Charles Rennie Macintosh
...in England because of it’s influence of Continental Art Nouveau. All of Macintoshes most important architectural work was done during his time with the firm of Honeyman and Keppie between 1889 and 1913. He expressed the influence of Art Nouveau through his designs of stained glass, metalwork and furniture among many other decorative objects. In Europe the originality of his style was quickly appreciated and in Germany and Austria he received an acclaim that he was never truly to receive at home. Despite his success and with undoubted influence abroad, Macintoshes work met with considerable indifference at home and his career in Glasgow declined. Few private clients were sufficiently sympathetic to want his "total design" of house and interior and he was capable of compromise. By 1914 Macintosh had dispaired of ever ...