26, 2007 at 11:33 am
I thought the house was well designed but there was a errors because of the age. The lamps were nice but only suited the house .
October 26, 2007 at 11:34 am
I liked the trip alot there was a lot of detail.I liked the bus trip it was really good because we played a game of truth .The lamps gave me a good idea for my lamp. It was very insperational
October 26, 2007 at 11:36 am
I really enjoyed the trip to hillhouse it was great to see some scottish designs for once! My favourite room was probably the living room, it was very feminine and had pretty the colours in it especially the mother of pearl the was placed in certain bits of the room. I really liked the big piece of artwork that Macintosh’s wife made it was gorgeous.
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October 26, 2007 at 11:36 am
The trip yesterday at Hillhouse was really inspiring, I thougt some of the lights and designs were very nice but overall my favourite part had to be walking around the gardens.
October 26, 2007 at 11:41 am
I had a really good time at the Hillhouse! It was great. The rooms were reallly nice, especilly the main room which was full of feminine interior.Also the mmain room downstairs as so beautiful. I would like to go again sometime.
October 26, 2007 at 11:41 am
I like the fact that we got to see the real things to draw from instead of just looking at pictures in the classroom all the time but when we were drawing they had no chairs to sit on and it was a bit hard to balence the clipboard and draw. Over all it was a good trip.
October 26, 2007 at 11:45 am
i enjoyed the trip to The Hill House as it gave us a proper chance to see MacKintoshes work in real life and in its natural state, rather than just in books and pictures. It was also good fun and in would definetly go again. (”,) x.
October 26, 2007 at 11:45 am
The house was very big. There was hundreds of rooms that had all this stuff in them. In one of them there was a model of the hole place. The garden was cool too.
October 26, 2007 at 11:52 am
I enjoyed the trip and had a great time. I loved the main bedroom and the main room downstairs as it was bright, spacious and light. Even although it was designed about 100 years ago it still felt quite modern, as his work is timeless.
October 26, 2007 at 11:52 am
I thought mackintosh’s work was very classy and very inspiring . It still looked modern for being designed a hundred years ago.
October 26, 2007 at 11:58 am
I really enjoyed the trip to The Hill House yesterday. I really like the picture painted by Mackintosh’s wife. I also really liked the hall. The bedroom was painted with creams and pinks which made it look feminine. This was my favourite room, it was all symetrical with thin chairs placed around the room which were only made for show, if you sat on one it would probably break!!
Nicola Xx
September 2, 2008 at 9:10 am
I really enjoyed my visit to Hillhouse. It reminded me of my very first visit when it had been in private ownership and I was still at school. It seemed so much bigger then but it still has that magical quality. It’s a wonderful house. I thought then wouldn’t it be great to live here. You know I still feel the same way about Hillhouse. Mackintosh was my hero when I was at school and I had thought’s of becoming an architect. I had been offered places at Glasgow School of Art to study Art and also Architecture. I eventually chose to study Art but Mackintosh’ swork still has a magical quality for me. I guess he always will.