Lot 46
46
Design for Benches and a Table for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow
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Design for Benches and a Table for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow

BY CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH, 1898

Details
Design for Benches and a Table for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow
By Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1898
Pencil and watercolour on paper, partially squared in pencil
10½in. x 19in. (27cm. x 48.3cm.)
Signed and inscribed MISS CRANSTONS/ARGYLE STREET/DRAWING OF BENCHES/FOR BILLIARD ROOM (upper left) and Chas. R Mackintosh/140 Bath Street Glasgow and with further annotations for scale
Provenance
Herbert Smith, Esq., Glasgow
Dr. Thomas Howarth, Toronto
Christie's London, 17th February 1994, Lot 100
Literature
Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, New York, 1979, pp. 44 & 45, Cat. No. D1897.12
Exhibited
Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Works from the Collection of Professor homas Howarth, Toronto, 1967, Cat. No. 80
Spring'94, The Fine Art Society, London, Cat. No. 53
Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, Travelling Exhibition in Japan, September 2000 - February 2001, pp. 58 & 193, Cat. No. 34
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A 1/12 scale drawing showing Mackintosh's proposal for fitted perimeter benches in the Billiard Room at the Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. No such benches appear in contemporary photographs; the table shown in this drawing also seems not to have been made.

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