In yesterday's post we looked at a collective project revolving around textiles and fashion at Glasgow's Lighthouse. Let's continue the thread by remaining in the same building, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1895 when he was a draughtsman in the architectural practice of Honeyman and Keppie.
The building includes the Mackintosh Interpretation Centre or "Mack" Centre, with a series of displays dedicated to the work of the architect. One of them focuses on the small house at 78 Derngate, Northampton, England, that Mackintosh altered and decorated in a very modern style.
The display includes a replica of the stencilled decoration designed by Mackintosh for its lounge hall in 1916 (in the same cabinet there is a copy of a design by Mackintosh for an adertising label for model engineering supplier Bassett-Lowke Ltd, 1919).
Between 1915 and 1923 Mackintosh and his wife, the artist Margaret Macdonald, made a hundred designs for printed textiles (some of them were put into production; one of the most famous remains the "Roses and Teardrops", 1915-1923). The textiles for the house at 78 Derngate revolved around a geometrical theme and looked bright and bold, anticipating in a way Anni Albers' precisely articulated lines and geometric patterned compositions.
The patterns are incredibly modern and you'd better keep them (but also some other Mackintosh/Macdonald designs...) in mind if you want to look fashionable next Autumn, after all, as you may remember from a previous post, Yusuke Takahashi moved from Mackintosh for Issey Miyake's Autumn/Winter 2015-16 menswear collection.
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