Scotland

5.5.10
Went running this morning then got ready for another Mackintosh-filled day. We went to a museum that had re-made Mackintosh’s actual house so we could walk through it. Attached to it was a museum- there were Whistlers!! Next we walked to another gallery that had a Mackintosh exhibit with some of his paintings and furniture. We made our way back to one of his churches now that we were sure it was open and sketched inside for a bit. Then lunch…at McDonalds!! I’ve definitely had an overload, two orders of chicken tenders in 3 days is plenty for me. We sketched another Mackintosh façade, which was, conveniently, across the way from the McDonalds parking lot. We drove over to a building (House for an Art Lover) that was commissioned by a group of architects who built it off of a set of architectural drawings by Mackintosh. They were for a design competition, which he didn’t win, and consequently the house was never built. The scale was ambiguous from the drawings the architects found and the interpretation was too large I felt. I think they needed to scale it down some- the spaces were much larger and less intimate than any of the other Mackintosh buildings we have been to.
DuPuy dropped us off back at the hostel and let us have some free time for the rest of the evening. Off to Edinburgh tomorrow!