The Hill House was the family home of the wealthy Glasgow-based publisher, Walter Blackie. It was designed in 1902 by the then-up-and coming architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and has since become known as his domestic masterpiece.

Mackintosh not only designed the building itself but, along with his wife Margaret MacDonald, a well-established artist in the Arts and Crafts movement, every item of furniture, textile, and decorative feature.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) was a key figure of the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) and is regarded as one of Scotland's greatest architects.