- Product:
- Low-back side chair
- Manufacturer:
- Christie`s
- Architonic ID:
- 4102465
- Launched:
- 1903
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Category:
- Furnishings
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Key facts
Product description
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)