<p>In 1896, Kate Cranston, the pioneer of Glasgow tea rooms in the late nineteenth century, commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- who would become one of the Western world's most renowned designers -- to design her tea rooms, and over the next two decades he did so with dazzling inventiveness. (Mackintosh's wife, Margaret, herself an artist, also made important contributions to the interior designs.) A pair of perfectionists, Cranston and Mackintosh opened up a unique, avant-garde artistic world to thousands of ordinary people. Their tea rooms became internationally famous.</p>
<p>Taking Tea with Mackintosh illustrates this exciting collaboration with black-and-white historical photographs of the tea rooms and color photographs of their surviving components. In addition, sixteen recipes for traditional tea room cakes, breads, and pastries are supplied, offering the best chance the reader will have to revisit these extraordinary places.</p>

Taking Tea with Mackintosh: The Story of Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms

Arts & Photography

Perilla Kinchin

History & Criticism

Pomegranate

Like the exhibitions themselves, this profusely illustrated book is both instructive and entertaining, covering a vast range of topics-art and industry, ships and machinery, architecture, Empire, women, royalty, and tourism-not to mention woollen underwear and self-pouring teapots. The five great show chart in a particularly accessible way a century of profound social and economic change, from the Victorian self-confidence of the Second City of Empire, to the Scottish nationalism of 1911, to a brief glimpse of modern utopia in 1938, and finally the regeneration of derelict dockland for 1988's Garden Festival.

Glasgow's Great Exhibitions: 1888, 1901, 1911, 1938, 1988

White Cockade Publishing

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Taking Tea with Mackintosh: The Story of Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms

Glasgow's Great Exhibitions: 1888, 1901, 1911, 1938, 1988