- Product:
- Pair of chairs
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4104535
- Launched:
- 1900
- Country:
- United States
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Pair of chairs from the Ingram Street Tea Rooms
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.
Examples of this chair are preserved in the collections of the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums and the Glasgow School of Art.
Stained oak (2)
32 3/4 in. (83.2 cm) high
Literature:
Roger Billcliffe, CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH: THE COMPLETE FURNITURE, FURNITURE DRAWINGS AND INTERIOR DESIGNS, New York, 1979, p. 90
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.
Examples of this chair are preserved in the collections of the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums and the Glasgow School of Art.
Stained oak (2)
32 3/4 in. (83.2 cm) high
Literature:
Roger Billcliffe, CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH: THE COMPLETE FURNITURE, FURNITURE DRAWINGS AND INTERIOR DESIGNS, New York, 1979, p. 90