Ate van Apeldoorn (Nl Mid-c20th)
Solid pine. Houtwerk Hattem Circa 1970s.
Rare pair of bedside cabinets designed by Ate van Apeldoorn.
Price: 1200 euro
1960s brass & marble anthropomorphic abstract sculpture. 15cm high.
Price: 295 euro
Beech & maple wood cabinet/ sideboard. Manufactured by a small Uk company making furniture just after WWII for the retailer Heals. It has attractive curved interior drawers and a small compartment to the back of the door. A rare example of early British modernism and the emerging spirit of the 1950s.
Price: 1,400 euro
Abstract Wall Hanging. Circa 1970s.
1970s Dutch Abstract wall hanging made from coloured lengths of thick rope. It hangs using metal rods at the top and bottom. There are a series of small hooks that enable it to be hung from a large wall.
236.5cm x 340cm
Price: 2,750 euro
Cornelis van der Sluys (Nl. 1881-1944)
Rare oak armchair circa 1930s.
Price: 1,895 euro
Circa 1930s. A Dutch cantilever armchair. Original paint and in superb condition.
maker/designer unknown.
Price: 1,750 euro
Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma (NL. Mid-c20th)
Five modular cubes from the 1970s. Laminated plywood.
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The Dutch duo Slothouber & Graatsma established themselves from the 1950s as artist/designers with the cube form as their key motif around which they developed various principles of cubic construction alongside multiples and variations thereof. Despite its restrictions they admired the cube for its clarity of form. They applied their thinking around it to a variety of objects, and artworks from small jewellery-scale 3d models and games to larger installation works.
Highly driven personalities, they considered themselves as discoverers of ‘the many applications of the democratic system of cubics’; a system that would ostensively act to counter the rise of the expressive individualism in post-WWII culture. (They later established the CCC_the Center for Cubic Constructions as a forum for promoting their ideas).
Due to their diverse and multidisciplinary output they were never to become global names – But they were a highly respected creative team (representing The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1970) and in 1965 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam honoured them with the exhibition ‘Vier kanten: maat, vorm, kleur, letter’ (Four sides: size, form, colour, letter). Donald Judd for one was a great admirer of their work.
Price: 4,250.00 euro
[Unknown designer/maker]
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1930s very low cantilever armchair. The chair has had the outer leather upholstery removed to uncover its underlying structure: hessian /burlap and wooden frame.
Price: 1,250 euro
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