Efforts are being made to honour the legacy of a woman who defied convention and championed female workers' rights.
Kate Cranston's luxury tea rooms were a place for men and women to socialise outwith the pub and helped elevate the career of the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
He has received the backing of world-renowned sculptor Andy Scott, who built a statue for Mackintosh in the city and says he was keen to create another for his wife, the artist and designer Margaret MacDonald. "It enabled a lot of the waitresses to get into a society position that they wouldn't otherwise have done.The Newton Mearns-based author has published best-selling books on London and Edinburgh's hidden walks with another on Manhattan in the pipeline.
Mackintosh worked with his wife, Margaret Macdonald, to create every aspect of the Willow Team Rooms from the furniture and light fittings, to carpets and wall decorations. Even details such as cutlery, signboards and staff uniforms were bespoke creations, developed to ensure a consistent experience for customers.
"One thing I had thought was that Kate set up the tea rooms to target the female market but actually initially it was to target the male market. She married in her early forties to a wealthy man eight years younger, John Cochrane, an ironmaster who inherited his father John’s Grahamston foundry and engine works.
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