Miss Cranston S Tea Rooms Glasgow

Miss cranston s original willow tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow was designed by charles rennie mackintosh in 1903.

Miss cranston s tea rooms glasgow.

The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow tree and haugh meadow. Catherine cranston widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street. At buchanan street inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s.

The tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s recreating the fabulous interiors from the white dining room and the chinese blue room. Catherine cranston was the tea room queen the willow tea rooms are now recognised as a masterpiece of mackintosh design but when they opened in 1903 they were branded with miss cranston s name and. Inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the willow tea rooms at 97 buchanan street is the place to go when out and about in the city centre. The extensive use of contrasting colours within the rooms adds to the atmosphere and experience.

The name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday. She is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland. In 1950 glasgow corporation acquired the ingram street building and the tea rooms were used for storage. Created in 1886 miss cranston s ingram street tea rooms continued in the food catering tradition for over sixty years.

It is the only tea room where mackintosh was in control of the exterior and the interior and his arrangement of the internal spaces and his designs for the furniture are unparalleled in his designs for tea rooms. The original ms cranstons tea room now fully restored as mackintosh at the willow 217 sauchiehall street glasgow g2 3ex home mackintosh at the willow home. This historic building is of the greatest significance for scotland s design heritage. The tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street first opened in 1903 and are the only surviving tea rooms designed by charles rennie mackintosh for local entrepreneur and patron miss catherine cranston.