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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

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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

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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 (currently on hold until wed. 7th Oct)

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Cornelius L. (Cor) Alons (Nl.1892 – 1967)

Oak side table. 75 x 49 x 65cm high. 1920s.

Cor Alons was a Dutch interior, industrial and book cover designer in the early c20th. Like several of the Dutch designers of the era he was inspired by the work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1923 he established a design agency with designer Frits Spanjaard (1889-1978). Dedicated to the construction and renovation of private houses, the pair belonged to the first generation of interior designers, designing not only furniture, but also the space in which the furniture inhabited. As an advocate for functionalism, Alons often sought out simple furniture with sober forms in his interior design.  He preferred clear, simple, and often enduring shapes from dark, mostly valuable, building materials and colours.

Over the course of his career, Alons focused on avant-garde developments in both the Netherlands and abroad, and was a proponent of the De Stijl movement, some elements from which can be seen in his coffee tables, dining chairs, and lounge chairs.

In 1929, Alons was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Furniture Design at the seminal Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague. Under the Bauhaus’ influence, new departments emerged at the Academy, including graphic design, advertising, photography, industrial design, and furniture design.

Although we do not know the maker of this table, it is typical of aesthetic he and Frits Spanjaard brought to Dutch design of the era. It has been fully restored and is in superb condition.

Price: 3.000 euro

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(attrib.) Hendrik (Henk) Wouda (Nl 1885-1946)





Set of four Hague School oak chairs. Unmarked – possibly a Wouda design as manufactured later by Metz & Co.





Later upholstery. 





Price: 6.000 euro (set of four) 





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model 3 desk lamp





Sybold van Ravesteyn (Nl 1889-1983)





Model 3 desk lamp. Metal & lacquered wood.





_Originally designed in the 1926, a few limited productions of the design were manufactured in the 1970s. This particular lamp is a very rare 1970s production that was the most faithful to the original series of only 8 lamps that were made. This version has wooden black and white sections (like the original). It has a screwed in metal plate around the two switches (like the original) and a cleaner top edge (without a plastic protector shield that some versions have)





(please note that this is not a DS 23 Huszár lamp)
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12 x 10.5 x 26.5cm /without bulb





Lit: Sybold van Ravesteyn architect; Kees Rouw, Nai010 uitgevers/publishers, 2014 pp.59





Price: 2.800 euro





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Kwok Hoi Chan (HK 1939-1990)





Rare sz15 lounge chair for ‘t Spectrum 1973.






This sculptural chair was manufactured for a short period during which time it is believed that around only 100 of the chairs were manufactured. This one was purchased from the first owner and is in superb original condition with only minimal signs of age and use.
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Tubular steel and thick leather 72x90x68cm





Price: 3.600 euro





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Stam armchairs





Mart Stam (Nl 1899-1986)





Model A3-1 armchairs. Circa 1950s. Goed wonen.





Rare pair of armchairs designed by Dutch modernist architect and furniture designer. 





Rexine/ vinyl upholstery with oak frames. 





Price: 1.800 euro (pair)





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