Charles Rennie Mackintosh

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (Scotland, 1868 - 1928) by Cassina.
Chair "Hill House 1", Edited c. 1980.
Black stained ash and green leatherette upholstered seat.
It has stains on the upholstery and marks of use.
It has signature and serial number.
Measurements: 141 x 41 x 35 cm.
Chair designed by Mackintosh in 1903. It is one of the first designs of the modern movement, and was created for the living room of the Hill House, built in 1902 in Helensburgh by Mackintosh himself. Years earlier, at the Viennese Secession Exhibition, the architect had presented a series of high-backed chairs including the Argyle, another of his most famous designs. The Hill House chair is characterized by its high back, decorated with straight forms that would later inspire members of the Wiener Werkstätte.
Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer and watercolorist who played a key role in the Arts & Crafts movement, and who was also the leading exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He decided to devote himself to architecture when he was only sixteen years old, and during his life he dedicated himself to transforming the buildings, furniture and art of Glasgow. Virtually all of his furniture creations were designed by Mackintosh for the tea rooms he decorated, the most famous of which was the Willow Tea Room. He rose to fame after exhibiting his pieces at the Vienna Secession exhibition of 1900. In fact, his style was one of the most prominent of modernism in its geometric version, also practiced by the Viennese. Thus, he developed a work marked by decorative sobriety and straight lines. He shares with organic modernism the search for asymmetry and inspiration in the plant world, but his interpretation is radically different. Most of his work is collected in the Hunterian Art Gallery of the University of Glasgow, as well as in the Metropolitan Museum and MoMA in New York, the Orsay Museum in Paris, the Design Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert in London, among others.