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
The Mackintosh Tearooms (original Willow Tearooms building)
Mackintosh's design for the frieze at the Buchanan Street tearoom.
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
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
Willow Tearooms
…and loss of its contents to collectors. The Tearooms are now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. Early in his career, in 1896, Mackintosh met Catherine Cranston (widely known as Kate Cranston or simply Miss Cranston), an entrepreneurial local businesswoman who was the daughter of a Glasgow tea merchant and a…
Catherine "Kate" Cranston, around 1903
Poster design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Miss Cranston's waitresses, seen in the Room de Luxe of the Willow Tea Rooms.