Hill House 1, green, Mackintosh, 1903 – Vitra Miniature Design Museum
Vitra
Miniature of the Miniature Collection, Vitra Design
Museum. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was one of the great
representatives of Art Nouveau. Together with his wife Margaret
McDonald, her sister Frances, and his brother-in-law Herbert McNair, he
developed an original style that set itself apart from the decorative
floral style of Jugendstil. The group’s geometric, almost cubist designs
for furniture show the influence of Japanese spacial concepts and are
distinguished by their elongated, severe forms. A typical aspect of
their work is a formal scheme based on horizontal and vertical lines,
occasionally combined with slightly curved linear ornamentation. Hill House 1 marks a new phase in the work of
Mackintosh. The chair’s strict geometry recalls the Ladderback Chairs of
the Shakers and clearly differs from the organic or feminine forms of
early designs. It was made for the house of a Scottish publisher and his
wife and functioned more as part of an artistic environment than as a
piece of furniture for everyday use. The chair was assigned a set place
in the bedroom of the couple, where it fulfilled a purely decorative
function. The extended back, first used by Mackintosh in 1897, is a
motif that appears repeatedly in his chairs and gives them an
unmistakable quality.
Material: Black-stained maple, green fabric.
Miniature, scale 1:6. 61 x 234 x 67 mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1) model - since 1973 Cassina, Italy
www.cassina.com
Miniature, scale 1:6. 61 x 234 x 67 mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1) model - since 1973 Cassina, Italy
www.cassina.com
Art.Nr.: 20200101
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