A high back 'Hillhouse' chair by Cassina, after Charles Rennie Mackintosh, circa 1990, ebonised ash, the elongated ladder back surmounted by a lattice, with drop in upholstered seat, supported on tapering legs joined by stretchers, bearing Cassina stamp to underside, 139.5 cm high, 47.3 cm wide, 35.5 cm deep. Provenance: Christie's, South Kensington, Private Collection, Melbourne, Private Collection, Melbourne
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- Mackintosh, Charles Rennie - Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) was an important Scottish architect, water colourist and designer duing the Arts & Crafts period.
Born in Glasgow, and at age 15 he began evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art. It was here he met his future wife Margaret Macdonald, who he married in 1900. Together with his wife, his wife's sister and her husband, they exhibited furniture and posters and became known as the 'Glasgow Four".
Mackintosh originally produced graphic work and repousse metalwork in conventional Art Nouveau style, but from the 1890s developed a distinctive simplified style highly influential on Viennese furniture and architecture.
- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
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