Charles Rennie Mackintosh's finest work dates from about a dozen intensively creative years around 1900 His buildings in Glasgow are more complex and playful than anything in Britain at that time His interiors are both spare and sensuous, creating a world of heightened aesthetic sensibility Finally, during the 1920s, he painted a series of watercolours whare are as original as anything he had done before This book investigates Mackintosh and his achievements, revealing a designer of extraordinary sophistication and inventiveness