Lot Essay
Drawn by one of Mackintosh's assistants. The Hill Cafe was usually known as the White Cockade Tea Room [see lot 84]
Details
The office of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Design for Plate Rack, 1911
inscribed 'MISS CRANSTON'S HILL CAFE EXHIBITION./RACKS FOR PLATES ETC. 4 WANTED./TO BE MADE IN KAURI PINE/& STAINED DARK COLOUR' and 'Prices to be given for making/in oak & Kauri Pine/4 BLYTHSWOOD SQUARE/GLASGOW. APRIL 1911.' and with scale indications and other notes; pencil, watercolour
380 x 290mm.
Design for Plate Rack, 1911
inscribed 'MISS CRANSTON'S HILL CAFE EXHIBITION./RACKS FOR PLATES ETC. 4 WANTED./TO BE MADE IN KAURI PINE/& STAINED DARK COLOUR' and 'Prices to be given for making/in oak & Kauri Pine/4 BLYTHSWOOD SQUARE/GLASGOW. APRIL 1911.' and with scale indications and other notes; pencil, watercolour
380 x 290mm.
Provenance
Herbert Smith Esq
Literature
(1) Billcliffe, D1911.2
Exhibited
Toronto, 1978, no.141