The new development By Ian McConnell LUXURY housing developer Panacea Homes has opened a show home to promote its properties on the site of the former St Agatha’s Primary School in Kirkintilloch. “The Primary”, a bespoke 15-home redevelopment, comprises a “luxury sandstone reconversion” of the primary school building itself, retaining original features, as well as new-build, semi-detached and detached homes on the former playground. The school, formerly known as Gartconner Public School, was created by the architectural firm Honeyman & Keppie and built in 1897. This architectural firm was created by John Honeyman and John Keppie in 1888. Renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh joined this practice in April 1889 as a draughtsman and progressed to partner level, Panacea Homes noted.
BBC Scotland/iPlayer TRADITIONAL or modern? It is the question every estate agent asks, and it turned out to be the choice facing the judges in the final of Scotland’s Home of the Year last night. The winner was – spoiler alert – The Moss, a Georgian renovation in Killearn that is home to interior stylist Karen Welstead, husband Matt and their daughters Cora and Marnie and son, William. The runners up were the modernist The Garden House, St Andrews, and the Mid-Century Fun House in Dunblane. For the second year running, the west of Scotland produced the winner. Last year it was a traditional Glasgow West End flat with fin de siecle flourishes, this time it was a fabulously stylish but homely pile with a pink exterior.
Openings and Closings: May 26 to June 1 Elizabeth Lanza
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Getty Center closed its doors last year. After a long wait, visitors are finally welcome back to a host of brand-new exhibitions that have been worth the wait. One is
. A plump French bergère by the great eighteenth-century furniture maker Georges Jacob is the focus of the exhibition. The seat is a great example of the neoclassical era’s attention to the combination of comfort and style. The meticulously crafted chair has managed to survive almost unaltered for 250 years. The Getty Center reopened on May 25, and visitors must reserve a ticket here.