Chance to bid on rare chairs

RARE chairs designed by famed designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh are to be auctioned.

Two pairs of stained oak dining chairs, crafted in 1910, will be auctioned online on Thursday.

Bidding will begin at £15,000 for each pair, said auctioneers Lyon and Turnbull.

The Glasgow designer created the pieces for William Douglas, a decorator he had employed for various projects including Hous’hill in Nitshill.

The pieces were created by Mackintosh the year after he completed the second phase of the Glasgow School of Art.

John Mackie, Lyon and Turnbull director, said: “The sale represents a rare opportunity to purchase scarce original furniture designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

“Only six of these chairs were made and their design demonstrates Mackintosh’s skill in transforming traditional vernacular forms into something new.”

Last year, a bedside cabinet by Mackintosh was sold by the auction house for £250,000 in “an intense international bidding battle”.