Glasgow's Mackintosh Revival

Ann Hills explains Scotland's cultural initiatives revolving around the famous architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Glasgow School of Art (1899-1909) by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. As Glasgow prepares to become Cultural Capital of Europe in 1990, its famous architect – Charles Rennie Mackintosh – is the height of fashion. Sixty-one years after his death, his style crops up throughout the city where his prized building – the Glasgow School of Art – bustles with a thousand students.

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