Charles Rennie Mackintosh - House for an Art Lover.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer who was prominent in the Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain. He was apprenticed to a local architect, John Hutchinson, and attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art. In 1889 he joined the firm of Honeyman and Keppie.
By going through the different art items by Charles, it is necessary to understand that the different ideologies that are determined by the best professionals are carried for many generations (Mackintosh 14). Every one of the different designs by Charles goes a long way in creating the necessary awareness that determines the manner in which the arts are to be documented with the right.
The present lot was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1904 for the drawing room of Hous’Hill, the residence of Catherine Cranston, for whom he also designed the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow the previousyear. Within the drawing room sat a curvilinear screen which united the space’s component areas rather than separated them. Here, Mackintosh demonstrated his ingenuity as both designer.
Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning is a research project based at the University of Glasgow, funded with a major research grant from the AHRC. It aims to deliver the first comprehensive analysis of the architecture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The research will culminate in an authoritative online database of archival.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work can be divided into three main areas: public buildings, private homes and tea rooms. The majority of his work was executed in and around Glasgow, where he was born, trained and lived for most of his adult life, and his career paralleled the city’s economic boom. By the end of the 19th century Glasgow was a wealthy, burgeoning European city with an immense.
The Art Newspaper is the journal of record for the visual arts world, covering international news and events. Based in London and New York, the English-language publication is part of a network of.
This new, revised edition of popular title on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of Scotland’s best-loved artists, contains a new foreword by the Director General of the National Galleries of Scotland, Sir John Leighton, and features a new cover design, updated to feature the popular flexi cover binding.