Holmwood House (National Trust for Scotland)
Greek Revival villa with recovered stencilled interiors, a Homeric frieze and a gilded cupola.
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This guide to Holmwood House in Glasgow follows the painted interiors of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, the architect who designed this villa for paper-mill owner James Couper in the eighteen-fifties. It touches the house's odd old accounts, the convent years that followed, and the conservators who went back in with scalpels. Best heard standing in the entrance hall, at the foot of the stair.
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