Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A rare section of wrought iron and leaded glass railing, 1903
designed for Miss Cranston's Willow Street Tea Rooms
rectangular geometric design set with white and green leaded glass, mounted on wood
78.4cm. wide; 88.9cm. high
(96.3cm. wide; 96.6cm. high: the mount)
Provenance
William Ward Esq (Clerk of Works, Glasgow School of Art & Willow Tea Room)
Literature
(9) Howarth, pl.54; Toronto, 1978, p.34, illustrated
Exhibited
Toronto, 1967, no.46; Delaware, 1976, no.275; Toronto, 1978, no.114; Washington, 1985, no.275; Glasgow, 1990

Lot Essay

Designed in 1903 for the open balcony where the Mezzanine Gallery Tea Room overlooked the Front Saloon of the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Mackintosh has contrasted the decorative motif of the willow leaf in coloured glass surrounded by wrought iron against the pierced squares which were beginning to dominate his decorative vocabulary in 1903-4.

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