furniture, art & design
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Annie Hieronimus (France c20th)
Model ‘Amak’ lounge chair by Annie Hieronimus for Cinna 1983-86 (makers label to reverse).
A rare lounge chair designed by French designer Annie Hieronimus and executed by Cinna. This model of lounge chair very hard to find anywhere – it was only produced for three years between 1983 and 1986. Its remarkable look comes from the combination of soft folded leather that seems to bridge two large ballistic looking feet.
Price: 5.200 euro
Hendrik (Henk) Wouda (Nl 1885-1946)
Rare set of four oak dining chairs (or two pairs of side chairs).
Later upholstery.
Price: 6.000 euro (set of four)
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
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)
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: 1.870 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)
Sofa table/ coffee table. 120 x 80 x 55.3cm high. Lacquered and stained oak and plywood.
A very modestly designed constructivist table whose size measures somewhere between a dining table and a coffee table. It is particularly useful as a table at the back of a sofa as shown. The design of the table is reminiscent of the earlier modernist designs by Gerrit Rietveld/ Vilmos Huszár and the De Stijl movement. (We have images available of its ingenious construction).
This unassuming, simple table was designed by Dutch furniture maker / architect Harry Vogelaars. It is signed and dated 1998.
Note: Cassina ‘Fiandra’ leather four part sofa by Vico Magistretti also available.
Price: 900 euro
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