Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Design for an Umbrella, Hat and Coat Stand, shown in Elevation and Plan, 1987
for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms
inscribed 'Miss Cranstons/Argyle Street/Scale drawing of/Umbrella, hat,/and coat stand' and with scale indications and notes; pencil, watercolour on oiled tracing paper
319 x 119mm.

Provenance

Herbert Smith Esq

Literature

(1) Billcliffe, D1897.30; The Studio, Vol.XXXIX, 1906, p.32-34 contemporary photographs of Argyle Street with hat stands in situ

Exhibited

Toronto, 1967, no.72; Toronto, 1978, no.132; Washington, 1985, no.9

Lot Essay

The 1/12 scale drawing which Mackintosh made for the furniture at the Argyle Street Tea Rooms are among the finest of all of his surviving drawings for furniture. A similar drawing, showing a slightly earlier stage in the development of this design is in the Hunterian Art Gallery.

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