Joumal ofTaiwan Normal University: Humanities & Social Sciences
2003,48(2), 135-148
An Analysis of Glasgow Style with the Works of
Mackintosh as Example
*Pei-Ling Lee **Yu-Fu Yang
*Dept. ofProduct Design, Tainan Woman's College of Arts and Technology 、 Graduate School ofDesign, National Yunlin University ofScience and Technology
**Dept. ofSpace Design, National Yunlin University ofScience and Technology
Abstract
Whether we are speaking of architecture, interior design or furniture design, Glasgow style is significantly different from Art Nouveau, Whi!e most designers were still relying on the natural form and thus creating a kind of Feminine A泣， the designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh
(1868-1928) broke away from the curving figures of natural form and introduced the "cubic style." The Mackintosh style of latticework became the forerunner and foundation of the abstract geometrical style. This study looks at Glasgow style from different perspectives and analyzes its technique by disassembling. In the disassembling oftwo chairs we can see how this style not only presents the formal image of latticework but also shows us the proportional relationship between the whole and its parts. Due to its refineme剖，its attention from the subtlest detai!s to the whole, Glasgow Style became the standard, and now is regarded as the completion and epitome of modern style; it has therefore opened an era of new possibilities in the creation of geometrical forms in design.
