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"Scotland's Yester House\nAt the Foot of the Lammermuir Hills, a Venerable Estate Embraces its Musical Heritage\nYester House, dating from the late 17th century and situated in East Lothian, in the southeast of Scotland, stands at the base of the Lammermuir Hills. Owner Francis Menotti explains that numerous Scottish architects had a hand in its design and renovations, notably Robert Adam, to whom the north fa\u00E7ade is credited.\nThe rear drawing room.\nIn what Menotti calls the yellow room, a portrait of Prince Charles Louis from the circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck hangs over a William Kent fireplace.\nThe library.\nThe d\u00E9cor and ambience of the dining room reflect Menotti's gift for evoking a festive atmosphere. Against the mirror, he layered delftware and other ceramics, an ornate mantel clock and a late-18th-century French double portrait previously held in the royal collections at Wiesbaden, Germany.\nMementos of the life and career of Menotti's father, composer Gian Carlo Menotti, fill the studio. An antique Italian organ case now houses books.\nPlaced above the studio's Robert Adam fireplace is Giuseppe Amisani's 1918 painting of the child Gian Carlo with his brother Tullio.\n\"There's nothing better than listening to music in the ballroom,\" Menotti says of the saloon, Robert Adam's most famous contribution to Yester House. In 1789 Adam improved on his father William's original early-18th-century design by enlarging the windows in better proportion to the lofty, 30-foot ceiling.\nMuch of the furniture in the buff bedroom has always been with the house.\nIn the print room that Francis Menotti created in the early 1980s, paper-and-india-ink frames designed by Fabio Palamedese are affixed directly to the walls."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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