furniture, art & design
Mid-Century slatted lounge chair.
Dutch 1950s. beech wood connected with metal fittings.
A beautiful sculptural lounge chair in totally original condition with patina.
The chair was reputedly originally purchased from Bas van Pelt/My Home.
Price: 3.250 euro
Hague school lady chair. Circa 1920s.
Oak. 60.5 x 64.5 x 65cm high.
A delightful diminutive armchair that we believe was designed as a lady chair. It is unusual not only by its small size but also by its striking modernist lines. This Dutch chair is designed and constructed in typical Dutch Art Deco style known as the Haagse School or Hague School style – a simple geometric constructivist style of the period. According to the previous owner this chair is a design by Hendrik Wouda but we were unable to confirm that. The chair is made out of darkened oak and seems to have its original purple plush velvet upholstery including the loose seat cushion. This chair is a true collectors piece.
Price: 2.400 euro
(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)
Hague School armchair. Circa 1920s (attrib. to Frits Spanjaard)
Although we have not been able to locate evidence so far to give a definite attribution, the design of this fascinating armchair is loosely attributed to the Dutch early c20th modernist interior and furniture designer Frits Spanjaard (1889-1978)
It is constructed of solid oak wood with a drop-in sprung seat with beige corduroy fabric.
64.5cm wide x 54.5cm deep x 68cm high (seat height 44cm)
Price: 3.800 euro
Hendrik (Henk) Wouda (Nl 1885-1946)
Pair of bedside cupboards / pot cupboards.
Oak wood with dark coromandel handles, ceramic interiors and slate tops.
Pander & Zn., 1920s (company labels inside doors). 45 x 32 x 55cm high.
A rare pair of bedside cabinets (or nightstands) by the Dutch architect and furniture designer Henk Wouda (1885-1946).
The cabinets are designed in typical Haagse School style; a fine balance of applied form and weight – In this the Dutch designers were especially influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
The cabinets currently contain their original period fittings, namely ceramic pot holders. However, should the buyer wish it would be easy for us to have them removed prior to sending in order to make them suitable for more contemporary storage purposes.
Price: 2,350 euro
Sofa table/ coffee table. 120 x 80 x 55.3cm high. Lacquered and stained oak and plywood.
A very modestly designed constructivist table whose size measures somewhere between a dining table and a coffee table. It is particularly useful as a table at the back of a sofa as shown. The design of the table is reminiscent of the earlier modernist designs by Gerrit Rietveld/ Vilmos Huszár and the De Stijl movement. (We have images available of its ingenious construction).
This unassuming, simple table was designed by Dutch furniture maker / architect Harry Vogelaars. It is signed and dated 1998.
Note: Cassina ‘Fiandra’ leather four part sofa by Vico Magistretti also available.
Price: 900 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: 1.400 euro
Piet Klaarhamer (Nl 1874-1954)
Oak side chair 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.
This important chair was the first piece of furniture that Klaarhamer designed in 1917 with manufacture in mind – However it was ultimately 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. Condition report available.
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*Literature: Piet Klaarhamer Architect en Meubelontwerper. Marijke Kuper & Monique Teunissen, nai010. 2014
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