Japanese Showa period (mid-c20th) low table.
Elm wood with bamboo legs. The table has been waxed only and has a superb colour and patina.
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Oak wood. 1920s. Netherlands.
A simple book case constructed of thin pieces of oak wood.
School or manner of Gerrit Rietveld or the Haagse School.
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Alvar Aalto (Finland 1898-1976)
Early production 51/403 plywood chairs.
Gino Sarfatti (Italy 1912-1985)
Arteluce, 1960s Model 1083 Floor Lamp
Rare floor lamp by Gino Sarfatti. In superb all original condition.
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A group of five Dutch painted wooden boxes. (manner of Rietveld/ Metz & co)
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Paul Wintermans (NL)
‘Beugeltafel’ 1980s.
The architect Paul Wintermans has been designing furniture primarily for architectural projects since the 1980s. This furniture was produced as unique pieces or as very limited productions. Wintermans furniture designs can be found in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
This table is an ingenious engineered design, constructed from three separate pieces: A sheet of glass sandblasted except for two clear stripes that act both as a design feature and help position the two steel rod feet with adjustable fixings. The two feet simply lean into the structure which when combined with the weight of the glass enables the structure to clamp into place.
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Wim Den Boon (1912-1968) founded ‘Groep & together with Hein Stolle and Pierre Kleykam’, in 1945. The group’s ambition was to continue the purist and functionalist prewar ideals and aesthetic into the postwar period or ‘reconstruction period’ in The Netherlands. Many of the group’s designs can be seen in the magazine ‘Goed Wonen’ of which Den Boon was the editorial secretary from 1948-1950 and for which he wrote several articles. Den Boon’s dogmatic character and the austere tone of his articles resulted in some controversy, which resulted in Wim Den Boon’s resignation from the magazine in 1950.
This armchair (dated 1958) is registered and documented in the New Dutch Institute for Architecture, Design and Digital Technology (NI). Like much of Den Boon’s designs, the chair was designed as part of a complete interior. The chair comes with full provenance.
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Willem Penaat for Metz & Co., (Attrib.) 1920s-30s
Early modernist free standing bookshelf unit. Painted wood.
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