# Washstand [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MACKINTOSH, Charles Rennie]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oak, ceramic tile, coloured and mirror glass, and lead, 161 x 130 x 52 cm ## Commentary Mackintosh designed this washstand as part of the furnishings for the Blue Bedroom in Hous'hill, an eighteenth-century residence in a suburb of Glasgow he remodelled for Kate Cranston \(Mrs Cochrane\) and her husband. Miss Cranston, one of Mackintosh's most important clients, was the proprietress of a group of highly successful tearooms in Glasgow, many of which she had Mackintosh design. With its uncompromising shape and a brilliant abstract panel of glass, the washstand shows the architect/designer at the height of his creative power. ## Related artworks - [Cabinet]() - [Chair]() - [Clock]() - [Cutlery]() - [Design for a wall decoration]() - [Drawing for 'Windy Hill']() - [Exterior of Willow Tea Rooms]() - [Exterior view: front façade]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()