Who designed 'The Willow Tearooms' at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow?
"many churches which were converted to theatres, apartments or demolished and because of the popularity of Mackintosh's work, the church became home of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, which owns and operates the church as a tourist attraction. The adjoining church hall provides tearoom facilities, and there is a display area under the balcony with many artifacts including replicas of the chairs he designed for the Willow Tearooms. Queen's Cross Church, Glasgow Queen's Cross Church is a former Church of Scotland parish church in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the only church designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh to have been built,"
"by a wooden screen with leaded glass inserts, offering tantalising glimpses of the experience to come. This led to the commission to design completely the proposed new tearooms in Sauchiehall Street in 1903. For the first time, Mackintosh was given responsibility for not only the interior design and furniture, but also for the full detail of the internal layout and exterior architectural treatment. The resultant building came to be known as the Willow Tearooms, and is the best known and most important work that Mackintosh undertook for Miss Cranston. The location selected by Miss Cranston for the new tearooms was"
"a four-storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of Sauchiehall Street. The name ""Sauchiehall"" is derived from ""saugh"", the Scots word for a willow tree, and ""haugh"", meadow. This provided the starting point for Mackintosh and MacDonald's ideas for the design theme. Within the existing structure, Mackintosh designed a range of spaces with different functions and decor for the Glasgow patrons to enjoy. There was a ladies’ tearoom to the front of the ground floor, with a general lunch room to the back and a tea gallery above it. The first floor contained"
"by a wooden screen with leaded glass panels, giving those entering glimpses into the room itself. His fame was spreading, and in 1902 ""The Studio"" wrote of ""Miss Cranston, whose tea-rooms, designed by Mr. Mackintosh, are reckoned by some of the pilgrims to Glasgow as one of the sights of the city."" Next Kate Cranston gave Mackintosh the major commission for an entire building in Sauchiehall Street, again in collaboration with his wife Margaret MacDonald on designs for the interiors. Behind a strikingly simple new façade this building provided three interlinked main tearooms at the ground floor and on a"
"designed the complete building of the Willow Tearooms, a strikingly modern exterior as well as a series of interesting interior designs. Similar establishments became popular throughout Scotland. As of 2016, the Glasgow Willow Tearooms are being restored. Roger Fulford argues that tea rooms benefitted women, in that these neutral public spaces were instrumental in the ""spread of independence"" for women and their struggle for the vote. Paul Chrystal characterises tea rooms as ""popular and fashionable, especially with women"", providing the a dignified and safe place to meet and eat, and strategise on political campaigns. There is a long tradition of"
"blend of influences, including the Celtic Revival, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and Japonisme, which found favour throughout the modern art world of continental Europe and helped define the Art Nouveau style. Beside important buildings and paintings, Mackintosh also produced significant and influential objects, including his 1904 designs for an order desk chair for the Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, based on a highly geometrised version of the willow tree, and his ""Revolving Bookcase for Hous'hill"", which prefigured the international style of the next generation. The major project of the Scottish National War Memorial within Edinburgh Castle, built"
"building. In 2014 the building was bought by Glasgow businesswoman, Celia Sinclair in order to prevent the forced sale of the building, closure of the Tea Rooms and loss of its contents to collectors as the landlord had gone into receivership. The building is now in the ownership of ‘The Willow Tea Rooms Trust’, a registered charity. The aims and objectives of the Trust are to restore and preserve this iconic piece of Scotland’s heritage for the benefit of the general public. The £10 million restoration project will educate, inspire, encourage art, creativity and entrepreneurship by informing local and international"
"produce elegant modern buildings. His major work included The Willow Tearooms in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (1903), Glasgow School of Art (1897–1909) and Hill House, Helensburgh (1902–04). The influence of Mackintosh's Glasgow style can be seen in the work of architects like James Salmon (1873–1924), whose designs included the heavily glass-fronted, Art Nouveau ""Hatrack"" (1899–1902) on Vincent Street and the Lion Chambers, Hope Street (1904–05), an early example of reinforced concrete construction. In the twentieth century the distinctive Scottish use of stone architecture declined as it was replaced by cheaper alternatives such as Portland cement, concrete, and mass-production brick. Stone would"
"from other artists of her time. Mackintosh's most popular works include the gesso panels ""The May Queen"", which was made to partner her panel ""The Wassail"" for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tearooms, and ""Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowwood"", which formed part of the decorative scheme for the Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms. All three of these are now on display in the Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow. The 2017-18 restoration of The Willow Tearooms building has seen a recreation of """"Oh ye, all ye that walk in Willowwood"""" installed in the original location within the Room"
"tea room, originally designed by George Washington Browne where Walton continued to develop his stencilling technique having abandoned wallpaper in favour of this more versatile technique. A review by Joseph Gleeson White commented on the elegant simplicity of Walton’s design despite the involvement of Washington Brown, whose work was considered heavy-handed. . Walton also designed the furniture which was noted for its ‘sinuous verticality’ and accorded with the Glasgow Style aesthetic. In 1896 Walton converted his company into a limited joint-stock company with the majority of the shares held by Walton and most of the rest of the shares held"
"first floor gallery, with steps from that leading up a further half-storey to the famous ""Room de Luxe"" stretching the width of the building above the main entrance and front tearoom. In a humorous review of the new tearoom for the Glasgow ""Evening News"" titled ""Erchie in an Art Tea Room"", Neil Munro described the ""Room de Looks"": In 1905 ""Dekorative Kunst"" featured a special issue about the Willow Tea Rooms written by Hermann Muthesius who advised that ""Today any visitor to Glasgow can rest body and soul in Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms and for a few pence drink tea,"
"the Ingram Street tearooms, creating the ""Cloister Room"" and the ""Chinese Room"" in 1911. The latter provides an exotic fantasy, with bright blue finished timber screens incorporating a cashier's kiosk, elaborate door lintels and dark blue finished furniture, all in Mackintosh's version of an oriental style. In the same year Kate Cranston provided temporary ""Exhibition Cafes"" at the ""Scottish International Exhibition"", apparently set up and designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, though nothing is now known of his scheme for this. The menu card designed by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh shows the name for the tearooms, ""The White Cockade"", but makes no"
"on the basis of his 1888 commission from Kate Cranston, and in 1896 was commissioned by her to design the interiors of new tearooms, designed and built by George Washington Browne of Edinburgh, at 91–93 Buchanan Street, which opened the following year. He was assisted in this by Charles Rennie Mackintosh who designed wall murals in the form of stencilled friezes depicting opposing pairs of elongated female figures surrounded by roses for the ladies' tearoom, the luncheon room and the smokers' gallery. Kate Cranston expanded her first tearoom to take over the whole building at 114 Argyle Street and commissioned"
"top-lit tea gallery above was pink, white, and grey. In addition to designing the internal architectural alterations and a new external facade, in collaboration with his wife Margaret, Mackintosh designed almost every other aspect of the tearooms, including the interior design, furniture, cutlery, menus, and even the waitress uniforms. Willow was the basis for the name of the tearooms, but it also formed an integral part of the decorative motifs employed in the interior design, and much of the timberwork used in the building fabric and furniture. The Room de Luxe was the most extravagant of the rooms that Mackintosh"
"Willow Tearooms reopened in 1983 with the restored ground floor façade forming the shop front to Henderson the jewellers which occupied the ground floor and the reconstructed gallery. At the same time the Room de Luxe was refurbished to recreate the original colour scheme, and furnished with reproductions of the high back chairs, though originally there were only eight of these chairs at formal central tables while chairs around the perimeter had lower backs. It was reopened in 1983 by Anne Mulhern, a Glasgow business woman, and in 1996 she also leased the tea gallery at the rear of the"
"have breakfast and dream that he is in fairy land."" Although the Willow Tearooms completed her chain, and remains the most famous of her tea rooms, Kate Cranston carried out several more projects, and Mackintosh provided increasingly innovative designs. In 1904 she commissioned him to carry out the redecoration and design of new furniture for the mansion of ""Hous'hill"" in Nitshill which was home to herself and her husband John Cochrane. Mackintosh carried out further work on the Argyle Street tearoom in 1906 to design a basement conversion to form ""The Dutch kitchen"". He did further redesigns for rooms in"
"in a programme hosted by Edith Bowman. The museum set itself the target of attracting 500,000 visitors within a year of its opening; it attracted 27,201 visitors during its first week, 100,000 in its first three weeks. The exhibition galleries are where the temporary exhibitions are placed. The Scottish Design Galleries feature permanent design works from across Scotland. Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Oak Room was originally completed in 1908 after being commissioned by Catherine Cranston for use as a tearoom on Ingram Street in Glasgow. The 13.5 meter long double-height room now forms a part of the permanent Scottish Design Gallery"
"from home. It is a simpler matter. It is the lack of tea-shops."" The original Sauchiehall Street tearoom building is presently being restored and is scheduled for reopening in 2018. It is planned to develop the adjacent building as a Mackintosh visitor centre. The 'Willow Tearooms' brand has been separated from the building and is now run privately at a location within a department store further along the street and at Buchanan Street adjacent to Miss Cranston's original premises. Both locations feature recreated Mackintosh furniture and interior features. George Walton set up ""George Walton & Co, Ecclesiastical and House Decorators"""
"so home. Nothing could be simpler or less irritating."" The city was a centre of artistic innovation at the time, and the tearooms served as art galleries for paintings by the ""Glasgow Boys"". The architect Sir Edwin Lutyens visited the Buchanan Street tearoom in 1898, finding it ""just a little outré"", and wrote from there to his wife that ""Miss Cranston is now Mrs. Cochrane, a dark, fat wee body with black sparkling luminous eyes, wears a bonnet garnished with roses, and has made a fortune by supplying cheap clean goods in surroundings prompted by the New Art Glasgow School."""
"Renfield Street and Queen Street were being run by ""Cranston's Tea Rooms Ltd."" They went into liquidation in 1954 and their premises were sold on for other uses. The Willow Tearooms were renamed, then in 1928 they were sold on to Daly's department store who incorporated the premises into their shop, keeping the Room de Luxe in operation as the department store tea room. ""Miss Cranston's Tearooms"" on Ingram Street continued in use as catering facilities from 1930 for ""Cooper's & Co."", then in 1950 the rooms came into the ownership of Glasgow City Council and were used for storage"
"visual connection with this reference to Jacobitism. It gives credit for supply of cakes to Miss Cranstons Bakery, 292 St Vincent St., Glasgow. In 1916 Kate opened ""Cranston's Cinema De Luxe"" in an entertainment complex designed for her by the architect James Miller, occupying the third floor of a six-storey building in Renfield Street, Glasgow. In 1917 Mackintosh carried out his last commission for Kate Cranston, and indeed one of his last architectural works to be constructed, with the design of an extension of the Willow Tea Rooms into the basement of the building next door to create ""The Dug"
"refreshments in a variety of different ""rooms"" within the same building. This proved to be the start of a long working relationship between Miss Cranston and Mackintosh. Between 1896 and 1917 he designed and re-styled interiors in all four of her Glasgow tearooms, often in collaboration with his wife Margaret MacDonald. Mackintosh was engaged to design the wall murals of her new Buchanan Street tearooms in 1896. The tearooms had been designed and built by George Washington Browne of Edinburgh, with interiors and furnishings being designed by George Walton. Mackintosh designed stencilled friezes depicting opposing pairs of elongated female figures"
"houses the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was built between 1908 and 1912 in the Beaux Arts style to a design by Edward and William Sutherland Maxwell of Montreal. Opened in 1978, this white tyndall stone building at 3475 Albert Street was designed by Arnott MacPhail Johnstone and is named after former Saskatchewan Premier T.C. (Tommy) Douglas. The building houses both government departments and agencies as well as the MacKenzie Art Gallery. The Willow on Wascana, located at 3000 Wascana Drive, is a fine dining restaurant opened in 2004 overlooking Wascana Lake that specializes in a menu with ingredients produced mainly"
"street names) on the eastern side of the city centre has largely survived intact. The vast majority of the city as seen today dates from the 19th century. As a result, Glasgow has an impressive heritage of Victorian architecture: the Glasgow City Chambers; the main building of the University of Glasgow, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott; and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, designed by Sir John W. Simpson, are notable examples. The city is notable for architecture designed by the Glasgow School, the most notable exponent of that style being Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Mackintosh was an architect and"
"Fine Arts with a view to re-establishing the McLellan Galleries as a major feature in Glasgow’s cultural life. The galleries have been protected as a category B listed building since 1970. McLellan Galleries The McLellan Galleries are an exhibition space in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, situated behind a frontage of shops in Sauchiehall Street. The Galleries were built in 1855-6 to a design by architect James Smith at a cost of £40,000 and are named after their founder, Archibald McLellan (1795–1854), a coach builder, councillor and patron of the arts. Following his death, Glasgow Corporation acquired the galleries and"
"surrounded by roses for the ladies’ tearoom, the luncheon room and the smokers’ gallery. In 1898, his next commission for the existing Argyle Street tearooms saw the design roles reversed, with Mackintosh designing the furniture and interiors, and Walton designing the wall murals. This was to see the first appearance of Mackintosh's trademark high-backed chair design. In 1900 Miss Cranston commissioned him to redesign an entire room in her Ingram Street tearooms, which resulted in the creation of the White Dining Room. Patrons entering the dining room from Ingram Street had to pass through a hallway separated from the room"
"Whitehall, London. Together with his partner Andrew Lockwood, he designed the neo-Palladian mansion Tusmore Park in Oxfordshire for the Saudi Arabian financier Wafic Saïd. From 1985 to 1990, he was Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral. He was awarded CBE in the 1976 Birthday Honours and knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours. William Whitfield (architect) Sir William Whitfield (born 1920) of Whitfield Lockwood Architects is a British architect. William Whitfield was born in 1920. Whitfield designed the Glasgow University Library (1968) and the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery Extension at the University of Glasgow (1962–81), as well"
"future public display."" and prospective plans now exist to install at least some of the interiors at the new V&A museum in Dundee. While Mackintosh's reputation was eclipsed by the 1920s, he was later recognised as a pioneer of modern architecture, particularly in terms of the exterior of the Willow Tea Rooms. In the 1960s a resurgence of interest in Art Nouveau brought him international fame, and the furniture and designs he and his wife created for Kate Cranston are now extremely valuable. When Daly's closed, the Willow Tea Rooms were restored to an approximation of their original appearance. Catering"
"McLellan Galleries The McLellan Galleries are an exhibition space in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, situated behind a frontage of shops in Sauchiehall Street. The Galleries were built in 1855-6 to a design by architect James Smith at a cost of £40,000 and are named after their founder, Archibald McLellan (1795–1854), a coach builder, councillor and patron of the arts. Following his death, Glasgow Corporation acquired the galleries and collection, and for a time they were known as the Corporation Halls before reverting to their former owner's name. The Galleries housed Glasgow School of Art from 1869 to 1899. In"
"a clerk with the British Linen Bank. With a view to a different career, he attended art classes in the evenings at the Glasgow School of Art and with Peter McGregor Wilson (1856–1928) at the short-lived ""Glasgow Atelier of Fine Arts"". When he was commissioned to redesign one of Miss Cranston's tea rooms at 114 Argyle Street in Glasgow, Walton started his own decorating company, ""George Walton & Co, Ecclesiastical and House Decorators"", in 1888 at 152 Wellington Street. The peacock became the firm’s emblem. His arts and crafts style of decoration, including his woodblock printed wallpaper production, was influenced"
"and a souvenir shop. In 1971 the furnishings were removed into storage when the building was demolished, and they are now the only original set of Mackintosh tearoom interiors to survive. Ownership was transferred to Glasgow Museums in 1978, and after a further period of storage restoration work began in 1993. The ""Ladies' Luncheon Room"" was exhibited three years later, and the ""Chinese Room"" and ""Cloister Room"" have since been restored. The Glasgow Museums website reports that they are ""currently assessing what will be needed to research and preserve the Charles Rennie Mackintosh interiors of the Ingram Street Tearooms for"
"designer in the Arts and Crafts Movement and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom, designing numerous noted Glasgow buildings such as the Glasgow School of Art, Willow Tearooms and the Scotland Street School Museum. A hidden gem of Glasgow, also designed by Mackintosh, is the Queen's Cross Church, the only church by the renowned artist to be built. Another architect who has had an enduring impact on the city's appearance is Alexander Thomson, with notable examples including the Holmwood House villa, and likewise Sir John James Burnet, awarded the R.I.B.A's Royal Gold Medal for his lifetime's"
"many shops along the street level. The original 2-storey Subway ticket office building, designed by James Miller in 1896 for the Glasgow Subway, uses Flemish Renaissance architecture. The masonry is polished ashlar, most distinguished by the use of it in the 4 turrets that are corbelled out at each corner of the building. The original building is now a coffee shop. The IET Glasgow: Teacher building, used for meetings and offices, but originally the headquarters of whisky distillers William Teacher & Son Ltd designed in 1875 by James Boucher, is on the west side of the square. To the south"