furniture, art & design
Gae Aulenti (Italy 1927-2012)
Set of 4 ‘Locus Solus’ chairs for Poltronova, Italy 1960s
55.5 x 54 x 66.5cm high
enamelled black tubular metal frames with perforated seats. This set comes with their original loose waxed cotton cushions with dotted black on grey pattern. The design of these chairs was intended to be a playful take on the classic bentwood design.
Price: 4.400 euro (the set)
Enzo Mari (Italy 1932-2020)
Autoprogettazione Chair ‘Sedia 1’, after a design by Enzo Mari, 1990s.
Pine wood and nails. 50 x 52.5 x 85cm high (seat 47cm high)
In 1974, the Italian designer Enzo Mari published 19 furniture designs that one could make by oneself in his book ‘Autoprogettazione?’. With this programm he created a counter proposal to the paradigm of mass consumption, an alternative to formalism and opening a path to the democratisation of design.
This chair was made by a skilled carpenter according to the original ideas Enzo Mari in the 1990s and has since gained a desirable warm patina.
Nice original condition. Some small scratches and stains commensurate with age.
Price: 1.150 euro
Gerrit Rietveld (Nl 1888 – 1964)
Cassina ‘crate’ table. Early edition – late 70s/early 80s.
beech wood. 174.5 x 97.5 x 71cm high.
The original Crate Series were designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934 and sold mainly through the warehouse Metz &Co. The furniture was described in the store’s advertising as “weekend furniture,” suitable for “weekend houses, sunrooms, student and children’s rooms“.
This table or desk is a late 1970s or early 1980s Cassina edition. It has a very low manufacturers number (31) stamped on the underside next to the Cassina mark.
Price: 3.700 euro
1970s large abstract Brutalist sculpture. Painted carved wood and steel.
Unsigned.
58 x 26 x 72cm high.
Price: 2.300 euro
Hans J. Wegner (Dk 1914-2007)
Oak Model AT 310 Extendable Dining Table by Hans J. Wegner for Andreas Tuck, 1960s
A dining table designed by Hans Wegner in 1955. This classic piece of Danish modernism: simple and understated.
Included are two extension leaves that can be stored at the underside of the table. (each leaf is 40 cm wide so it is 160cm wide without the additional leaves)
The table is fully marked at the underside. Andreas Tuck, Denmark.
240 (extended) x 94 x 72cm high.
Price: 3.950 euro
Gebroeders Reens desk
Gebroeders Reens (Nl early-mid-c20th)
Amsterdam desk 1930s
126 x 64 x 75.5cm high. Maple/birch and lacquered wood
A small a Dutch 30s art deco/modernist curved desk. Warm maple veneer with off-white lacquered wood.
This double-sided/freestanding desk was part of the interior of the jewellery shop S.Spyer located at the Koningsplein in Amsterdam. In 1929-1930 the shop was redesigned by Amsterdam architect Harry Elte, giving the shop a more modern Art Deco shopfront and interior. The furniture was executed by the Gebroeders Reens company. (original key monogrammed ‘R’).
Price: 2.500 euro
Large Art Deco desk
A high quality 1930s French double-sided desk.
Original key and lockable four drawers. 170 x 75 x 75cm high.
Price: 3.500 euro
Various items including (1) an Amsterdam School console/hall table with two drawers – The symmetrical form of the console narrows towards the front and has four amazing hand-crafted scallop shaped handles. The front of the two drawers has an elegant double wave sculptural form.
Inside, the top drawer has a green baize lining (once used for cutlery). This console seems to date from between the early to mid-c20th and is beautifully constructed from solid oak. We decided to leave it with its original patina (the top has a few light marks but otherwise it is in good solid condition). 100 x 46.5 x 89cm high.
(2) A monumental Dutch Amsterdam School floor lamp made from mahogany with double fitted lamps and an uplighter lamp. 186cm high and 71cm wide.
(3) A large alabaster abstract form sculpture circa 1970s attached to a pine plinth. 18.5 x 18.5 x 60cm high
All available: Console SOLD / Lamp 1.400 euro / Sculpture SOLD
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