The Modern Style is a style of architecture, art, and design that first emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1880s. It was the first Art Nouveau style worldwide, and it represents the evolution of
Poster by Frances MacDonald (1896)
Poster from 1896 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. It pays homage to Celtic tradition and Japanese design and its style and form were repeated numerous times by "The Four", with the earliest examples from 1885 at the latest. It would be replicated by the Vienna Secessionists.
Walter Crane (1874) cover for toybook
Liberty (department store) (1875)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margare
Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style)
…the Liberty department store and The Studio magazine. The most important person in the field of design in general, and architecture in particular, was Charles Rennie Mackintosh. He created one of the key motifs of the movement, now known as the "Mackintosh rose" or "Glasgow rose". The Glasgow School circle was also of tremendous…
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
"The Harvest Moon", 1892 painting
The Room de Luxe in the Willow Tearooms as it was in 1903, with furniture and interior design by Mackintosh and Macdonald
Design for a stencilled mural decoration for the Willow Tearooms (1896–1897)