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“I remember an old lady said to me they all drank, even the women. And Mackintosh and his group seem to have been a part of a rather bohemian set. And they weren’t popular with other artists and architects and this comes out quite clearly in the few reminiscences that we have – that they were slightly apart and they were looked on with disapproval.”

Macaulay even suggests you can see the intertwining of work and drink in Mackintosh’s drawings. He cites the architect’s drawing of Maybole Castle. “If you actually go to Maybole, you think, ‘Where did he position himself to make this drawing?’ Clearly it was the pub. It was the pub directly across the road. And there are quite a lot of pieces of written evidence that when he went on sketching tours he behaved very badly and was thrown out of places, so he seems to have drunk all through his life. It seems to have been quite a big problem.”

- The last days of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, HeraldScotland.com, May 24, 2010.

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