The Glasgow Girls

(15 prints of plans, elevations and drawings) beautifully presented in artist’s folio.

In December 1900 the publisher Alexander Koch announced in his monthly journal, Zeitschrift Fur Innendekoration, a competition for the design of a house for a connoisseur of the arts. Charles Rennie Mackintosh entered the competition (he was in Vienna exhibiting a room interior with his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh).

For this competition the quality of the drawings were as important as the ideas being presented and this set of drawings stood out for the judges. Charles Rennie Mackintosh won a special Purchase Prize of 600 Marks under his pseudonym, Der Vogel, for his quality of entry (unfortunately he did not supply the exact prescribed variation of architectural drawings and therefore could not win first prize under the rules laid out).

This facimile folio is one of a limited number printed in 1991, each one has its own number.

Any CRM collector or architect will be overwhelmed by the quality of this collection of 15 prints (floor plans, elevations, tinted drawings) with 4 pages outlining the competition entry.