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Best Books on Glasgow, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Architecture

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Apart from the fact that both Margaret and Anne have worked in fabulous buildings designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, their passion for his work has also been fuelled by some of the fantastic books written about his art, architecture and design.

The Glasgow Girls will continue to build up this department and have the best book range on this subject and related topics.

The 'Glasgow Girls' book (shown opposite) is a must for anyone interested in the work of Mackintosh's female contemporaries.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Competition Entry Folio for House For an Art Lover

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Competition Entry Folio for House For an Art Lover

(15 prints of plans, elevations and drawings) beautifully presented in artist's folio.

In December 1900 the publisher Alexander Koch announced in his monthly journal, Zeitschrift Fur Innendekoration, a competition for the design of a house for a connoisseur of the arts. Charles Rennie Mackintosh entered the competition (he was in Vienna exhibiting a room interior with his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh).

For this competition the quality of the drawings were as important as the ideas being presented and this set of drawings stood out for the judges. Charles Rennie Mackintosh won a special Purchase Prize of 600 Marks under his pseudonym, Der Vogel, for his quality of entry (unfortunately he did not supply the exact prescribed variation of architectural drawings and therefore could not win first prize under the rules laid out).

This facimile folio is one of a limited number printed in 1991, each one has its own number.

Any CRM collector or architect will be overwhelmed by the quality of this collection of 15 prints (floor plans, elevations, tinted drawings) with 4 pages outlining the competition entry.

Size: 40cm (16") Wide x 54cm (21") High

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Price: £117.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh by Alan Crawford

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensely creative years around 1900. 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. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, are both spare and sensuous; a world of heightened aesthetic sensibility inside the Willow Tea Rooms or The Hill House. 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. Finally, in the 1920s he painted a series of watercolours which are as original as anything he had done before. Since his death, Mackintosh has been both lauded as a pioneer of the Modern Movement and as a master of Art Nouveau. Paperback

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1. House for an Art Lover Book

2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Modern Man DVD

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Monsieur Mackintosh, The Travels and Paintings of Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the Pyrénées Orientales 1923-1927

In 1923, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald went on holiday to Roussillon, in the South of France, to rest and recuperate. Her health was poor and as an architect and designer he had become outmoded. They were enchanted. The holiday became a permanent stay and Mackintosh rapidly developed his talents as an artist. They spent the last and possibly the happiest years of their life together in this earthly paradise., which is Roussillon.

Robin Crichton, President of the Association CRM en Roussillon, follows in Mackintosh's footsteps, rediscovering as he did the culture and beauty of the region and how it inspired his painting. Crichton's own love of Roussillon shines through, and his elegiac prose sits in perfect harmony with Mackintosh's splendid paintings. Paperback

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Taking Tea with Mackintosh by Perilla Kinchin

This is the story of a remarkable collaboration between an eccentric Glasgow businesswoman, Miss Catherine (Kate) Cranston, and a young architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who would become one of the Western world's most renowned designers. Kate Cranston was the pioneer of the Glasgow tea rooms in the late nineteenth century, at a time when temperance was a prominent social issue. With her commitment to excellence in service, quality, and decor, she made her tea rooms a first choice for refreshment, both for men during business hours and for women out shopping. In 1896 she had the vision to commission Mackintosh, and over the next two decades he designed for her with dazzling inventiveness, fulfilling in the tea rooms his ideal of interiors in which every detail was part of an artistic whole - from structure to furniture to waitresses' dresses. A pair of perfectionists, Miss Cranston and Mackintosh - and Mackintosh's wife, artist and designer Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh - opened up a unique, avant-garde artistic world to thousands of ordinary people. Their tea rooms became internationally famous. Taking Tea with Mackintosh illustrates this story with black-and-white historical photographs of the tea rooms and colour photographs of their surviving components. In addition, sixteen recipes for traditional tea room cakes, breads, and pastries are supplied, offering the best chance the reader will have to revisit these extraordinary places. Hardback

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3. Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Modern Man DVD

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Modern Man DVD

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of the most significant talents to have emerged in the period from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s. He was one of the greatest, most original talents of this time and has been judged a precursor of firstly the modernist style and subsequently of the Art Deco movement. His legacy lives on all around us in his instantly recognisable style. A MODERN MAN takes a critical look at Mackintosh’s life and artistic career and the importance of the friends and patrons who provided him with regular work when it mattered most. Influential critics, including the designer Terence Conran, give their views on Mackintosh’s current reputation. All are unanimous in their appreciation of "the complete designer". Together, they recognise his importance as an influential architect of the 20th century and acknowledge that Charles Rennie Mackintosh was very much A MODERN MAN. This is the story of the man and his life and his work.

Director: Various / Art
Narration by: Juliet Stephenson
Country: UK Language: ENGLISH
Region Code: 0 Year: 1996 Running Time: 45mins

Price: £18.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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2 Glasgow Style Note Books (plain paper for notes/sketching)

2 beautiful notebooks with 'Glasgow Style' book jacket designs. The notebooks have hardwearing covers with motifs highlighted in gold foil.
These Glasgow Style jotters are by one of our favourite designers, Talwin Morris. Morris was Art Manager for publisher Blackie & Son from 1893 (Mr Blackie later commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to design the Hill House).

Talwin Morris book cover designs owe much to the influence of his circle of friends the famous 'Glasgow Four'. Morris adapted their stylised motifs and natural forms to his own architectural style, producing some of the most lasting and beautiful designs of the day. The note books have a history and explanation on the back cover.
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