Who designed 'The Willow Tearooms' at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow?
Willow Tearooms Willow Tearooms The Willow Tearooms are tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms that opened in the late 19th and early 20th century. The name "Willow Tearooms" is also used for tearooms in the Mackintosh style at 97 Buchanan Street and on the 3rd floor of the Watt Brothers store at 119-121 Sauchiehall Street. The tearooms at Buchanan Street are modelled on the Ingram Street branch of Miss Cranston's, also
Willow Tearooms by a wooden screen with leaded glass inserts, offering tantalising glimpses of the experience to come. This led to the commission to design completely the proposed new tearooms in Sauchiehall Street in 1903. For the first time, Mackintosh was given responsibility for not only the interior design and furniture, but also for the full detail of the internal layout and exterior architectural treatment. The resultant building came to be known as the Willow Tearooms, and is the best known and most important work that Mackintosh undertook for Miss Cranston. The location selected by Miss Cranston for the new tearooms was