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

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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)

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