Rennie Charles Mackintosh 1868 – 1928 was one of Scotland’s foremost architects and designers. I don’t like to cheat but Wikipedia sums up his style best. “This style was admired by Mackintosh because of: its restraint and economy of means rather than ostentatious accumulation; its simple forms and natural materials rather than elaboration and artifice; the use of texture and light and shadow rather than pattern and ornament.”
One of his primary sponsors was Kate Cranston who operated the Willow and other Tea Rooms during a period of temperance and she hire Mackintosh to do the design. An example was seen at Kelvingrove Art Gallery in an earlier post.
This chair with it’s tall back and lattice top is a typical example of his work.
One of his famous buildings was an school he designed in 1903 and today, my last full day in Scotland, my muse brought me here. The school is now a museum that depicts school life in Scotland. It closed in the 1970’s
The classroom exhibits are from different decades.
Mackintosh was famous for his use of light.
One of the staff told me of anotherMackintosh designed house not far from Ballock in Helensburgh so once I could figure out how to get out of the parking lot that’s where I headed to complete the trip.
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