Lot Essay
1/12 scale drawings for the low and high back chairs for the Room de Luxe at the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow; as executed.
Details
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Designs for Chairs shown in front and side Elevation, 1903
for with Room de Luxe, Willow Tea Rooms
inscribed 'SIDE FRONT/SCALE 1 IN.= 1 FOOT' (1) and 'FRONT SIDE/SCALE 1IN.= 1 FOOT' (2); pencil, watercolour, traces of bodycolour, on oiled tracing paper
220 x 220mm. 167 x 198mm. (2)
Designs for Chairs shown in front and side Elevation, 1903
for with Room de Luxe, Willow Tea Rooms
inscribed 'SIDE FRONT/SCALE 1 IN.= 1 FOOT' (1) and 'FRONT SIDE/SCALE 1IN.= 1 FOOT' (2); pencil, watercolour, traces of bodycolour, on oiled tracing paper
220 x 220mm. 167 x 198mm. (2)
Provenance
Herbert Smith Esq
Literature
(1) Billcliffe, D1903.21, D1903.24
Exhibited
Toronto, 1967, no.83; Toronto, 1978, no.142 & 144; Washington, 1985, no.14 & 15