The Mackintosh Argyle Chair

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This unusually high backed chair was designed by the Scottish architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Catherine Cranston's Argyle Street Tearooms in Glasgow around 1898-1899. The design for the furniture of the tearooms was the first major private commission of Mackintosh's career. The Argyle chair was shown at the Eighth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, Austria in 1900 where Mackintosh's highly individual style strongly influenced and contributed to the development of work at the Wiener Werkstatte... Read more


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