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Jan de Jong (Nl 1917-2001) / Dom Hans van der Laan

Rare Bossche School bench for Vincentius Church, Netherlands. 1964.

162.5 x 45 x 52.5cm high.

Early design bench (1964, Netherlands) by Jan de Jong, the Dutch Bossche School architect and protegé of the Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans v.d. Laan. The bench was made for and used in the Vincentius a Paulo church in Eindhoven; an important early example of Bossche School architecture by De Jong. 

The installation of the furniture for the church was made under the supervision of Dom Hans v.d. Laan. Essentially it was through these early Jan de Jong projects that Dom Hans v.d. Laan was able to witness the realisation of his complex design ideas and beliefs for what was possibly one of the first times.

Price: 5.500 euro

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Junzo Sakakura and Daisaku Cho (Japan c20th)

Tendo, Japan. Circa 1970s. (makers label to back). Veneered plywood with original upholstery.

A scarce (outside of Japan) original Teiza Isu (low chair) model 5016 lounge chair. Designed in 1960 by Junzo Sakakura and Daisaku Cho who were prominent Japanese modernist figures who collaborated on iconic postwar furniture.

As the name “low chair” suggests, the low seat, at 29cm, allows you to sit cross-legged or with your legs stretched out. The rear of the seat is slightly sloped, and the thick cushion supports your body, allowing you to sit without straining your lower back.

Original fabric with some minor signs of age and use.

Price: 3.700 euro

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Gaetano Pesce (Italy 1939-2024)

Designed by Gaetano Pesce in the 1980s this is an early edition feltri (felt) Cassina chair which was purchased from its first owner.

100cm wide x 84cm deep x 113cm high (seat height is 45cm)

The feltri chair is a radical 1980s Italian design that brought craft materials and thinking into the realm of product design. Pesce was aware (like the artist Joseph Beuys in the 70s) of the symbolism of felt as an industrial material – serving as a metaphor for warmth, survival and psychological protection. These chairs were manufactured with detachable back quilts and seats in a variety of colorways  (like many products during the era) in order to appeal to the taste of customers. This chair has a black seat and extra back cushion and a light ‘baby blue’ quilt. (the previous owner used it mostly without the quilt attached).

Price: 3.900 euro

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Willem Hendrik Gispen (Nl. 1890-1981)

Diagonaalstoel model 3b from Willem Gispen with aluminium frame.


A batch of 300 aluminium framed diagonal chairs were produced for the city hall in Hilversum at the end of the 1920s. The architect Willem Dudok wanted the furniture for this building to be ultra modern and aluminium was certainly regarded as essentially modern at the time.
The chairs were subsequently replaced by chromed steel ones that did not oxidise like the aluminium ones (thus appearing jaded and aged)
although we are not sure this one is from the Hilversum batch its a very rare find – very much a collector’s piece.

Price: On request

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Hague school lady chair. Circa 1920s.

Oak. 60.5 x 64.5 x 65cm high.
A delightful diminutive armchair that we believe was designed as a lady chair. It is unusual not only by its small size but also by its striking modernist lines. This Dutch chair is designed and constructed in typical Dutch Art Deco style known as the Haagse School or Hague School style – a simple geometric constructivist style of the period. According to the previous owner this chair is a design by Hendrik Wouda but we were unable to confirm that. The chair is made out of darkened oak and seems to have its original purple plush velvet upholstery including the loose seat cushion. This chair is a true collectors piece.

Price: 2.400 euro

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Large Art Deco coffee table. Circa 1930s

131 x 86 x 52cm high. Solid oak and glass.

Unique early c20th coffee table with its original feature glass top that seems to conjoin both Art Deco and Brutalist styles. The piece combines the robust qualities of the Brutalist style evident in its chunky wooden base with the elegance of the Art Deco style manifested in the pictorial glass top. These apparent combined qualities in this one piece that gives the table its unique style and character.
The deeply moulded relief images in the thick glass depicts two seagulls in flight. The underside of the glass is textured whereas the top is almost smooth.

The curved fan shape of this table (it is narrower at the front than the back) would make it highly suitable for particular spaces such as between sofas or in front of a curved sofa.

Provenance: we have a letter from the table’s former owners confirming that the table was used as part of the furnishings of the Holland-America shipping line in Rotterdam.

Price: 3.950 euro

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Hendrik Fels (Nl.1882-1962)

Oak wood. L.O.V Oosterbeek 1930s

Recently newly upholstered in a dark/warm coloured wool fabric.

71cm wide x 61cm deep x 79.5cm high (seat height 42cm)

A rare low armchair in the Dutch Art Deco / Modernist style. Designed by architect H.Fels for L.O.V Oosterbeek (shortening of ‘Labor Omnia Vincit’), an idealistic furniture company active between 1910 and 1935. The aim of the L.O.V company was to produce honest and modern furniture that was made in an artisanal way.
Designers that worked for the L.O.V. consisted of well known names like Frits Spanjaard, Cor Alons and Jan Muntendam as well as Hendrik (Henk) Fels.

Good restored condition (one repair to a corner split in the back rest)

Price: 1.800 euro

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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: 4.700 euro

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