Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style

In the mid 1890s four Glaswegians; Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and his fellow apprentice architect James Herbert McNair in the Glasgow practice of Honeyman and Keppie, and Margaret Macdonald and her sister Frances - who were day students at the Glasgow School of Art , later to be known as the “The Glasgow Four” have entered into an informal alliance. This alliance of the two couples - as McNair was later to marry Frances Macdonald in 1899 and Mackintosh to marry Margaret in 1900 - has produced innovative and creative designs; and probably transformed the art and design scene in Glasgow to this day.




Charles Rennie Mackintosh style proposed a revolution against the Victorian style that dubbed the city with its geometric shapes and lines, in favour of more curvatures and free lines of the Art Nouveau movement.