Alivar Charles Rennie Mackintosh 895 Hous'Hill 1904 | 1980
Model 895 Hous’Hill armchair produced by Alivar in 1980, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1904. Structure in black lacquered ash wood with inserts in coloured glass paste, padded seat covered in black leather.
Sizes: H126, W55, D54, HS44.
Armchair in excellent vintage condition.
Description
Bibliography: Alivar Museum Catalogue, The Classics of Modern Furniture, page 57.
In 1903 Mrs Cranston and Major Cochrane asked Mackintosh to design the interior of their residence, Hous’hill in Nittshill, Glasgow.
This chair and three chairs of the low version (see mod. 894) were produced for the “drawing room”. The pencil and watercolour drawing of this model, dated October 1904, is now in the collection of the University of Glasgow.
There are small differences between the chair actually produced and the original drawing.
In 1920 the house was sold and around 1930 it was seriously damaged by fire, subsequently demolished. This chair, among the few pieces saved, was purchased at auction in 1933 by Mr W. Ward.
After Mr. Ward’s death the chair was sold at auction by Sotheby’s on March 13, 1975 and is now on display in an American museum.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
Alivar Charles Rennie Mackintosh 895 Hous'Hill 1904 | 1980
Model 895 Hous’Hill armchair produced by Alivar in 1980, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1904. Structure in black lacquered ash wood with inserts in coloured glass paste, padded seat covered in black leather.
Sizes: H126, W55, D54, HS44.
Armchair in excellent vintage condition.
Description
Bibliography: Alivar Museum Catalogue, The Classics of Modern Furniture, page 57.
In 1903 Mrs Cranston and Major Cochrane asked Mackintosh to design the interior of their residence, Hous’hill in Nittshill, Glasgow.
This chair and three chairs of the low version (see mod. 894) were produced for the “drawing room”. The pencil and watercolour drawing of this model, dated October 1904, is now in the collection of the University of Glasgow.
There are small differences between the chair actually produced and the original drawing.
In 1920 the house was sold and around 1930 it was seriously damaged by fire, subsequently demolished. This chair, among the few pieces saved, was purchased at auction in 1933 by Mr W. Ward.
After Mr. Ward’s death the chair was sold at auction by Sotheby’s on March 13, 1975 and is now on display in an American museum.
Photographs from a private collection (Museo Della Sedia) of vintage Italian design chairs. © All rights reserved.
