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The Willow Tearooms are tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms that opened in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Tea rooms opened around the city, and in the late 1880s fine hotels elsewhere in Britain and in America began to offer tea service in tea rooms and tea courts. [11] Glasgow in 1901 reported that "Glasgow, in truth, is a very Tokio for tea-rooms. Nowhere can one have so much for so little, and nowhere are such places more popular and frequented."
The face is based upon a sign for The Willow Tea Rooms, one of four tea rooms in Glasgow designed by Mackintosh. The typeface is distinct for the double crossbars on the uppercase A and H , and the unusual design of the uppercase O, which is raised above the baseline, with two dots centred beneath the bowl.
The Willow Tea Rooms re-opened following an extensive restoration in 2018. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City held a major retrospective exhibition of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's works from 21 November 1996 to 16 February 1997. In conjunction with the exhibit were lectures and a symposium by scholars, including Pamela Robertson of ...
Queen's Cross Church Glasgow (1896) Saracen Tool Works, Gallowgate, Glasgow (1896) Shop at 401 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow (1896) Glasgow School of Art with MacKintosh as project architect (1896) Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms ("The Willow Tearooms") on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (1896) Kilmadock Parish Manse near Doune (1897) 11 Margaret Street ...
The central part of the street consists of remaining retailers, the McLellan Galleries and the Willow Tearooms, designed in 1903 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which has been restored to its original artistic designs and is open to the public as a tea room, restaurant and Mackintosh venue centre. [14]
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