A stained oak Ladder Back Chair

DESIGNED BY CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH FOR MISS CRANSTON'S WILLOW TEA ROOMS, GLASGOW, CIRCA 1903

细节

A stained oak Ladder Back Chair
Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Miss Cranston's Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, circa 1903
High back with thirteen bowed slats, additional flat slat at the top, drop-in rush seat with bowed back
Chair stamped 104

来源

Purchased by a local furniture dealer from the sale of contents of the Willow Tea Rooms in the 1920s, who in turn sold them to the father of the present owner circa 1928.

拍品专文

An order for 137 of these chairs was completed by Alex Martin, cabinet maker for a number of Mackintosh's designs, in 1903, at a cost of 17/6d per chair. The strengthening top slat was added to the majority of the Tea Room chairs at a later date to prevent the original bowed slat from breaking when the chairs were lifted and moved.
See: Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London, 1979, pl. 1903C/D, 1903.8, p. 137 et seq.