furniture, art & design
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
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
Large carved sculpture. Circa 1970s.
Stone 45 x 15 x 69cm.
An impressive and beautifully designed Dutch sculpture of a male head. Its elongated vertical form shares stylistic qualities with the earlier art of the Amsterdam School or Bossche school works.
Good condition. No damages – some natural variations in colouring to the stone.
Price: 2.600 euro
Pepijn Fabius Clovis / studio (Nl.1996-Now)
Pepijn Fabius is a Dutch contemporary designer who makes furniture and objects which are on the edge of art and design.
Known for his use of ‘waste material’. These chairs are a good example of his design approach. The use of humble materials like left over wood was part of a project instigated by the designer at the start of the Covid years (2020/21). Imperfections are embraced, thus making each design unique – Some of the pieces are labelled by the designer.
Price (from left to right): 1.000 / 900 euro
Jetty Homan (Nl. 1912-1996)
Bronze. 52.5cm high
The Dutch artist Jetty Homan established herself in her younger years as a ballet dancer. After 1950 she began a career as a largely self-taught sculptor. At first she began working in ceramics and later she focussed primarily on making abstract bronze sculptures.
This sculpture is typical of her interest in an organic movement articulated in form and material. (Unsigned as was normal for her work). It has its original wooden base.
Price: 850 euro
Henk Lampe (Nl 1951-Now)
1979. Henk Lampe / lacquered plywood.
Four chairs (with accompanying table) from the ‘plakhoutserie’ (glued wood series).
Prime examples of an important series of designs by the Dutch artist Henk Lampe from 1979 – Only a hand full of these museum pieces exist. They capture and predict the spirit of the Post-modern/post-structural age of the time and that which proceeded it.
This series of furniture combines the formality of modernism with a more playful formal language and striking playful use of colour. The series was never taken into mass production, so all pieces are build by the designer himself, making them museum quality pieces.
The Dutch title ‘plakhoutserie’ means a series of furniture built from glued slabs of geometric shaped plywood. The series extended to a variety of functional furniture from small stools to larger tables, each constructed of standardised component parts.
We have 4 chairs and the original table available but to accommodate collectors they can be sold in separate parts if required.
Very good original condition. Light honest traces of use. Original paint. Labels to the underside of some parts.
Price: 9.800 euro (set of four chairs & table)
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
Frederick James Brown (USA 1945-2012)
Large signed Silkscreen Prints on wove paper. Unframed. 1990. Each approx 115 x 148cm
Rare large signed prints by the American artist Frederick James Brown. This was one of a portfolio of four silkscreen prints depicting clowns (Jules, Mickie, Max & Joey). Each print is signed, titled and dated by the artist.
Frederick James Brown was a New York City and Arizona-based American artist. Drawing from his African-American and Native American ancestry, and breadth of knowledge in art historical tradition, Brown’s work engages with American history and music, the urban fabric, religion, and spirituality.
We have multiple copies of each of these prints available.
Price: 1.800 euro (set of 4) or 500 euro (per individual print)
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