furniture, art & design
Mathieu Matégot (France 1910-2001)
Model Elysée side table,
Artimeta. 1950s.
63 x 38.5 x 56cm high
A rare side table / magazine table manufactured in the 1950s. Perforated metal with brass ball feet.
Literature: Philippe Jousse, Mathieu Matégot, Jousse Enterprise, 2003, modèle reproduit pp.164, 190, 191 & 227
Price: 2.500 euro
Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma (NL. Mid-c20th)
Five original 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: 3,900 euro
French wooden constructivist side table.
Circa 1960s. Ash and Cherry wood.
Price: 540 euro
Verner Panton (Denmark 1926-1998)
VP-Europe lamp. 1977. Manufactured by Louis Poulsen in the late 1970s.
Chromed plastic foot with moulded glass shade. The lamp’s name Europa derives from the series of lighting designed by Verner Panton for the hotel Europa in Lugano.
This large table lamp has a diameter of 48cm and a height of 63cm which is particularly big for a table lamp. The main component is a mouth-blown shade made of clear and frosted glass. The red painted lamp cap produces beautiful light effects within the lamp.
This lamp was only produced over a short period of time which when combined with the complexity of moulding the glass shade make it one of Verner Panton´s most rare and sought-after lamps.
Price: 2,995.00 euro
Adjustable desk lamp by Dernier & Hamlyn. The bulb section can be turned to an upright position. Original paint work (very rare colourway), although with some scorch marks to the metal in places.
850.00 euro
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