Langfier

Photographic studio

Below is a photograph of one of Louis Saul Langfier's studios.  He had studios in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London at these addresses.

If you  can suggest which of these studios appears in the photograph below, please email me.    Thank you. 

Langfier  -  Photographic studio

Thank you to Joseph Sharples for recognising this studio and sending me a recent photograph of the same room (above).

Joseph wrote:

137 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

"I can identify the studio shown in this photograph:

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It is as 137 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow.  It is at the back of the building, overlooking Sauchiehall Lane. The room still exists, and I attach a photograph of it (from the opposite end) taken a couple of months ago.

This was clearly where Langfier exhibited his work, but I wonder if he took his photographs in the corresponding room at the front, overlooking Sauchiehall Street, which faces north and has a roof mostly of glass.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

"I am interested in this building because it was designed by Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh, the architectural firm in which Charles Rennie Mackintosh was a partner.

I don't see any evidence of Mackintosh's hand in its design, though he seems to have made a design for an elaborate wrought-iron enclosure for the building's lift, which unfortunately was not carried out."

Joseph Sharples, Chief Researcher, Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning,
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow:  June 20, 2011

zoom-in to see the photographs on the walls

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