Miss Cranston S Tea Room Chair

Catherine cranston 27 may 1849 18 april 1934 widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms she is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland the name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday.

Miss cranston s tea room chair.

The signs on the barrier at the works are written in typical mackintosh script and read miss cranston s new tea and lunch rooms will be opened early in october. Miss cranston s original willow tea rooms building at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow were designed by charles rennie. Breakfast morning coffee loose leaf teas lunch light snacks afternoon tea cakes and scones choice is yours. The original ms cranstons tea room now fully restored as mackintosh at the willow 217 sauchiehall street glasgow.

The willow tea rooms trust was established in 2014 as a charity with the aim of acquiring miss cranston s tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow the building is now in ownership of the trust. The street and surrounding area are part of the new town of blythswood created largely by william harley of blythswood square in the early 1800s. Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by. Charles rennie mackintosh had been born in glasgow in 1868 and when kate cranston first commissioned him to design the wall murals of her buchanan tearooms he was only 28.

The willow tearooms opened at 217 sauchiehall in october 1903. This was the beginning of a long partnership between them. The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow. Inspired by the works of glasgow s greatest artist and architect charles rennie mackintosh you can enjoy tasty traditional foods in a unique setting.

With a 200 seat restaurant across 3 floors and a variety of beautiful spaces each with their own character and unique design including the front and back saloons on the ground floor the gallery the billiard room and the famous salon de luxe. The brilliant white display included a tall mirror brought from their home in glasgow high backed chairs that mackintosh had designed for miss cranston s tea room and above it all two large. At buchanan street and argyle street he had designed wall decoration furniture and fittings. The interior metal work and lamps and the glass for the silver salon de luxe chairs and tables.

An accurate reconstruction of the 1903 screen was placed around new scaffolding in 2017 during the remodelling of the willow tea rooms. M179 miss cranston s lunch and tea rooms ingram street introduction mackintosh carried out six phases of work at miss cranston s lunch and tea rooms on ingram street between 1900 and 1912. At 97 buchanan street we have our white dining room and the chinese blue room.