Mackintosh at the Willow

That the Parliament welcomes the news that Mackintosh at the Willow has been secured and protected for the long term thanks to the National Trust for Scotland, with what it sees as the vital support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Architectural Heritage Fund, Glasgow City Council and Celia Sinclair Thornqvist and her husband, Rolf Thornqvist; understands that existing staff at Mackintosh at the Willow will transfer to the National Trust for Scotland on their current terms and conditions; further understands that Mackintosh at the Willow is the original, and last remaining, of Miss Cranston’s famous tea rooms, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh alongside his wife, Margaret Macdonald, in 1903; believes that the tea rooms are a vital part of Glasgow’s social history and that they are cited worldwide in architectural histories as one of the city’s most important contributions towards architecture and the arts; further believes that they were, alongside Mackintosh and Macdonald’s other works, highly influential in Europe and elsewhere, and understands that the National Trust for Scotland is proud to add this property to its portfolio, alongside Mackintosh’s other masterpiece, the Hill House, which is currently undergoing a major restoration programme.