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Lot Essay
cf. Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, 1980, p. 87, pl. 1900.G for an illustration of the White Dining Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, that incorporates the lantern model; p. 186, figs. 1906.C, D, E & F for contemporary photographs of the lantern model in the Dining Room, Studio, and Drawing Room at 78 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow.
Used widely at Charles Rennie Mackintosh's flat at 120 Mains Street, Glasgow, 1900, where they were originally covered gas lights, Mackintosh removed the lights to his house at 18 Southpark Avenue in 1906 where they were used with electric fittings. Similar designs were also used at the White Room of the Ingram Street Tea Rooms in 1900. Several other examples are in the collection at the Hunterian Art Gallery.
Used widely at Charles Rennie Mackintosh's flat at 120 Mains Street, Glasgow, 1900, where they were originally covered gas lights, Mackintosh removed the lights to his house at 18 Southpark Avenue in 1906 where they were used with electric fittings. Similar designs were also used at the White Room of the Ingram Street Tea Rooms in 1900. Several other examples are in the collection at the Hunterian Art Gallery.