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M256 Morning room mantelpiece for Prospecthill House, Paisley

Address: Paisley
Date: 1905
Client: Edith Rowat
Authorship:

(Mackintosh)

This mantelpiece incorporating seats and shelves is known from a drawing. The mantelpiece itself does not survive. 1 The client, Edith Rowat, was member of the Rowat family, for whom Mackintosh designed a number of projects–see M202, M256, M291 and MX.06.

This was not an architectural scheme, but is included here because there is an entry for it in Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh's job book.

Authorship: The job-book entry is written in Mackintosh's hand. The drawing is by Mackintosh and annotated by him, and the style of the design is clearly his.

Cost from office job book: £18 0s 3d

Status: Not extant

Grid Reference: NS27367564

GPS coordinates: lat = 56.374303, lng = -3.988026 (Map)

Notes:

1: Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Moffat, Dumfriesshire: Cameron & Hollis, 4th edn, 2009, pp. 225–6

'Mackintosh Architecture' led by The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council; with additional support from The Monument Trust, The Pilgrim Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art; and collaborative input from Historic Scotland and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.