House for an Art Lover
Mackintosh house design from a 1901 contest, finally built in a park with richly crafted rooms.
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This guide to the House for an Art Lover in Glasgow starts at the music room fireplace and reaches back to nineteen-oh-one, when Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald entered a German magazine's design contest. It follows their drawings across Europe and into the hands of an engineer, an architecture professor and a scholar who objected. Best heard standing at the east end of the music room, close to the hearth.
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