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  Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist who was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.
Born in Glasgow, and suffering from a bad foot and eye problems, he was free to discover and draw sketches of a great deal of the Scottish countryside as a child.
Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies (often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick (to which the pair moved in 1914).
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 Mackintosh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Mackintosh or its short name mac is a form of waterproof raincoat, first sold in 1824, made out of rubberized fabric.
The Mackintosh is named after its Scottish inventor Charles Macintosh: note the added letter 'k' in the name of the garment.
Charles Macintosh patented his invention for waterproof cloth in 1823 and the first Mackintosh coats were made in the family's textile factory, Charles Macintosh and Co. of Glasgow.
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 Charles Rennie MacKintosh and the Glasgow School of Art
Mackintosh borrowed significantly from his knowledge of Scottish architecture and many of the identifiable sources are essentially reinterpretations of Scottish themes.
Mackintosh's use of Scottish motifs can be understood against the background of a developing awareness in the cultural environment of late 19th century Scotland of Celtic traditions.
Mackintosh was also aware of progressive theorists in England who were interested in creating a new architectural vocabulary progressing from, but not overwhelmed by, historical forms, and he joined their ideas with an undercurrent of Scottishness in his own thinking.
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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh's "Hill House"
Mackintosh's facade carries on the tradition of brutal, strong, massive forms that echo the Scottish landscape and also the stone used in their construction.
Mackintosh pays particular attention to the sacred nature of interior space, the privacy of the home, a theme that flowed throughout PRB works.
Mackintosh's organic vision, shunning the industrial capitalism that was gaining momentum, sought to replace the art of construction and design to the forefront of building and bring interior design into the realm of high art.
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 Clan MACKINTOSH
Mackintosh, founding on the history of the family written about 1679 by Lachlan Mackintosh of Kinrara, brother of the eighteenth chief, favours the statement that the clan is descended from Shaw, second son of Duncan, third Earl of Fife, which Shaw is stated to have proceeded with King Malcolm IV.
Mackintosh replied that he would stoop even to this to save his father’s house, and, as the interview took place in the kitchen of the castle, he knelt down before the block on which the animals for the use of the garrison were broken up, and laid his neck upon it.
The Mackintoshes were later connected with the chiefship of Clan Chattan (a confededation of clans claiming descent from the bailie of the Abbey of Kilchattan in Bute) when Angus, 6th chief married Eva, the heiress of Clan Chattan in 1291.
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 About Charles Rennie Mackintosh | Abbeville Press
Mackintosh's first biographer, Thomas Howarth, amplified this view in 1952 with his account of Mackintosh's continuing acceptance abroad but rejection at home, leading to his exile from Glasgow and, eventually, to an impoverished and obscure death.
Although Mackintosh never had more than a few (albeit fiercely loyal) patrons, his work must have appealed to a broad audience for a time: his tea rooms were popular; a letter by Margaret Macdonald discusses Mackintosh imitators throughout Glasgow; and commissions came in steadily for many years.
Mackintosh seemed unable to make this shift and lacked interest in the kind of structure that was to characterise twentieth-century urban life-the high-rise, commercial, steel-framed building.
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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Design Museum Collection : Architect + Furniture Designer (1868-1928) - Design/Designer ...
One of eleven children, Mackintosh was born in 1868 to Margaret and William Mackintosh, a clerk in the police force.
Mackintosh married Margaret Macdonald in 1900 and she was to remain his principal collaborator throughout his life.
Mackintosh’s other domestic schemes ranged from single rooms, such as the music room he designed in Vienna for Fritz Wärndorfer in 1902, to the interiors of existing buildings, like his 1904 scheme for the 18th century Hous’hill owned by Kate Cranston and her husband John Cochrane.
www.designmuseum.org /design/charles-rennie-mackintosh   (2992 words)

  
 MacKintosh Battles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Mackintosh version of the story states that the Macphersons were coaxed into fighting by Mackintosh's own bard, who, pretending to represent the Camerons, arrived at the Macpherson camp the evening immediately after the battle.
Clan Mackintosh, at the instigation of Alexander, Lord of the Isles, began to invade and harry the Cameron lands.
MacKintosh refused this settlement, setting the stage for the most significant clan face-off ever to be seen in Lochaber, during September of 1665.
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 Dwight Mackintosh
The apocryphal story told of Dwight Mackintosh's birth in Hayward, California in 1906, was that it occurred simultaneously with the Great San Francisco Earthquake — and that his disability stemmed from that traumatic coincidence.
Mackintosh first lived at home but was institutionalized at age 16.
A series of strokes in his later years changed the dynamic of Mackintosh’s images, and the sure, clear, steady line for which he’d been known became a dense, echoing ripple, and the precision of the earlier line was replaced with a new and different kind of intensity.
www.amesgallery.com /ArtistPages/Mackintosh.html   (251 words)

  
 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868 - 1928) Glasgow architect, designer and artist and a significant figure in the Art ...
Mackintosh's other chief projects were The Glasgow School Of Art 1896-1909, considered the original example of art nouveau architecture in Great Britain; Windy Hill, Kilmacolm 1899-1901 and the Hill House, Helensburgh 1902; the Willow Tea Rooms Glasgow 1904; Scotland St. School 1904-1906, and House for an Art Lover.
Mackintosh's design submitted was not chosen but it consisted of a plain long elegant building with an ornate dome in the centre, a similar shape to the Taj Mahal dome topped by pointed minarets.
So that Mackintosh could get a feel for what his client wanted he visited often and observed their way of life to try and give himself an insight to what was needed.
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 brand.ek/mackintosh/thefour/crmackintosh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mackintosh entered an international competition in 1901, for the design of a House for an Art Lover, receiving a special award of 600 marks.
Unfortunately Mackintosh was a slow worker and for the four years that he spent in France he only completed 41 paintings out of the 50 that were needed for an exhibition at the Leicester Galleries.
Mackintosh was engaged to Jessie at the time the Macdonald sisters, Margaret and Frances were at the Art School.
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 Mackintosh
Probably the earliest authentic history of Mackintosh is traceable to Shaw or Seach MacDuff, a Cadet son of the third Earl of Fife.
Clan Mackintosh was involved in the "Battle of the Thirty", a mass trial by combat, which was held under the judicial control of the King in 1396 on the North Inch of Perth, in which Clan Macintosh regained all lands taken from the Shaws.
Clan MacKintosh was involved in the "Battle of the Thirty", a mass trial by combat, which was held under the judicial control of the King in 1396 on the North Inch of Perth, in which Clan MacKintosh regained all lands taken from the Shaws.
www.angelfire.com /nc3/BalderstonHistory/Mackintosh.htm   (794 words)

  
 Charles Rupert - C.R. Mackintosh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was a Scottish architect and designer who is credited with the formation of the "Glasgow Style".
Mackintosh's designs, and those of his wife Margaret Macdonald, were ground-breaking in their simplicity and use of white walls and furnishings, punctuated by his favourite accent colours of pinks, mauves and blues.
Mackintosh was also an accomplished water colourist and textile designer.
www.charlesrupert.com /crmackintosh/index.html   (192 words)

  
 injusticebusters 2003 > > Manitoba Justice Minister Gordon Mackintosh
JUSTICE Minister Gord Mackintosh bowed yesterday to growing evidence of a miscarriage of justice in the James Driskell case and agreed to help speed a federal review of Driskell's claims of innocence.
Mackintosh said he felt it was important to advise the federal Justice Department of his opinion in the wake of comments last week by Justice John Scurfield of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench.
James Lockyer, a lawyer for Driskell, said Mackintosh's request that the case be sent back to the courts will significantly speed a federal review into the case.
www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Mackintosh_Gord.htm   (1098 words)

  
 ITC Rennie Mackintosh - ITCFonts.com
Charles Rennie Mackintosh impeccably hand-lettered his architectural renderings and created posters, book jackets, leaflets and even dance invitations with his distinctive letters, but there is no evidence that he ever drew out an entire alphabet.
Mackintosh's own handwriting was fluid, cursive and showed the roots of a formal Victorian education, but the hand-drawn lettering on his architectural drawings was characteristically much more controlled.
Mackintosh had a passion to design and to control every facet of his work.
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 Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Cameron Mackintosh | PBS
One of the most prominent and important theatrical producers to emerge in the late 20th Century, Cameron Mackintosh was able to realize his childhood dream.
Mackintosh's streak continued in the '80s with such London and NYC successes as "Little Shop of Horrors." He twice reteamed with Lloyd Webber, for "Song and Dance" and "The Phantom of the Opera," and also forged alliances with the French team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg ("Les Misérables," "Miss Saigon," and "Martin Guerre").
Where Mackintosh has had the greatest effect is in the marketing of his shows.
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 'The Quest for Charles Rennie Mackintosh' by John Cairney reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
The story of Charles Rennie Mackintosh is one that tends to focus on the tragedy of an architectural genius dying in obscurity and exile, misunderstood and unappreciated.
Mackintosh won many prizes and medals throughout his ten years there, including, very early on, the prize of free tuition for the rest of his time at the school.
The War would see Mackintosh living in a small English seaside village where his “foreign” accent and suspicious looking mail from Germany would lead to him being arrested in an incident that might be comic but for the tragedy of the man at the centre of it.
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 Glasgow School of Art - Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Great Buildings Online
Won by the partnership of Honeyman and Keppie, a prominent firm where Mackintosh was a young assistant, this relatively minor and demanding project was entrusted to him despite his lowly status.
"Mackintosh's School of Art, in answer to the Governor's request for a plain building, is an austere statement, a bold breakaway from the traditional methods of architectural adornment.
Mackintosh used wrought iron to form structural decorative features, and meticulously detailed every interior and exterior aspect of the building.
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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society - Art, Design Glasgow, Scotland
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of the most creative figures of the early 20th century.
Mackintosh's contribution to modern architecture and design is unquestioned.
This year we celebrate the Mackintosh legacy, with the first ever city-wide Festival, featuring a series of events, with a special focus in September.
www.crmsociety.com   (140 words)

  
 :: The Glasgow School of Art :: - C R Mackintosh
A graduate of the School, Mackintosh's 1896 design for a new School of Art building heralded the birth of a new style in 20th century European architecture and remains at the centre of the campus.
The GSA welcomes visitors to the Mackintosh Building and to share, in the words of Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector, Royal College of Art: "The only art school in the world where the building is worthy of the subject".
However, as it is still a working art school, the Mackintosh Building can only be visited by guided tour, given by GSA students.
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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868, the son of Margaret Rennie McIntosh and William McIntosh.
Use browser "Back" button to return.) Mackintosh is acknowledged as one of the great masters of the modern movement, with an influence in no way diminished by time.
Mackintosh Design offers a collection of sterling silver jewelry and other gift items which elegantly encapsulate the beauty of the great Scottish architect and designer's work.
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 Overview of Charles Rennie Mackintosh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mackintosh was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow, the son of a police superintendent.
Mackintosh became an influential designer, whose style was a unique blend of Art Nouveau and Scottish Celtic traditionalism.
By 1910 his work was regarded as old-fashioned and Mackintosh sank into depression, drinking heavily and this led to the termination of his partnership (1913).
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 Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Great Buildings Online
Charles Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1868.
While enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh developed an artistic relationship with Margaret MacDonald, Frances Macdonald and Herbert McNair.
Mackintosh created buildings notable for the elegance and clarity of their spatial concepts, the skillful exploitation of natural and artificial lighting, and skillful detailing.
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 Iain MacKintosh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Drawing mostly from the Scottish and American folk traditions, MacKintosh said his music sometimes tells stories and is often political.
MacKintosh also plays concertina, harmonica and the electric bagpipe in his shows.
MacKintosh doesn't always take himself seriously either, often poking fun at himself with whimsical tunes.
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 ScotClans - Clan MacKintosh - Clan History
The founder of the MacKintosh clan is reputed to have been Shaw MacDuff, second son of the Earl of Fife, and a member of the royal house of Dalriada.
The MacKintosh chiefs steered themselves through the hazards of Scottish history with great skill, even leading the great confederation of clans known as Clan Chattan, although this honour was challenged by the MacPherson chiefs on many occasions over the centuries.
The clan remained loyal to the Stewarts in 1745 and the wife of the absent chief, Lady Anne MacKintosh, raised a force of 400 men to join Charles Edward Stewart.
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 Mackintosh Earrings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Mackintosh Tiny Glasgow Rose posts are great for the little one or adults.
Mackintosh Glasgow Rose earrings are open cut with a solid oxidised center.
Mackintosh earrings in clip on design These are just like item 4157, but not pierced.
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 ArchitectureWeek - Culture - The Tea Rooms of Mackintosh - 2002.0109
Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is famous for his tea rooms, and he deserves to be.
And they were only the finest of a dozen or so tea-room interiors that Mackintosh [and his wife and collaborator Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh] worked on between 1896 and 1917.
Mackintosh was a consummate stylist, and most of the writing about him is concerned with style, and style alone.
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