Charles Rennie Mackintosh (art deco, designer, 1868-1928)
Apprenticed in his native Glasgow to the architect John Hutchinson between 1884 and 1889, Mackintosh traveled widely in Europe in the 1890s.
He designed posters from the mid 1890s, and also exhibited at the 1896 Arts and Crafts exhibition.
charles rennie mackintosh - hillhouse ladder back chair
In 1897 Mackintosh began the first phase of his work on the Glasgow School of Art, which he also extended in 1907.
Other work in Scotland included the Willow Tea Rooms (1903) and Hill House (1904).
Despite international acclaim, Mackintosh never achieved commercial success. He left Glasgow in 1914, and between 1915 and 1920 he carried out work for the industrialist W.J. Bassett-Lowke, most notably at 78 Derngate, Northampton.
After traveling through France in the mid 1920s, Mackintosh died of cancer in London in 1928.