Unusual Dutch oak side table. Circa 1950s.
A small simple and stylish oak side table or coffee table.
Original finish with some signs of age and use / marks to top.
Price: 950 euro
Tag: furniture
Hendrik (Henk) Wouda (Nl 1885-1946)
Pander & zonen 1920s. Solid coromandel wood with velvet upholstery.
50cm wide x 38cm deep x 49cm high (seat height). Makers label to the underside.
A rare and important Dutch art deco stool by architect and furniture designer Henk Wouda. This stool would have been made as part of a special commissioned interior design.
After 1916 when Wouda returned from the war he established himself as an architect in Den Haag (The Hague) and a year later joined the renowned furniture firm H.Pander & Zn. It was there that he was given the freedom to develop his own monumental style inspired by the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Sleek, austere designs such as this stool are characteristic of this Hague Style also known as Hague Rationalism or the New Hague School.
The stool is a rare find especially as it is completely constructed in solid coromandel wood. The grey/green velvet fabric and upholstery is a later addition to the stool that is fully in keeping with the authenticity of the stool (horsehair filling).
Price: 5.200 euro
Alvar Aalto (Fin.1898-1976)
Model 88 Nesting Tables for Artek, 1950s/60s
Rare versions with teak tops.
Two tables of a model 88 nesting table set by Alvar Aalto for Artek.
(the middle size table is unfortunately missing).
Price: 980 euro
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
Welsh Lambing Chair. Circa 1820s
A high back antique Georgian pine chair known as a ‘lambing chair’. Historically these chairs were used by shepherds during lambing season to rest by the fire side. The design of the lambing chair protected the shepherds from the cold draughts during the spring months.
A surprisingly comfortable chair!
Price: 1.850 euro
Shigeru Uchida (Japan 1943-now)
Two A-Line storage cabinets/shelves, Pastoe/Netherlands 1990s. Aluminium.
90 x 18 x 17.5 cm high
Finely engineered A-Line ‘Horizontals’ that are made from anodised aluminium. They each have softly sliding doors that slide to both the left or to the right.
Each unit is fully marked with the Pastoe company name.
They hang easily to the wall by sitting onto a wall connection that fixes to the wall with just a few screws. Good condition – one cabinet has some slight small brown marks to the inside.
Price: 2.400 euro (set of 2, or 1.300 euro per piece)
Alexander Kropholler (Nl.1881-1973)
Rare side chairs in teak wood. Circa 1930s.
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Alexander Kropholler was a trained carpenter and a self-taught architect whose work was influenced by that other great name in Dutch architecture H.P. Berlage. Traditionalist and historical architecture was of particular importance to his work, and he incorporated overt references to established vernaculars from Medieval to 17th century historical buildings as well as the designs of earlier Egyptian and Gothic revival styles.
In 1908 Kropholler converted to Roman Catholicism. He was looking for what he thought to be a particular Dutch style; sober, earnest and functional. This is evident in the meticulous design of these chairs.
The modern and enduring appeal of the chairs lies in the ‘Truth to material’ principles and skilful structuralism; their intricate construction is revealed and featured in the design.
Literature: De Zwaarte van de Materie; Het architectonisch werk van A.J.Kropholler (1881-1973), 2020 naiOIO
Price: 3.800 euro (x2) 7.000 euro (x4)
(Attrib.) Cor Alons (Nl 1892-1967) or Jan Le Cointre.
Oak wood. Restored/ with later upholstered drop in seats. Circa 1920s. No makers markings.
A pair of high quality Dutch Art Deco, Haagse School /stijl armchairs. These chairs could work well as two side chairs but would work equally well as desk chairs.
The design is attributed to the Dutch interior architect and designer Cor Alons. Alons was one of the architects of the Dutch Art Deco movement we now refer to as the ‘Haagse School, or style’. These designers were distinguished from other country’s styles by the application of a sober and cubist language with the intention of achieving a fine balance of form and weight; In this they were especially influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
These striking chairs are constructed from solid oak and with the typical straight high back coloured in a contrasting black.
Price: 3.750 euro (x2) or 1.900 (per piece)
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