furniture, art & design
Ronald Willemsen (Nl.c20th-c.21st)
Sculptural little constructivist side table model RW1 side table. Metaform, Holland 1982. Despite its elegant light look it is actually quite a heavy set table (which like a cricket table is always balanced on any surface due to having three feet instead of four). These tables are a rare find and always sought after.
lacquered steel. 53 x 53 x 38cm
Price: 1.900 euro
Mid-Century slatted lounge chair.
Dutch 1950s. beech wood connected with metal fittings.
A beautiful sculptural lounge chair in totally original condition with patina.
The chair was reputedly originally purchased from Bas van Pelt/My Home.
Price: 3.250 euro
Large carved sculpture. Circa 1970s.
Stone 45 x 15 x 69cm.
An impressive and beautifully designed Dutch sculpture of a male head. Its elongated vertical form shares stylistic qualities with the earlier art of the Amsterdam School or Bossche school works.
Good condition. No damages – some natural variations in colouring to the stone.
Price: 2.600 euro
1970s Brutalist abstract sculpture. Unsigned.
A large basalt stone sculpture composed of simple modernist/architectural forms. At some time this sculpture has stood in a garden which has resulted in a thin layer of moss on some parts.
It measures 36 x 12 x 45cm high.
Price: 1.500 euro
A wooden library / shelving unit.
1960s/70s. Teak veneer.
150 x 64 x 79.5cm high
Originally designed by Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius in the 1930s as a newspaper storage cabinet, this version was manufactured in small numbers in Italy in the 1960s (maker unknown).
Please note that this is a solid and well made item that is heavy (note: it can not be dismantled).
Price: 2.700 euro
Sori Yanagi (Jap.1915-2011)
Rosewood veneer/plywood with brass fittings
Classic ‘Butterfly’ stool. Manufactured by Tendo Mokko, circa 1970s.
It has production numbers stamped into the underside and the measurements conform to the slightly smaller Japanese scale.
42 x 30.5 x 39cm high.
Price: 1.800 euro
Large Dogon scale. Circa 1930s-40s.
210cm high (mounted on steel plate base)
A superb example of an African Dogon tribal ladder/scale. This example is believed to have been made in Mali from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Traditionally the African Dogon ladder was used by the Dogon people to access the upper levels of granaries, climb onto the flat roofs of houses, and bridge clefts in cliffs.
Its repeated forms give it the aesthetic quality of a modernist sculpture.
Price: 2.600 euro
Various selected items with sculptural qualities to adorn any stylish interior…
All available (please enquire)
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