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The Willow Tea Rooms Photos : J Wilson At 97 Buchanan Street. this tea room was one of a number of buildings in Glasgow that were designed by Glasgow's famous architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The building also features work by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh.  Upon the death of architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson in 1875, a travelling scholarship was founded in his name and awarded every three years for the study of ancient classical architecture. In 1890, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was awarded this scholarship and embarked on a sketching tour to Italy. Other Mackintosh buildings to visit in the City: In the town centre there is Mackintosh at the Willow on Sauchiehall Street, The Lighthouse building off Buchanan Street and the site of Glasgow School of Art but sadly it has currently burned down in a recent fire, but the location may be of interest nonetheless. and in the West End there is the Mackintosh House. On Maryhill Road there is the Mackintosh Church And in Bellahouston P...

The house was recreated finally in 1990, from drawings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald. The House for an Art Lover was an entry into a German design competition to design a “Haus Eines Kunstfreundes” or “Art Lovers House” set by German design magazine “Zeitschrift Fur Innendekoration”. Mackintosh's designs arrived late so were excluded, but when the other competitors saw what he had produced, they withdrew from the competition! https://www.houseforanartlover.co.uk/about/history-of-the-house The House for an Art Lover features in the background of the painting by Jenny Wilson (whole painting is here  http://www.jenniferwilsonart.co.uk/wedding.html )  which alludes to the painting The Opera of the Seas by Margaret MacDonald  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_MacDonald_-_Opera_Of_The_Seas_1903.jpg Map Reference: Euro Driving Tour - Around the South Side