1868 – 1928 · architecture, interior design, furniture, watercolour
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Tall white rooms struck through with grid lines, high-backed chairs and blown-up rose petals in black and pink.
The record
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born in Glasgow on 7 June 1868, apprenticed in the office of Honeyman and Keppie while studying at the Glasgow School of Art, where he joined Herbert MacNair and the Macdonald sisters as 'The Four'.
The Glasgow School of Art building (1896–99, 1907–09), the Cranston tea rooms and Hill House fused Scots baronial mass, Japanese asymmetry and rose-motif abstraction into a proto-modern language.
Continental praise outlasted British neglect; he left architecture for watercolour and died in London on 10 December 1928.
Tall white rooms struck through with grid lines, high-backed chairs and blown-up rose petals in black and pink.