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20th century design

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Wim den Boon (Nl.1912-1968)

Bespoke lounge chair. 1960s.

Original lacquered steel frame (swivel back rest) with slung leather seat and back.

65 x 65 x 68cm high (seat height 32.5 cm)

An important lounge chair by Wim den Boon. This is an historical piece of furniture and an important part of the legacy of Wim den Boon as an important Dutch architect and interior designer.

Wim Den Boon was a Dutch designer, interior designer and architect. Den Boon was a strict thinking man who believed strongly in the transforming capacities of architecture and design who left behind a small body of work. Most of his furniture was made for specific projects. This particular chair is a fine example of Den Boon’s work and dates from the early 1960s . The second photo shows this chair in its original setting (photo: NAI Rotterdam).
It has new leather upholstery. The new leather is a copy after the original upholstery as can be seen in the last photo.

We have a collection of furniture in stock by Wim den Boon of which most pieces are bespoke pieces that were commissioned for private homes in the Netherlands (and come with provenance – see other listings)

Price: 3.400 euro

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Ronald Willemsen (Nl.c20th-c.21st)

Sculptural little constructivist side table model RW1 side table. Metaform, Holland 1982. Despite its elegant light look it is actually quite a heavy set table (which like a cricket table is always balanced on any surface due to having three feet instead of four). These tables are a rare find and always sought after.

lacquered steel. 53 x 53 x 38cm

Price: 1.900 euro

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Sideboards / credenzas

1/ Henry Rosengren Hansen for Brande Møbelindustri, Denmark, 1960s

2/ Giovanni Ausenda Calendo sideboard for Stilwood, 1960s

Two rare sideboards in superb condition.

Price: 3.500 euro and 3.800 euro

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Willem Hendrik Gispen (Nl. 1890-1981)

Diagonaalstoel model 3b from Willem Gispen with aluminium frame.


A batch of 300 aluminium framed diagonal chairs were produced for the city hall in Hilversum at the end of the 1920s. The architect Willem Dudok wanted the furniture for this building to be ultra modern and aluminium was certainly regarded as essentially modern at the time.
The chairs were subsequently replaced by chromed steel ones that did not oxidise like the aluminium ones (thus appearing jaded and aged)
although we are not sure this one is from the Hilversum batch its a very rare find – very much a collector’s piece.

Price: On hold

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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

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Idir Mecibah (Belgium 1958-2013)

Steel. 89.5 x 89.5 x 36cm high

Brutalist table by Idar Mecibah (1958-2013). Manufactured by Smederij Moerman 1997. This table is from the ‘scrab series’ designed in the 1980s and produced up until the end of the 1990s.
Steel plate with forged steel legs (and with its signature gold leaf sheet in the middle).
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Stamped & dated to the top (as seen)

Price: 5.200 euro

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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

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Large Art Deco coffee table. Circa 1930s

131 x 86 x 52cm high. Solid oak and glass.

Unique early c20th coffee table with its original feature glass top that seems to conjoin both Art Deco and Brutalist styles. The piece combines the robust qualities of the Brutalist style evident in its chunky wooden base with the elegance of the Art Deco style manifested in the pictorial glass top. These apparent combined qualities in this one piece that gives the table its unique style and character.
The deeply moulded relief images in the thick glass depicts two seagulls in flight. The underside of the glass is textured whereas the top is almost smooth.

The curved fan shape of this table (it is narrower at the front than the back) would make it highly suitable for particular spaces such as between sofas or in front of a curved sofa.

Price: 3.950 euro

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