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CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH...
CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH
PAIR OF CHAIRS FROM THE INGRAM STREET TEA ROOMS, 1900
stained oak (2)
32 3/4 in. (83.2 cm) high <P>ESTIMATE: $70,000-90,000 <P>LITERATURE
Roger Billcliffe, CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH: THE COMPLETE FURNITURE, FURNITURE DRAWINGS AND INTERIOR DESIGNS, New York, 1979, p. 90 <p>Mackintosh created a series of three variants on a chair design for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms. The three variants have the same basic structure - straight backs with twin central slats and a cross panel with a cut-out arch shape. The two taller versions, used in the White Dining Room, incorporated a cut-out square in each slat. Billcliffe suggests that the present chair was one of a suite adapted from the original design for use in the Cloister Room, where the lower ceilings demanded a revision of the chair's proportions. In this more compact variant, the cut-out is able to more effectively serve its practical function as a hand grip as well as its aesthetic function as a decorative motif. <p>Examples of this chair are preserved in the collections of the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums and the Glasgow School of Art.
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