Argyle Street Tea Rooms
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of items from Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Argyle Street Tearooms. This collection represents designs by George Walton, who created the overall decorative scheme for the building, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh who designed moveable furniture such as chairs, tables, coat stands and light-fittings. The collection contains examples of painted panelling and stencilled plasterwork, doors with leaded glass and copper panels, and smaller panels made for fitting out a fireplace area, all designed by Walton and removed in 1990 prior to refurbishment. There is also a number of pieces of solid oak furniture designed by Mackintosh for the Smoking and Billiards Rooms including domino tables, an armchair and a circular card table. The Argyle Street tearooms were the largest of Miss Cranston’s City Centre tearooms, composed of five floors, with the two upper floors devoted to billiards, smoking and reading and the remaining lower floors reserved as tea and luncheon rooms.
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