Ingram Street Tea Rooms
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of items from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Ingram Street Tearooms, which were documented and dismantled in 1971. These items date from between 1900 and 1912. This collection includes windows, panelling, doors, furniture, light fittings, gesso panels, repoussé metalwork, cutlery and glass, as well as other material samples. The tea rooms at Ingram Street were perhaps the most important of Miss Catherine Cranston's four Glasgow tea rooms since they represent the only surviving suite of tea room interiors by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. They were composed of a complex structure of interconnecting rooms which extended over three floors – ground floor, mezzanine and basement. The building incorporated six tea rooms including the Ladies Luncheon Room of 1900, the Cloister Room of 1900 and 1912, the Oak Room of 1907, the Oval Room of 1909–10, and the Chinese Room of 1911. In addition there are two billiard rooms (1900 and 1907), business ladies' rest room (1909–10), a dressing room, ladies and gents' toilets, adjoining corridors and ancillary spaces. The collection notably includes a design drawing by Mackintosh for writing desks for the rooms he designed between 1909 and 1910 and an extensive research, conservation and documentary archive encompassing copies of plans, photographs, paint and fibre samples, and test reports.
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