Charles Rennie Mackintosh

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH (Scotland, 1868 - 1928) for BD.
Domino side table, ca. 1980.
Black lacquered wood.
Original design from 1911.
Measurements: 70,5 x 50 x 50 cm.

Iconic table model "Domino" originally designed by Charles Mackintosh in 1911 for Glasgow tearooms and produced by BD in the 1980s. It consists of a circular top and a lower shelf formed by four squares, establishing in both a bold play of geometric shapes and clean lines.

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.