One of Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s designs for Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms.

I featured the exterior and lower tea room with one photograph of the Chinese Room here.

Mackintosh chair halfway up stair to Chinese Room:-

View of Chinese Room from stairs:-

Alcove above stairs:-

View from above stairs:-

View back to stairs:-

Mackintosh print, tea-room tables, menu and chairs:-

Demi-lune chair opposite till:-

Not the Chinese Room:-

I thought I’d posted this photo (taken in December 2014) of the exterior of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Willow Tea Rooms in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, but searching the blog gave no results so perhaps I didn’t.

The tea rooms were I believe defunct for a while but have been refurbished. In April this year the good lady and I partook of the facilities within. Lovely lunch, reasonably priced.

Rennie Mackintosh style chairs:-

A banquette:-

Interior panelling. Typical Mackintosh motifs:-

More panelling:-

Window blind. Signature Mackintosh lettering:-

Table accoutrements (sadly not quite in focus):-

Lampshade:-

Blue and purple lampshades (again sadly not focused):-

There are two tearooms inside. This is on the stair up to the Chinese Room:-

The Chinese Room itself. Note the chairbacks:-

Lower stairwell. Again thoroughly Mackintosh lampshades and banisters:-

This building is at the junction of St Margaret Street and Buchanan Street. Its roofline and decoration around and above the door mark its deco influences.

The first photo is from May 2010:-

Sadly the shop is now empty and forlorn looking. This is from a week or so ago:-

This one’s in the east end of the city centre part of Argyle Street. I missed it last December but got a photo early last month. Superstructure and windows. Nice scrolling on the stonework and lovely stained glass but needing cleaned up methinks:-

Pity it’s so dilapidated. Close-up on the windows:-

At the bottom of Buchanan Street and on the corner of Argyle Street and St Enoch Square is what used to be Arnotts department store and is now a branch of Bank of Scotland.

Below is the Argyle Street elevation of HSBC. For Buchanan Street elevations see here.

Under the Hielanman’s Umbrella is this entrance to Glasgow Central Station:-

There is a similar entrance on the south side of the street. (Stitch of two photos.)

Below is the Argyle Street frontage of the Mackintoshed up building whose Union Street aspect I featured here. Again a stitch of two.

Glasgow’s Merchant City lies to the east of Buchanan Street and north of Argyle Street.

I couldn’t get back far enough to get this all in:-

Same building, other side:-

Deco detail:-

This one looks a bit lonely:-

This is fairly mundane except for the decoration near the roofline – for which see next photo:-

There is some lovely decoration near the roofline:-

This is the entranceway to Monsoon in Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Great fanlight windows.

Here’s the same door in daylight. Lovely tiling.

As you can see the building is called Rowan House.

I don’t know what went wrong with this next photo. As you can see it’s blurry.

On the corner of Buchanan and Argyle Streets is HSBC’s premises, which has some deco elements.

This bit is only seen from Buchanan Street:-