Support a new book on architect Baillie Scott

Aim

To fundraise for a beautifully produced new edition of Diane Haigh's book on Arts & Crafts architect Baillie Scott as a tribute to her

The story behind the project:

Diane Haigh (1949-2022) made it a mission to share her enjoyment of the buildings and designs of M. H. Baillie Scott, a leading architect and designer of the Arts & Crafts movement. 

This led to her book Baillie Scott: The Artistic House, published in 1995, and an exhibition that travelled to six sites in Great Britain, and also to Poland.

Following the book and exhibition, Di’s involvement with Baillie Scott continued. She was architect for the restoration of seven listed Baillie Scott houses. Eventually she felt it was time for a new publication. Sadly, she did not live to complete this project, but it has been taken forward by her architect partner and husband, William Fawcett. The new book, Baillie Scott: Architect and Author, will be published in September 2026.

A little more about the book:

Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (1865-1945) was a leading and influential architect and designer of the Arts & Crafts movement in Britain. Despite his reputation, Baillie Scott's work was too little known before Diane Haigh published the much praised and successful Baillie Scott: the Artistic House, which featured charming and vivid recollections of the architect by John Betjeman. The new and expanded edition of Di's book will now be illustrated with full colour photographs and includes for the first time a large selection of Baillie Scott’s own writings, with William Fawcett’s informative commentaries. It will be a beautifully bound hardback publication of 224 pages, in large 300 x 250mm format, with full colour illustration throughout.

Testimonials:

"This updated version Di Haigh’s rigorous and elegant study of Baillie Scott will be a welcome addition to the library of anyone interested in late nineteenth and early twentieth century domestic architecture in Britain. Baillie Scott was one of the most important and most creative figures of the golden age of Arts and Crafts design." - Jeremy Musson

"As an historian, Di Haigh’s well-researched knowledge of Baillie Scott is unparalleled and as the practitioner responsible for the excellent transformation of Blackwell her understanding of his buildings is unmatched. This new study focuses uniquely on both." - Graham Morrison, Founding Partner, Allies and Morrison

"Baillie Scott was one of Britain’s most articulate, inventive and lovable architects. The family house was for him the ‘most important as well as the most human’ of building types and his feeling for the flow of space made all his houses, large and small, life-enhancing. He caught the elusive quality of ‘soul’ in the rhythm of connecting spaces and contrasting levels and that same humanity and practicality inform not only his buildings, but his drawings and writing. An articulate and argumentative advocate for his aesthetic ideals, his life and work span critical decades in architectural history. An admirer from his earliest days of William Morris and Ruskin he lived to debate functionalism with the Modernists of the 1930s. Today his preference for houses that bring people together in shared central spaces and for gardens that are outdoor rooms, seems fresh and speaks to a new generation. This expanded edition of Baillie Scott: architect and author gives us the man and the age in the round." - Rosemary Hill, author of God's Architect: Pugin and The Building of Romantic Britain.

A little more about the publisher:

Lund Humphries Foundation for Visual Arts is a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with a mission to encourage and advance knowledge and appreciation of the Visual Arts by the general public, and to support research and academic study of the history and contemporary practice of Fine Art, Architecture and Design. The Foundation's main activity is the publication of books on Art, Architecture and Design under the Lund Humphries imprint, a long-established publisher with a reputation for the production of high-quality specialist books on the Visual Arts. 

Your support:

Baillie Scott: Architect and Author is an important but specialist book with high production costs. Publication is only possible with financial support: the fundraising target is £15,000 to cover detailed editing of the text, new design, reproduction of many colour illustrations and high-quality printing and binding.  

Please help! The names of all supporters will be gratefully acknowledged in the book, and once the crowdfunding campaign has closed, supporters will receive a code for advance purchase of the book at 30% discount.

This project successfully funded on 6th May 2026