Charles Rennie Mackintosh Monday

[Kittykatt]

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[Kittykatt]

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann. Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland and died in London, England. He is among the most important figures of the Modern Style.

Mackintosh apprenticed and trained as an architectural draughtsman, from the age of 16, attending studies at the Glasgow School of Art. He first worked for John Hutchison and later, once his apprenticeship was finished, went to work for Honeyman and Keppie. He worked hard in his studies winning national and international prizes from his early study period, in both the craft of producing a building, as well as for his artistry. In his free time, he travelled around Scotland and England and developed drawings of plants and buildings, particularly Scottish tower houses and English parish churches and cottages.

Mackintosh, his future wife Margaret MacDonald, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair met at evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art . They became known as a collaborative group, "The Four", or "The Glasgow Four", and were prominent members of the "Glasgow School" movement. The group exhibited in Glasgow, London, England and Vienna, Austria. These exhibitions helped establish Mackintosh's reputation. The so-called "Glasgow" style was exhibited in Europe and influenced the Viennese Art Nouveau movement known as Sezessionstil (in English, the Vienna Secession) around 1900.

During this period, he also took commissions for free-standing pieces of furniture and showed a number of them in an exhibition of Arts and Crafts works in 1895. In his designs, he found it unnatural to separate his artistry from the formal craft of an architect.

In January 1897, Honeyman and Keppie won a competition to design the new Glasgow School of Art, with a design by Mackintosh, and it is this building for which he is best known. The School clearly demonstrated his skill in using natural forms to elevate and enhance the formality of a structural design.

With his interior designs, he was increasingly aided by his wife, Margaret, who he married in 1900 and whom he came to regard as the better artist. He once said, “I just have talent, Margaret has genius.” Much of this work combines Mackintosh's own designs with those of his wife, whose flowing, floral style complemented his more formal, rectilinear work , including the famous Macintosh Rose.

The Mackintoshes left Glasgow forever in 1914, heading for the South of England, as their style gradually became unfashionable. He had a reputation for arrogance and was also unpopular with other architects, having been openly critical of them.

The couple first stayed in Walberswick, on the Norfolk coast, where he further developed his flower drawings, thought to be for a book to be published in Germany, and later they stayed in Chelsea, during which he was asked by a businessman, Bassett-Lowke, to alter a terrace house in Northampton. This commission turned into one of the most significant of his life.

He also extended Miss Cranston’s Willow Tearooms, with a Dug-Out, and he did some new water-colour flower paintings, which led to designs for printed textiles. In 1920 he was asked to design several houses in Glebe Place, Chelsea and this gave some hope for the future, but little came of this work.

In 1923, they embarked on a holiday to France, that lasted about four years. Mackintosh was inspired to start painting the landscapes and villages they saw as they travelled. The Leicester Art Galleries gave Mackintosh a commission for an exhibition of 50 paintings, but poverty meant they had to sell some paintings to raise cash. He explored what he saw—Fort Mailly, the Port, the Lighthouse, the Rocks—struggling to develop his technique.

From this period, 41 watercolours survive: flower studies, farmhouses, naive views of ships unloading, and the landscapes— rocks, buildings and hillsides. Twelve were painted in Port-Vendres, and the others wherever the Mackintoshes stayed. The graphic style of the artist/architect/designer emerges clearly. He had always seen himself as both painter and designer, and these last works of his life demonstrate them working as one.

Macintosh died in London in December 1928,.and Margaret returned for three months every summer to the Hotel du Commerce until her death in January 1933. It seems probable that it was during one of these visits that Margaret fulfilled her wish to scatter his ashes on the sea at Port-Vendres.

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[Kittykatt]

Good morning everyone and happy Monday!

Dogged,.I'm glad you had a lovel time with your BFF.

Trissie, that is hot! I think some parts of the UK may reach 38C this week, but that will almost certainly be the SE, not us here in the SW..

KitKat, the farmer's market sounds lovely - enjoy your bouquet as well as the produce you purchased!

I spent yesterday evening.in the garden,.giving the roses their second feed, and also giving the roses.in.tje front garden some growth stimulant (made from seaweed!) and a really good spray with fungicide, as for some reason they have blackspot badly this year. .( The roses in the back garden are almost unaffected.- strange!) Apparently this growth stimulant.is.supposed to give posotve results within a week. We shall see!

Today DH goes back to work,.so I have the house to myself. It's supposed to be very hot again, so I need to organise my time and be outside either early or late, when it's.cooler. And I'll start my housework at the front of the house, which faces west

[Kittykatt]

SHEM:
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." Les Brown, Author

[Kittykatt]

To do:

Appointments:
Monday:
DH to office
St home.for me
Tuesday:
DH WFH
8.45 am vet - Solensia injection for Freddie
(Can I order.s9me more.of his food?)
Remember Petplan
Remember to book his next appointment in 4 weeks
Wednesday:
DH to office
At home for me
Thursday:
DH WFH
10.30 am church
Any errands to run?
Can I hoover the car?
12 pm Parish Lunch at the Farmer's Union
6-7 pm Waitrose delivery
Friday:
DH WFH
At home for me
Saturday:
DH??
Text DF E re coffee tomorrow
Sunday:
Church 9.30 am - remember to take milk
Visit DF E for coffee
Lunch at garden centre? (I think DH is doing something.in the afternoon,.and there won't be time.for our usual.roast lunch)
Laxapet Jude and Matilda
Set up new Waitrose delivery

Future dates to note:
2/7 weight check -Jude
23/6 Solensia Freddie
August / September (depending on weather!) work on verge of house by roofer L and team

Outstanding deliveries:

Extras:
Email.Farmers.Union with lunch choices -do.TODAY
Text DF P
Text DF C
Redo rota for coffees beginning of July to include LS, NW and DM
Think about the invitations to our street garden party on 4/7 - do d last year's to give ideas. Can I get the free app to work again?
Think about ordering window vac for us - see what's reduced for Prime event?
Can I do 15 minutes of decluttering each day?
Digital decluttering- Google Photos for 2024 and 2025
Pick up my footprints
Book eye test for me
Sort prints and put in albums (this will probably be an activity to do on wet days!) WIP I am now finished with 2025 for the cats, and started on the garden
Think about setting up Guardianship for F,J and M - looked on Cats' Protection, I need their microchip numbers, approximate DOB, colour and markings and useful information about them. Bookmark link with local recommended solicitors (also ask DF CW?)

To do:
Early morning:
Cuddles and treats on the bed with Matilda,
Jude and Freddie
Cup of tea
QT
Make bed
Shower / wash hair/ moisturiser and sunblock/ clean and floss teeth
DH launched
Physio exercises and back exercises WIP
Proprioceptors exercises X1 x2 x3
S/S bathroom
Get dressed
Breakfast and meds / supplements - me
DRINK WATER #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
Check bank account
Go for my walk

Garden:
15 minutes in tiny front garden
15 minutes in back garden

Cats:
Cats’ breakfast and meds / supplements
Fresh water for cats
Scoop cat trays
Walk Freddie
Lap time with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Play with Jude, Freddie and Matilda
Head rubs with Jude, Freddie & Matilda
Cats' supper

House:
Rubbish down to wheelie bins
Kitchen clean up
Unload DW
Load DW
Run DW when full
Unload DW
PUPA downstairs
Quick dust sitting room
Quick hoover downstairs
PUPA upstairs
Quick dust bedrooms
Quick hoover upstairs
Lunch
Supper
Lay out clothes for tomorrow
Journal three things I am thankful for today
Hand cream

Extra house tasks:

Monday:
Clean bathroom
Clean spare room
Clean bedroom

Tuesday:
Clean hall
Clean sitting room
Clean stairs
Empty hoover before starting work
Wheelie bins back when dustmen have been
Filing paperwork for 15 minutes

Wednesday:
Clean kitchen

Garden extras:
Water pots
Feed pots weekly

Financial:
More work on budget WIP- look at discretionary payments this week 30 minute sessions #1

[Doggedly]

Good morning, Kittykatt. Thank you for starting us off and introducing us to a new artist. I'm glad that you will escape the worst of the heat in your part of England. I'm sure that it will be more than hot enough for you as it is. Sending cool thoughts to our dfs who are getting the worst of it. We are still having cool nights and normal summer days here. So far so good.

I have been getting extra water in the fridge for tomorrow. They won't be shutting our cold water off, only the hot, but they warned that the cold water might come out brown and to run it for a while if so. I'd rather just not drink it until they are finished their work. They are upgrading our hot water system, the boilers I think, so it is for an ultimate good.

Kittykatt, I never did answer your question about the mattress topper. I love it. It is springy but supportive at the same time, and traps heat less than the mattress which is nice. I definitely recommend.

Monday I have a delivery from my db to look forward to. I used to buy packets of dehydrated vegetables from Giant Tiger that were perfect for adding to my rice, sauces, etc. And then out of the blue GT stopped carrying it. None of my other grocery stores seemed to carry it. I found that I could buy a kilogram of the stuff at a time, I'm sure from the same producer, on Amazon. But Amazon was going to charge me a delivery fee, so I asked my db to buy it for me (as he has Amazon Prime) and I'd pay him back. He immediately agreed, but refused payment, so it's a gift. With a kilo of it, I'll be thinking of my db while I eat my rice for a good long time.

On that happy note, I should head to bed to enjoy my mattress topper, and the general pleasure of being horizontal. See you later!

[Kittykatt]

Sleep well, Dogged! I'm glad the mattress topper is a success. Dehydrated vegetables sound a greet idea to add to rice dishes.

DH has left for work. I've evicted the cats from the bedroom so I can do my exercises in peace without being sat on/ head butted / toes bitten etc! I now just need to go ahead, stop procrastinating and get them done. Maybe a podcast would help?

[Kittykatt]

Well, on the news this morning, it looks as though our prime minister may be resigning, possibly as soon as later today. (Thank goodness. After his reactions (or lack thereof ), to the events of the the past few weeks his position is really becoming untenable). However, the big question is whether his replacement will be any better? Whoever it is, I don't envy them in the slightest, trying to unite an increasingly unhappy and angry country.

Still, on such a beautiful, peaceful morning, all the troubles of Westminster seem very far away. I think a.walk.will be next,.before it gets too hot.

Edited to add: update - yes the PM has resigned.