World-Class Heritage … Or Simply A Load Of Old Tosh?

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / June 27

Anyone who thought (or perhaps hoped) that the cult of Charles Rennie Mackintosh was fading is in for a rude awakening. The man that many see as Scotland's greatest architect and others as an overrated, fancy-Dan interior designer is making a big comeback. The actor John Cairney is coming out of exile with his wife Alannah O'Sullivan to play Charles and Margaret Mackintosh in a new production at the House For An Art Lover. The Hunterian Art Gallery is staging an exhibition of forgotten Mackintosh masterpiece, the house at 78 Derngate, Northampton. And the curator of the Mackintosh collection at the Glasgow School of Art has put together an exhibition in the French harbour town of Port Vendres where Mackintosh spent the last few years of his life. The French, it seems, are anxious to get in on the Mackintosh act.

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