Willow Tea Rooms, Mackintosh Glasgow Visitor Centre, Sauchiehall Street Interior, Scotland
Willow Tea Rooms Renewal
23 July 2020
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Mackintosh at the Willow
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Salon De luxe – beautifully restored, one of the most elegant interiors in Glasgow:

photos courtesy of The Willow Tea Rooms Trust
With one day left the trust has met their £20,000 target, so far reaching £20,655. This fund request is to allow the premises to survive through lockdown.

This historic building is of the greatest significance for Scotland?s design heritage.

It is the only tea room where Rennie 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.
The building is recognised internationally for its importance as the only surviving tea room designed in its entirety by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The Willow Tea Rooms building at 217 Sauchiehall Street was purchased in 2014 in order to prevent the forced sale of the building, closure of the Tea Rooms and loss of its contents to collectors.
Salon de Luxe door detail of rose in glass:

photos courtesy Rachel Keenan Photography
It is now in the ownership of ‘The Willow Tea Rooms Trust’, a registered charity.

The Willow Tea Rooms Trust were able to re-open the historic tea rooms building in June 2018, as Mackintosh at the Wil...