A native Scot from Glasgow, Mackintosh is today considered a fundamental reference point for Liberty style, albeit his line was a very personal one, since his ideas essentially followed the times.

His architectural designs, conceived for elementary volumetric blocks, are imbued with an extreme clarity and structural rationality. He was the first to create interiors with entirely white walls, overcoming the concept of the “facade” in architecture, and drawing inspiration from Celtic and primitive art for his forms.

His furniture designs are also highly original and innovative; during the course of his career, he designed rigidly geometric furniture, preferably black, bearing a strong decorative stamp. Mackintosh was fascinated with wood and treated it like a supple, malleable material, covering it lacquer to hide seams and joints, enhancing only its definitive forms.
For Mackintosh architectonic space and furniture were one and the same total work of art. This is why – like many figures of the Modern Movement – he personally attended to even the tiniest details (even wallpaper, lighting, tableware), and refused work over which he could not exercise complete control.