Note | 5 June | Mackintosh’s low-back armchair for Kate Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms

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Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer

Mackintosh’s low-back armchair for Kate Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms combines Arts & Crafts construction, Scottish vernacular influence, and sculptural modernity in a design made to shape the social space of Glasgow’s turn-of-the-century tea rooms.

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