Roger Billcliffe’s ground-breaking catalogue raisonné of the furniture
of Charles Rennie Mackintosh first appeared over four decades ago.
This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated to take
account of the host of discoveries and developments in Mackintosh
scholarship that have taken place since the book’s first publication.
Among the 900 illustrations, many items that were previously shown
in black and white now appear in colour.
An impressive and stimulating work of scholarship, this is the only
comprehensive work on the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
the most important British designer and architect since Robert
Adam.
After an introduction in which Billcliffe perceptively analyses
Mackintosh’s career and scholarly interpretations of it, the main part
of the book is arranged as a chronological catalogue of Mackintosh’s
work as a furniture designer. In a working life of only 25 years,
Mackintosh designed over 300 items of furniture, a number all the
more impressive given that the majority of pieces were produced in
the periods 1897–1905 and 1916–18.
As well as the entries on individual designs and pieces, the catalogue
includes essays on all Mackintosh’s major commissions for interiors
and on his designs in general at specific periods of his career.
Contemporary photographs are used extensively to show interiors
(many of them now destroyed) as they were at the time of their
completion. Untraced pieces of furniture are listed by reference to the
job books that record the details of designs by Mackintosh or the
firms of which he was a member.
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