Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Fiona Davidson

• Publisher: Pitkin
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780853728740
• eBook ISBN:
  9781841658254
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Artist Monographs
• Index: History

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an innovator.

He is undoubtedly one of Scotland's most celebrated architects. His astounding buildings creatively reinterpreted the past and opened the way for the Modern Movement. Architecture was his first love, though he was also a highly accomplished artist and designer of interiors, furniture, metalwork, glass and textiles. In addition his graphic design work, using nature and organic plant forms, made him an early exponent of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. In the later years of his life he produced watercolour paintings of intense power and subtlety. His extraordinary work is still regarded today as innovative and modern, and continues to astonish and delight art lovers everywhere.

Art Gallery & Museum, Kelvingrove, Glasgow

Mackintosh decorative art set in context of turn of the century Glasgow.

Glasgow School of Art, Renfrew Street, Glasgow

Guided tours only. Access to the original building is restricted at time of press.

Window on Mackintosh exhibition open.
www.gsa.ac.uk/visit-gsa

The Hill House, Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh

Mackintosh’s domestic masterpiece, restored by the National Trust for Scotland.

House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, Dumbreck Road, Glasgow

Mackintosh’s ‘dream’ house, completed in 1996 and based on his drawings of 1901.

The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow

Mackintosh’s 1895 Glasgow Herald newspaper office is today Scotland’s first dedicated, national centre for architecture and design. Its ‘Mack’ Centre celebrates the architect and explores his life and work.
www.thelighthouse.co.uk

The Mackintosh House, Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Hillhead Street, Glasgow

Rooms from Mackintosh’s home, reconstructed in the art gallery.

Queen’s Cross Church, Garscube Road, Glasgow

The only church by Mackintosh to have been built. Headquarters of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. Information Centre and reference library.

Scotland Street School, Scotland Street, Glasgow

One of the most dramatically modern of Mackintosh’s public buildings. A museum of education.

Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Mackintosh’s interiors beautifully restored. Open for lunches, teas and refreshments. Henderson the Jewellers, ‘the Mackintosh shop’, is situated on the ground floor.

For visitor information contact: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society,
Tel. [phone], fax [phone]
Email: [email protected]
www.crmsociety.com

People Make Glasgow

https://peoplemakeglasgow.com

THE CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH SOCIETY

Founded in Glasgow in 1973 to encourage interest in and conserve Mackintosh’s buildings and artefacts. To become a member contact: The Director, Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, Glasgow G20 7EL.
Tel. [phone], fax [phone]
Email: [email protected] www.crmsociety.com

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART ALUMNI

Over 9,000 former students and graduates of GSA are members of GSA Alumni. Anyone who attended GSA for threee months or more is eligible. For more information: www.gsa.ac.uk
www.gsa.ac.uk/general/alumni

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Acknowledgements

The quotations from Mackintosh’s lectures are taken from Charles Rennie Mackintosh The Architectural Papers, ed. Pamela Robertson.

The author and the editor would like to thank Patricia Douglas, Director, C R Mackintosh Society, and Pamela Robertson, Curator, Hunterian Art Gallery, for reading the text.

Illustrations are reproduced with permission of the following:

T & R Annan & Sons, Glasgow: 1, 2–3 above, 10–11 below; Bridgeman Art Library: 23 below left; British Museum: 24; C R Mackintosh Society: 8 below; Mark Fiennes: front cover, 7 above, centre & bottom, 18–19 above, 18 below; Glasgow Museums: 4 left; Glasgow Picture Library/Eric Thorburn: 6 bottom, 9 left, above & below, 11 bottom, 19 above & below, 21 above & below left, 28 above & below, back cover; Glasgow School of Art: 4 above right, 5 below left & right, 6 inset, 10 above, 14, 16 above, 20 right; Hunterian Art Gallery/University of Glasgow, Mackintosh Collection: inside front cover, 2 below, 3 below left and right, 5 above, 8 above left, 9 right, 11 top & centre, 12 top left & right (courtesy T & R Annan & Sons, Glasgow) & below, 13 above, below left & right, 14–15, 15 above & right, 16 below, 16–17 above, 17 below, 18 below left (courtesy Glasgow School of Art), 20 left, 21 below right, 22 left & right, 23 right, above & below, 25 above left & right, & below, 26, 27 left, right, above & below; Anthony Oliver: 6 above right, 8 centre; Scotland in Focus: 6 above.

Text © Fiona Davidson 1998. The aut...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Introduction
• The Early Years
• The Four
• Glasgow School of Art
• The City Architect
• The Domestic Architect
• The Mackintosh House
• Vienna, Turin and Moscow
• House for an Art Lover
• The Hill House
• The Willow Tea Rooms
• Walberswick and Flower Painting
• Chelsea and Derngate
• France and the Last Years
• The Legacy
• Places to Visit
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright