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M339 Design for a block of studios and studio-flats, Chelsea, London

Address: Upper Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London
Date: 1920
Client: Arts League of Service
Authorship:

(Mackintosh)

This unrealised proposal for a large block of studios and studio-flats was Mackintosh's biggest single architectural project during his years in London. It is associated with several other schemes, almost all unbuilt, for redeveloping the site of Old Cheyne House in Chelsea.

Authorship: There are numerous signed and unsigned drawings by Mackintosh, and his diary for 1920 provides a detailed record of his involvement.

Status: Unbuilt

Grid Reference: TQ 27188 77789

GPS coordinates: lat = 51.484760, lng = -0.169643 (Map)

'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.