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Description: | Designed for the White Dining Room, Ingram Street Tea Rooms, Glasgow. A taller and more elegant version of F24, it shows the extravagant height to which Mackintosh was prepared to extend the backs of his chairs to achieve a variety of verticals within a room. The higher back makes it less rigid, and the two back splats were not originally attached to the seat rail (nor were these in F21 but at some time the chairs were strengthened by screwing them to the rear seat-rails). It is not known exactly where these chairs were used, though a contemporary photograph (Billcliffe 1900.J) shows one example in the Billiards Room. One white painted version (Billcliffe 1900.11) was in Mackintosh's own collection by 1900 but it is not certain whether it precedes the tea room chairs or is contemporary with them. R.B\r\n\r\nReupholstered in brown horsehair 1984\r\n\r\nThe Ingram Street Tea Rooms were purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1951 for £25,000 and were then rented out as various shops and warehouses. |
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Rights holder: | Glasgow School of Art | Subjects: | Furniture | Temporal: | 1900 | Source: | Glasgow School of Art | Creator: | Mackintosh, Charles Rennie | Identifier: | MC-F 25 | Go to resource |
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