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
Proposed south elevation of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for an Artist's Town House and Studio: south elevation and plans
Proposed plans for building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for an Artist's Town House and Studio: east elevation
Proposed east elevation of building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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
Design for Windyhill, Kilmacolm, perspective from south-west
Design for William Davidson. In the mid 1890s Mackintosh met William Davidson, a young Glasgow businessman, who commissioned him to design some furniture for his flat in Gladsmuir, his parents' house at Kilmacolm. About 1899 Davidson decided to build his own house, and Windyhill was the first of Mackintosh's private houses. It was completed in 1901 and still survives. Mackintosh designed the furniture for the hall, drawing room, schoolroom and principal bedroom, much of which survives in the GSA collection.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Windyhill, Kilmacolm, perspective from north-east
Design for William Davidson. In the mid 1890s Mackintosh met William Davidson, a young Glasgow businessman, who commissioned him to design some furniture for his flat in Gladsmuir, his parents' house at Kilmacolm. About 1899 Davidson decided to build his own house, and Windyhill was the first of Mackintosh's private houses. It was completed in 1901 and still survives. Mackintosh designed the furniture for the hall, drawing room, schoolroom and principal bedroom, much of which survives in the GSA collection.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for The Hill House, Helensburgh, perspective from south-west
Design for Walter Blackie. 'When in 1902, Walter W Blackie, the publisher, decided to have a new house built on a site he had acquired overlooking the Firth of Clyde, he asked Talwin Morris, the art manager of his firm, for advice in the choice of an architect. Morris had no hesitation in recommending Mackintosh and when Blackie met him they found themselves very much in sympathy with each other. This happy relationship between clients and architect resulted in the largest and perhaps finest example of Mackintosh's executed domestic architecture.' (McLaren Young). The house survives in good condition and still containing much of the furniture which Mackintosh designed for it. The plan is similar to his design for Haus Eines Kunstfreundes, and the schemes for decoration and furnishings throughout the house were executed according to his designs.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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
Design for Liverpool Cathedral: plan
Plan of proposed building. The competition for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral was won by Giles Gilbert Scott. Mackintosh's design was unpremeditated, although it drew comment.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Liverpool Cathedral: preliminary sketch
Preliminary sketch of building. The competition for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral was won by Giles Gilbert Scott. Mackintosh's design was unpremeditated, although it drew comment.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Liverpool Cathedral: preliminary sketch
Preliminary sketch for building. The competition for the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral was won by Giles Gilbert Scott. Mackintosh's degin was unpremeditated, although it drew comment.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for the Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
Design for the staircase and vestibule, West Elevation, The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Miss Cranston and her husband Major Cochrane commissioned Mackintosh to redesign the interiors of their home Hous'hill at Nitshill. Mackintosh designed several suites of furniture in 1904 and more pieces in 1909. Stripes are the dominant motif in the decorations, in the panels over the settle and between the doors where they are carried over the ceiling as in the guest bedroom at 78 Derngate. The lampshades are also similar to those used in this bedroom. (Roger Billcliffe). The lattice work recalls the hall at Derngate, but here it is used as an open screen rather than with solid or glazed panels. The only furniture that has been traced is the chair at the writing desk and the small table.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Bound in volume, The Magazine, November 1894.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
Design for the Restroom, North Elevation, Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Stripes are the dominant motif in the decorations, in the panels over the settle and between the doors where they are carried over the ceiling as in the guest bedroom at 78 Derngate. The lampshades are also similar to those used in this bedroom. (Roger Billcliffe). The lattice work recalls the hall at Derngate, but here it is used as an open screen rather than with solid or glazed panels. The only furniture that has been traced is the chair at the writing desk and the small table.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for fireplace, Morning Room, Prospecthill House
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 a Memorial Fireplace, The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
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
Sketch of (Italian) decorative panels
Italian subject matter. A study from Mackintosh's tour of Italy in 1891 as part of the Alexander 'Greek' Thomson travelling scholarship.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Abstract design for fabric.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for a bookcase for Windyhill, Kilmacolm
Sketch design for Windyhill bookcase (MC/F/32).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Wall hanging designed for The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. The canvas relates to smaller watercolours in the Hunterian collection, formerly thought to be textile designs, and to their painted canvas, 'The Little Hills' by Margaret Macdonald. It is likely that they were intended for 'The Dug-Out', though it is not known whether they were ever installed there. Jessie Newbery recalled in 1933, that 'He (Mackintosh) and his wife spent the winter of 1914 painting two large decorations for Miss Cranston'. This would have been in Suffolk, after they had left Glasgow. Although The Dug-Out was not created till 1917-18 it is not unlikely that Miss Cranston was considering the project some years earlier. The canvas was found in the GSA in a single roll in 1981 and was cleaned and mounted on two stretchers.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Wall hanging designed for The Dug-Out, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow
This item was lost in the fire in The Mackintosh Building at The Glasgow School of Art on 23rd May 2014. The canvas relates to smaller watercolours in the Hunterian collection, formerly thought to be textile designs, and to their painted canvas, 'The Little Hills' by Margaret Macdonald. It is likely that they were intended for 'The Dug-Out', though it is not known whether they were ever installed there. Jessie Newbery recalled in 1933, that 'He (Mackintosh) and his wife spent the winter of 1914 painting two large decorations for Miss Cranston'. This would have been in Suffolk, after they had left Glasgow. Although The Dug-Out was not created till 1917-18 it is not unlikely that Miss Cranston was considering the project some years earlier. The canvas was found in the GSA in a single roll in 1981 and was cleaned and mounted on two stretchers.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Conversazione Programme
Designed for the Glasgow Architectural Association.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Glasgow School of Art Club diploma.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
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
Design for Glasgow School of Art: east/west elevations
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: plan of entresol level
Architectural drawing showing new entresol level, formed between basement and ground floors.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of basement floor
Architectural drawing showing basement floor plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of first floor
Architectural drawing showing first floor plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of second floor
Architectural drawing showing second floor plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: section through existing building/section B.B
Architectural drawing showing sections through building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: section through Museum/section D.D
Architectural drawing showing sections through building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: section on line C.C/section on line A.A
Architectural drawing showing sections through building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Renfrew Street
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: back elevation
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
Bound in volume, The Magazine, November, 1894.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Scott Street/elevation to Dalhousie Street
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: plan of sub-basement floor
Architectural drawing showing sub-basement floor. With one or two exceptions, a series of Mackintosh drawings appear to be the final 'working drawings' from which a 'finished' hand coloured set were based.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of basement floor
Architectural drawing showing plan of basement floor.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of ground floor
Architectural drawing showing ground floor plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of first floor
Architectural drawing showing first floor plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of second floor
Architectural drawing showing second floor plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: front elevation
Architectural drawing showing Renfrew Street elevation.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: back elevation
Architectural drawing showing back elevation.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: elevation to Scott Street/elevation to Dalhousie Street
Architectural drawing showing east/west elevations.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: section on line AA/section on line BB
Architectural drawing showing sections through building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
From The Magazine, Spring 1896. Inscribed: The Tree of Personal Effort, The Sun of Indifference, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, January 1895.' The exact meaning of the symbolism of this work, and its companion, 'The Tree of Influence' has eluded all commentators on Mackintosh's early water-colours. The obvious source of the symbolism is nature, and Mackintosh here reaches his most extreme distortion of organic forms.' (Roger Billcliffe).
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: section on line CC/section on line DD
Architectural drawing showing sections through building.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of sub-basement floor
Architectural drawing showing sub-basement plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie
Design for Glasgow School of Art: plan of basement floor
Architectural drawing showing basement plan.
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie