Peonies - Drawing. Public domain image.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868—1928), Scottish architect and designer who was a leader of the Glasgow style in Great Britain. Although Mackintosh was nearly forgotten for several decades, the late 20th century saw a revival of interest in his work. The stark simplicity of his furniture designs, in particular, appealed to contemporary taste, and reproductions of Mackintosh chairs and settees began to be manufactured. The Mackintosh House in Glasgow was reconstructed and opened to the public as a museum in the late 1970s. In 2018 Mackintosh’s library for the Glasgow School of Art was severely damaged in a fire, just as the building’s restoration from a previous blaze four years earlier was nearing completion.