DESIGNED BY Charles Rennie Mackintosh
FOR Cassina
This iconic chair reflects Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s style and his fearless approach to the most challenging manufacturing processes.
Originally a furnishing accessory for one of Mackintosh’s major design projects, Hill House in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, Scotland, from which its name derives. The linear, geometric form is evocative of the minimal, abstract lines of Japanese graphics, which confer symbolic and figurative symbolic value to the piece’s striking visual impact.
This piece is seen by many critics as not only a chair but also a veritable treatise on the way space can be articulated. The tall back is defined by a succession of vertical lines that are topped with a grid of verticals and horizontals. Cassina has re-issued the Hill House chair, which is available in black-stain ashwood, with a velvet seat-cushion.
MADE IN ITALY
400 W x 350 D x 1410 H (mm)
Black-stain ashwood, with a velvet seat-cushion.
