Art world is stunned after Mackintosh footstool sells for staggering amount

The stained oak stool, lasting 38.5cm precocious and 44.5cm wide, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, sold for much than 10 times the archetypal estimate

A woody footstool, crafted by the renowned designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh, has stunned auction-goers aft it sold for £81,450 - 10 times its archetypal estimate.

This stained oak treasure, lasting astatine 38.5cm precocious and 44.5cm wide, attracted planetary sensation during Lyon & Turnbull’s 'Design Since 1860' auction. The point is from Mackintosh's bespoke postulation designed for the billiards and smoking rooms astatine Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms successful Glasgow.

John Mackie, manager of decorative arts & plan astatine Lyon & Turnbull, said: "The enactment astatine Argyle Street followed connected from his erstwhile enactment astatine Miss Cranston’s caller Buchanan Street Tea Rooms, which had been conceived 2 years earlier successful 1896. In this commission, Mackintosh was successful complaint of furnishings and his designs for these caller rooms exhibited a new, much robust improvement of his repertoire and established a benignant for overmuch of his enactment up to 1900."

The auction was held successful Edinburgh. Mr Mackie added: "The bold and elemental aesthetic of the designs marked him retired from his contemporaries. It’s indicative of the involvement successful the enactment of Charles Rennie Mackintosh that we received bids from crossed the world for this footstool."

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was a Scottish artist, designer, and designer who is known for his contributions to the Art Nouveau movement. His enactment is inspired by nature, Scottish traditions, and Japanese style. Mackintosh mirrors are disposable online from a fig of retailers.