Images of the House for an Art Lover by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

House for an Art Lover--page 8 (of nine pages)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1989-96, based on a 1901 design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret MacDonald

The Oval Room
This was originally the Ladies Room, where after dinner Edwardian women conversed while their men adjourned to smoke and drink. The oval shape was a symbol Mackintosh used to represent femininity and it recurs throughout the room--in the window, the fireplace and the light fixture.

Left: the window from the outside
This window is on the east side of the south facade.

Works Cited or Consulted:
Cosgrove, James, ed. House for an Art Lover. Glasgow: Randak Design Consultants (and Fraser Press?): 1988/2004.
Crawford, Alan. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. London: Thames & Hudson, 1995.

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The Oval Room This was originally the Ladies Room, where after dinner Edwardian women conversed while their men adjourned to smoke and drink. The oval shape was a symbol Mackintosh used to represent femininity and it recurs throughout the room--in the window, the fireplace and the light fixture.


Left: the window from the outside This window is on the east side of the south facade.