Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 50. Balustrade Element from Miss Cranston's Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, Scotland.

Property from a Private American Collection

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Balustrade Element from Miss Cranston's Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, Scotland

Auction Closed

May 25, 06:32 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Collection

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Balustrade Element from Miss Cranston's Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, Scotland


circa 1903

wrought iron and leaded glass

presently mounted on a painted wood board

35 1/4 x 30 7/8 x 1/2 in. (89.5 x 78.4 x 1.3 cm)

Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow, Scotland
William Ward, Esq.
Thomas Howarth
Christie's London, The Dr. Thomas Howarth Collection, February 17, 1994, lot 135
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Thomas Howarth, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement, London, 1977, pl. 54 (for a period photograph of the balustrade in "The Willow" dining room, 1904)
Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs, London, 1986, p. 129 (for the above mentioned period photograph)
Wendy Kaplan, ed., Charles Rennie Mackintosh, London, 1996, p. 276 (for the above mentioned period photograph)