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THE WILLOW TEA ROOMS The Willow Tea rooms mark yet another change in Mackintosh's style. Here he tempers the harshness of certain of his earlier tea room designs with the elegance of some of his white interiors. The results are evident in the Salon de Luxe. The emphasis is not so literally pictorial but rather more subtle and understated; carved and organic decoration is banished or reduced to a minimum and rhythm instead established using the oval and square with furniture more attuned than ever before to the architectural space in which it moves.

A dark stained oak flower holder

DESIGNED BY CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH FOR THE WILLOW TEA ROOMS, GLASGOW, 1903

Details

A dark stained oak flower holder
Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the Willow Tea rooms, Glasgow, 1903
Pierced square-section stem, incised heart motif, tapering pad base, metal liner
15in. (38cm.) high

Provenance

Private Collection, Glasgow
The Fine Art Society, London

Literature

Perilla Kinchin, Tea and Taste. The Glasgow Tea Rooms 1875-1975, Oxon., 1991, p. 111, fig. 71 - contemporary photograph

Exhibited

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow Museums Travelling Exhibition, 25th May 1996 - 12th October 1997, p. 355, Cat. No. 57 (one example only)
Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, Travelling Exhibition in Japan, September 2000 - February 2001, p. 74, Cat. No. 57 (one example only)

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