Style Guide: Arts and Crafts and Aestheticism

Mackintosh's only known writings on architecture comprise six lecture scripts and a diary, reproduced in full.

With both historic photographs and modern images of Mackintosh's major works taken by the noted architectural photographer Mark Fiennes, this is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.

This book, with illustrations that include specially prepared plans and sections, takes a clear-eyed view of Mackintosh and his achievement, stripping away the myths to reveal a designer of extraordinary sophistication and inventiveness.

Highlights Mackintosh's integration of the decorative arts and the crafts, his reinterpretation of traditional forms derived from vernacular prototypes and his espousal of modern materials and methods made possible by the age of rapid industrialisation. The book also forms a complete account of Mackintosh's career and provides an assessment of the legacy of Mackintosh.

In this book, Roger Billcliffe shows that with the furniture and interior designs made after 1915 the textile designs form a whole new style for Mackintosh.The designs fall into two basic categories - one based on organic, mainly floral, patterns; the other using more abstract and geometric shapes.