While
Charles was studying at the Glasgow School of Art he was introduced to
two young English sisters of Scottish descent - Frances and Margaret Macdonald.
The
daughters of an English father and Scottish mother, they had settled in
Glasgow.
The meeting between Margaret and Charles was to change their lives forever.
Together
with his friend Herbie MacNair, they formed an alliance with the Macdonald
sisters and became known as the 'Glasgow Four'.
Their
artistic and romantic unions created the core of what
would become known as the 'Glasgow Style'. The four shared a close artistic
relationship.
They searched for new symbolic and elegant forms, leaning towards the
strong lines of Art Nouveau.
In 1896
- a year considered by many to mark the height of the Glasgow Style the
four were invited to exhibit at the London Arts and Crafts Society Exhibition.
They continued to work successfully together until 1899 when Frances and
MacNairmarried and moved to Liverpool. This was the year that Mackintosh
started his great architectural project;the Glasgow School of Art.
In 1900 Mackintosh married Margaret Macdonald beginning a new era of collaboration
between the two, that would later spread throughout the world.
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