Argyle chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Rachel sits oh so beautifully in a Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Argyle chair (side chair) in Blade Runner (1982)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Argyle chair was originally designed for the Argyle Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street. The owner, Kate Cranston, commissioned Mackintosh and the interior designer George Walton to decorate and furnish the rooms in 1897.

This high-back chair is one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s best-known designs – and is available as a side chair or arm chair.

The unusual height of the chairs meant that they formed a screen around the tables.

Mackintosh used the same chairs in his own flat, which was designed by his wife, Margaret Macdonald, at 120 Mains Street, Glasgow in 1900. 

As well as Blade Runner this chair makes an appearance in The Addams Family, Babylon 5 and Dr. Who, as well as several Star Trek series such as Ventax II in The Next Generation, on Bajor in Deep Space Nine, on Tarquin’s planet in Enterprise and in Spock and T’Pring’s room on Vulcan in Strange New Worlds.

We can source vintage originals and modern reproductions of this chair from Europe and USA: Please complete our general enquiry form for an up to date quote including shipping.

Prices vary from our varying partners from £620 for newly made chair to approx £10,000 for a set of 8 originals.

(Example Argyle chair image from one of our retail partners)