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 and fittings and interiors designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow Style contemporaries – including George Walton and Talwin Morris, and EA Taylor, John Ednie and George Logan who worked for the firm Wylie and Lochhead. The objects date from the late 19th to the early 20th century. This collection contains furniture, fittings and furnishings including dining and bedroom suites, chairs, tables, clocks, sideboards, writing desks, bookcases and cabinets. It also includes fireplaces, hearth fittings, and hat and coat stands, racks and pegs. It has stained- and leaded-glass windows and panels, painted and stencilled wall panels, and gesso and plaster panels. The collection also holds repoussé metalwork, light fittings, textiles, upholstery and other material samples. In addition, there are drawings and designs for furniture and interiors, and reproduction furniture, architectural models and doll’s 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 from about 1890 to 1920. It achieved European recognition for its use of strong clean abstract forms, shapes and lines.
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