Miniature Hill House 1 (1903) by Mackintosh from the Vitra Design Museum
Black-stained maple, pink fabric, scale 1:6, 61 x 234 x 67 mm Charles Rennie Mackintosh was one of the great representatives of Art Nouveau. Hill House 1 marks a new phase in the work of Mackintosh.
The chairs strict geometry recalls the Ladderback Chairs of the Shakers and clearly differs from the organic or feminine forms of early designs. It was made for the house of a Scottish publisher and his wife and functioned more as part of an artistic environment than as a piece of furniture for everyday use.
The chair was assigned a set place in the bedroom of the couple, where it fulfilled a purely decorative function. The extended back, first used by Mackintosh in 1897, is a motif that appears repeatedly in his chairs and gives them an unmistakable quality.
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