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Roger Billcliffe’s groundbreaking catalogue raisonné of the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh first appeared over four decades ago. Back in print for the first time since it was published in 2009, the revised fourth edition takes into account the host of discoveries and developments in Mackintosh scholarship since the book’s first publication. Among the 900 illustrations, many items that were shown in black and white in previous editions now appear in colour. An impressive and stimulating work of scholarship, this is the only comprehensive work on the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the most important British designer and architect since Robert Adam. This is essential reading and a crucial reference for anyone with an interest in twentieth-century design, this is the definitive work on a designer of world renown and influence. Distributed for Cameron Books

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Delve into the world of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his Glasgow School of Art-trained contemporaries who forged a unique and distinct vision in both art and architecture at the end of the Victorian era. The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work of a group of young designers and architects working in Glasgow from 1890–1914. At its centre were four young friends who had trained at Glasgow School of Art; two architects and two artists – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert MacNair, Margaret Macdonald and Frances Macdonald – who were simply known by their friends and contemporaries as ‘The Four’. Their work was a personal vision in the new international style of the 1890s, Art Nouveau, and is perhaps best known for Mackintosh’s architecture and furniture. But at the root of this new style was a graphic language which all four shared.Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Art of The Four presents the most coherent story to date of this important group, concentrating on the entirety of their artistic imagery and output, far beyond the best known work of the 1890s, and charting the constantly changing relationships between the artists and their work.

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