His designs feature in many buildings around Glasgow. I began my Macintosh trail at Glasgow School of Arts.(Hillhead St.) Here I found his house.... Well not exactly, sadly that was demolished after it was given along with the contents to the University
A difficult decision was made & due to subsidence the structure of the house No.6 Florentine Ave was demolished. A representation of the house was built as part of the University to the same design, rooms were constructed exactly as the original & the furniture placed in those rooms. Some soft furnishings aren't the original & the lighting are reproduction.
You really feel you're in his original house & it's light & spacious completely different from the dark interior of Victorian of that period.
My next location was the Lighthouse the Mackintosh centre. (Mitchell St.) Here you will find a mixture of models of his designs including some that were never built, a timeline of his life. The Mackintosh tower which you can climb for panoramic views of Glasgow.
It was lunchtime & fancied a cup of tea & a light bite so off I headed for 217 Sauchiehall St to the The willow Tea Rooms designed by Macintosh & his wife Margaret Macdonald. Sadly when I got there it was boarded up future unknown.
I was informed of a place on Buchanan St that was site of the new Willow Tea Rooms & was a modern reproduction of the original. So i made my way there & had a sandwich & had a nice pot of tea. It was ok you could imagine what the original tea rooms might have been like, a little disappointed, but the atmosphere made up for that. There was also a small gift shop dedicated to Mackintosh.
There are many more places around Glasgow that he designed including Queen's Cross (Garscube Rd) the only Church he designed. Kelvingrove Art Gallery (Argyll St) House For Art Lover (Bellahouston Park) Scotland St School Museum all displaying some his work.
Rennie Mackintosh left his mark on Glasgow & has left a lasting impression
on me.
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