furniture, art & design
Gilbert Marklund (Sweden mid-c.20th)
Furusnickarn AB, Sweden, 1970s
Table: 130 x 78 x 74cm high Benches: 124 x 42 x 43cm high
Two long benches and table by renowned Swedish design Gilbert Marklund. The table is the rarer larger version of the design that can seat up to four people.
The desirable aspect of this set is that it is in unrestored condition with all its original patina. (The table has a few ring and burn marks to the top).
Price: Table: 1.320 euro
Benches: 1.425 euro (pair)
De Rotterdamse Meubelfabriek CH Eckhart (circa 1920s)
Dutch Hague School / Amsterdam School Art Deco bookcase.
190 x 33 x 134cm high.
Mahogany and coromandel woods. A large beautifully made bookcase with two adjustable shelves on each side. Minor signs of age and use. This bookcase came out of a private house with several pieces made by the same company.
Price: 2.200 euro
Afra & Tobia Scarpa (Italy 1935- Now)
‘Soriana’ Lounge Chair & Ottoman. Cassina 1970s / early edition.
Early edition chair and ottoman. The chair does have a few issues with the upholstery (fading/ one small hole and minor staining) and would benefit from being reupholstered. The ottoman is in better condition with absolute minimal signs of age and use.
Price: Chair 2.900 euro / Ottoman 1.850 euro
Circa 1930s-40s table / desk
99.5 x 62 x 74.5cm high / solid oak construction.
Dutch oak constructivist table. A simple designed small side table (or desk) that combines classical and geometric block components to form a bold design table with quite an architectural feel to it.
There are some old marks and patina from years of use, but overall it is in good solid condition.
Price: 895 euro
H. Pander & Zonen. (Netherlands 1855-1921)
Small circular modernist stool – completely original.
Dia.36 x 46cm high
Rare stool with original upholstery. It has its original makers label and is stamped ‘H.Pander & Zn’ to the underside alongside a model number.
Price: 760 euro
Wim den Boon (Nl 1912-68)
Solid teak corner chair. Circa 1960s. Original vinyl cushions (some signs of age/wear)
78 x 78 x 68cm high.
Wim den Boon founded ‘Groep & together with Hein Stolle and Pierre Kleykam’, in 1945. The group’s ambition was to continue the purist and functionalist prewar ideals and aesthetic into the postwar period or ‘reconstruction period’ in the Netherlands. Many of the group’s designs can be seen in the magazine ‘Goed Wonen’ (Good Living) of which Den Boon was the editorial secretary from 1948-1950 and for which he wrote several articles. Like most of Wim den Boon’s designs this rare corner easy chair would have been designed as part of a complete interior commission. Without the back cushions it measures 60cm high.
Price: 2,700 euro
Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma (NL. Mid-c20th)
Five original 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: 3,900 euro
Root wood /free-form low chair. Circa 1970s.
86.5 x 73 x 41cm high
A unique solid wood low seat (unknown type of wood). Possibly carved from the root or the trunk of a tree.
It has a very attractive, untouched time worn patina. The seat would look good in any modern interior as it is, or with a cushion inside.
Price: 1.880 euro
