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The Macallan unveils single malts inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh – including rare 46 Year Old
The Macallan has launched two single malts inspired by Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh, including a 46 Year Old whisky. Inspired by Mackintosh’s 1902 stained-glass panel The Spirit of the Rose, The Macallan’s new The Tree of Life Collection features two limited edition single malt whiskies. The rarer of the two releases, the 46 Years…
Read MoreCharles Rennie Mackintosh writing desk returns home to the Hill House
A writing desk designed at the turn of the 20th century by Charles Rennie Mackintosh has returned to the Hill House, its original home. The elegant drawing room writing desk was commissioned by publisher Walter Blackie, the first owner of the Mackintosh-designed and built Hill House in Helensburgh. Like much of the furniture in the…
Read MoreRare silver cutlery designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh sells for nearly £180,000 at auction
An extremely rare suite of silver cutlery designed by renowned Scottish artist and architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, has sold for nearly £180,000 at auction. The soup spoon, dessert spoon, dinner fork and dessert fork formed part of a set commissioned in 1902 by the Scottish artist and embroiderer Jessie Newbury, and her husband Francis (Fra)…
Read MoreScots baronial mansion designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh up for sale – and it has some of the best views in Scotland
This incredible Scots baronial mansion on Wemyss Bay beach, which was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and is said to have some of the best views in Scotland, is up for sale. Dunloe House is steeped in history. It was built by the Bannatyne Stewart family in 1890 using the famous Glasgow architects Honeyman and…
Read MoreMackintosh tea room rescued by National Trust for Scotland
The last surviving tea room designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh has been rescued by the National Trust for Scotland. Designed by the renowned architect in 1903, Mackintosh at the Willow in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street is considered one of the city’s most important contributions towards modernism. The tea room was reopened five years ago after a £10m…
Read MoreCharles Rennie Mackintosh trio goes under hammer
THREE items connected to legendary Glasgow designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh will go under the hammer next week. Lyon & Turnbull is selling a bedside cabinet, a watercolour, and an exhibition catalogue in Edinburgh on Wednesday. The bedside cabinet was built for the blue bedroom at Kate Cranston’s Hous’ Hill and is expected to fetch between…
Read MoreMackintosh and Knox lead Lyon & Turnbull auction
WORKS by designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Archibald Knox are among the lots going under the hammer next week at Lyon & Turnbull’s decorative arts auction. The sale includes a previously unrecorded oak gate-leg table by Mackintosh, which dates from around 1910, when – in addition to the famous commissions for Miss Cranston’s tearooms in…
Read MoreMarking 40 years since closure of Mackintosh school
Forty years after the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Scotland Street School closed, organisers hope to attract a record number of former pupils to the annual reunion. This year’s event takes place from noon–3pm this Saturday, 19 October. Last year’s reunion, which took place in the 150th anniversary year of Mackintosh’s birth, attracted over 60 people…
Read MoreHistoric desk returns to The Hill House
A desk owned by the man who commissioned The Hill House has returned to the property for the first time in over 60 years. When the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed house was completed in 1904, the desk was placed at the heart of the property’s library by owner, publisher Walter Blackie. It remained in The Hill…
Read MoreCelebrating of the life of a special woman
Miss Cranston follows the life of this remarkable Glasgow businesswoman, the success of her Victorian Glasgow tea rooms and her collaboration with renowned designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Perilla Kinchen reveals Miss Cranston’s ‘successful formula’ and eccentric characteristics in an engaging style which entices readers to continue. This revised edition of the 1999 publication includes over…
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