Glasgow Weekend Day 2

 Continuing with the Charles Rennie Mackintosh theme we spent most of Sunday at the House for an Art Lover. This was a design by CRM which he entered for an architectural competition in Germany. A technical irregularity (some of his interior sketches were late)  meant that it wasn't able to win and the house was never built - until 1989 when it was constructed in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. It houses an exhibition of some of the work of CRM and his wife Margaret MacDonald, a cafe, a shop, an exhibition studio, several workspaces for artists and is also used as a venue for hire. It would be the most amazing place to get married! There's also a walled garden and an art trail in the grounds. 

We started off with coffee in the cafe, where the manageress very kindly took this picture of us all ( a rare blog sighting there of the OH ) 

and then we toured the house. If you like Mackintosh there are probably much better pictures of HfaAL on line; for some of the time my lens was grubby which spoiled many of my pictures, but for what they're worth, here are a few 

I would love to live in a Mackintosh/MacDonald designed house, although I'm not sure where you would keep all your stuff! Lunch was followed by a walk in the grounds 

after which we rather over ambitiously took ourselves off to the newly re-opened Burrell Collection. We were all so tired that all we managed there really was a desultory look at part of the ground floor and a cup of tea and a bun. One for a revisit I think.