The Mackintosh Tearooms
Art nouveau tearooms designed inside and out by Mackintosh, with a restored silver-and-purple salon.
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This guide to The Mackintosh Tearooms on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street begins in twenty fourteen, with a woman buying a whole building to stop a forced sale. It reaches back to Miss Catherine Cranston, a temperance-minded tea merchant's daughter, and the one commission where she let Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald design everything, from the facade to the waitresses' uniforms. Start on the pavement opposite, where you can take in the white front and its curved first-floor window.
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