Rennie Mackintosh serves up success
A cabinet designed by Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868- 1928) for a Victorian tea room businesswoman has sold for £11,000 at Willingham Auc tions in Cambridge.
The oak upright cabinet (right) was made for Catherine Cranston (1849-1934), who owned a chain of shops in Glas gow – such as the famous Willow Tea Rooms – and did much to help develop the model for such late 19th and early 20th century establishments.