CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (1868-1928) FOR MISS CRANSTON'S INGRAM STREET TEAROOMS
WRITING TABLE, 1909
£30,200
Auction: 12 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
oak
Dimensions
91cm diameter, 70cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Messrs Coopers Tearooms (Ingram Street Tearooms), Glasgow, from whom purchased by the present owner, circa 1960.
Footnote
Literature: Billcliffe, R., Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, Cameron & Hollis 2009, p. 249-251, illus. 1909.16 and 16A
Note: This table formed the base of a writing table made by Frances Smith for the Ladies' Rest Room at Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearoom in 1909. The Rest Room formed one of two new adjacent rooms created by Mackintosh for the Ingram Street Tea Rooms: The Oval Room and the Ladies Rest Room. This latter room was dark stained and panelled with recesses for couches and other furniture. The fireplace was surrounded by gold mosaic tiles and open columns supported the mezzanine of the Oval Room above. The desk originally had a superstructure with dividers which allowed for four people to sit at the desk at any time and may in any case have been removable. Although the original layout of the room is not known, it may be that the circular writing desk offered here sat in the bow window next to the fireplace at one end of the room.