Ate van Apeldoorn (Nl mid-c20th)
Houtwerk Hattem. 1960s
A large pine minimal console table with distinctive box joint edges. This is possibly the most minimal of Ate van Apeldoorn’s designs.
Price: 1,500 euro
Tag: minimal
Designer/Maker unknown. Circa 1960s.
A beautifully proportioned and simply constructed limed oak wood low/salon table. It has a series of small plywood inserts visible on the shorter sides and visible box joints where the legs attach to the table top. The surface has been lime waxed.
Although it cannot be verified we believe that the table may be a design by Hein Stolle for ‘t Spectrum furniture.
Price: 1,800 euro
Jan de Jong (Nl 1917-2001) / Dom Hans van der Laan (Nl 1904-1991)
During the reconstruction period after WWII the Dutch architect Jan de Jong and the Dutch Benedictine monk Dom Hans van der Laan collaborated on several architectural projects including the interior furniture. They created an outstanding body of work defining the the style of the Bossche School. Jan de Jong was able to translate many of Dom v.d.Laan’s idealised concepts and ideas into pioneering buildings and spaces. They worked in such close collaboration however that it is difficult to discern the individual level of input into the furniture they designed.
This table came from the Paulus church in Dongen built in 1967. When the church closed some of the furniture including this table were used in a Catholic youth club in Breda which was subsequently closed in 2016 (from where we purchased the table)
It is structurally sound but as it was used in the youth hostel for years it does show clear signs of age and general wear & tear (mostly to the sides).
Dom Hans van der Laan (1904-1991) was a Dutch Benedictine monk and architect. He was a leading figure in the Dutch ‘Bossche School’.
Jan de Jong (1917-2001) was a talented craftsman-architect and student of v.d. Laan.
Price: 12,500.00 euro
1950s French low table [in the manner of Charlotte Perriand].
Solid pine wood with steel base. The pine top with supporting inserts visible at the sides.
Price: 1,500 euro
Hein Stolle (Nl. 1924-2006)
Hein Stolle. S88.1 Chair. 2001
Limited edition / numbered 23.
American pine, stamped “S88.1” and signed.
Price: 1,650.00
Circa 1930s. A Dutch cantilever armchair. Original paint and in superb condition.
maker/designer unknown.
Price: 1,750 euro
Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma (NL. Mid-c20th)
Five modular cubes from the 1970s. Laminated plywood.
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The Dutch duo Slothouber & Graatsma established themselves from the 1950s as artist/designers with the cube form as their key motif around which they developed various principles of cubic construction alongside multiples and variations thereof. Despite its restrictions they admired the cube for its clarity of form. They applied their thinking around it to a variety of objects, and artworks from small jewellery-scale 3d models and games to larger installation works.
Highly driven personalities, they considered themselves as discoverers of ‘the many applications of the democratic system of cubics’; a system that would ostensively act to counter the rise of the expressive individualism in post-WWII culture. (They later established the CCC_the Center for Cubic Constructions as a forum for promoting their ideas).
Due to their diverse and multidisciplinary output they were never to become global names – But they were a highly respected creative team (representing The Netherlands at the Venice Biennale in 1970) and in 1965 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam honoured them with the exhibition ‘Vier kanten: maat, vorm, kleur, letter’ (Four sides: size, form, colour, letter). Donald Judd for one was a great admirer of their work.
Price: 4,250.00 euro
Bespoke ecclesiastical table. 1970s
Hans van der Laan & Harry van Hal (Nl, c20th)
Unique bespoke table that was part of the furnishings of the Bethlehem Church built in 1979 in Breda, Netherlands.
The church was designed by two Bossche School architects: Hans van der Laan (the nephew of Dom Hans vd Laan) together with the architect Harry van Hal.
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Solid merbau wood. 175.5 x 131 x 76cm
Price: 6,500 euro
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