Mackintosh Furniture

Discover Mackintosh’s furniture up close and personal in Glasgow School of Art’s (GSA) newly developed Augmented Reality App. Learn more about the furniture held at GSA and designed by the School’s most famous alumnus, the designer, architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Place the pieces in a modern setting, scale and move them, and discover more about their provenance and history through archive materials held in the School’s Archive. Ten pieces are featured, taken from Mackintosh’s domestic interiors, the tea rooms and from the Art School itself, which Mackintosh designed at the turn of the 20th century.
Since the fires of 2014 and 2018, access to GSA’s heritage collection has become severely limited, but through the App users can not only see some of the furniture, but can also view two pieces that were lost in the fire and no longer exist in physical form.
This App has been designed to work on location as part of a specific museum exhibit. Users will be able to download and use it on location only. To find out where you can use the App, please visit www.gsaarchives.net/mackcessibility
GSA’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh collection is one of 49 collections recognised by Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS) as nationally significant. The App has been developed by GSA’s School of Simulation and Visualisation, through the School’s Archives and Collections, and with the generous support of MGS through the Museum Development Fund. The project, “Mac(k)cessibility” aims to

• explore the potential capabilities of high end digital technologies to document, record, reconstruct, render and display artefacts and present them effectively in gallery settings;
• the viability of using this same technology to recreate 'lost' pieces;
• the potential of rolling out such technologies and concepts to facilitate 'digital loans' which could have economic, environmental and collection care benefits.