Reissue of this classic book on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's style, including his brilliant architectural plans, innovative designs for furniture, textiles, wall decoration, artifacts, and posters. Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh is renowned for his architectural achievements on a public and domestic scale, interior designing, and furniture design. This book aims to review his work in context and consider how his ideas can be interpreted. His handling of color, use of materials, and graphic approach to form are explored, and photographs show original designs and plans. Inspired by nature, fired by the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement, rooted in the vernacular traditions of his native region, Mackintosh's genius was to forge an entirely new style for a new age. Radical but intensely personal, his architecture, interiors, and furnishings retain all their essential vigor nearly a Product Category: Style & Design Artist/Author: Elizabeth Wilhide