Old photograph of the interior of Willow Tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, in Glasgow, Scotland. Designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms that opened in the late 19th and early 20th century. Early in his career, in 1896, Mackintosh met Catherine Cranston, widely known as Kate Cranston or simply Miss Cranston, an entrepreneurial local business woman who was the daughter of a Glasgow tea merchant and a strong believer in temperance. The location selected by Miss Cranston for the Willow Tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of Sauchiehall Street. The name Sauchiehall is derived from " saugh ", the Scots word for a willow tree, and " haugh ", meadow. This provided the starting point for Mackintosh and MacDonald's ideas for the design theme.
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