Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Alan Crawford
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Alan Crawford Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration…
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Alan Crawford
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, are both spare and sensuous; creating a world of heightened aesthetic sensibility, especially inside the Willow Tea Rooms or The Hill House. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than any other work in Britain at that time.
Finally, in the 1920s he painted a series of watercolours which are as original as anything he had done before. And his inventive imagination, which played constantly with the shape of curves and squares, produced designs for furniture which transformed ordinary chairs into pieces of abstract sculpture. Since his death, Mackintosh has been lauded as a pioneer of the Modern Movement and as a