Catherine Cranston
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Catherine Cranston, widely known as Kate Cranston or Miss Cranston, was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms. She is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of Charles Rennie Mackint
Catherine "Kate" Cranston, around 1903
Poster design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Mackintosh's design for the frieze at the Buchanan Street tearoom.
Miss Cranston's waitresses, seen in the Room de Luxe of the Willow Tea Rooms.
Willow Tearooms
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The Willow Tearooms are tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They
Catherine Cranston
…expanded to take over the whole building in Argyle Street by 1898 (designed by H and D Barclay), then completed her chain of four establishments with the Willow Tearooms (by Charles Rennie Mackintosh) in Sauchiehall Street, opened in 1903. While other cities offered very expensive and very basic tea rooms by 1901, Kate…
The Mackintosh Tearooms (original Willow Tearooms building)
The Room de Luxe in the Tearooms as it was in 1903.
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, around 1914 looking east. The Willow Tearooms is shown on the right