Charles Rennie Mackintosh: textile designs

By Roger Billcliffe Smyth-sewn casebound with jacket; 29 x 23 cm. 112 pp. Text: English

One of the reasons that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's work with textiles is not so widely known - unlike his architecture, furniture and lately, his watercolors - is that very few of his fabrics can now be bought. Fortunately, a large group of his original drawings for the textile firms of Foxton's and Sefton's, designed during his stay in Chelsea between 1915 and 1923, have survived in the Hunterian Art Gallery at Glasgow University, the Victoria and Albert Museum and in the British Museum. In this book, Roger Billcliffe shows that with the furniture and interior designs made after 1915 the textile designs form a whole new style for Mackintosh.