Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1863-1933) was a Scottish designer and key figure in the ‘Glasgow style’ of the 1890s. She joined Glasgow School of Art with her sister Frances, and there they met respective husbands Charles Rennie Mackintosh and James Herbert MacNair. The four collaborated often and made the Glasgow style internationally renowned.

Margaret’s work spanned several different mediums including watercolour, metalwork and textiles. This image is a menu she designed for a tearoom called The White Cockade in Glasgow in 1911. It typifies her stylization of human and floral forms, alongside distinctive linear structures.

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh

(Image credit; Dalbera CCBY2.0)

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