JW Anderson x Mackintosh x Angus Ross

A Collaboration.

Earlier this year (2025) we were sent a Charles Rennie Mackintosh stool dating from 1898. Over time the stool has developed a beautiful patina. This original stool had been commissioned by Miss Cranston for her first tearoom at 114 Argyle Street, Glasgow.

The stool now belongs to Jonathon Anderson, the UK’s leading fashion designer and Creative Director at Dior. He wondered if we would consider creating Re-Editions of the stool for his eponymous brand : JW Anderson.

The stool is a panelled design, with heart shaped cut-out handles and a lovely bum shaped comfortable seat. Angus worked out how it was made (and how we could invisibly improve that) and that observed various repairs over the years. The original stool (above) was one of five photographed in The Smoking Rooms (a male domain) that were situated above the Tearooms and Luncheon Rooms of the Argyle Street Tearoom.

We are now making the stools in Perthshire oak for JW Anderson in three finishes: natural oiled oak, our black Mackintosh finish, and hand-painted ivory white.

The stools are only available from JW Anderson online and in-store.

“The interiors of JW Anderson’s new store on Pimlico Road, London, have the qualities of a Vermeer painting: luminous, peaceful, domestic – the interiors you’d expect in a tastefully appointed home, rather than a retail space.

All around are exquisite objects available to buy… In one corner of the shop is a wall of reworked vintage gardening tools, and above is a re-edition of a Charles Rennie Mackintosh stool made in collaboration with Angus Ross, a woodworker who used Scottish oak sourced from his own woodland.”

The Observer 23rd Jan 2026.

Our collection for JW Anderson also includes Charles Rennie Mackintosh drop lights with skirts of Irish linen.

Jonathan Anderson is a multi-award winning fashion designer, and was Creative Director at Loewe for fourteen years before taking over as Creative Director at Dior in 2025. You can listen to Jonathan Anderson’s fascinating life story in an edition of BBC Radio 4 This Cultural Life .

Jonathon Anderson’s eponymous brand ‘JW Anderson’ has shops in London and Milan. He was awarded British Fashion Designer of the Year in 2023, 2024, and 2025.

You may also be interested in another Charles Rennie Mackintosh reproduction commission post : Ladderback Chairs for Mackintosh at the Willow.