Miss Kate Cranston, Willow Tearooms : Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Rennie Mackintosh - architect, designer and art nouveau artist.

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Behind the remarkable facade in Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street where Charles Rennie Mackintosh created the design for a tearoom for his patron Miss Kate Cranston, tea and light meals are still served in the Room de Luxe and on The Gallery. Many of the original features survive. The ground floor houses Henderson The Jewellers. The Tea Rooms also have a branch at 97 Buchanan Street.

In 1896, Mackintosh met a woman who subsequently exerted enormous influence on his professional life. She was Miss Catherine or Kate Cranston, a local Glasgow businesswoman who had a firm belief in Temperance. She had the the idea for a series of 'art tearooms' and approached Mackintosh to assist the architect and designer George Walton on her new premises in Buchanan Street. The success of this first tearoom forged a relationship between Cranston and Mackintosh which was to last twenty years and her support enabled Mackintosh to create some of his most memorable interiors for her. Between 1897 and 1917 he designed or restyled rooms in all four of her Glasgow tearoom establishments.

·	Mackintosh's first involvement was in the new Buchanan Street Tearooms. His input here was limited to wall murals, with the interiors and furnishings designed by George Walton.

·	He started on the Ingram Street premises in 1900 and created the White Dining Room.

·	The Willow Tearooms opened it's door later.

·	Mackintosh returned to Ingram Street on several more occasions and created the famous Chinese Room.

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh is Scotland’s most famous architect and designer. His art nouveau legacy can be found in numerous Scottish buildings, furniture and interior design, as well as drawings and paintings.
Miss Kate Cranston commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to design her Glasgow tea rooms, the most famous being The Willow Tearoom in Sauchiehall Street.

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