High-backed chair – (Charles Rennie Mackintosh) Previous Next


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Date: 1898

Size: 360 x 460 cm

Museum: Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France)

Technique: Varnish

Responsible for the extensions to the Glasgow School of Art in 1896 and then 1910, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh was commissioned by Miss Catherine Cranston, in 1897, to refurbish a tearoom at 114 Argyle Street, Glasgow.As for the first tearoom made for her, he designed the entire architectural programme and the furniture for the various rooms.This chair was intended for the dining room and for the first time used the high back which became characteristic of Mackintosh

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