Mackintosh-designed bedside cabinet expected to fetch up to £50,000 at auction

A Mackintosh-designed bedside cabinet is one of a selection of items to be auctioned in the in the Lyon & Turnbull Design Since 1860 sale next week.

Design specialist Olivia Ross with rare works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh that will form part of the auction (Lyon & Turnbull/PA)

A selection of rare objects by Charles Rennie Mackintosh will be sold at auction next week.

A bedside cabinet commissioned by Mackintosh’s client Catherine Cranston in 1904 for her Hous’hill home is one of the 456 lots, and auctioneers have said it could fetch between £30,000 and £50,000.

Glasgow entrepreneur Miss Cranston had already commissioned Mackintosh to design her famous tea rooms in the city, including the renowned Willow Tea Rooms which opened in 1904, when she tasked him to redecorate the mansion.