Glasgow invented tea rooms, and they became a distinctive and much-loved feature of its social and business life. The legendary Miss Cranston brought them international fame through her penchant for the avant garde Glasgow Style that Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for her with dazzling inventiveness over two decades. This book sets the Mackintosh tea rooms in their distinctive urban context, exploring changing social habits over a century. Packed with fascinating detail, Tea and Taste will stir nostalgic memories for those who still remember Glasgow's very special tea rooms.

Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

KINCHIN, Perilla

Arts & Photography

White Cockade Publishing

<p>Glasgow invented tea rooms, and they became a distinctive and much-loved feature of its social and business life. The legendary Miss Cranston brought them international fame through her penchant for the avant garde Glasgow Style that Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for her with dazzling inventiveness over two decades. This book sets the Mackintosh tea rooms in their distinctive urban context, exploring changing social habits over a century. Packed with fascinating detail, <b>Tea and Taste</b> will stir nostalgic memories for those who still remember Glasgow's very special tea rooms.</p>

Miss Cranston, the creator of Glasgow's Tearooms, embodies the qualities which produced Glasgow's great achievements, with her entrepreneurial shrewdness and self-confidence, her capacity for hard work, her commitment to quality, and her adventurous interest in the new. She was 'a real business woman' who applied the wealth she created to support for outstanding artistic talent. Ahead of her time, she ensured that her Tearooms were designed and furnished by talented young artists like Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Miss Cranston: Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scots' Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Natl Museums of Scotland

First published in 1999, Miss Cranston, Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is reissued here to mark the 150th anniversary of Mackintosh's birth, and the legacy of his creative genius. This new edition is in a larger format, the text has been updated and there are now 60 colour pictures. Miss Kate Cranston opened four Glasgow Tearooms at the end of the 19th century/beginning of the 20th, including the famous Willow Tea Rooms. With her entrepreneurial shrewdness, self-confidence, capacity for hardwork, commitment to quality and good design, and adventurous interest in the new, the Tearooms became thriving centres of Glasgow society. Ahead of her time, Miss Cranston ensured that her Tearooms were designed and furnished by talented young artists like Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Miss Cranston

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

NMSE - Publishing Ltd

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Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

Miss Cranston: Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scots' Lives)

Miss Cranston