Records of The Glasgow School of Art Club
- DC 002
- Collection
- c1900-1950
This collection includes ephemera from meetings, programmes and prizegivings.
The Glasgow School of Art Club
Records of The Glasgow School of Art Club
This collection includes ephemera from meetings, programmes and prizegivings.
The Glasgow School of Art Club
Design for the Grand Hall, Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901
The competition, held in 1898, was won by the Glasgow architect James Miller with a considerably more ornate design for a 'bit of Spanish baroque confectionery' (McLaren Young). Like Miller's, Mackintosh's design derives from James Sellars' for the 1888 Glasgow exhibition, but simplified. 'The dome, perhaps a prerequisite for Glasgow exhibitions, remained, but it was presented with severe geometricality, with an Art Nouveau lantern surmounted by a Chinese coolie hat.'
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie