Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Ash Wood Chair - 1904

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Born 7. June, 1868 – Died 10. December, 1928

Mackintosh`s finest work dates where about a doznen intensively creative years around 1900. His buildings in Glasgow, and especially his craggy masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art, are more complex and playful than anything in Britain at the time. His interiors, many of them designed in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, are both spare and sensuous, creating a world of heightend aesthetic sensibility.

Mackintosh has been lauded as a pioneer of the Modern Movement and as a master of Art Nouveau.