View of the snooker room in Miss Cranstons's Tea Rooms, Buchanan Street, Glasgow with murals by Charles Rennie Macintosh.

Description View of the snooker room in Miss Cranstons's Tea Rooms, Buchanan Street, Glasgow with murals by Charles Rennie Macintosh.

Date c. 1896

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

Catalogue Number SC 702106

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of GW 3649

Scope and Content Billiard Room, Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms (now the Clydesdale Bank), No 91 Buchanan Street, Glasgow Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms, designed in an innovative style by George Walton and decorated by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, opened in Buchanan Street in 1897. The London photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior. The billiard room, with its apple-green panelling, opened through to the smoking gallery. The fireplace and chairs use the flattened heart shape that Walton liked, and the walls are decorated with a curious tapestry style 'medieval' frieze. George Walton (1867-1933) was given his first important commission in the design of Miss Cranston's tea rooms. He went on to become a very successful designer, and did much to promote the emergence of a distinctive 'Glasgow' style of interior decoration. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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