Cranston Tea Rooms Glasgow

At buchanan street inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s.

Cranston tea rooms glasgow. While miss cranston didn t do much to stop glasgow s penchant for pubs the iconic tearooms are an enduring testament to the city s love of art and a great cuppa. Even though kate cranston had sold her tea rooms off the name miss cranston s tea rooms long remained a byword for quality and for memories of glasgow s heyday at the turn of the century. The original ms cranstons tea room now fully restored as mackintosh at the willow 217 sauchiehall street glasgow g2 3ex home mackintosh at the willow home. By 1938 tea rooms at 43 argyll arcade 28 buchanan street renfield street and queen street were being run by cranston s tea rooms ltd.

The color scheme layout decorative and furniture design varied according to each room s unique theme. With a selection of loose teas and freshly ground coffees freshly made cakes scones soups and sandwiches there s plenty to choose from all enjoyed in the stunning historic surroundings designed by charles rennie mackintosh for miss kate cranston. Our tea rooms are open daily monday to saturday 9am to 5pm and sundays 10am 5pm. Miss cranston s original willow tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow was designed by charles rennie mackintosh in 1903.

This historic building is of the greatest significance for scotland s design heritage. Light for feminine dark for masculine. From 1900 to 1912 mackintosh designed several tea rooms in glasgow for cranston including the complete redesign of the ingram street tea rooms from 1900 were he became the sole designer working together with his wife margaret macdonald. It is the only tea room where mackintosh was in control of the exterior and the interior and his arrangement of the internal spaces and his designs for the furniture are unparalleled in his designs for tea rooms.

The general lunch room at the back was panelled in oak and grey canvas and the top lit tea gallery above was pink white and grey. The tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street first opened in 1903 and are the only surviving tea rooms designed by charles rennie mackintosh for local entrepreneur and patron miss catherine cranston. The decoration of the different rooms was themed.