Low-back side chair | Christie`s
Estimated value: 15.000 - 20.000 GBP
Auction:
Designed by Architects
Sales date: 2003-10-08
Location:
London
Lot number: 2
Design
Charles Rennie MackintoshYear 1903
Architonic id
4102465
Designed 1903, executed for the Room de Luxe, the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, 1903, painted mahogany, velvet upholstery, restorations.
401⁄2in. (103cm.) height; 241⁄4in. (54cm.) width; 18in. (46cm.) depth
34 examples of this design were commissioned for the Room de Luxe, where they were employed alongside a similar high-back design. Five other examples of this design are understood to have survived, and are retained in national institutions as follows; two examples in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh; two examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Lit: Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, New York, 1979, p.135, Cat. No. 1903.23 (the design illustrated)
401⁄2in. (103cm.) height; 241⁄4in. (54cm.) width; 18in. (46cm.) depth
34 examples of this design were commissioned for the Room de Luxe, where they were employed alongside a similar high-back design. Five other examples of this design are understood to have survived, and are retained in national institutions as follows; two examples in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh; two examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Lit: Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, New York, 1979, p.135, Cat. No. 1903.23 (the design illustrated)
