{"id":16712,"date":"2016-06-16T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/charles-rennie-mackintosh-and-art-nouveau-archive-16-june-1971\/"},"modified":"2016-06-16T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T04:19:33","slug":"charles-rennie-mackintosh-and-art-nouveau-archive-16-june-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/charles-rennie-mackintosh-and-art-nouveau-archive-16-june-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Rennie Mackintosh and art nouveau: archive, 16 June 1971"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n16 June 1971: Some of Mackintosh\u2019s best decorative ideas can be seen in the furniture he designedCHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH, the Scottish architect, was born in Glasgow in 1868, the son of a police superintendent. Mackintosh revealed his artistic flair if not his academic capabilities at an early age, and when he was 16 enrolled as an evening student at the Glasgow School of Art. There he met and joined up with Herbert MacNair and the Macdonald sisters, who were working along similar lines to his own, evolving new forms of decorative design which crystallised in 1890 bearing the recognisable characteristics of art nouveau. \u201cThe Four,\u201d as they came to be called, created in the mid-nineties their own highly individual interpretation of the new art, subsequently dubbed \u201cthe Glasgow Style.\u201dThey liked sinuous, elongated animal-vegetable forms with a strong vertical emphasis in their overall design; the human figure, too, was stylised almost beyond recognition. This curious distortion, coupled with a subdued palette, earned \u201cThe Four\u201d the rather derisory title of \u201cThe Spook School.\u201d They continued to work together for many years, designing everything from posters and book bindings to furniture, panels, and ironwork, and also taking part in exhibitions at home and abroad. They achieved considerable success on the Continent. Continue reading…
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