furniture, art & design
Haagse School / Art Deco settle / bench 1930s
Oak frame with drop-in seat and upholstered back. 103 x 59.3 x 102.6cm high.
A neat little bench in the Dutch art deco / Haagse School style. The upholstery is showing its age – It would benefit greatly from a complete re-upholstery (which we have taken into account when pricing it).
Price: 1.700 euro
Frank Gehry (Canada 1929-2025)
Frank Gehry “Easy Edges” wiggle chair by Vitra. Labeled underneath and in a very nice original condition. This example is a 1999 production.
The chair was designed in 1972 as part of Gehry’s famous Easy Edges series. It was reissued by Vitra from 1992 as the Wiggle side chair. Created by the renowned architect Frank Gehry this extraordinary chair challenges the conventional notions of form, material and structural dynamic. Crafted from layers of corrugated cardboard, the Wiggle Chair exhibits a delicate balance between strength and flexibility. Gehry’s signature aesthetic make it a standout piece in any space. The chair has a slight twist/lean from use but it has a good warm tone (…that recent production chairs do not have)
Price: 1.700 euro
Vladimir Tatlin (Russia 1885-1953)
Tatlin Chair
Chromed steel tubular frame with black leather upholstered seat. 55cm x 70cm x 80cm high.
Vladimir Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter, architect, and stage-designer. Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Tatlin’s Tower, which he began in 1919. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Soviet avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became an important artist in the Constructivist movement
Designed by Russian constructivist Vladimir Tatlin (1885-1953) in 1927. The prototype for this chair was made initially in bent cane. From the 1950s it was manufactured by Nikol International, Italy with a tubular metal frame and leather seat.
Price: 1.450 euro
Piet Klaarhamer (Nl 1874-1954)
Pair of oak chairs with green leatherette upholstery. Circa 1917.
The early designs of modernist architect Piet Klaarhamer use simple, rudimentary constructions, and demonstrate an honest use of the materials used.
We have two of these chairs for sale – These important chairs were the first pieces of furniture that Klaarhamer designed that were produced in larger quantities around 1917, (although probably still manufactured in very limited numbers) by company called NV Nederlandse Meubel en Houtwarenfabriek in Zaandam.
Klaarhamer’s designs had a clear influence on his students, including the well-known architects Piet Elling and Gerrit Rietveld.
The design of this particular model (without arms) inspired Rietveld in the design of his well known ‘Military Chair’ in 1923. It is a design that is well documented in the monograph on Klaarhamer written by author/historians Marijke Kuper & Monique Teunissen*. This book details a letter (with a sketch of the chair) by Gerrit Rietveld to the architect J.J.P Oud.
Price: 2,400 euro (one sold / only one available)
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*Literature: Piet Klaarhamer Architect en Meubelontwerper. Marijke Kuper & Monique Teunissen, nai010. 2014
Gae Aulenti (Italy 1927-2012)
Set of 4 ‘Locus Solus’ chairs for Poltronova, Italy 1960s
55.5 x 54 x 66.5cm high
enamelled black tubular metal frames with perforated seats. This set comes with their original loose waxed cotton cushions with dotted black on grey pattern. The design of these chairs was intended to be a playful take on the classic bentwood design.
Price: 4.400 euro (the set)
Leonard Wyburd (Uk 1865-1958)
Liberty & Co ‘Thebes stool‘. Designed by Leonard Wyburd. Mahogany 44 x 40 x 34cm high.
(Evidence of a previous Liberty & Co label to underside).
Manufactured circa 1880s whilst Wyburd was head of the furniture and decoration studio at Liberty’s of London.
As the stool’s name implies, the design of this tripod stool was modelled on ancient Egyptian typologies. The design was the basis of similar stools presented later by both Josef Frank and Adolf Loos (as seen at the Möbelmuseum Wien).
Price: 2.200 euro
Jochen Kirschstein (Germany c20th-now)
Model 29 Chair. 1980s/90s
painted wood & plywood construction.
98.5 x 51 x 87.5cm high
This chair is as close to a sculpture as it is a radical design piece – It is a unique piece, seamlessly blending modern minimalism with artisanal woodwork to create a bold, architectural form. An eye-catcher for any experimental interior.
Price: 2.300 euro
Gerrit Rietveld (Nl 1888 – 1964)
Cassina ‘crate’ table. Early edition – late 70s/early 80s.
beech wood. 174.5 x 97.5 x 71cm high.
The original Crate Series were designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934 and sold mainly through the warehouse Metz &Co. The furniture was described in the store’s advertising as “weekend furniture,” suitable for “weekend houses, sunrooms, student and children’s rooms“.
This table or desk is a late 1970s or early 1980s Cassina edition. It has a very low manufacturers number (31) stamped on the underside next to the Cassina mark.
Price: 3.700 euro
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