Miss Cranston S Tea Room Chair

Visit our beautiful tea rooms in this internationally recognised a listed building.

Miss cranston s tea room chair.

At buchanan street and argyle street he had designed wall decoration furniture and fittings. At 97 buchanan street we have our white dining room and the chinese blue room. The brilliant white display included a tall mirror brought from their home in glasgow high backed chairs that mackintosh had designed for miss cranston s tea room and above it all two large. M179 miss cranston s lunch and tea rooms ingram street introduction mackintosh carried out six phases of work at miss cranston s lunch and tea rooms on ingram street between 1900 and 1912.

Charles rennie mackintosh had been born in glasgow in 1868 and when kate cranston first commissioned him to design the wall murals of her buchanan tearooms he was only 28. Inspired by the works of glasgow s greatest artist and architect charles rennie mackintosh you can enjoy tasty traditional foods in a unique setting. The willow tearooms opened at 217 sauchiehall in october 1903. With a 200 seat restaurant across 3 floors and a variety of beautiful spaces each with their own character and unique design including the front and back saloons on the ground floor the gallery the billiard room and the famous salon de luxe.

The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow. This was the beginning of a long partnership between them. Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by. The street and surrounding area are part of the new town of blythswood created largely by william harley of blythswood square in the early 1800s.

The willow tea rooms trust was established in 2014 as a charity with the aim of acquiring miss cranston s tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow the building is now in ownership of the trust. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street. An accurate reconstruction of the 1903 screen was placed around new scaffolding in 2017 during the remodelling of the willow tea rooms. The interior metal work and lamps and the glass for the silver salon de luxe chairs and tables.

Miss cranston s original willow tea rooms building at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow were designed by charles rennie. The signs on the barrier at the works are written in typical mackintosh script and read miss cranston s new tea and lunch rooms will be opened early in october. This was the third cranston tea room mackintosh worked on.