View of the upper level smoking gallery in Miss Cranstons's Tea Rooms, Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
SC 702109
Description View of the upper level smoking gallery in Miss Cranstons's Tea Rooms, Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
Date c. 1896
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 702109
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of GW 3651
Scope and Content Smoking Gallery, Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms (now the Clydesdale Bank), No 91 Buchanan Street, Glasgow Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms opened in Buchanan Street in 1897 to great acclaim. The interior, by the young designer, George Walton, and decorated by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was photographed by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The smoking gallery was reserved for gentlemen, and relegated to the top floor. This rather 'heavy' room has a panelled dado, and ornamental baronial features balanced around the stairwell. The wall decorations and light fittings are by Mackintosh. Miss Cranston's patronage of young designers was perfectly calculated: the unique 'Glasgow' style of her tea rooms brought in the customers, and the tea rooms not only became enormously popular but were described as 'among the sights of the city'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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