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See Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, 1979, p. 114 for a period photograph of the drawing room at 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Glasgow, depicting the chair in situ, and for further discussion of the model.
Mackintosh began to work in 1901 on the interiors at 14 Kingsborough Gardens for Mrs. Rowat, the mother-in-law of Francis Newbery, the Headmaster of the Glasgow School of Art. His alterations were confined primarily to the entrance hall and the first floor drawing room.
Designed to accompany a painted white oval oak table with two inlaid ivory panels, sold in Christie's London as part of the Dr. Thomas Howarth Collection, Important Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Herbert MacNair, February 17, 1994, the chair may have been upholstered with a rose or purple velvet, tones of which would have contrasted with the white paint and coordinated with the stencils on the walls of the drawing room. Mackintosh designed the chair at the end of 1901 or beginning of 1902 for Mrs. Rowat and, unlike any of the furniture previously designed by Mackintosh, the chair and the table featured refined structural and decorative elements. Also, Mackintosh reinterpreted various design elements found on chairs from the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, evidenced in Mrs. Rowat's chair. The swept-back rear feet were reminiscent of the 1897 high-backed chair with a pierced oval backrail used in the Luncheon Room, and the broad flat arms recalled the 1897 low-backed chairs in the Smoking and Billiards Rooms.
Two chair examples were produced for Mrs. Rowat, and Mackintosh reproduced an example for himself; all three chairs were reunited at the Moscow Exhibition in 1903. Presently, one of these examples is in the holdings of Glasgow University.
cf. Mir Isskustva (No. 3), 1903, p.117; Das Englische Haus (III), 1905, pl. 212
Mackintosh began to work in 1901 on the interiors at 14 Kingsborough Gardens for Mrs. Rowat, the mother-in-law of Francis Newbery, the Headmaster of the Glasgow School of Art. His alterations were confined primarily to the entrance hall and the first floor drawing room.
Designed to accompany a painted white oval oak table with two inlaid ivory panels, sold in Christie's London as part of the Dr. Thomas Howarth Collection, Important Works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret and Frances Macdonald and Herbert MacNair, February 17, 1994, the chair may have been upholstered with a rose or purple velvet, tones of which would have contrasted with the white paint and coordinated with the stencils on the walls of the drawing room. Mackintosh designed the chair at the end of 1901 or beginning of 1902 for Mrs. Rowat and, unlike any of the furniture previously designed by Mackintosh, the chair and the table featured refined structural and decorative elements. Also, Mackintosh reinterpreted various design elements found on chairs from the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, evidenced in Mrs. Rowat's chair. The swept-back rear feet were reminiscent of the 1897 high-backed chair with a pierced oval backrail used in the Luncheon Room, and the broad flat arms recalled the 1897 low-backed chairs in the Smoking and Billiards Rooms.
Two chair examples were produced for Mrs. Rowat, and Mackintosh reproduced an example for himself; all three chairs were reunited at the Moscow Exhibition in 1903. Presently, one of these examples is in the holdings of Glasgow University.
cf. Mir Isskustva (No. 3), 1903, p.117; Das Englische Haus (III), 1905, pl. 212