In 2025 The National Trust for Scotland is partnering with Glasgow Doors Open Days to raise awareness of Mackintosh Illuminated.
The National Trust for Scotland was awarded a significant award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund earlier this year to develop and bring to life a project which will raise the profile and understanding of two its most important 20th Century properties - both designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
The Hill House in Helensburgh, built for the book publisher Walter Blackie, and Mackintosh at the Willow Tea Rooms on Sauchiehall Street, designed for Edwardian entrepreneur Miss Kate Cranston, will be the subjects of a deep dive into their history, construction and influence together with a major conservation project which seeks to repair the decades long leaking cement at his finest and largest residential building. The project entitled 'Mackintosh Illuminated' will also explore the influence of Mackintosh's wife Margaret Macdonald on the design, especially of the interiors of these buildings and their work in general.
Liz Davidson, NTS Project Director will deliver a lecture on the aims of the project, its challenges and the opportunities it provides to put Mackintosh firmly at the top of the list of the UK's most important architects and designers.
This lecture is suitable for anyone interested particularly in the built heritage, conservation and the City's role at the turn of the 19th Century in creating designs of exceptional beauty and international acclaim.
If you're no longer able to attend, we’d be grateful if you could kindly refund your tickets so that someone else has the opportunity to come along.
