Willow Tea Rooms (Glasgow, Scotland) : Inner front elevation, looking up, showing decorative wrought-iron grill
- Creator:
- Macdonald, Margaret, 1865-1933
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928 - Published/Created:
- 199 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1903 - Date Depicted:
- 5/25/2007
1900 AD - 1949 AD - Materials:
- iron
stone
stucco - Notes:
- 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.
- Variant Titles:
- Willow Tea-room
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Britain -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Art Nouveau
Glasgow style - Culture:
- British
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-MCR-WT-B8
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
restaurants: tea rooms (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
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- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- architectural exteriors; business, commerce and trade; decorative arts; tea-room, decoration construction ; metalworking; painting and painting techniques; stained glass buildings; commercial buildings; restaurants; tea rooms metalwork
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Module Three
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
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5/25/2007 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4152
- OID:
- 10156731
- PID:
- digcoll:1855124