Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1868-1928 : Glasgow Style

Scottish architect, designer and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was one of the early pioneers of modern architecture and design. Mackintosh's avant-garde approach embraced a wide variety of media and novel stylistic devices. His multifaceted work includes architecture, furniture, graphic design, gardens and flower studies. In Italy, Germany and especially Austria, the artists of the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau borrowed his straightforward yet lyrical forms.

This book presents Mackintosh's expertise in art, architecture and design, to help understand his essential influence on modernist expression in Europe.