Mackintosh. Domino table for BD

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (Scotland, 1868 - 1928) for BD.
Domino side table, ca. 1980.
Lacquered wood.
In overall good condition.
Measurements: 70,5 x 50 x 50 cm.

Iconic Domino table originally designed by Charles Mackintosh in 1911 for Glasgow tearooms and produced by the Barcelona-based publisher BD in the 1980s.

Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer and watercolorist who played a key role in the Arts & Crafts movement, and was also the leading exponent of Art Nouveau in the UK. He decided to devote himself to architecture at the age of sixteen, and during his life he dedicated himself to transforming the buildings, furniture and art of Glasgow. Virtually all of his furniture creations were designed by Mackintosh for the tea rooms he decorated, the most famous of which was the Willow Tea Room. He rose to fame after exhibiting his pieces at the Vienna Secession exhibition of 1900. In fact, his style was one of the most prominent of modernism in its geometric version, also practiced by the Viennese. Thus, he developed a work marked by decorative sobriety and straight lines. He shares with organic modernism the search for asymmetry and inspiration in the plant world, but his interpretation is radically different. Most of his work is collected in the Hunterian Art Gallery of the University of Glasgow, as well as in the Metropolitan Museum and MoMA in New York, the Orsay Museum in Paris, the Design Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert in London, among others.