Armchair
Mackintosh built the back rest as architecture and let the sitter cope. Original examples and 1970s licensed reissues trade an order of magnitude apart; the joint detail is where you look.
MakerCharles Rennie Mackintosh
Date1897
OriginScotland
MediumStained oak with modern horsehair upholstery
Dimensions96.4 × 57.2 × 45.8 cm (38 × 22 1/2 × 18 in.)
Classseating
RegisterObject
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
€ 678
How this figure was reached
8 priced lots of 89 ended for this name; 395–677.5 EUR, median 530.5.
This is the market's number, not the dealer's ask — the top of what the name has realised in public. The dealer's own figure replaces it when the object is catalogued.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 89 ended lots found
priced 8
unsold 3
sell-through 73%
confidence 0.50
basis hammer
in euro € 395–€ 678
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Armchair, Art Institute of Chicago, object 156437.
Gift of Neville and John Bryan Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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