A very rare ebonised sycamore and canvas side chair designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Kate Cranston’s home sold for $470,000 (£362,000) at Sotheby’s New York on June 6 (plus 25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
It was among 20 lots consigned by Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, a well-known US collector of costume and British and American decorative arts. The estimate was $100,000-150,000 and the resulting price the highest for Mackintosh for many years.
This chair is one of only two made to this lattice work design created by Mackintosh for Miss Cranston, as part of the redecoration of Hous’hill in Nitshill, Glasgow in 1904.