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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1903 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorMackintosh, Charles Rennieen_US
dc.creatorMacdonald, Margareten_US
dc.date1903en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-19T20:32:39Z
dc.date.available2013-02-19T20:32:39Z
dc.date.issued1903en_US
dc.identifier191961en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1339en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/99246
dc.descriptionThe Room de Luxe window, detail; The best-known Mackintosh interiors were those created for Miss Catherine Cranston's four tea-rooms in Glasgow: Buchanan Street (1896), Argyle Street (1897), Ingram Street (1900) and the Willow (1903), of which only the last-mentioned survives at 199 Sauchiehall Street. In the Willow tea-room Mackintosh had total control of the project both inside and outside; his wife contributed some of the decorative motifs. On the ground floor he set up an unpainted frieze of plaster panels, their angular outlines leading the eye deeper into the stems and branches of the willow wood. Above, in the Room de Luxe, a leaded-glass frieze with pink and green insets was placed against white painted walls, and on the curved bay, leaf-shaped mirror glass shimmered like the stirring of willow leaves. Mackintosh had already developed in domestic commissions austere all-white ensembles of decoration with a few pieces of slender, white furniture, but such refinement of construction was not practical in a public place. In the Room de Luxe the chairs, of two sizes, are silver with purple upholstery; the tops of the higher chairs are pierced by a grid of squares, a favourite Mackintosh device. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/7/2008)en_US
dc.format.mediumstone; stucco; ironen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectural exteriorsen_US
dc.subjectbusiness, commerce and tradeen_US
dc.subjectdecorative artsen_US
dc.subjecttea-room, decorationen_US
dc.subjectArt Nouveauen_US
dc.subjectGlasgow styleen_US
dc.titleWillow Tea Roomsen_US
dc.title.alternativeWillow Tea-roomen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MCR-WT-H11en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling) stained glass painting and painting techniques metalworkingen_US
vra.worktypetea roomen_US
dc.contributor.displayCharles Rennie Mackintosh (British architect, 1868-1928); Margaret Macdonald (British artist, 1865-1933)en_US


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