AFTER CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH ‡
OAK DRESSING TABLE CHAIR, CIRCA 1904/ 5
£1,900
Auction: 7 September 2012 at 15:00 BST
Description
the slightly curved back filled with slats extending to the lower stretcher and crossed in the centre to form a vertical column of squares, the drop-in seat with later cover above arched seat rails on square section tapering legs linked by stretchers and having a central splat to the front, forming a vertical column of squares and linking the front seat rail to the stretcher
Dimensions
46.5cm (18in) wide, 60cm (23½in) high, 41cm (16in) deep
Footnote
Literature:
Billcliffe, Roger 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs', Moffatt 2009, p. 216, see footnote to no. 1904.93A
Note:
One of the contractors who regularly worked for Mackintosh, William Douglas, owned various pieces of, mainly, bedroom furniture that bear similarities to various items designed by Mackintosh for the White and Blue Bedrooms at Hous'hill in 1904. Although the designs of the various chairs Douglas owned are closely related to the original Hous'hill pieces they have none of the subtleties of detail and construction that mark the known original Hous'hill items. This chair is closest to the original design for the dressing table chair for the Blue Bedroom but it differs in dimensions, construction and other details of design from the actual chair from the Blue Bedroom. One possibility is that Douglas commissioned these chairs from one of his fellow contractors who chose not to make exact copies of the original chairs; whether this was because the chairs were made at some unspecified date after 1904 or after the full scale drawings had been destroyed is not known.