Herbert macnair biography
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James Herbert MacNair (1868-1955) is the least well known member of the so-called "Glasgow Four," a group of designers that also included the great Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret and Frances Macdonald.
Herbert macnair biography
MacNair was born in Glasgow, educated at the Collegiate School, Greenock, and, after studying watercolour painting in France, apprenticed himself to John Honeyman, a Glasgow architect, where he became friends with Mackintosh, a draughtsman with the firm.
They attended Glasgow School of Art evenings, eventually meeting their future wives and co-workers -- the Macdonald sisters.
MacNair completed his work at School of Art sometime in 1883 or 1884, and according to Roger Billcliffe, he opened "an office of his own at 227 West George Street, Glasgow (1895).From this address he worked as a designer, producing furniture, book-illustrations, book-plates, watercolours and posters, but never any architectural work. . . .Unlike Mackintosh, however, he does not appear to have received