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The Mackintosh House Gallery Further Information

The Mackintosh House Gallery is entered from the second-floor landing. It houses Find out more about the Mackintosh Collection on our other works from the University’s Mackintosh Collection, the most extensive holding of website: www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections Mackintosh’s drawings and designs in the world. A permanent feature of the Gallery is the reconstruction of one of Mackintosh’s last interior schemes, the dramatic guest bedroom To find out more about Mackintosh in Glasgow visit: Please do not take from 78 Derngate, Northampton of 1916. www.glasgowmackintosh.com photographs or touch any of the furniture or fittings. The Mackintosh Estate and Collection Also on Campus

The Mackintoshes’ Estate was gifted to the University of Glasgow by their nephew in 1947. The Hunterian Museum This donation provided the University with an unrivalled holding of Mackintosh’s drawings, Stunning displays of archaeology, palaeontology, designs and watercolours, covering all aspects of his output: architectural sketches and geology, zoology, entomology, ethnography and designs, flower drawings, interior designs, graphic and textile designs, and watercolours. numismatics, alongside highly acclaimed permanent In addition a small but important archive includes correspondence, contemporary galleries dedicated to Roman material from the Antonine periodicals, and photographs. The Estate also contains over 40 works by Margaret Wall, the history of medicine in Scotland and Lord Kelvin’s Macdonald, the largest single representation of her output. scientific instruments.

Since 1947 significant additions have been made to the Collection. With over 1,000 items, it is now the world centre for the study of Mackintosh. The Collection also includes important examples of work by Frances Macdonald and James Herbert McNair, and other www.glasgow.ac.uk/hunterian artists and designers working in Glasgow from the 1890s. All images are ©The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, unless otherwise stated. The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401. Welcome The Mackintosh House

The Mackintosh House comprises the 1900s. Certain items were exhibited in The other desk, the mahogany writing The University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Art Gallery reassembled principal interiors from 78 Hall Dining Room Studio-Drawing Room Mackintosh’s lifetime to great acclaim on cabinet in the studio, was purchased Southpark Avenue, Glasgow (originally 6 the Continent. For example the stencilled for a world-record price in 1979 after an houses one of the most important collections Here Mackintosh introduced a new front The most significant alteration was Two rooms were knocked through to Florentine Terrance), the mid-19th century door, south-facing window, panelling and the introduction of a new fireplace on create this breathtaking L-shaped interior, chairs and oval table in the drawing international appeal. A sophisticated of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and terraced house remodelled by and lived wall-strapping. The most striking object the north wall. The decorative scheme decorated throughout in white and flooded room formed part of the Mackintoshes’ design, it combines rectilinear and in by the Mackintoshes from 1906 to 1914. is the beaten lead mirror, entitled ‘Vanity’, boldly subdivides the space between with light from a new horizontal window celebrated room setting ‘The Rose curvilinear forms, and a variety of his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. The original house was demolished in the designed and made by Margaret and white ceiling and frieze, and the sombre on the south wall. Much of the Victorian Boudoir’ exhibited in Turin in 1902. decorative materials. Its accompanying early 1960s but the fixtures were preserved The holding comprises the contents of the Frances Macdonald and James Herbert stencilled decoration. The dark-stained detailing was removed or replaced – chair is a replica. and reassembled, complete with the McNair in 1896 (Coll. of furniture dates from the late 1890s to 1900. fireplaces, doors, light-fittings, cornices, Mackintosh collaborated with Margaret Mackintoshes’ Glasgow home and the couple’s Mackintoshes’ contents, as an integral part Art, Davidson Bequest). Most striking are the chairs, Mackintosh’s while a screening wall was introduced Macdonald on several major projects in As none of the Mackintoshes’ library of the University’s Hunterian Art Gallery. artistic estate. first ‘high-back’, based on a design for above picture-rail level to mask the vertical the early 1900s. In this interior, decorative survives, the studio bookshelves have Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms, Argyle Street, proportions of the two east windows. panels by her are incorporated in two been filled with titles which reflect The Gallery architects, Whitfield Partners, Glasgow (1898). The armchair probably items: a painted gesso panel called ‘The the Mackintoshes’ known interests took pains to ensure that the sequence of had a plaque by Margaret Macdonald in The furniture was a skilful mix of dark White Rose and the Red Rose’ located and reading. Works with appropriate rooms exactly reflected the original. Virtually the oval back-rail. The table and wooden stained items, mainly of the late 1890s, above the studio fireplace, and silvered decorative bindings of the period have the same views and effects of natural light chair have been lent by Glasgow School and white-painted pieces of the early are enjoyed, as 78 Southpark Avenue stood metal panels in the white desk. also been included. of Art. There are also two Tea Room chairs Charles Rennie Mackintosh only some 100 metres away. Other areas from the University Collection (by the table) of the original house – cloakroom, kitchen, “The Mackintosh House and two reproductions by Cassina S.p.A., The Scottish architect, designer, and artist, Charles bathroom, and secondary bedrooms – are is absolutely stunning.” Milan (against the wall). Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) was one of the most not reconstructed. individual and creative designers of the turn of the last R. Field, England century. Today he is internationally celebrated for his The interiors, completed in 1981, have architectural masterpiece, the , been furnished with the Mackintoshes’ own the villa, The Hill House, in nearby Helensburgh, and his furniture – all to Mackintosh’s design – and remarkable city-centre tea room interiors for Catherine decorated as closely as possible to the Cranston. His beautiful interiors place distinctive pieces original. The selection of bric à brac, fitted ©Annan of furniture/sculpture within subtly harmonious colour carpets, curtains and other soft furnishings schemes, the whole expressing a great sensitivity to was based on contemporary descriptions of light and atmosphere. the house and photographs of Mackintosh interiors of the period. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Margaret Macdonald (1864–1933) was one of the most gifted woman artist/designers working in Glasgow at the turn of the last century. Her range is impressive: metalwork, textiles, graphics, watercolours, and gesso. Her achievements with the latter were unmatched in Britain. Macdonald often worked in collaboration, in the 1890s with her talented sister, Frances McNair, and subsequently, particularly in the early 1900s, with Mackintosh. ©Annan