Mackintosh bedroom returns to Bath

Wonderful preview last night of rarely seen furniture designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Designed for the family home of Bath businessman and engineer Sidney Horstmann, the bedroom suite has been re-created in the Museum of Bath at Work as part of a special exhibition that that will run this summer from June to September.

Mackintosh designed the interior for the bedroom and also the furniture in a house that Sidney Horstmann lived in until 1935. His daughter Alison Dunmore was born in one of the beds designed by Mackintosh and had fond memories of growing up in the room, which was her own bedroom.

The Museum has been fortunate in gaining consent from the Victoria & Albert Museum to borrow the furniture for display – furniture that has not been seen for 50 years!