Fireplace
ca. 1904 (made)
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This fireplace with its white and blue tiled surround and attenuated wrought iron elements was part of the furnishings for the Billiard Room in the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Places
The best-known Mackintosh interiors were those created for Kate 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 217 Sauchiehall Street. At this time tea rooms in the city were numerous and popular; when hung with paintings by the Glasgow Boys some of them became almost like art galleries. None could match the tea rooms of Kate Cranston with their startling decorations and the provision of such amenities as billiard rooms and ladies' rooms.
Design & Designing
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 Salon 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. The Billiard Room, from where this fireplace originated, is a floor above the Salon de Luxe and echoes its motifs.
This fireplace with its white and blue tiled surround and attenuated wrought iron elements was part of the furnishings for the Billiard Room in the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow.
Places
The best-known Mackintosh interiors were those created for Kate 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 217 Sauchiehall Street. At this time tea rooms in the city were numerous and popular; when hung with paintings by the Glasgow Boys some of them became almost like art galleries. None could match the tea rooms of Kate Cranston with their startling decorations and the provision of such amenities as billiard rooms and ladies' rooms.
Design & Designing
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 Salon 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. The Billiard Room, from where this fireplace originated, is a floor above the Salon de Luxe and echoes its motifs.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Iron, with ceramic tile surround |
| Brief description | Fireplace for the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, ca.1904 |
| Physical description | The fireplace is made of iron with a blue and white tile surround |
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| Credit line | Given by Daly's of Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow |
| Object history | The fireplace was designed by Mackintosh for the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, commissioned by Kate Cranston (1849-1934). The Willow Tea Rooms were created for Mrs. Cranston between 1903 and 1904, and Mackintosh designed several different but connected rooms with different purposes - male and female tea rooms had a different style, feel and use of colour. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (born in Glasgow, 1868, died in London, 1928) Made in Glasgow |
| Summary | Object Type This fireplace with its white and blue tiled surround and attenuated wrought iron elements was part of the furnishings for the Billiard Room in the Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. Places The best-known Mackintosh interiors were those created for Kate 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 217 Sauchiehall Street. At this time tea rooms in the city were numerous and popular; when hung with paintings by the Glasgow Boys some of them became almost like art galleries. None could match the tea rooms of Kate Cranston with their startling decorations and the provision of such amenities as billiard rooms and ladies' rooms. Design & Designing 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 Salon 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. The Billiard Room, from where this fireplace originated, is a floor above the Salon de Luxe and echoes its motifs. |
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| Accession number | CIRC.244-1963 |
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| Record created | September 6, 2001 |
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