Tea and Taste: The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975

Glasgow invented tea rooms, and they became a distinctive and much-loved feature of its social and business life. The legendary Miss Cranston brought them international fame through her penchant for the avant garde Glasgow Style that Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for her with dazzling inventiveness over two decades. This book sets the Mackintosh tea rooms in their distinctive urban context, exploring changing social habits over a century. Packed with fascinating detail, Tea and Taste will stir nostalgic memories for those who still remember Glasgow's very special tea rooms.