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MX.04 Interiors for 120 Mains Street

Address: G2 4EA
Date: 1900
Client: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald
Authorship:

(Mackintosh)

1900: 22 August: Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald marry at Dumbarton and the couple move into the Mains Street flat. Mackintosh probably lived in the flat before marrying. 1
Interiors photographed by T. & R. Annan & Sons and published in a special edition of the Studio in 1901. 2

1902: Interiors photographed again. 3

1904: Interiors published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1, 1904, plates 172 and 174.

1906: Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald purchase a house at 6 Florentine Terrace, Hillhead, Glasgow.

After 1910: The building containing number 120 Mains Street is extended S. to Bath Lane, adding two bays and a new doorway to the Mains Street elevation. This new door is later renumbered 120 Mains (later Blythswood) Street: the original entrance to 120 no longer has a street number. 4

2013: Now known as 'Mackintosh House', 120 is occupied by the Glasgow branch of The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS).

Notes:

1: Pamela Robertson, The Mackintosh House, Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 2011, pp. 9–10.

2: Charles Holme, ed., Special Summer Number of the Studio: Modern British Domestic Architecture and Decoration, 1901, pp. 110–15; Pamela Robertson, The Mackintosh House, Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, 1998, p. 13; Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Moffat, Dumfriesshire: Cameron & Hollis, 4th edn, 2009, p. 80.

3: Roger Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, Moffat, Dumfriesshire: Cameron & Hollis, 4th edn, 2009, p. 80.

4: See extension to the building in O.S., Lanarkshire VI.10 (County Series 1:2500, 2nd revision, surveyed 1910, published 1914) and O.S., Lanarkshire NS56 (County Series 1:2500, 3rd revision, 1934).

'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.