Miss Cranston: Patron

Released to celebrate the 150 anniversary of Mackintosh's birth, this new edition is now in a larger format and features 60 colour pictures. Miss Kate Cranston opened four Glasgow Tearooms around the end of the nineteenth century, including the famous Mackintosh at the Willow Tea Rooms. With her entrepreneurial shrewdness, self-confidence, capacity for hard work, 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.

Author - Perilla Kinchin