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There are no painted surfaces. The ceilings are of birch plywood nailed directly to the rafters and were used as walls, to the studs. Cabinets of birch plywood are the only other non-redwood finishes. The floors are of 1/2", ground, consolidated cork tiles, one foot square, with a waxed finish. The stair treads to the second floor are white oak ...
Elizabeth’s grandparents, Sir William Gray and Egidia Smith built the house now known as Lady Stair’s House in 1622. By 1719 Elizabeth was a widow, and she bought her grandparents’ house, [3] known then as Lady Gray’s House after her grandmother. [1] It was originally left to her mother’s younger sister.
The tenement is now named after the Gray's granddaughter: the society beauty Lady Stair, Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Stair (née Elizabeth Dundas), the widow of John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair. She purchased the building in 1719. [6] In 1825, Lady Stair's House was bought by John Russel, a brushmaker whose family lived in the house until ...
The steps leading up to it and its deck are made of large gray limestone blocks. Wide cheek walls on either side of the stairs have a quarter-round profile following the steps' fall line to identical square stone pedestals topped with cap blocks, currently holding large flower pots, identical to the plinth blocks underneath the two wooden ...
It was originally called Lady Gray's House after the widow of the first proprietor. [1] She was the mother of the Scots Worthy Andrew Gray whose books became well-known despite dying at an early age. It was then bought in 1719 by Elizabeth Dundas, Lady Stair, [2] the widow of John Dalrymple (1648 - 1707) the 1st Earl of Stair, hence its present ...
The Hill House in Helensburgh, Scotland, was created by architects and designers Charles and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. [1] [2] The house is an example of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style). [3]
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Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.