Art Deco/ modernist circular side table.
Maple and cherry woods with thick glass top. 75cm diameter x 57cm high.
A good quality Dutch 1930s/40s Haagse School (Hague School) side table with block structure.
Price: 1.000 euro
Tag: interior
Exceptional pair of armchairs (or possible desk chairs).
Artifort. 1930s
A pair of rare Dutch modernist /functionalist chairs manufactured in the highest quality materials: silver-plated frames, horsehair upholstered seats and with ebony handgrips.
The chairs are from the provincial government building in Maastricht designed in the 1930s by the then ‘rijksbouwmeester’ (chief government architect) Gustav Cornelis Bremer. They were produced by the Maastricht company Artifort as a one-off commission exclusively for the members of the provincial council.
Price: 3.850 euro
Carlo Scarpa (It. 1906-1978)
Model ‘Sarpi’. 1970s. 209 x 109 x 72cm high.
This outstanding dining table was designed by well known Italian architect Carlo Scarpa in the 1970s and produced by Simon Gavina. It has a brushed stainless steel frame and thick glass top and visible connections.
Simon Gavina produced a collection of sculptural designs of which this table was one, named “Ultrarazionale” which reflected Scarpa’s approach to Post-war Italian design. The designs have subsequently become icons of the c20th.
In good stable condition but with some surface scratches and discolouration to the frame.
Price: 5.600 euro
Sergio Asti (Italy 1926 – 2021)
40 x 40 x 42cm high. Candle, Italy. 1968
Daruma lamp by Sergio Asti. This lamp is the largest size (42 cm high) that was produced by the Italian company Candle in 1968. (Later productions were made by Fontana Arte). The lamp is made out of two parts hand blown glass that makes it easy to access the lamp fitting inside. It gives out a very attractive warm glow. It has its original fittings and is fully marked with Candle sticker.
Price: 1.650 euro
Large Amsterdam School desk lamp. Circa 1920s.
41 x 19 x 52.5cm high
Hand-forged wrought iron desk lamp with original parchment lamp shade. The shade has a bit of heat damage to the top.
The scrolling organic, naturalist forms of this lamp is typical of the Dutch art deco movement known as the “Amsterdamse School’. In the early c20th the Dutch forged a clear identity in the decorative arts that combined the influences of both the Dutch colonies, the ethos of the European Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau (Nieuwe Kunst) movements.
Price: 1.450 euro
Hague School (early c20th)
Writing desk. Circa 1920s. oak and coromandel wood.
159.5cm wide x 84.5cm deep x 74.5cm high
A well proportioned sturdy desk in the Dutch art deco/modernist style. There are various compartments and pull out shelves inside. The top was once also brown but has been darkened to a very befitting dark brown/black. (Note: the locks are not working on the two doors)
Price: 3.200 euro
Marcel Breuer (Hn/USA 1902-81)
B40 Dining Chairs in Nickel-Plated Tubular Steel and Eisengarn fabric by Marcel Breuer for Tecta, 1980s. Set of 4
A rare set of four modernist chairs. Originally designed in the 1920s, this set were produced by Tecta who used sturdy eisengarn fabric common to Bauhaus chairs in the c20th (eisengarn labels to underside of seats). The tubular steel frames are very close the originals in nickel plated fine steel that makes them incredibly light and yet robust in their construction.
Price: 2.750 euro
Jan de Jong (Nl 1917-2001) / Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991)
Rare Bossche School bench for Vincentius Church, Netherlands. 1964.
162.5 x 45 x 52.5cm high.
Early design bench (1964, Netherlands) by Jan de Jong, the Dutch Bossche School architect and protegé of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans v.d. Laan. The bench was made for and used in the Vincentius a Paulo church in Eindhoven; an important early example of Bossche School architecture by De Jong.
The installation of the furniture for the church was made under the supervision of Dom Hans v.d. Laan. Essentially it was through these early Jan de Jong projects that Dom Hans v.d. Laan was able to witness the realisation of his complex design ideas and beliefs for what was possibly one of the first times.
Price: 5.750 euro
