Armchair
Medium
Stained oak with modern horsehair upholstery
Dimensions
96.4 × 57.2 × 45.8 cm (38 × 22 1/2 × 18 in.)
Classification
seating
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
156437
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed this armchair in 1897 for Catherine Cranston’s Argyle Street Tearooms in Glasgow. Though the chair adheres to the strict linearity of many of Mackintosh’s designs, in this instance he has enlivened the surfaces by piercing each of the side panels with a crescent-like motif reminiscent of a bird in flight. One of these chairs appears in a contemporary photograph of the Luncheon Room of the Argyle Street Tearooms, but it is not known how many were made. This chai...