Posted in Architecture, Art, Glasgow at 12:00 on 27 October 2025
By contrast with the dark wood of the dining room, the main room of the Mackintoshes’ reconstructed Glasgow house is decorated mainly in white. Mackintosh also used this contrast in Hill House.
Door detail:-

Main room:-

Wall cupboard and fireplace:-

Cupboard and chairs:-

Reverse view:-

Oval table with rose emblems:-

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Posted in Architecture, Glasgow at 12:00 on 16 October 2025
The Mackintosh house is an extension to the original Hunterian Art Gallery on Hillhead Street off University Avenue in Glasgow. It is a replica of the Glasgow house Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald.
The house’s facade on Hillhead Street:-

Lower window and door. The door here is obviously not accessible. Entry is from inside the Art Gallery:-

The “house” is externally rendered in concrete. Glasgow University buildings in background:-

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