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RESEARCH PAPER ON CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH WORK AS FURNITURE DESIGNER FOR COMMENTS.

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1900 Ingram Street Chair Main street dining table1902 hill house

chair

1-Introduction:

Charles Rennie Mackintosh modern Renaissance man, was Scotland’s greatest architect, designer, painter and arguably one of the world’s most admired, who was much ahead of his time. He had far fewer commissions than his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, but with a few bold and innovative structures—the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them—he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature. In a career of only twenty-five years, Charles Renne Mackintosh designed well over 300 pieces of furniture, the majority in two relatively short periods, 1897-1905 and 1916-1919. Under Francis Newberry, the director of the Glasgow School of Art, a talented nucleus of artists was established whose work gained recognition throughout Europe. He also designed several modern interiors and the appropriate furniture for them. Mackintosh finally moved to France, where he dedicated himself to painting a remarkable series of original works that have become as highly prized as his furniture pieces and other designs.

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For over 20 years Mackintosh worked almost exclusively in Glasgow where all his best-known work was created and where much of it still remains, yet he left Glasgow in search of greater success and died in London in relative obscurity. It is perhaps ironic that he was given little recognition by his native city at the time, for by the end of the 20th century he was being recognized as the father of 'Glasgow Style' and one of the driving forces behind a Gift Ideas approach to modern architecture.

2-Early life.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at 70 Parson Street, Glasgow on 7th June 1868,the fourth of 12 childern and second son to Margaret and William Mackintosh, a clerk in the police force. He grew up in Glasgow and in 1875 attended Reid’s Public School. From the age of nine (1877) he attended the Allan Glen’s Institution, a private school for the children of tradesmen and artisans, which specialized in vocational training. At fifteen (1883) Mackintosh began evening classes at Glasgow School of Art which he attended until 1894 and he wins many prizes. A year later, in 1884, he began a five-year apprentice with the Glasgow architects John Hutchins.

While enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh developed an artistic relationship with Margaret MacDonald, Frances Macdonald and Herbert McNair, Known as "The Four", which led to the development of the ‘Glasgow Style. They exhibited posters, furnishings, and a variety of graphic designs in Glasgow, London, Vienna and Turin. These exhibitions helped establish Mackintosh's reputation.

These four artists collaborated on designs for furniture, metalwork and illustration, developing a highly distinctive array of weird images including abstracted female figures and metamorphic lines reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Their style earned them the nickname of the 'Spook School' and their work, particularly in England, was treated with suspicion because of its decadent influence of Continental art nouveau.

Mackintosh was a model student, spending many hours in the library consulting architecture and design journals and winning many student prizes and competitions.

3-Career

Later in1988 or 1989 on qualifying, he joined renowned architects Honeyman and Keppie, Glasgow Scotland as a draftsman. At the same time he enrolled in several drawing and design classes at Glasgow School of Art, at that time one of the most important art colleges in Europe.

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A prestigious talent, Mackintosh won numerous prizes including in 1890/1891 Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship which enabled him to undertake a study tour of Italy.

Due to his work smartness he becomes Senior Assistant in 1896 in Honeyman and Keppie.

Mackintosh's most important architectural work, was also his first major project - a new building for the Glasgow School of Art, started in 1896

On 1st January 1901, Charles Rennie Mackintosh become partner with Honeyman and Keppie , the practice title becoming Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh.

Mackintosh was influenced from many places. He particularly likes the simple forms and natural materials of Japanese design.He were also influenced by the Modernist movement taking place in Europe. The main concern of this movement was with present and future, rather than history and tradition. Mackintosh later became known as the pioneer of the movement, however much of his work is far more significant and distinct than the utilitarianism of the Modernist movement.

Unlike the earlier designer, Le Corbusier, whose theory was that houses were machines for living in where as Mackintosh was concerned about building for the needs of individual people, and to help them live within a work of art.

With a design philosophy solidly rooted in Scottish tradition, Mackintosh disregarded the architecture of Greece and Rome as unsuitable for the climate or needs Scotland. He believed that a revival of the Scottish Baronial style, adapted to modern society would meet contemporary needs. His buildings clearly demonstrate this belief.

Mackintosh created buildings notable for the elegance and clarity of their spatial concepts, the skillful exploitation of natural and artificial lighting, and skillful detailing. He felt that each design should work as a whole to which each carefully contrived detail contributes.

4-End of C.R.Mackintosh Journey.

In 1913 Mackintosh left the firm of Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh where he had been a partner since 1904. After unsuccessfully trying to establish his own practice, he dedicated his time to landscape painting.

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Due to financial hardship, the Mackintoshes had moved in 1923 to Port-Vendres, a Mediterranean coastal town in southern France with a warm climate that was a comparably cheaper location in which to live. During this phase of his life, Mackintosh created a large portfolio of architecture and landscape watercolor paintings. The couple remained in France for two years, before being forced to return to London in 1927 due to illness.

That year, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer. A brief recovery prompted him to leave the hospital and convalesce at home for a few months. Mackintosh was admitted to a nursing home where he died on 10 December 1928 at the age of 60 after a relatively short but largely influential career, leaving many design ideas that will not soon be forgotten. He is buried in Golders Green Crematorium in London

He was perhaps the most important proponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom and one of the most influential Scottish designers and architects of all time.

5-Professional work.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work can be divided into three main areas:

1. PUBLIC BUILDINGS2. PRIVATE HOMES

3. TEA ROOM

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was the most important exponent of early British design. While his own style was very individual, he joined with Herbert MacNair, Francis Macdonald and Margaret Maconald, to form the "The Four," later dubbed the "Spook School" of Glasgow. The Four exhibited together for the first time in Glasgow in 1894, in London in 1896 and in Vienna in 1900. That same year, Mackintosh married Margaret Macdonald with whom he collaborated on many of his decorative schemes.

Mackintosh designed several public buildings and private residences in Glasgow at the turn of the century, including his masterwork, the Glasgow School of Art (1896-1909). Hill House, Miss Cranston's tea rooms and his own house in Glasgow are examples of a unique genius that did not mimic the predominant Art Nouveau style but created its own world of color, pattern and form.

The majority of Mackintosh's three-dimensional work was created with the help of a small number of patrons within a short period of intense activity between 1896 and 1910. Francis Newbery was headmaster of the Glasgow School of Art and was supportive of Mackintosh's ultimately successful bid to

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design a Gift Ideas art school building, his most prestigious undertaking. For Miss Kate Cranston he designed a series of Glasgow tearoom interiors and for the businessmen William Davidson and Walter Blackie, he was commissioned to design large private houses, 'Windyhill' in Kilmacolm and 'The Hill house' in Helensburgh.

In Europe, the originality of Mackintosh's style was quickly appreciated and in Germany and Austria he received the acclaim that he was never truly to gain at home. In 1900 the Mackintoshes were feted in Vienna as a result of their contribution to the 8th Vienna Secession and this led to friendships with designers such as Josef Hoffmann and the commission to design the Warndorfer Music Salon. In 1902 the Mackintosh Room at the Turin International Exhibition was also enthusiastically received and he went on to exhibit in Moscow and Berlin.

Despite this success and with his undoubted influence abroad, Mackintosh's work met with considerable indifference at home and his career in Glasgow declined. Few private clients were sufficiently sympathetic to want his 'total design' of house and interior and he was incapable of compromise.

The Glasgow tea rooms he designed in the early 1900s are perhaps his most unique contribution in which art, architecture and design came together in a complete environment. These light, elegant and sophisticated interiors were an enormous contrast to the gritty, smoky urban city of Glasgow where he was born, trained and lived for most of his adult life. Glasgow is where the majority of his work was executed and Mackintosh’s career paralleled the city’s economic boom. By the end of the 19th century Glasgow was a wealthy, burgeoning European city with an immense network of trade and manufacture that supplied the world with coal and ships. It was also a rich source of commissions for a gifted young architect and designer.

By 1914 Mackintosh had despaired of ever receiving true recognition in Glasgow and both he and Margaret moved, temporarily, to Walberswick on the Suffolk Coastline, where he painted many fine flower studies in watercolor.

In 1915 they settled in London and for the next few years Mackintosh attempted to resume practice as an architect and designer. The designs he produced at this time for textiles, for the 'Dug-out' Tea Room in Glasgow and the dramatic interiors for Bassett-Lowke's house in Northampton, England show him working in a bold Gift Ideas style of decoration, using primary colors and geometric motifs. It was an output of extraordinary vitality and originality that went virtually unheeded.

In 1923 the Mackintoshes left London for the South of France where Mackintosh gave up all thoughts of architecture and design and devoted

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himself entirely to painting landscapes. He died in London, of cancer, on 10 December 1928.

Some famous art design projects of Charles Rennie Mackintosh are as below:

1. Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, (1897-1909) (East wing 1896-1899,West wing 1907-1909)

2. The interiors of the Mackintoshes own home at 6 Florentine Terrace (1906-1914)

3. Hill House in Helensburgh for Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie (1902-1903)

4. Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms.

5. Argyle Street Tea Rooms and later the rooms of Ingram Street and Willow Street (1902-1904) are projects of art designed and considered down to the finest detail.

6. His high backed chairs are pieces of furniture or art that every interior designer is familiar with as they were of such original and memorable proportions.

7. Scotland Street School (1903-1906)

8. The interior of 78 Derngate Northampton (1916-1917)

The Willow Tearoom, Glasgow

6- Furniture design work.

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Writing Cabinet, designer C.R. MackintoshChair C.R.

Mackintosh

Armchair Argyll Street Tea Room Smoker's or Billiard Room ChairArgyll Street Tea Room

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Barrel Chair 1907, Ingram Street Tea Room Chinese Room Chair 1911 Ingram Street Tea Room

Oak Room Chair 1907 Ingram Street Tea Room Windyhill Entrance Hall

Oval Room Chair 1909Ingram Street Tea Room

Cabinet for Kingsborough Gardens, 1902

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High Back Stenciled ChairTurin 1902

Chair 1919 Derngate

Director's Chair, Glasgow School of Art Chair C.R. Mackintosh

Hich Back Chair Main Street, 1900

TableWarndorfer Music Salon 1903

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Armchairs Willow Tea Room Pen Box 1905 Hous'Hill

Lattice Back ChairWillow Tea Room Ladder Back Chairs Willow Tea Room

Reference: http://www.achome.co.uk/pictorial/mackintosh.htm

7- Charles Rennie Mackintosh sketch work.

Design for a writing cabinet and chair, for The Hill House, Helensburgh 1904

Design for oval backrail chairs and tables, for the dining room, 'Miss Cranston's' tea rooms, Argyle

Street, Glasgow 1898-9

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Design for tables and chair with high back, for the Room de Luxe, Willow Tea Rooms,

Glasgow 1903

Design for tables and chair with high back, for the Room de Luxe, Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow 1903

Plan of a bedroom, designed for the Dresdener Werkstatten fur Handwerkskunst

1903

Design for a smoker's cabinet 1899

Design for service trolley, sideboard and coffee table, for W.J. Bassett-Lowke c.1916-

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Design for an easy chair for The Hill House 1905

Settle, for the hall, 120 Mains Street, Glasgow 1900

Reference: http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/Mackintosh/browse.html

8- Re-production of Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Below are some reproduction examples of Charles Rennie Mackintosh furniture design work for the study of furniture design students.

1904 willow chair

Charles Rennie Mackintosh created the Willow Chair (Settee) for the Willow Tea Room in Glasgow, Scotland between 1902 and 1904. Dimensions: H 47" x D 16" x W 37"

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Hill House Chair

Dimensions: H 55 1/2" x D 15 1/4" W 16"; SH 17"

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh Candida Cottage Chair

This Candida Cottage Chairs were part of the series believed to have been designed for the country home of the industrialist W.Basset Lowke. Dimensions: H 29 1/2" x D 19 1/4" x W 18"; SH 18"

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Candida Cottage Armchair

These Candida Cottage Chairs were part of the series believed to have been designed for the country home of the industrialist W.Basset Lowke. The client proved to be difficult and the design of the table with accompanying chairs was not accepted. Dimensions: H 29 1/2" x D 18 1/2" x W 20 1/2"; SH 18" ArH 23 1/2"

harles Rennie Mackintosh Lowback Ingram Chair

This low version of the Ingram Chair was the basic chair used in the White Dining Room and in the Cloister Room of the Ingram Street Tearooms, Glasgow. Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1900. Dimensions: H 41 3/4" x D 17 3/4" x W 18

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Argyle Carver Armchair

In 1899 at the Art & Crafts exhibition in London Charles Rennie Mackintosh showed the Argyle Carver Armchair. Dimensions: H 54" x D 19" x W 20 1/2"; SH 18",This version is without an inserted panel as is in the Glasgow School of Art Collection.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Square Gate Leg Table.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Gate Leg Folding Table.

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This Mackintosh is one of the Gateleg Table designs that were submitted to W.J. Basset Lowke. The idea was rejected and the table was never produced. Dimensions: W 39 1/4" x D 39 1/4" x H 30"

This Mackintosh Gateleg Table was never produced during his lifetime. Dimensions: Closed: W 22.5" x D 49 1/4" H 29 1/2" |  Extended: W 70" x D 49 1/4" H 29 1/2"

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Sideboard

This Charles Rennie Mackintosh sideboard is part of a series of models designed by Mackintosh supposedly for the country home of W.J. Basset-Lowke. They were not produced during the lifetime of Mackintosh. The design of the stained glass panel in the sideboard is not indicated in the Mackintosh drawing. Dimensions: H60" x D22 1/2" x

W64 1/2" 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Willow Room Coat Rack

This coat tree was designed for the Room de Luxe of the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow, Scotland. The original was painted silver. Two original examples exist. Dimensions: H 79" Dia 12 1/4" 

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Dug Out Chair

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This armchair, named the "Dug Out" chair for the tearoom that it was designed for, is unmistakably a Mackintosh design. While no existing examples of the "Dug Out" chair have ever been located, the details of this chair can be found in the architectural drawings of the Dug Out Tearoom. This, and the complete furnishings of the tearoom, can be seen in watercolor painting (1917) that remains in the collection of Glasgow University. The "Dug Out" chair was also believed to be included in the furniture designed for the home of W. Basset Lowke, along with such pieces as the Gate Leg table and the Mackintosh Hutch. Dimensions: H 33" D 25 1/2" W 33"

Note:- Above shown pictures are from the reproduction of Charles Rennie Mackintosh original designs for reference.

Useful links:

1- http://www.smow.com/designers/mackintosh/ 2- http://www.classic-design24.com/uk/tables/dining-table-by-charles-rennie-mackintosh-

1918.html

3- http://www.classic-design24.com/uk/armchairs/mackintosh-charles-rennie/armchair-willow-by- charles-rennie-mackintosh.html

4- http://www.brucehamilton.co.uk/

9-Biography

1868 Born in Glasgow, Scotland 1875 Attends Reid’s Public School and, in 1877, Allan Glen’s Institution

1883 Begins evening classes at Glasgow School of Art, which he attends until 1894 and where he wins many prizes

1884 Trains with the Glasgow architects John Hutchins

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1889 On qualifying, Makcintosh joins the renowned architects Honeyman & Keppie, where he befriends fellow draughtsman Herbert MacNair (1868-1955)

1891 Travels to Italy on a scholarship tour

1894 Develops designs with MacNair and their friends, the sisters Margaret and Frances Macdonald. Together they are known as The Four. Goes on the first of many sketching holidays in England.

1896 Makintosh is the lead designer on Honeyman & Keppie’s competition entry for the new Glasgow School of Art. The Four exhibits at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London. Designs and produces stencil wall decorations for the Buchanan Street tea rooms, Glasgow for Miss Cranston

1897 Designs Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow. Construction begins on Glasgow School of Art. The Studio publishes an article on Mackintosh

1898 Designs several buildings for the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition. Commissioned by Miss Cranston to design the furniture and decoration for The Argyle Street tea rooms. Produces designs for Ruchill St. Church Halls, Glasgow and two domestic interiors: an all-white bedroom at Westdel, Queen’s Palace, Glasgow for Robert Maclehose and a dining-room for Hugo Brückmann, editor of Dekorative Kunst, in Münich

1899 The new Glasgow School of Art opens, as does the Queen’s Cross Church, Glasgow

1900 Marries Margaret Macdonald. Together they design the decoration and furniture for their flat at 120 Mains Street, Glasgow. Miss Cranston commissions Mackintosh to design the interior and furniture for The Ladies’ Luncheon Room, Ingram Street tearooms. Completes designs for Windyhill, Kilmalcolm, his first detached house, for his friend William Davidson

1901 Becomes a partner in Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh. Designs interior and furniture for Mrs Rowat at 14 Kingsborough Gardens, Glasgow

1902 Designs a music room at Carl-Ludwigstrasse, Vienna for Fritz Warndorfer, a supporter of the Secession Movement and later of the Wiener Werkstätte. Commissioned to build Hill House, Helensburgh for publisher Walter Blackie

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1903 Miss Cranston commissions Mackintosh to design the exterior and interiors of The Willow tea rooms, Glasgow. The Glasgow School Board appoints Mackintosh to design the Scotland Street School, Glasgow

1904 Completes The Hill House, Helensburgh. Designs the decoration and furnishings of the hall, dining room, drawing room and two bedrooms atHous’hill Nitshill, Glasgow for Miss Cranston and her husband Major Cochrane

1905 Designs a shop at 233 Sauchiehall Street for Messrs Henry and Carruthers. Begins work on Auchinibert, a house at Killearn, Stirlingshire for F.J. Shand and on the Dutch Kitchen for the basement of the Argyle Street tea rooms, Glasgow

1906 Completes the designs for the boardroom at Glasgow School of Art. Moves with Margaret to 78 Southpark Avenue, where they create new interiors

1907 Produces designs for The Oak Room at the Ingram Street tea rooms for Miss Cranston and the west wing of Glasgow School of Art

1909 Designs the Card Room for Hous’hill as well as the Oval Room and ladies’ rest room at the Ingram Street tea rooms. Opening of the west wing of Glasgow School of Art

1911 Creates the interiors of The Cloister Room and Chinese Room for the Ingram Street tea rooms, Glasgow

1914 Dissolves partnership in Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh and moves to Walberswick, Suffolk where he paints watercolours and is suspected by local people of being a spy

1915 Moves to Chelsea, London

1916 Creates furniture and interiors for 78 Derngate, Northampton for W.J. Bassett-Lowke and produces fabric designs for Messrs. Foxton and Messrs. Sefton of London

1917 Designs the Dug-Out, a war-time café at the Willow tea rooms and clocks for W. J. Bassett-Lowke

1919 Completes designs for a guest bedroom at 8 Derngate, Northampton and a cottage at East Grinstead for E.O. Hoppé

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1923 Moves to Port Venders in southern France where he paints a series of water colors, mainly landscapes

1928 Dies in London of cancer of the tongue

Drawing room, 120 Mains Street, Glasgow, 1900

Interior hall of The Hill House, 1903

References

1. Charles Rennie Mackintosh (World of Arts) by Alan Crawford2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Architect, Icon by John McKean

and Colin baxer.

3. Charles Rennie Mackintosh Furniture by Roger Billcliffe.

4. Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture,Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs: by Roger Billcliffe.

5. “The Tea rooms of mackintosh” by Alan Crawford and Wendy Kaplan,Architecture Week No.81,2002.0109,pC1.1

6. “The Illustrated Encylopedia of Architects and Architecture” New York-1991

7. “Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architect.Vo.3,London" Dictionary of Scottish Architects – DSA Architect Biography Report.

8. " Margaret macdonald” , The Official Gateway to Scotland" .

9. House for an Art Lover , Bellahouston Park, Glasgow 1996.

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10. The Hunterian, The University of Glasgow. Mackintosh Collection, cat no: GLAHA 41142-45

11. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS),

12. "The Glasgow Story: Modern Times" . City of Glasgow Culture and Leisure Services.

13. Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Gallery Plan and Program Guide (1996).

14. The University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery

15. “The Tea rooms of mackintosh” by Alan Crawford and Wendy Kaplan,Architecture Week No.81,2002.0109,pC1.1

Useful links

1. http://www.crmsociety.com/ 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh 3.4. http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/glk?http://govan.cent.gla.ac.uk/

Museum/MacHouse/MacInfo.html5. http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/Mackintosh/sketchbooks 6. http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/Mackintosh/browse.html 7. http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh 8. http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0109/culture_1-1.html 9. http://www.isnare.com/?aid=317611&ca=Arts+and+Crafts 10.http://www.achome.co.uk/pictorial/mackintosh.htm 11.http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh 12.http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm-book.htm

Note: Title page photograph taken on 9 March 2006 by User:Dave souza

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House for an Art Lover Range by Bruce Hamilton,UK

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FIRST COMMENT.

Your Information Regarding Mackintosh Furniture Design

Charles Rennie Mackintosh society UK ([email protected])1/8/2013

To: [email protected]

From:CRM Society ([email protected]) This sender is in your contact list.Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 5:33:37 PMTo: [email protected]

 Dear Javeed,

Thank you for your email and for taking the trouble to send us your article – which is indeed comprehensive.

With the help of one of our volunteer researchers, we have had a look at your article on Mackintosh and furniture design and feel that there are several issues which would need to be addressed before you would want to use it for educational purposes - particularly if it was your intention to have it published at some point.

There are several inaccuracies with names and descriptions and some spelling and you would need to seek permission to use the photo images from the site holders/books/ or journals, and also check the accuracy of the information you have used with the authors direct. Some of the websites are not academically reliable .eg' isnare.com'

You may need to check the references at the end of the article as they need to have a full description of author, title, publication date, place of publication and page references for journals.  Websites need to be acknowledged as references as well and this would need to be completed.  It would be worth noting that one of the most comprehensive works on Mackintosh Furniture is the Catalogue Raisonne work by author and scholar Roger Billcliffe – published by Cameron and Hollis.

Without checking some of your information sources in detail, and then rechecking for authoritative sources , which would be time consuming for us, we regret, that as we are a small charitable body, we do not have the resources to supply you with a detailed ‘crit’ of your work. 

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Perhaps one of your previous college lecturers or tutors at Bucks would be willing to go through this in detail for you?

We wish you the best of luck with your project, but we can only offer our opinion based on what we understand from your information to us, and cannot accept any liability for any information you use which turns out to be inaccurate or any copyright which is infringed.

We realise that you intend to give apprentice projects to design Mackintosh furniture as learning projects for them – but would point out that Cassina holds a copyright on certain Mackintosh Chairs (see http://www.cassina.com) and as with all potential copyright issues, you would be advised to check on the copyright status of any pieces you wished to produce in a commercial way – not just with Cassina, but with the other holders, which would include the Glasgow School of Art etc.

 I do hope this is of some help, I regret that we are unable to supply you with a more-detailed analysis of your work – and wish you well with your continued research into Mackintosh and his works.

yours sincerely

 

Dylan Paterson

For, and on behalf of, the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society

Dylan Paterson

Business and Events Officer

CRM Society

The Mackintosh Church at Queen's Cross

870 Garscube Road

Glasgow G20 7EL

 

T: +44(0)141 946 6600 or +44(0)141 945 2321

F: +44(0)141 946 7276

E: [email protected]

W: www.crmsociety.com and www.mackintoshchurch.com

 

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