Rare modernist furniture, art & design
Pair of steel modernist/ minimal stools. 1960s.
The beauty of these stools is both in their simplicity and their detail; the quality of engineering. (more photos available on request). The retain their original cream coloured cushions that clip onto a series of small holes to the steel seats.
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Minimalist wooden low table. The table originates from France – Reminiscent of the sculptures of Carl Andre.
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Alfred Hendrickx (Belgium c20th)
Mahogany wood and glass coffee table for Belform. 1950s.
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Dom Hans v.d. Laan & Jan de Jong (Netherlands, mid-late c20th)
This chair was part of a collection of furniture that we have acquired (with full provenance). It was previously used as a church lectern.
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Aldo van den Nieuwelaar (Dutch 1944-2010)
Cirkel lamp designed 1968.
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Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma (Dutch c20th+)
Five rare modular cubes from the 1970s.
Laminated plywood.
The Dutch artist/designer team of 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 Centre 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)…Donald Judd for one was a great admirer of their work.
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Elmar Berkovich (Dutch 1897-1968)
‘Beek’ side table for Spectrum furniture (t’Spectrum)
Designed in 1956 and manufactured for only two years.
The table has been restored.
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Hein Stolle (NL. 1924 – 2006)
Small ‘Stolwijk’ table. Plywood and steel – Original paint.
Spectrum furniture. 1954-55
Produced for a limited period only. This rare table was designed by Hein Stolle.
Stolle was a Dutch architect and furniture designer. From 1946-1950 he was a member of the Groep &, alongside Wim den Boon and Pierre Kleykamp and during the early 1950s, in collaboration, with Martin Visser he designed furniture for the department stores de Bijenkorf and Metz & Co.
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