The Glasgow Style Furniture, Furnishings, Interiors and Architecture
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of over 3,500 items of furniture, furnishings, fittings and interiors, dating from the late 19th to the early 20th century. These were designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow Style contemporaries including George Walton, Talwin Morris, EA Taylor, John Ednie and George Logan for Wylie and Lochhead. This collection contains furniture, fittings and furnishings including dining and bedroom suites, chairs, tables, clocks and sideboards. There are writing desks, bookcases and cabinets, in addition to fireplaces, hearth fittings, hat and coat stands and racks and pegs. Also included are stained and leaded glass windows, panels, painted and stencilled wall panels, and gesso and plaster panels. The collection also contains repoussé metalwork, light fittings, textiles, upholstery and other material samples. In addition there are drawings and designs for furniture and interiors as well as reproduction furniture, architectural models and dolls houses and miniatures. Notable items include a standing clock by Margaret Thomson Wilson, an embroidered folding screen by Eliza Kerr, a card table produced by Liberty of London and a large table for the Glasgow Savings Bank. The Glasgow Style was an art and design movement based in Glasgow between 1890 and 1920 which achieved European recognition with its use of strong, clean abstract forms, shapes and lines.
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