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High-backed armchair, c. 1899
Designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868-1928)
Placque made by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (Scottish, b. England, 1864-1933)
Oak, horsehair upholstery (replaced), inset lacquer panel
53-15/16 x 20-1/2 x 19-1/16 in. (137 x 52.1 x 48.4 cm)
The Danish Museum of Design and Art, Copenhagen
Photo © 2004 Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen; Pernille Klemp
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This chair exemplifies how styles flowed from one country to another via exhibitions. Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh first designed this form in 1897 for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow. The variant displayed here, with a panel designed by Mackintosh's wife, Margaret, was used in (and probably made for) the artist's own house before starting a new life as a prized exhibition object. It was first displayed in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society exhibition in London in 1899 and then shown at the Eighth Secession Exhibition in Vienna in 1900. Koloman Moser--who cofounded a few years later the most influential design studio in Austria, the Wiener Werkstätte--purchased this chair at the Secession exhibition for his apartment.
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