The decorative carvings for the Mac’s rebuilt library and some of the original Mackintosh furniture were still in storage awaiting installation at the time of Friday’s fire, it has emerged.

The decorative carvings were created by craftsmen to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original designs after the library was destroyed by the 2014 fire.

The structure of the rebuilt library had already been installed and has been lost. But quite a few original Mackintosh items have survived, including some furniture, the clock faces that survived the 2014 fire and all the works on paper, the school told BD.

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