Wall plaque (which looks like a design by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife to Charles Rennie Mackintosh):-

Upper Level:-

Fireplace, upper level:-

Seating, upper level:-

Seating:-

Fireplaces, lower level:-

Balcony from below:-

Glass partition at stairs:-

Stairs:-

Lower floor from top of stairs:-

Lower level from balcony:-

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These Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed tea rooms – for the famous Miss Cranston – were privately refurbished in the past few years but are now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland and seem to go by the name Mackintosh at the Willow, but that’s also the title of the affiliated gift shop next door.

We visited them because we hadn’t been there before but also to have lunch; which was excellent.

Sauchiehall Street was having work done on it at the time:-

In the photo above you can make out the circular design fronting the windows. This is a close-up:-

The Tea Rooms’ street sign:-

Internal lighting gantry:-

Wall frieze and partition wall below:-

These window curtains help diners escape scrutiny from outside:-

Apart from the Beresford Hotel, Sauchiehall Street had a couple of other Art Deco buildings. This is a stitch of Marks and Spencer’s:-

And here is a close-up showing some detail:-

Dunnes Stores is on the corner of Sauchiehall and Cambridge Streets:-

Roof-line and window detail:-

There is a lovely finish to the highest part:-

The ABC cinema predates deco – originally built in 1877 before conversion to a cinema in 1929 – but is still a fine building. (Two photos stitched to get it all in):-

The Scottish cinemas website says it is closed. It seems to house a music venue now.

In early December we were in Glasgow for two days.

I took the opportunity to photograph the Beresford Hotel in Sauchiehall Street for myself.

This is the front view, from Elmbank Street:-

And a close up on the entrance, showing some of the building’s detail:-

There is lovely glazing above the doorway and fine ribbing on the pillars and the red-painted walls.

This is a side view from Sauchiehall Street:-

The Empire Exhibition of 1938 spawned many items of memorabilia. Various versions of the Tower of Empire (this category, passim) were made from china, metal or plastic; there were handkerchiefs with pictures of the Exhibition buildings, as well as the artist painted coloured ones many sepia photographic postcards were produced, leather items embossed with the Tower or the Exhibition lion, playing cards, matchbooks, commemorative glass tumblers, jigsaws, innumerable tins, all sorts of stuff.

Among these was a set of china cups, plates, dishes etc in deco style made by Carlton Ware and featuring a picture of Tait’s Tower in shades of green, brown and cream. For these the sole seller was Treron of Glasgow, a department store located in Sauchiehall Street (now of course no more.) The legend “supplied by Treron of Glasgow” was stamped on the base of each.

The dish shown below, with its angular lugs, is perhaps the most deco of these in feel.