furniture, art & design
Sergio Asti (It. 1926 – 2021)
40 x 40 x 42cm high. Candle, Italy. 1968
Daruma lamp by Sergio Asti. This lamp is the largest size (42 cm high) that was produced by the Italian company Candle in 1968. (Later productions were made by Fontana Arte). The lamp is made out of two parts hand blown glass that makes it easy to access the lamp fitting inside. It gives out a very attractive warm glow. It has its original fittings and is fully marked with Candle sticker.
Price: 1.650 euro
Large Amsterdam School desk lamp. Circa 1920s.
41 x 19 x 52.5cm high
Hand-forged wrought iron desk lamp with original parchment lamp shade. The shade has a bit of heat damage to the top.
The scrolling organic, naturalist forms of this lamp is typical of the Dutch art deco movement known as the “Amsterdamse School’. In the early c20th the Dutch forged a clear identity in the decorative arts that combined the influences of both the Dutch colonies, the ethos of the European Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau (Nieuwe Kunst) movements.
Price: 1.450 euro
Verzuu, Jacobus Johannes Josephus (Ko) 1901-1971 NL.
ADO speelgoed / toys. Circa 1934-35
Two miniature club chairs and a side table (each piece with company labels and burnished markings)
Between 1925 and 1955 Dutch designer Ko Verzuu designed many toys under the influence of the Dutch Modernist De Stijl painters. His designs were inextricably bound up with innovations in art, health care and pedagogy in the first half of the 20th century. In 1920, the sanatorium Berg en Bosch was founded in the sanctuary on the outskirts of Apeldoorn – this sanatorium offered rest and care to tuberculosis patients. Once patients had recovered from their illness, returning to regular working life often proved to be difficult. In order to prepare patients better for their reintegration, the sanatorium developed a modern treatment: occupational therapy. One of the ways this took shape was in the production of wooden toys. These toys were given the name ADO; an abbreviation that initially stood for Arbeid door Onvolwaardigen (Labour by the Deficient), but was wisely changed in 1962 to Apart Doelmatig Onverwoestbaar (roughly translated as Special Functional Indestructible?)
Price: 1.250,00
Hague School (early c20th)
Writing desk. Circa 1920s. oak and coromandel wood.
159.5cm wide x 84.5cm deep x 74.5cm high
A well proportioned sturdy desk in the Dutch art deco/modernist style. There are various compartments and pull out shelves inside. The top was once also brown but has been darkened to a very befitting dark brown/black. (Note: the locks are not working on the two doors)
Price: 3.200 euro
Marcel Breuer (Hn/USA 1902-81)
B40 Dining Chairs in Nickel-Plated Tubular Steel and Eisengarn fabric by Marcel Breuer for Tecta, 1980s. Set of 4
A rare set of four modernist chairs. Originally designed in the 1920s, this set were produced by Tecta who used sturdy eisengarn fabric common to Bauhaus chairs in the c20th (eisengarn labels to underside of seats). The tubular steel frames are very close the originals in nickel plated fine steel that makes them incredibly light and yet robust in their construction.
Price: 2.750 euro
Wim den Boon (Nl. 1912-1968)
1967. Storage boxes. Beech wood. Each 55 x 65 x 28cm high.
A set of four solid beech wood storage boxes that were designed by the Dutch mid-century architect Wim den Boon. They were designed and made specifically for a client in Laren in the Netherlands. We have a drawing by the architect (that will be supplied with the boxes) that shows the boxes were originally designed to go underneath an in-built sofa to add extra storage space to the room.
They each have wheels that enable them to be rolled around easily. They can also be stacked as shown (although they were not originally designed to be stacked and they are quite heavy).
Price: 1.250 euro
Jan de Jong (Nl 1917-2001) / Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991)
Rare Bossche School bench for Vincentius Church, Netherlands. 1964.
162.5 x 45 x 52.5cm high.
Early design bench (1964, Netherlands) by Jan de Jong, the Dutch Bossche School architect and protegé of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans v.d. Laan. The bench was made for and used in the Vincentius a Paulo church in Eindhoven; an important early example of Bossche School architecture by De Jong.
The installation of the furniture for the church was made under the supervision of Dom Hans v.d. Laan. Essentially it was through these early Jan de Jong projects that Dom Hans v.d. Laan was able to witness the realisation of his complex design ideas and beliefs for what was possibly one of the first times.
Price: 5.750 euro
Delft School bench
200 x 44.5 x 65.5cm high (seat height 43cm). Solid oak wood.
A stylish and robust Delft School bench/seat. School of M.J. Granpré Molière or A.J. Kropholler .
Traditionalism in the Netherlands emerged shortly after the First World War. It was not so much a style as more of an attitude among architects who, in response to Functionalism and the Expressionism of the Amsterdam School, rediscovered the purity and simplicity of traditional country architecture. Under the leadership of M.J. Granpré Molière, professor at the Technical University in Delft from 1924 until 1953, many of these architects gathered in a movement which after World War Two became known as the Delftse School (‘Delft School’). Granpré Molière’s ideas include a preference for tidy brickwork, a minimal use of decorations, the inspiration taken from national architectural traditions and the use of ‘honest’ (i.e. traditional and natural) materials.
https://www.archimon.nl/history/traditionalism.html
It is easy to comprehend how subsequent Dutch design evolved into an even more simplified and pared-down version of such furniture as this. There are clear visual similarities to Rietveld or De Stijl.
Price: 2.650 euro
