Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a Scottish architect and designer, working at the turn of the century, at the tail end of the art nouveau era. His stuff was way beyond art nouveau, however, and presages Bauhaus and Modernism. Many of his designs would be considered to be ultracontemporary even today, and they are now 100 years old! The chair above is from a house he designed and built in 1903 for the publisher Walter W.Blackie. For more information on the house and pictures click here (click the "interior of bedroom" picture link!). For more information on Mackintosh, click here.