Corinthian Club - Merchant City : Information + Images

The Corinthian Restaurant & Club, Glasgow - James Salmon & J Burnet

Address: Corinthian Restaurant & Club, 191 Ingram St, Merchant City
1841-43

This beautiful high, domed interior is housed in the former Union Bank of Scotland
It includes allegorical statues from mid to late Victorian period by Mossman.
The architects were J Salmon I & J Burnet.

Corinthian Club Glasgow - Contact: 0141 552 1101

The old Sheriff's Court has many bars and private rooms and members-only facilities, refurbished by Stefan King's property group, G1. James Salmon II also designed the The Hatrack, Glasgow.

The Lite Bar
"The former Banking Hall was fully restored & opened to celebrate Glasgow’s status as UK City of Architecture & Design 1999. Renowned for its stunning features including a 26 foot glass dome, stunning brass chandeliers some of the finest mouldings and free standing figurines in the UK. Re-vamped in August 2003 the stunning “Lite Bar” marries the traditional with the contemporary and the result is spectacular. Specially commissioned leather booths, luxurious sofa’s & comfy chaise longue’s line the walls around the impressive central bar".

G1 operate The Corinthian & Arta in Glasgow

James Salmon - Practice Background
Founded by James Salmon I. The firm passed to his son, William Forrest Salmon then to his grandson James Salmon II and their former assistant John Gaff Gillespie in 1898.

James Salmon II is probably the best known of the various architects involved in this practice over the years. After Rennie Mackintosh they are the city's best known 'Glasgow Style' architects and designers.

Their most famous building is surely The Hat Rack, St Vincent St. At Lion Chambers, they pioneered the use of reinforced concrete.
The successors to the practice were Gillespie Kidd & Coia, who went on to become Scotland's most respected architects of their generation.

Corinthian Bar architect : James Salmon

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