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The Bridport Mackintosh Library pendant lamp, is an exact replica of the smaller model featured in the library. This replica has been made by careful measurement of the actual fittings which still illuminate the Library, but more importantly, by reference to the actual drawings prepared by Mackintosh, for these fittings.
There are some very slight variances between the drawings and the actual fittings, this probably occurred because of the difficulty of manufacture. However, where these variances occur, priority has been given to the Mackintosh drawings, in order to produce as faithfully as possible an exact replica of this outstanding Mackintosh design, fully aproved by the Glasgow School of Art.
Visitors fortunate enough to actually
enter the Library at the Glasgow School of Art , will notice that
the design for the pendant light fittings strongly reflect the
fugue windows which rise uninterrupted through three floors. They
have similarties to the western elevation entrance in Scott Street.
The replica light fittings are made by
designer, John Brown of Bridport, Dorset UK, which by coincidence
is a town Mackintosh visited. Indeed Franicis H Newbury, who commissioned
Rennie Mackintosh to design the Glasgow School of Art actually
lived in Bridport and studied at the Bridport Literary and Scientific
Institute. Examples of Newbury's paintings are still exhibited
in the Bridport Town Hall.
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