By Cassina, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This restrained example of Arts & Crafts furniture was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1918. It features a square top and window-pane style base in ebonized wood. This example is a high quality Cassina reissue made in Italy and available for a short time in the early 1980s. It is no longer in production.
By the end of the 19th century Glasgow School of Art was one of the leading art academies in Europe and its reputation in architecture and the decorative arts had reached an all time high. At the very heart of this success was a talented young artist, architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
For over 20 years Mackintosh worked almost exclusively in Glasgow where all his best-known work was created and where much of it still remains, yet he left Glasgow in search of greater success and died in London in relative obscurity. It is perhaps ironic that he was given little recognition by his native city at the time, for by the end of the 20th century he was being recognised as the father of 'Glasgow Style' and one of the driving forces behind a new approach to modern architecture.
Born in Glasgow on 7 June 1868 Mackintosh trained as an architect in a local practice and studied art and design at evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art. At art school Mackintosh and his friend and colleague Herbert MacNair met the artist sisters Margaret and Frances Macdonald. These four artists collaborated on designs for furniture, metalwork and illustration, developing a highly distinctive array of weird images including abstracted female figures and metamorphic lines reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley. Their style earned them the nickname of the 'Spook School...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Brooklyn - Game Tables