Rennie Mackintosh Chairs
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Rennie mackintosh chairs. Thanks to the mastery of the furnitire makers of meda in the brianza area north of milan cassina has re issued the hill house chair which is available in black stain ashwood with a velvet seat cushion. The tall back is defined by a succession of vertical lines that are topped with a grid of verticals and horizontals. Mackintosh was an skilled interior designer painter and decorator who renown for his inventive interpretation of art nouveau. The chair s combination of simple and sculptural elements with an emphasis on natural forms echoed the ideas propounded by the arts and crafts movement of which mackintosh was an admirer.
Often noted today for the chairs he designed charles rennie mackintosh was an architect who designed schools offices churches tearooms and homes an interior designer and decorator an exhibition designer a designer of furniture metalwork textiles and stained glass and especially in his latter years a watercolourist. Charles rennie mackintosh 1868 1928 was a scottish artist designer and architect. Charles rennie mackintosh 1868 1928 c r. Although he created this elegant style of chair in 1898 9 for catherine cranston s argyle street tea rooms in.