Tag: charles rennie mackintosh
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STYLE MOMENT | Charles Rennie Mackintosh
“‘Life’ is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but ‘art’ is the flower which embodies its meaning.” [Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1928]
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EYE ON DESIGN | Glasgow School of Art
In 1896, a junior draftsman named Charles Rennie Mackintosh won a competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art. The building was completed in 1909, heralding the birth of a new style in 20th-century European architecture and establishing Mackintosh as a design influencer in the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau…
