Mackintosh oak chairs among items on show
Mackintosh oak chairs among items on show
AUCTIONEERS Lyon & Turnbull are to host a Mackintosh exhibition to coincide with the Creative Mackintosh Festival in Glasgow.
Mackintosh and his Contemporaries is a show of more than 20 important decorative arts pieces, including items by Charles Rennie Mackintosh , and various other works of art and items in the "Glasgow style".
It will run from today until October 17 at the Glasgow Gallery in Bath Street.
Included in the exhibition are a pair of ebonised oak "ladder back" chairs designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh made especially for Miss Cranston's Willow Tearoom in Glasgow.
The chairs, dating from 1903 and valued at £10-15,000 will be sold at Lyon & Turnbull's Decorative Arts Sale on October 29 in Edinburgh.
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Historians star at book festival
THE Hebridean Book Festival, Faclan, runs at An Lanntair, Stornoway, from October 29 to November 1 with two leading historians, Trevor Royle, pictured, and Charles Emmerson, speaking at this year's event.
Royle will introduce The Flowers of the Forest, his book about Scotland and the First World War while Emmerson is to discuss his work 1913: The World Before the Great War.
Faclan was founded in 2006 as a means to showcase writers and writing from, in and about the Hebrides and the West Highlands.
In 2011 it was re-launched and re-scheduled to late October/early November - so it is "beyond the equinox, on the cusp of winter".
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Display focus is on new exhibits
AN EXHIBITION of the most recent acquisitions of the National Museums of Scotland is to run until February 22 next year.
The display includes a rare beluga whale skull and an Electraglide guitar.
The show, New to the National Collection, is also a preview of the objects that will feature in ten new galleries on decorative art, design, fashion, science and technology, opening in 2016.
The Bond Electraglide carbon fibre electric guitar was made in Scotland in 1984 and is regarded as ground-breaking in its innovative use of materials.
Electraglide guitars were played by several well-known musicians including U2's The Edge, Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics and Will Sergeant of Echo & the Bunnymen.
New to the National Collection also features contemporary applied art, a selection of modern Scottish silver and a politicised art porcelain figure from China entitled Looking at Mao.
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