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A century ago, Glasgow Scotland was the tearoom capital of the world, awash with high class cafes where the genteel ladies could take tea. The Willow Tea Room, which opened in 1903, extended five floors and was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, considered the father of Modernism and master of Art Nouveau. It created a sensation.
It reopensd in the 1980s, in Sauchiehall Street, but is regretably but a shadow of what it was a century ago. Tea rooms are back in favor now going under its modern guise as a Starbucks coffee shop.
(Source - Bill Coles, a journalist who lives in Edinburgh and writes this column for the weekend Wall Street Journal.)
It reopensd in the 1980s, in Sauchiehall Street, but is regretably but a shadow of what it was a century ago. Tea rooms are back in favor now going under its modern guise as a Starbucks coffee shop.
(Source - Bill Coles, a journalist who lives in Edinburgh and writes this column for the weekend Wall Street Journal.)
posted by Roy H. Thompson Jr. at 9:16 AM
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