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Description: | inscr. r.: "Ground & / 1st floors" and inscr. and d. c.: "Mystery House Oakley Street / 18th Feby 1920 / Knight Frank & Rutter Mayfair 3066 / Margaret Morris Kensington 5517" CRE MACKINTOSH, Charles Rennie; (Scottish; 1868-1928) The 'Mystery House' was Cheyne House, Chelsea. Its site provided the opportunity for Mackintosh's most ambitious schemes from the London years: a group of studio-houses, and a large block of studio flats for the Arts League of Service. The Hunterian collection contains over 60 designs for these projects.The drawing is entered upside down against the principal sequence of the notebook. See two other related notebook pages 53015/48 and 53015/49. Knight Frank & Rutley were and remain leading London estate agents. The dancer, Margaret Morris, was the partner of the Scottish Colourist painter, J. D,. Fergusson. The couple was living in London and were good friends of the Mackintoshes. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | NOTEBOOK : SKETCHBOOK : CRM ONLINE : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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