Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Posted under Design by gems78 on Friday 22 May 2009 at 3:02 pm

The work of the Glaswegian architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh made a significant contribution to British design in the 20th century. With Herbert MacNair and the sisters Frances and Margaret Macdonald, all fellow students at the Glasgow School of Art, he formed the ‘Glasgow Four’. (more…)

Cassina

Posted under Design by gems78 on Saturday 16 May 2009 at 2:55 pm

Cassina was instrumental in the invention of the re-edition. Since the middle of the 1960s, furniture designed by such famous names as Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gunnar Asplund, and Gerrit Rietveld has been revived as part of the company’s impressive Masters Collection. (more…)