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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) A stained oak armchair, designed for the Billiards and Smoking Rooms at Miss Cranston's Argyle Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow, circa 1898, the slightly arched top rail above curved arms and panelled sides enclosing a dished seat and supported by turned and tapering uprights 62.5cm wide, 83.4cm high, 47cm deep Provenance: William Smith Esq., Glasgow Thence by descent to his daughter who then gifted the chair to the present owner. Literature: Architect-Designers, Pugin-Mackintosh, Fine Art Society, London, May 1980, page 60, plate 62 Roger Billcliffe, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, London, 1979, pages 43 & 44, refs., 1897.9 and 1897.11, plate 1897.11 Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement, London, 1977, pages 128-131, plate 49B The Studio, Volume XXXIX, 1906, pages 32and 34 Hermann Muthesius Das Englishe Haus, I, Berlin, 1904, plate 172 Note: William Smith was a restaurateur in Glasgow and was elected as a member of the Glasgow Art Club on 29th December 1892 under the name "William Smith Jr". At this time the Club had recently employed Honeyman and Keppie as architects for the remodelling of the interiors of the new Club premises in Bath Street and for the addition of a large gallery for members at the back of the existing building. Although Keppie was in charge of this project a young new recruit to the practice, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was put in charge of the detail. It is tantalizing to suppose that William Smith met and befriended Mackintosh at this time, however it would have been hard for anyone, paticularly in the restaurant trade, to avoid the impact that Mackintosh's designs would make for the businesses of Miss Cranston in the following years. As for William Smith it seems that later his activities expanded to include baking and the making of pies, earning him the nickname William "the pie" Smith. He was elected lay-vice president of the club in 1928, an office he held for two annual sessions. The portrait of him, painted by Club member William Ewart in 1933 is pictured here. The Argyle Street Tea Rooms closed in 1920 and, whist some furniture was transferred to the Ingram Street Tea Rooms, the majority was sold, often being acquired by the Tea Rooms' regular customers. It seems likely that William Smith purchased this and the subsequent lot at this time. The furniture which Mackintosh designed for Argyle Street is solidly made and has lasted well as in the examples offered here. These chairs, designed for the Billiards and Smoking Rooms, are one of the most satisfying and appealing designs at Argyle Street. Their solidity and simplicity of form are well suited for the rooms for which they were intended and elements such as the broad arms, side panels and curved aprons appear in other furniture designed for these Tea Rooms. £40,000-60,000
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