Image source: Cassina — Hill House 1 Chair
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Hill House 1 Chair
Hill House 1: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1902 tall-backed black ash chair, made by Cassina.
410 × 1410 × 350 mm
1902
Official product information
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Overview
The Hill House 1 is a chair in solid ash designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1902. Cassina re-issued it, and the sheet lists a black-stained ash structure with a seat upholstered in velvet.
Construction
- Structure and legs: solid ash, stained black with a matt transparent, open-pore finish.
- Seat: solid beech frame with crossed elastic webbing, polyurethane foam and exclusive velvet.
- Velvet colours: Wisteria or Petroleum green.
Specifications
- 41 x 35 x 141 cm (model 292 03-04).
Story
Named after Hill House
Cassina's sheet says the chair was originally a furnishing accessory for one of Mackintosh's major design projects, Hill House in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, Scotland, and that it takes its name from the house.
A chair read as a treatise on space
The sheet notes that many critics see the piece as not only a chair but a treatise on the way space can be articulated. Cassina re-issued it with the furniture makers of Meda, in black-stained ashwood with a velvet seat cushion.
