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x3 Bossche School stools

Dom Hans van der Laan (Nl 1904-1991)

Painted pine and plywood bench and three stools.

Gorisse. 1980s.

These stools are part of a series of furniture made by the Dutch furniture maker Gorisse from the late 1970s to the early 1980s under the supervision of the Benedictine monk/architect Dom Hans vd Laan.
The pieces differ from the normal plank constructions in that they combine flat, plywood panelled exteriors with solid wooden shaped feet – The result is a much simpler, pared-down Bossche School aesthetic.
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Ref: Exhibition catalogue__Dom Hans van der Laan. Modellen en meubels. Abdij St. Benedictusberg. 1982

Price: 2,800 euro (each)

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Wall cabinet

Dutch glass & steel wall cabinet. Circa 1950s.

198 x 36 x 34.5cm

School/style of Gerrit Rietveld.

Textured glass and painted steel frame (with a separate narrow inner shelf)

Price: 2,300 euro

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Metz & Co B493 armchairs.

Elmar Berkovich (Nl. 1897-1968)

1945 / B493 light oak with later leatherette cushions.

A rare pair of Elmar Berkovich armchairs for Metz & Co., Amsterdam.

The design of these chairs can be found both in the Nieuwe Instituut archive in Rotterdam and in the book Elmar Berkovich 1897-1968, Bonas 2011. Pp.45 & 92. The design of the chair was from 1945. These particular chairs were made in 1950 for the interior of Edy de Wilde in Eindhoven who at that time was the director of the Abbe Museum (he later became the director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam).

The chair was exhibited in 1952 at the Copenhagen Exhibition next to Gerrit Rietveld’s Danish Chair of the same period. As the 2011 Bonas monograph book on Berkovich points out; the influence of Rietveld’s No.4 chair is visible in this later design by Berkovich.

Price: 3,200 euro (pair)

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constructivist low table

Dutch/Belgian constructivist salon/ coffee table. Circa 1930s.

110cm diameter x 31cm high. (glass 2.5cm thick)

An incredibly sculptural asymmetrical table with a solid stained oak base and its original thick circular glass top.

Price: 2,500 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: 1,900 euro

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Hein Stolle 2001

Hein Stolle (Nl. 1924-2006)

Hein Stolle. S88.1 Chair. 2001
Limited edition / numbered 23.
American pine, stamped “S88.1” and signed.

Price: 1,485.00

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cantilever chair

Circa 1930s. A Dutch cantilever armchair. Original paint and in superb condition.

maker/designer unknown.

Price: 1,250 euro

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Slothouber & Graatsma cubes

Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma (NL. Mid-c20th)
Five modular cubes from the 1970s. Laminated plywood.
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The Dutch duo Slothouber & Graatsma established themselves from the 1950s as artist/designers with the cube form as their key motif around which they developed various principles of cubic construction alongside multiples and variations thereof. Despite its restrictions they admired the cube for its clarity of form. They applied their thinking around it to a variety of objects, and artworks from small jewellery-scale 3d models and games to larger installation works.
Highly driven personalities, they considered themselves as discoverers of ‘the many applications of the democratic system of cubics’; a system that would ostensively act to counter the rise of the expressive individualism in post-WWII culture. (They later established the CCC_the Center for Cubic Constructions as a forum for promoting their ideas).
Due to their diverse and multidisciplinary output they were never to become global names – But they were a highly respected creative team (representing The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1970) and in 1965 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam honoured them with the exhibition ‘Vier kanten: maat, vorm, kleur, letter’ (Four sides: size, form, colour, letter). Donald Judd for one was a great admirer of their work.

Price: 3,900.00 euro

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