Scottish architect, designer, and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh left a much smaller body of work than his American contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, but he was a major figure in the Glasgow Style, Scotland’s version of Art Nouveau and Symbolism. Mackintosh believed architects were responsible for every detail of the design of their buildings, and his interiors reflect this approach. Rooms in his projects echo the Art Nouveau style used for the buildings themselves. His work is recognizable through stylistic details such as a rose motif, high-backed chairs, and a unique typeface filled with decorative marks.
Cultural historian and Mackintosh expert Robyne Calvert introduces Mackintosh’s work, with a focus on the influential collaborative interiors he created alongside his wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Calvert illuminates key projects and related conservation endeavors at the original Willow Tea Rooms, the Hill House, and the fate of the Glasgow School of Art’s beloved Mackintosh Building after fire gutted the structure in 2018.
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