Miss Cranston S Tea Rooms Glasgow

The original ms cranstons tea room now fully restored as mackintosh at the willow 217 sauchiehall street glasgow g2 3ex home mackintosh at the willow home.

Miss cranston s tea rooms glasgow.

In 1950 glasgow corporation acquired the ingram street building and the tea rooms were used for storage. The name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday. With a selection of loose teas and freshly ground coffees freshly made cakes scones soups and sandwiches there s plenty to choose from all enjoyed in the stunning historic surroundings designed by charles rennie mackintosh for miss kate cranston. Catherine cranston widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms.

The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow tree and haugh meadow. The extensive use of contrasting colours within the rooms adds to the atmosphere and experience. At buchanan street inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s. The tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street first opened in 1903 and are the only surviving tea rooms designed by charles rennie mackintosh for local entrepreneur and patron miss catherine cranston.

It is the only tea room where mackintosh was in control of the exterior and the interior and his arrangement of the internal spaces and his designs for the furniture are unparalleled in his designs for tea rooms. Before the building was demolished in 1971 the rooms were thoroughly documented and catalogued. Catherine cranston was the tea room queen the willow tea rooms are now recognised as a masterpiece of mackintosh design but when they opened in 1903 they were branded with miss cranston s name and. This historic building is of the greatest significance for scotland s design heritage.

Created in 1886 miss cranston s ingram street tea rooms continued in the food catering tradition for over sixty years. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street. Miss cranston s original willow tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow was designed by charles rennie mackintosh in 1903. She is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland.