The chimneys are a particularly nice feature, especially the larger one which slopes in as it rises up, a feature also seen on Charles Rennie Mackintosh's House for an Art Lover on Bellahouston Park.
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Part of a terrace of red sandstone Glasgow Style houses on the corner of Norby Road and Marlborough Avenue in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. Built in 1903, they were designed by William Baillie.
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Three elongated young women stand close together in a shallow, misted field of lavender, rose, silver, and blue. The central woman faces forward, nearly frontal and still, with a softly glowing oval face, dark small lips, and long cloudlike hair that widens around her head like a halo. Her pale gown falls in a narrow column, marked by stylized floral motifs and strings of blue teardrop shapes. On the left, a woman in profile bends inward in a sweeping mantle of cobalt and lilac, patterned like with repeated fans or petals. On the right, another profile woman leans toward the center in a rose-pink robe alive with looping white and crimson patterns. Across the surface float clustered roses, lotus blossoms, dotted veils, and shimmering droplets. A white lily rises near the center, delicate and upright, as if carrying the fragrance named in the title. Scottish artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh makes scent visible here. Rather than painting perfume bottles or an interior scene of adornment, she turns fragrance into atmosphere, rhythm, and symbol. The three women seem less like individuals than personifications, joined in a quiet ceremony of beauty, intimacy, and imagination. The white lily suggests purity and spiritual offering, while the blue and pink droplets feel like falling notes, tears, or suspended perfume in the air. The work belongs to the mature phase of Macdonald’s career, when her ethereal figures, flattened space, and ornamental line had become central to the Glasgow Style. By 1912, she was already internationally known through exhibitions and through the collaborative artistic world she shaped with Charles Rennie Mackintosh, yet her own vision remained distinct: mystical, feminine, and psychologically inward. This painting’s power lies in its hush. It asks us not simply to look, but to slowly, almost bodily sense how beauty, like perfumes, can be fleeting, invisible, and deeply shared.
The Three Perfumes by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (Scottish) - Watercolor & pencil on vellum / 1912 - Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #MargaretMacdonaldMackintosh #MargaretMacdonald #CranbrookArtMuseum #artText #art #GlasgowStyle
The Otago Street facade of James Miller's 1897 Glasgow Style Caledonian Mansions in the Kelvinbridge area of the city.
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In fact, the three of them all studied architecture at the Glasgow School or Art around the same time, and Gillespie won the Glasgow Institute of Architects prize alongside Mackintosh in 1889.
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While Charles Rennie Mackintosh now gets most of the credit for creating the distinctive Glasgow Style in the late 1800s, James Salmon Jnr and John Gaff Gillespie were just as influential.
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James Salmon Jnr and John Gaff Gillespie's beautiful 1899 Glasgow Style Savings Bank building on Argyle Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow.
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Love the details on the top floor of this corner turret. It's part of James Salmon Jnr and J. Gaff Gillespie's beautiful 1899 Glasgow Style Savings Bank building on Argyle Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow.
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Portrait of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh by James Craig Annan c.1901
The three perfumes by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh c.1912
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, wife of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh died #otd 1933.
She was an artist, illustrator, and created beautiful works of embroidery, gesso panels, leaded glass and repoussé metalwork
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A 1900 Glasgow style tenement on the corner of London Road and Springfield Road in the East End of Glasgow.
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They're so good at it, then can get it through a top floor tenement window from three miles away. You just have to remember to leave it open at the appropriate time! 😀
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Christmas tree delivery, Glasgow style. Just give them your address, they set their Christmas tree cannon to the required inclination and bearing and then they fire it across the city. 😀
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Ornate Art Nouveau style ironwork lamps on Kirklee Bridge in the west end of Glasgow. I'm presuming these lamps date from around 1900, when the bridge itself was built.
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Photo by Lorraine Murray, Dec 2025 of the Quaker Meeting House sign near Charing Cross in Glasgow
I enjoyed doing my last #history talk for the year, for the Tourist Guide Association in #Glasgow. The topic was rather timely - Catherine Cranston - with liberal mention of Charles Rennie #Mackintosh on the anniversary of his passing in 1928.
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Bell-cast turret roof on J. Gaff Gillespie's 1900 Glasgow Style townhouse on University Gardens in the West End of Glasgow.
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On the left you can see where a train track once led to the old Kelvinbridge Railway Station, marked by an iron girder, which was connected to this building. This station closed in the 1950s.
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I love this view of James Miller's 1897 Caledonian Mansions standing high above the River Kelvin on the West End of Glasgow.
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Zoom into 2nd pic here... the best & most uniquely idiosyncratic block of #GlasgowStyle #tenements in #Glasgow south side also has a unique ironwork flower or leaf bud atop its bannister base in each tenement. Designed by H.E. Clifford in 1902 in #Pollokshields 💚 #ArtNouveau bsky.app/profile/tnmn...
It was designed by John Keppie and was built in 1906 for the City Improvement Trust.
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I love the contrast between the circular corner tower and the square one rising above the door on this Art Nouveau/Glasgow Style tenement on Hope Street in Glasgow.
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Created by Francis Derwent Wood, these capitals feature different activities, such as beekeeping, navigation and fishing.
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Love these intricately sculpted column captials on Salmon, Son and Gillepsie's 1899 Glasgow Style British Linen Bank on Govan Road in Glasgow.
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This is a rather gorgeous red sandstone Glasgow Style tenement the corner of Govan Road and Shaw Street in Glasgow. It was designed by Frank Burnet and Boston, and was built in 1900.
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This is an old photo, but I thought it was worth reposting as a follow-up to my other recent posts featuring Holmlea Public School.
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The rather wonderful Glasgow Style railings around the 1908 former Holmlea Public School on the southside of Glasgow.
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Love this Glasgow Style font on Andrew Balfour's Edwardian Baroque Holmlea Public School on the Southside of Glasgow.
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Love this Glasgow Style coat of arms of Glasgow on 79 West Regent Street. Created in 1903, when James Salmon Junior redesigned this building in an Art Nouveau style, it's made from beaten copper and it thought to be by Albert Hodge.
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It has some wonderful embossed metal decorative panels on its facade, including a particularly fine Glasgow Style version of the city's coat of arms.
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A mid-19th Century house on West Regent Street in Glasgow which was remodelled by James Salmon in the Glasgow Style in 1903 and converted into a restaurant, tearooms and offices.
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It contrasts sharply with the older Classical style of tenement where chimney flues were frequently hidden away behind fake windows.
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