Copy of historic photograph showing interior view of lower tea room.

Description Copy of historic photograph showing interior view of lower tea room.

Date c. 1896

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number GW 3650

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 14452 PO

Copies SC 702107

Scope and Content Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms (now the Clydesdale Bank), No 91 Buchanan Street, Glasgow Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms, remodelled from the Alexandra Café which stood on the site, took Glasgow by storm when they opened in 1897. The interior, by the young designer, George Walton, was photographed in 1898 by the photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. Walton's design for the room, influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, has panelled walls with delicate patterning, and bench seats with decorative backs that form screens between the tables. The light fittings may have been designed by Mackintosh. The tea rooms occupied five floors, with smoking and billiards rooms on the top floor, and tea and luncheon rooms on other floors. They had the novelty of a passenger elevator, and interiors designed by Walton and decorated by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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