furniture, art & design
1920s Dutch Art Deco/machine age desk chair.
Fully adjustable – it can swivel or be height adjusted to suit.
Mahogany and coromandel woods with original leather upholstery (and a cast iron mechanism)
High quality desk chairs like this are hard to find – Attractive patina, it would look great with a period desk in an office or library space.
Price: 1.900 euro
1970s large abstract Brutalist sculpture. Painted carved wood and steel.
Unsigned.
58 x 26 x 72cm high.
Price: 2.300 euro
Circa 1960s standing sculpture in the manner of Harry and Val Bertoia. The sculpture weighs ±50kg. and is made from solid iron and steel. The two standing sections can be easily moved so that they swing slightly from side to side.
38 x 19 x 118cm high
Price: 2.400 euro
Midcentury abstract sculpture
Unsigned 1960s sculpture.
Lead and marble. 57cm high / base 12 x 12cm.
A large and heavy abstract lead sculpture executed by an unknown artist in the 1960s. Its overall impression is of a modern dynamic figure in molten lead; a figure morphing into various biomorphic or abstract forms.
Price: 1.400 euro
1970s Brutalist abstract sculpture. Unsigned.
A large basalt stone sculpture composed of simple modernist/architectural forms. At some time this sculpture has stood in a garden which has resulted in a thin layer of moss on some parts.
It measures 36 x 12 x 45cm high.
Price: 1.650 euro
Wim den Boon (Nl. 1912-68)
A small wall mounted oregon pine desk (ladies desk) with accompanying drawer unit.
128 x 39.5 x 72cm high
Designed and made to commission for a private residence in Laren, NL in the 1960s (Like much of den Boon’s work this item documented at the Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam). It was initially designed to work as a vanity unit, although nowadays can be used as a neat little desk.
Purchased from its initial owner who commissioned it amongst other furniture specifically for their home.
Between the 1950s & 60s, Dutch designer and architect Wim den Boon was at the height of his powers. His success alongside other designers as ‘Group &’ (including Hein Stolle, etc.) and later with Goed Wonen lay in the fact that his purist design of the interiors and furniture fitted in seamlessly with the functionalist design of the late thirties. (Goed Wonen was a foundation and leading magazine formed after the war with the aim of “raising the standard of living in the Netherlands by improving home furnishings in the broadest sense of the word…”)
Den Boon wrote several articles for Goed Wonen – His articles are almost without exception educational, presenting readers sometimes quite forcibly with the liberating nature of the new design. His polemical character, stubbornness, and especially the strongly didactic tone of his articles was too much for many employees and readers of Goed Wonen and in 1950 the editors forced him to resign. It was also around 1950 that he broke his relationship with ‘Groep &’ and established himself as an independent interior designer in The Hague. From then on, his interior designs are increasingly characterised by a very careful treatment of the space that can be very strict, deliberate, and sober but also highly refined. Throughout this golden period of the 50s-60s, an extensive oeuvre was created, varying from small renovations and furniture designs to complete new construction projects for private individuals such as those who commissioned this piece.
This is a unique piece of Dutch mid-century modern design history (please note that we are also selling other items that came out of the same house)
Minor superficial wear and tear. A scratch to the top of the drawer unit and some minor discolouring.
Price: 1.500 euro
Unknown artist (1990s)
41 x 31 x 62cm high
An unusual large sculpture made out of waxed fiber and composite material. This stylish work is made by a unknown artist in 1993.
Signed JE and dated 93 on the top sphere. Its natural colouring and materials combined with surreal forms make this a real statement piece….for anyone interested in combining it into an experimental interior.
Price: 900 euro
Large Dogon scale. Circa 1930s-40s.
210cm high (mounted on steel plate base)
A superb example of an African Dogon tribal ladder/scale. This example is believed to have been made in Mali from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Traditionally the African Dogon ladder was used by the Dogon people to access the upper levels of granaries, climb onto the flat roofs of houses, and bridge clefts in cliffs.
Its repeated forms give it the aesthetic quality of a modernist sculpture.
Price: 2.600 euro
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