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Archival descriptionArmchair for Glasgow School of Art
- MC/F/18A
- Item
- 1899
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014.
Designed for original board room at Glasgow School of Art. The chairs were designed for the original Board Room in the East wing (now the Mackintosh Room). The Governors never used this room for meetings and it was initially used as a studio while space was short in the half-finished building. When the new Board Room was built in the second phase of the building, Mackintosh designed a more elaborate version of this chair for it, MC/F/61. Six chairs reupholstered in brown horsehair 1985, very similar to the original fabric found on one of the chairs. Two remaining chairs reupholstered in 1986. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/F/45
- Item
- 1903
Designed for the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow. 'A very sturdy but not particularly comfortable chair, used in the ground floor saloons, the Gallery and the Smoking room... Their boxy shape contrasts with the taller and more open ladder-backs arranged alongside them in the layout of furniture which Mackintosh devised.' (Roger Billcliffe). Reupholstered in blue horsehair 1984 (the original upholstery on these and the Willow settle was a green and gold striped horsehair). This item was assessed for conversation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access project (2006-2010), and then again in 2018 following the fire in the Mackintosh Building in June 2018.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/G/6
- Item
- 1894
Bound in volume, The Magazine, November 1894. 'Behind a stylised tree stands another of Mackintosh's mysterious female figures, but this is the first one to appear that is not meticulously drawn. Only the head is shown in any detail, and the shape of the body is hidden by a voluminous cloak from which not even its limbs appear. This figure was to be repeated many times, becoming more and more stereotyped until, with the banners designed for the Turin Exhibition in 1902, the head is the only recognisably human part of a figure with a twelve-foot long, pear shaped torso. In 1895-96, Mackintosh was to develop this drawing into a poster for the Scottish Musical Review (Howarth, p1, 9F). The same cloaked figure appears with similar formal emblems at the ends of the branches of the bush.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Barrel chair for Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/66A
- Item
- 1907
Designed for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. 'One of the sturdiest and most successful small chairs designed by Mackintosh. The chair was used in the Chinese Room in the late 1940s but there is no record of it being specifically designed for it.' (Roger Billcliffe). The two chairs in the Museum of Modern Art collection (NY) originally belonged to GSA and were donated in 1958 by then director, Douglas Percy Bliss. This item was assessed for conversation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access project (2006-2010), and then again in 2018 following the fire in the Mackintosh Building in June 2018.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/F/38/v1
- Part
- 1901
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/F/36
- Item
- 1901
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Table designed for Windyhill, Kilmacolm, possibly later than 1901. Identical to a white table (collection: Hunterian Art Gallery) but dark stained. The final account for the furniture supplied to Davidson for Windyhill in 1901 does not mention the two dark stained tables so it is probable that they were made later for the children's bedrooms. (Roger Billcliffe). This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Blind Window, Certosa di Pavia
- MC/G/1
- Item
- 1891
Painted on Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 with Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/F/7
- Item
- 1897
Designed for the schoolroom, Gladsmuir, Kilmacolm. The same two metal panels first appear in the design for the fireplace and fender probably intended for Regent Park Square and were repeated in the wardrobe designed for Westdel in 1898. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/G/16
- Item
- 1918-1920
Mackintosh produced a number of very similar paintings of stylised bouquets of flowers at this time, c1918-20.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/G/4
- Item
- 1894
From The Magazine, April 1894. The long text by Mackintosh which accompanies this watercolour in The Magazine (reproduced in full in Billcliffe's catalogue) suggests that he had already encountered public hostility to his work, possibly even from fellow students, on the grounds of incomprehensibility.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Caddy spoon from Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Version 1)
- MC/F/102I/v1
- Part
- c1900-1903
Designed for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea rooms, Glasgow. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Caddy spoon from Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Version 1)
- MC/F/102H/v1
- Part
- c1900-1903
Designed for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea rooms, Glasgow. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Caddy spoon from Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Version 2)
- MC/F/102H/v2
- Part
- c1900-1903
Designed for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea rooms, Glasgow. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Caddy spoon from Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Version 2)
- MC/F/102I/v2
- Part
- c1900-1903
Designed for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea rooms, Glasgow. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Caddy spoon from Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Version 3)
- MC/F/102H/v3
- Part
- c1900-1903
Designed for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea rooms, Glasgow. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Caddy spoon from Ingram Street Tea Rooms (Version 3)
- MC/F/102I/v3
- Part
- c1900-1903
Designed for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea rooms, Glasgow. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Card table for Argyle Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/10
- Item
- 1898
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Designed for Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. A very similar table with a square top was also used in the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, and a white version appears in Annan's photograph of Mackintosh's drawing room in Mains Street. Top repaired and repolished 1985. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Chair for Chinese Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/82A
- Item
- 1911
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010). Designed for the Blue or Chinese Room at the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. The fretted back and side rails match the Chinese style motifs of the Blue Room (as called in the job books). Much of the woodwork in the Chinese Room was painted bright blue or red, but there is no trace of any finish having been applied to these chairs other than the ebonising which most of them still display. These chairs have always been associated with the Chinese Room and so must be identified with the entry for thirty-six in the job books (Roger Billcliffe). All the chairs rwere eupholstered in blue horsehair in 1985. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Chair for Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/24A
- Item
- 1900
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Designed for the White Dining Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. The basic chair used in the main dining room, and the Cloister Room in 1900. The original seat coverings were probably horsehair. Reupholstered in brown horsehair, 1984. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Chair for Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/26A
- Item
- 1900
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. Designed for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. Identical with MC/F/24 except for the shortened rear uprights and splats. Probably originally designed for the Cloister Room, but cut down in 1912 because of the new low ceilings installed at that time. (Roger Billcliffe). Reupholstered in brown horsehair 1984. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Chair for Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/24B
- Item
- 1900
Designed for the White Dining Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms. Glasgow. The basic chair used in the main dining room, and the Cloister Room in 1900. The original seat coverings were probably horsehair. Reupholstered in brown horsehair, 1984. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Chair for Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/67A
- Item
- 1907
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Designed for the Oak Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. Probably designed to provide the basic seating unit in the Oak Room. An unusual design for Mackintosh in that it is a very strong chair and now used in the Glasgow School of Art library. These were introduced by the School into the library c.1950 as a replacement for the more fragile windsor chairs originally designed for the room. The chamfering along the back-rails of the chair anticipates the similar waggon-chamfering on the library balustrade. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Chair for Oak Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms
- MC/F/65A
- Item
- 1907
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. This item was assessed for conservation in 2010 as part of the Mackintosh Conservation and Access Project (2006-2010).
Designed for the Oak Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. The wavy top rail and twin back rails echo the bent laths fitted to the Oak Room balcony and also used on the dresser. All chairs repaired and re-rushed 1985. The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
- MC/G/15
- Item
- 1915
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for a bookcase for Windyhill, Kilmacolm
- MC/G/55
- Item
- 1901
Sketch design for Windyhill bookcase (MC/F/32).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for a Memorial Fireplace, The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
- MC/G/52
- Item
- 1917
Inscribed: This room was opened by Miss Cranston in the year 1917 during the Great European War between the Allied Nations and the Central Powers.The Dug-Out, which Miss Cranston created in the basement of the Willow Tea Rooms was Mackintosh's last work in Glasgow (designed while he was living in London) and develops his new style seen in 78 Derngate. A dramatic interior was created with black ceilings and dark walls highlighted by strong colours in the decorations. The centrepiece was the Memorial Fireplace, decorated with inlaid glass and paintings of the flags of the opposing nations; above the commemorative plaque was a panel of stencilled decoration in chequers, diamonds and triangles, all in the bright colours used in the Derngate frieze. Two interior elevations indicate Mackintosh's schemes for decoration and furniture, some of which survives.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for an Artist's Town House and Studio: east elevation
- MC/G/39
- Item
- 1900-1901
Proposed east elevation of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for an Artist's Town House and Studio: south elevation
- MC/G/37
- Item
- 1900-1901
Proposed south elevation of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for an Artist's Town House and Studio: south elevation and plans
- MC/G/38
- Item
- 1900-1901
Proposed plans for building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Conversazione Programme
- MC/G/58
- Item
- 1894
Designed for the Glasgow Architectural Association.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for fireplace, Morning Room, Prospecthill House
- MC/G/51
- Item
- 1905
Design for Miss Rowat. The job books indicate that this commission was carried out, but no photographs exist to indicate how closely the executed work followed this design. A completely new motif is introduced with the wavy apron below the top shelf which provides relief to an otherwise rigidly geometrical design.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: additions to South-East wing - lower centre
- MC/G/96
- Item
- 1910
Architectural drawing showing various additions to building. The handwriting suggests that this sketch plan was not drawn by Mackintosh himself, but probably by a draughtsman in his office.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: additions to South-East wing - lower left
- MC/G/97
- Item
- 1910
Architectural drawing showing various additions to building. The handwriting suggests that this sketch plan was not drawn by Mackintosh himself, but probably by a draughtsman in his office.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: back elevation
- MC/G/77
- Item
- c1910
Architectural drawing showing back elevation.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: back elevation
- MC/G/69
- Item
- 1907
Architectural drawing showing back elevation. On the left is the tower block of the Library. The little walkway at the top of the building (the 'Hen Run') links the new West wing with the earlier East wing, separated by the already built Director's Studio. The greenhouse cantilevered out from a studio on the top floor provided models for still life painting. The superimposed alterations show changes made to the first building, and those in pencil others thought of between 1907 and 1910.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: east/west elevations
- MC/G/60
- Item
- 1897
Architectural drawing showing east elevation, west elevation and section through library. The East elevation was little changed in the process of building, but by the time the West elevation came to be executed 1906-09, Mackintosh's ideas had altered radically.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation and plan
- MC/G/92
- Item
- 1915
Architectural drawing showing elevation and plan of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation of Scott Street and Dalhousie Street
- MC/G/88
- Item
- 1910
Architectural drawing showing east/west elevations of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Renfrew Street
- MC/G/86
- Item
- 1910
Architectural drawing showing north elevation of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Renfrew Street
- MC/G/68
- Item
- 1907
Architectural drawing showing north elevation. The main difference between the completed North elevation and that shown in the 1896-97 design is the addition of an attic storey, but by setting back the upper row of windows Mackintosh made them quite invisible from Renfrew Street.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Scott Street/elevation to Dalhousie Street
- MC/G/70
- Item
- 1907
Architectural drawing showing east/west elevations. 'The East elevation is as built... the West elevation has been completely redesigned. In 1897 the roof line falls with the steep slop of Scott Street: in 1907 the lower part of the site provides a base for a soaring tower block containing the Library which, if it has affinities with the spirit of the traditional Scottish tower house, is completely twentieth century in all its detailing... Other changes were made in the course of construction,... the ashlar of the blank wall on the left was replaced by undressed stone and... the normal sized doorway grew to colossal proportions, extending well above the line of the windows (Mackintosh's pencilled alterations are just visible on the drawing).' (McLaren Young).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Scott Street/elevation to Dalhousie Street
- MC/G/78
- Item
- c1910
Architectural drawing showing east/west elevations.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: front elevation
- MC/G/76
- Item
- c1910
Architectural drawing showing Renfrew Street elevation.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie