furniture, art & design
Idir Mecibah (Belgium 1958-2013)
Steel. 89.5 x 89.5 x 36cm high
Brutalist table by Idar Mecibah (1958-2013). Manufactured by Smederij Moerman 1997. This table is from the ‘scrab series’ designed in the 1980s and produced up until the end of the 1990s.
Steel plate with forged steel legs (and with its signature gold leaf sheet in the middle).
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Stamped & dated to the top (as seen)
Price: On request
Hague school lady chair. Circa 1920s.
Oak. 60.5 x 64.5 x 65cm high.
A delightful diminutive armchair that we believe was designed as a lady chair. It is unusual not only by its small size but also by its striking modernist lines. This Dutch chair is designed and constructed in typical Dutch Art Deco style known as the Haagse School or Hague School style – a simple geometric constructivist style of the period. According to the previous owner this chair is a design by Hendrik Wouda but we were unable to confirm that. The chair is made out of darkened oak and seems to have its original purple plush velvet upholstery including the loose seat cushion. This chair is a true collectors piece.
Price: 2.400 euro
Bossche school ceiling light /chandelier
168.5cm high x 68cm wide
Large iron and copper lights that come from a mid-century church interior in the Dutch town of Heusden. The church was an early example (1950-60) of the Bossche School architectural style as designed by architect Nico van der Laan (other known designers working on the interior were Harry van der Thillart and Jan Noyons, as well as Jo Uiterwaal). The church was closed down in 2018. (further provenance includes a photo of the lamp in-situ)
Price: On request
Large Art Deco coffee table. Circa 1930s
131 x 86 x 52cm high. Solid oak and glass.
Unique early c20th coffee table with its original feature glass top that seems to conjoin both Art Deco and Brutalist styles. The piece combines the robust qualities of the Brutalist style evident in its chunky wooden base with the elegance of the Art Deco style manifested in the pictorial glass top. These apparent combined qualities in this one piece that gives the table its unique style and character.
The deeply moulded relief images in the thick glass depicts two seagulls in flight. The underside of the glass is textured whereas the top is almost smooth.
The curved fan shape of this table (it is narrower at the front than the back) would make it highly suitable for particular spaces such as between sofas or in front of a curved sofa.
Price: 3.950 euro
Hendrik Fels (Nl.1882-1962)
Oak wood. L.O.V Oosterbeek 1930s
Recently newly upholstered in a dark/warm coloured wool fabric.
71cm wide x 61cm deep x 79.5cm high (seat height 42cm)
A rare low armchair in the Dutch Art Deco / Modernist style. Designed by architect H.Fels for L.O.V Oosterbeek (shortening of ‘Labor Omnia Vincit’), an idealistic furniture company active between 1910 and 1935. The aim of the L.O.V company was to produce honest and modern furniture that was made in an artisanal way.
Designers that worked for the L.O.V. consisted of well known names like Frits Spanjaard, Cor Alons and Jan Muntendam as well as Hendrik (Henk) Fels.
Good restored condition (one repair to a corner split in the back rest)
Price: 1.800 euro
Pepijn Fabius Clovis / studio (Nl.1996-Now)
Pepijn Fabius is a Dutch contemporary designer who makes furniture and objects which are on the edge of art and design.
Known for his use of ‘waste material’. These chairs are a good example of his design approach. The use of humble materials like left over wood was part of a project instigated by the designer at the start of the Covid years (2020/21). Imperfections are embraced, thus making each design unique – Some of the pieces are labelled by the designer.
Price (from left to right): 1.000 / 900 euro
Bruno Gatta (Italy c20th)
An elegant pendant light by Bruno Gatta for Stilnovo. Circa 1950s.
36cm wide x 82cm high (including ceiling fitting)
It has three original lamp fittings and a frosted glass diffuser inside a black lacquered metal ring.
Price: 1.000 euro
Dutch slatted low bench. Circa 1960s.
200 x 63.5 x 28cm high
A very well made (Solid teak and therefore quite heavy) bench that would work very well as a long bench at the end of a bed or beside a sofa to put books on.
Benches are rarely this large and low – The combination of its scale and weight make this bench a very useable piece of furniture in any modern home.
Price: 1.400 euro
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