The New School
THE GLASGOW STYLE, with its stylized natural forms, sleek curves, and emphatic geometries, was the only true British response to the international Art Nouveau movement of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Key within this design movement was Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a Scottish architect, designer, and artist who became known internationally for architectural projects like the Glasgow School of Art, the Willow Tearooms, and Hill House in Helensburgh and for his high-backed chairs, which are still collected today. His multidisciplinary practice and stylistic innovations had an outsized reach among his contemporaries. “Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style,” a show organized by the American Federation of Arts, is the first exhibition in the United States to contextualize Mackintosh’s work within the broader circle of designers, architects, and craftspeople of the Glasgow Style movement.
The exhibition debuts its latest leg at the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, N.M., on October 30 (it was previously at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the Frist Art Museum in Nashville and
