
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1864-1928)
The scotchman Mackintosh, architect, designer, interior decorator and painter, is tought of, along with his "spook school" of Glasgow, an exponent of the "Liberty School".
His very personal style is neverteless considered more similar to the " Viennese school" which developed around Josef Hoffman and Colomoan Moser then to the Freanch and Belgian art novuea, whose decorative excesses he detested.
He terated wood has a ductile material and loved to cover his furniture with lacqueres which camouflaged joints and showed off only the definig shapes.
In the course of his career he will arrive at one point design rigidly geometric furniture, prefarabbly blackand always with a strong decorative impact.
Mackintosh and his friends desire to ditinguish themselves from the stylistque confusion and mediocrity of the victoria era and in this intent had the backing of the inglish "Arts and Crafts" movement.
In Vienna he meets Hoffman, Moser, Oblick, and the painter Klint, it is during this period that he receives the "Zeitshrift furr Inendekoration" magazine award for a design for the home of a collector and for the decor for the music room of Fritz Waarndorfer the patron of the secession.

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