Dining Table by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1918

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1868.
In 1884 he began an apprenticeship at the Glasgow School of Art.
In 1889 he became an architectural assistant and also enrolled at the
Glasgow School of Art. In 1890 he won a traveling scholarship and
toured Italy before settling down into practice. In 1913 Mackintosh left
the firm of Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh where he had been a
partner since 1904. After unsuccessfully trying to establish his own
practice, he dedicated his time to landscape painting. An outstanding
architect, furniture designer, and painter, who pioneered the Modern
Movement in Scotland, Mackintosh's works exist as the greatest
flowering of the British Arts & Crafts movement in either Scotland or
England. He died in London in 1928.