Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow 7 June 1868 – London 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. He was a designer in the post impressionist movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Read all

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Glasgow 7 June 1868 – London 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. He was a designer in the post impressionist movement and also the main representative of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had considerable influence on European design. He was the fourth of 12 children and second son of William and Margaret Mackintosh. He attended Reid's Public School and the Allan Glen's Institution. In 1890 Mackintosh was the second winner of the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship, set up for the "furtherance of the study of ancient classic architecture, with special reference to the principles illustrated in Mr. Thomson’s works. On his return, he resumed work with the Honeyman and Keppie architectural practice where he started his first major architectural project, the Glasgow Herald Building, in 1899. His architectural career was relatively short but of great quality and highly influential .All his major commissions were between 1896 and 1906, where he designed private homes, commercial buildings, interior renovations and churches. “The Lighthouse”, designed by Mackintosh for the Glasgow Herald newspaper. Hill House in Helensburgh near Glasgow. Architectural Projects * Windyhill, Kilmacolm * Hill House, Helensburgh (National Trust for Scotland) * House for an Art Lover, Glasgow * The Mackintosh House (interior design and architectural remodelling with the original furniture and furnishing at Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow) * Queen's Cross Church, Glasgow * Ruchill Church Hall, Glasgow * Holy Trinity Church, Bridge of Allan, Stirling * Scotland Street School, Glasgow,( now Scotland Street School Museum). * Willow Tearooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow; one of Miss Cranston's Tearooms * Hous'hill, interior design for Catherine Cranston and her husband John Cochrane (demolished, furniture still part of Collections) * Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow * Craigie Hall, Glasgow * Martyrs' Public School, Glasgow * Royal Highland Fusiliers Regimental Museum, Glasgow * Daily Record offices, Glasgow *Glasgow Herald offices in Mitchell Street, "now" The Lighthouse – Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City * 78 Derngate, Northampton (interior design and architectural remodelling for Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke, founder of Bassett-Lowke) * 5 The Drive, Northampton (for Bassett-Lowke's brother-in-law) The Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms (with interiors and furnishing designed by Mackintosh and her wife Margaret Macdonald. Scotland Street School in Glasgow
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