Charles Rennie Mackintosh stained birch day bed
UK: THE designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh are normally associated with stellar prices in the salerooms, but this stained birch day bed struggled to get away at Lyon and Turnbull’s Glasgow sale of Decorative Arts on April 18 and indeed had experienced a fair degree of ignorance or neglect in the course of its history.
Intended as a genteel couch for the ladies’ common room of the Glasgow School of Art, the bed was su…