A rare stained oak Charles Rennie Mackintosh stool from Miss Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms sold at auction for £81,450 – more than ten times the original estimate.

The stained oak stool attracted international interest at Lyon & Turnbull’s Design Since 1860 sale in Edinburgh on Thursday.

The stool was part of a group of furniture Mackintosh designed for the Billiards and Smoking Room of Miss Cranston’s Tea Rooms in Glasgow.

Combining English Arts & Crafts and Scottish vernacular design, Mackintosh produced several types of seating for the Argyle Street project in 1898 including his iconic tall back dining chair. The stools were only used in the masculine domain of the Billiards and Smoking Room, which occupied the building’s top two floors. Just five are pictured in contemporary photographs.

The Argyle Street Tea Rooms closed in 1920 when much of the furniture was dispersed. This stool, that is illustrated in Roger Billcliffe’s catalogue raisonné of Mackintosh furniture, came from a private collection in Glasgow.