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Charles Rennie Macintosh - Coggle Diagram
Charles Rennie Macintosh
Architecture
Macintosh's first complete project was a place of worship for the free church on mary road in Glasgow
The building was years over schedule and over budget and was a rather peculiar building but in it's own way ery impressive
Macintosh's most famous piece of architecture has to be his art school a combination of Celtic castles and Japanese palaces as his inspiration which formed into two wings each wing representing a inspiration
Macintosh built two very similar houses first Windy hill manor and hill house both large chalk white building which stood on top of hills
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Inspiration
Scottish nature was a big inspiration for Charles as well as the old building scattered around the countryside around Glasgow.
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Early life
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He was 21 when he got his first architectural job at Honeymoon and Keppie's where anything he designed was signed by the business owners and they got all the credit.
When he was 21 he design the martyr's public school on the street where he was born and 3 years later he designed the gallery for the art club on bath street but yet again he got no credit for the design
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Product design
Macintosh's most famous design in the high backed chair created for the Catherine Cranston tearoom on Aiguille street
Cranston later asked Macintosh to create a second set of chairs for her tearoom and he produced a set of extravagant chairs based on a Japanese shogun's throne.