Charles Rennie Mackintosh remains Scotland's most celebrated designer, his work produced in Glasgow at the turn of the twentieth century establishing a visual language that balanced the organic with the geometric in a way that no contemporary matched. The rose was the defining motif of his decorative vocabulary, appearing across his architectural interiors, furniture and graphic work in an abstracted, stylised form that retained its botanical origins while submitting them to rigorous formal control. The navette, or elongated oval, was a silhouette Mackintosh returned to repeatedly, its pointed ends and vertical orientation providing a natural frame for his characteristic compositions of rose, stem and geometric grid detail.
Each earring presents an open navette frame enclosing a Mackintosh composition in two distinct registers. In the upper portion, a sculpted rose head sits to one side, its layered, spiralling petal structure rendered in the characteristic Mackintosh manner, the form simultaneously botanical and architectural. A curved stem descends from the rose diagonally across the interior of the navette. The lower portion of the frame is occupied by a geometric grid of square cut-outs arranged in a regular pattern, the open rectangular spaces giving the lower section a light, structured quality that contrasts with the organic form above. The silver throughout carries a high mirror polish. Fish hook fitting above.
7.4mm x 15mm, weight 0.86g per earring. 925 sterling silver. Fish hook fitting.
Product Code: RME3394
Charles Rennie Mackintosh remains Scotland's most celebrated designer, his work produced in Glasgow at the turn of the twentieth century establishing a visual language that balanced the organic with the geometric in a way that no contemporary matched. The rose was the defining motif of his decorative vocabulary, appearing across his architectural interiors, furniture and graphic work in an abstracted, stylised form that retained its botanical origins while submitting them to rigorous formal control. The navette, or elongated oval, was a silhouette Mackintosh returned to repeatedly, its pointed ends and vertical orientation providing a natural frame for his characteristic compositions of rose, stem and geometric grid detail.
Each earring presents an open navette frame enclosing a Mackintosh composition in two distinct registers. In the upper portion, a sculpted rose head sits to one side, its layered, spiralling petal structure rendered in the characteristic Mackintosh manner, the form simultaneously botanical and architectural. A curved stem descends from the rose diagonally across the interior of the navette. The lower portion of the frame is occupied by a geometric grid of square cut-outs arranged in a regular pattern, the open rectangular spaces giving the lower section a light, structured quality that contrasts with the organic form above. The silver throughout carries a high mirror polish. Fish hook fitting above.
7.4mm x 15mm, weight 0.86g per earring. 925 sterling silver. Fish hook fitting.
Product Code: RME3394
