The First Annual Garden Suburb Gallery Summer Exhibition of Arts & Crafts Furniture & Fine Modern British and Contemporary Painting

Exhibit 5. Oak Glasgow Style 'Argyle'  high back chair with two back splats at its centre and two tapered stiles at either side. An oval-shaped top rail extends between and beyond the stiles. The rail decorated with stylised bird motif pierced in an arch across the centre top designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Mrs Cranston's Argyle Street Tearoom.

Circa 1898–99.  136.5cm (54in) high

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