No. 18 — Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Willow Tearooms
| Artist | Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868–1928 |
|---|---|
| Date | 1903 |
| Medium | interior architecture: painted plaster, leaded glass, high-backed chairs and textiles |
| City | Glasgow |
| Location | 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow — restored and reopened as working tearooms in 2018; the Room de Luxe preserved |
For Miss Catherine Cranston's chain of tea rooms, Mackintosh redesigned the entire frontage at 217 Sauchiehall Street in 1903, controlling everything from the white-and-violet façade to cutlery and menus.
Its Room de Luxe, lined with leaded glass and rose silk panels by Margaret Macdonald beneath a suspended oval mirror, is reckoned the most complete surviving Mackintosh interior.
The name puns on Sauchiehall, 'willow dell', and willow motifs recur throughout.
Rose-pink and white silks glowing behind leaded glass in a violet-panelled room of tall-backed chairs.
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