It’s been nearly three years since a fire ravaged Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 1909 masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art. Though 90 percent of the building was spared, the blaze left the school’s treasured Art Nouveau library a heap of charred wood and ash. More than half of the $40 million needed to complete restoration work has been secured. But to conclude the campaign, the school has partnered with an advertising firm and an auction house to host—quite literally—a fire sale.
This month, Christie’s will auction original works created by a roster of 25 notable British artists. The medium? The library’s scorched remains.
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