👀Look at this gorgeous lantern by Charles Rennie Macintosh, sold recently at auction for £609,950 - more than twenty times the estimate! 🔗Link in the comments🔗
Glasgow born architect and designer Macintosh has such a beautiful style, blending Scottish baronial architecture with Japanese influences, Art Nouveau, and the Arts and Crafts movement featuring elongated forms, geometric lines, and the stylized "Glasgow rose”. He regularly collaborated with his artist wife Margaret, and famously said while he himself had only talent, Margaret had genius.
If you’d like to see more examples of Macintosh’s work you can visit such architectural gems as the stunning Hill House in Helensburgh, the House for an Art Lover (built in the 1990s to CRM’s design) or treat yourself to afternoon tea at the Willow Tearooms in Glasgow. Sadly his masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, has been badly damaged by not one, but two recent fires and remains covered in scaffolding 😢
