Pair of 'Ingram' high-backed chairs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Cassina, 1980s

The Ingram chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is part of the "Cassina I Maestri" collection, which brings together a selection of the most significant pieces of furniture created by the protagonists of the Modern Movement, who have become founding references in design. The "Cassina I Maestri" collection has made it possible to rediscover the original values, offering faithful reconstructions of furniture and objects capable of transmitting intact the messages of innovation and anticipation anchored in the Masters' proposals. The chair, an object of attention in Cassina's production program, represents the central point where spatial action is most coordinated: it is here that the mastery of composition always ends. Exclusive reproduction rights to Mackintosh chairs and furniture were acquired by Cassina, a leading international Italian brand, in 1972. The "Masters" collection, designed in 1900 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a Scottish architect, designer, and artist born in Glasgow in 1878 and a leading representative of the Glasgow Movement, a precursor to the Modern Movement, was created. He designed the Ingrams for Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms, a prestigious tea room located on Ingram Street in Glasgow. The version of the four iconic chairs we offer is the Ingram-Low, produced by Cassina in ebonized ash with a seat covered in black leather.