Ate van Apeldoorn large console table

Ate van Apeldoorn (Nl mid-c20th)

Houtwerk Hattem. 1960s

A large pine minimal console table with distinctive box joint edges. This is possibly the most minimal of Ate van Apeldoorn’s designs.

Price: 1,500 euro

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1960s Dutch salon table

Designer/Maker unknown. Circa 1960s.

A beautifully proportioned and simply constructed limed oak wood low/salon table. It has a series of small plywood inserts visible on the shorter sides and visible box joints where the legs attach to the table top. The surface has been lime waxed.

Although it cannot be verified we believe that the table may be a design by Hein Stolle for ‘t Spectrum furniture.

Price: 1,800 euro

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Amsterdam School book shelf

Amsterdam School (Netherlands early c20th)

Circa 1920s.

An unusual expressionist form shelving unit. Manufactured circa 1920s from solid oak. The crystalline form makes clear references to the speculative organic forms utilised by Dutch designers during the period prior to the stricter forms of modernism that emerged shortly afterwards with De Stijl.

Price: 1,600 euro

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Sinus table lamp

Ettore Sottsass (Italy 1917-2007)

ABS resin. Manufactured by Stilnovo. Italy.

Rare Sinus table lamp. Designed in 1972 this is an early production.

Price: 975 euro

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Dom Hans vd Laan large desk/table

Jan de Jong (Nl 1917-2001)  / Dom Hans van der Laan (Nl 1904-1991)

During the reconstruction period after WWII the Dutch architect Jan de Jong and the Dutch Benedictine monk Dom Hans van der Laan collaborated on several architectural projects including the interior furniture. They created an outstanding body of work defining the the style of the Bossche School. Jan de Jong was able to translate many of Dom v.d.Laan’s idealised concepts and ideas into pioneering buildings and spaces. They worked in such close collaboration however that it is difficult to discern the individual level of input into the furniture they designed.

This table came from the Paulus church in Dongen built in 1967. When the church closed some of the furniture including this table were used in a Catholic youth club in Breda which was subsequently closed in 2016 (from where we purchased the table)
It is structurally sound but as it was used in the youth hostel for years it does show clear signs of age and general wear & tear (mostly to the sides).

Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991) was a Dutch Benedictine monk and architect. He was a leading figure in the Dutch ‘Bossche School’.

Jan de Jong (1917-2001) was a talented craftsman-architect and student of v.d. Laan.

Price: 12,500.00 euro

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French pine low table

1950s French low table [in the manner of Charlotte Perriand].

Solid pine wood with steel base. The pine top with supporting inserts visible at the sides.

Price: 1,500 euro

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