The Oak Room was originally designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1907 for the famous Miss Cranston's Ingram Street tearooms in Glasgow. Miss Cranston was a famous figure in Glasgow for her beautiful tearooms.
In 1971 Glasgow Museums salvaged and stored the Oak Room.
And now thankfully we can view Charles Rennie Mackintosh's stunning design as the Oak Room has been conserved and rebuilt in the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee.
At STROMA Films, we were delighted to be given the opportunity by the V&A Dundee to document the process of restoring the Oak Room from very early on when the 600 pieces were being assembled during a trial hang in a converted church on the outskirts of Edinburgh. We followed the project for 2 years to help reveal how a major lost work by Scotland’s most famous designer was brought back to life more than 100 years later.
