Because “Haugh” means meadow and “Sauchie” means “a boggy place full of willows,” The Willow Tea Room was named after a poem by Dante Gabriele Rossetti, “The Four Willowwood Sonnets” from The House of Life. The reference to Rossetti was the only artistic thread in the archival entry but it was a poem that inspired the famous Willow Tea Rooms inspired by something as prosaic as an address: Sauchiehall Street where a tea room was located. The Cranston Tearooms, including the Willow Tearooms, were still a feature of Glasgow in 2002. In May 1950, the Renfield Street shop was put up for sale and in 1954 the company went into liquidation and were late sold. The tea shops themselves were run by a general manager. The board of directors consisted of Michael Hook, George Borland and J Adair Mackie. Spaces were patterns of receding, thin vertical lines using metal screens, wooden panels and the famous tall, ladderback chairs. By 1938, the tea rooms at 43 Argyll Arcade, 28 Buchanan Street, Renfield Street and Queen Street were run by Cranston’s Tea Rooms Ltd. Mackintosh remodelled the structure of the building himself, formerly a warehouse, and designed the fixtures, fitting and even the cutlery. The plain white front of the tearooms with chequered border made the shop stand out from its neighbours and the domestic-style leaded windows advertised the intimacy of the interior which was to suggest a willow grove. The tea rooms design was inspired by Rossetti’s sonnet “O Ye, all ye that walk in Willow Wood” and which saw art and mysticism wedded to commerce for the first time. Completed in 1903, Cranston employed the architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh to design the scheme for the shop. The most famous of these were the Willow Tea Rooms at 217 Sauchihall Street.
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At the University of Glasgow Archive Services, a cramped and spare entry on “Cranston’s Tea Rooms Ltd, reads,Ĭatherine Cranston owned four tea shops in Glasgow, Scotland, at the beginning of the 20th century.
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