Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Certosa di Pavia, Study of an Angel Statue, 1891

Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s (Scottish, 1868-1928) textile designs are not widely known—unlike his architecture, furniture, and watercolors. Fortunately, many of his original drawings for textile designs, made between 1915 and 1923, have survived and are presented in this book, an expanded and revised edition of Mackintosh: Textile Designs (John Murray, 1982). ...more

In 1896 Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 1928) won a competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art. That success brought him commissions for everything from mansions to tearooms. Mackintosh remained in Glasgow for two decades, designing buildings, furniture, textiles, and wallpapers. Then he left ...more

Author Elizabeth Wilhide explores the life and work of one of the world's most popular and innovative modern designers. Here we are treated to magnificent Mackintosh sketches, paintings, and etchings, as well as photographs of his buildings, interiors, furniture, and much more. Wilhide also includes a valuable list of Mackintosh ...more

The Glasgow style of decorative arts evolved in the 1890s at the Glasgow School of Art, from influences begun by the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements in Great Britain. It was characterized by the juxtaposion of elongated verticals and sensuous bright, light, feminine designs, such as the rose, ...more

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was and remains the most distinguished figure of what was known as the Glasgow School. An architect, decorator, graphic artist, painter and furniture designer, Mackintosh was known for combining the prosaic with the sumptuous, the severe with the romantic. This collection of essays examines his work ...more

Of the many practitioners of art nouveau in Great Britain, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) has outlasted them all. His work bridged the more ornate style of the later nineteenth century and the forms of international modernism that followed. Like Frank Lloyd Wright, with whom he is frequently compared, Mackintosh is ...more

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 ...more

Mackintosh's only known writings on architecture comprise six lecture scripts and a diary, reproduced in full. They illuminate the roots of his genius in unexpected ways and give insight into both his respect for tradition and his passionate commitment to creative independence. Essays by established experts in the field introduce ...more