Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the modern movement
1977, Second Edition. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. Near fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Top edge faintly foxed, with similarly faint dust-dulling to the text corners. Remains well-preserved overall; internally tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #476774
ISBN: 0710085389
Physical description; l, 335 pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; First published: 1952. Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-320) and index. Contents; Part I. – Mackintosh and the Glasgow style – Furniture design and interior decoration – Apprenticeship and professional experience – The Glasgow school of art – Houses on hills – The Glasgow tea-rooms – Mackintosh in Europe – Miscellaneous projects and Liverpool cathedral – The London phase and after – Part II. – Sources, influences and British contemporaries – The European secessionists. Subjects; Mackintosh, Charles Rennie (1868-1928) – Criticism and interpretation. Architecture – Scotland – 19th-20th centuries. Art nouveau – Great Britain. Architects – Scotland – Biography.
Price: €45.00