Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Hardcover

MacAulay, James

 
9780393051759: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh was Scotland s greatest architect and arguably one of the world s most admired. He had far fewer commissions than his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, but with a few bold and innovative structures the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House among them he had a profound influence on art and architecture at the turn of the twentieth century. Like Wright, Mackintosh designed in totality, down to the furniture and fabrics used in his structures, and he was influenced by the Japanese, particularly in the simplicity of his designs and themes from nature.Hailed as a pioneer of modernism, Mackintosh was, however, perhaps truer to the Arts and Crafts movement than has been realized. With both historic photographs and modern images of Mackintosh s major works taken by the noted architectural photographer Mark Fiennes, this is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.

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James Macaulay is a former senior lecturer at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and former chairman of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. He lives in Glasgow. Scotland.
Mark Fiennes (1933-2004) was an architectural photographer noted for his work for many British and American publishers including the 1985 exhibition catalogue The Treasure Houses of Britain for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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