Charles R Macintosh Circa 1902 Chair, unsigned, Measures ht 42 inches width 18 inches depth 17 inches, split of wood top of back crown, wear to corner leather. . Influenced by Japanese style, Mackintosh married linear geometry and use of positive negative space. and architectural design elements. Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow in 1868 and died in London on 10th December 1928. His personality is one of those that characterize the period immediately preceding the Modern Movement. His name is mainly connected with the design for the Glasgow School of Art: he was the animator and most authoritative exponent of the group known as the “Glasgow School” and he distinguished himself principally because he recovered the most authentic values of the Scottish idiom and of neo-Gothic taste. The group, also named “the School of Ghosts”, became known throughout Europe – in Liege in 1895, London in 1896, Vienna in 1900, Turin in 1902, Moscow in 1903, Budapest etc.Besides the School of Art, the most interesting