Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868 and died in London on 10 December 1928. His personality is among those that characterize the era immediately preceding the Modern Movement. The Glasgow School of Art project is mainly linked to his name. He was the animator and most authoritative exponent of the group known as "The Glasgow School" and distinguished himself above all for having recovered the most authentic values ​​of the Scottish vernacular and neo-Gothic taste. The group, also called the "School of Ghosts", had resonance throughout Europe: in Liège in 1895, in London in 1896, in Vienna in 1900, in Turin in 1902, in Moscow in 1903, in Budapest and in other important European cities. Among the works of greatest interest, in addition to the Glasgow School of Art, are to be remembered: the "Windyhill" house in Kilmacolm (1900), the “Hill House” in Helensburgh (1902-3), the fitting out of the house at Derngate, Northampton (1916-20), and fitting out of the Tea Houses in Glasgow for Miss Cranston.