furniture, art & design
Art Deco stool
A 1930s Art Deco vanity stool. Unknown origin. (unrestored)
Mahogany and maple wood veneers around a wooden constructed base.
We have left the period linen upholstery – A possible upholstery project or just left as it is.
Price: 1.250 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
Venesta plywood table/stool for Isokon. 1930s
Plywood No.1 table/stool with its accompanying circular tray. Manufactured by Luterma. Both stool and tray are stamped/labelled Venesta.
The British furniture entrepreneur Jack Pritchard managed Venesta the import company for Luterma in England who later formed the Isokon furniture company which most notably employed Marcel Breuer. These tables/stools were distributed in England post 1933 until 1939 exclusively by Isokon alongside designs by Marcel Breuer and Egon Riss.
Although the designer of the stool remains anonymous, in 2004 the art historian Alastair Grieve described a modification of the original Luterma stool (of which this stool is one) when he wrote that the original design was subsequently re-designed by the architect and founder of the Bauhaus Walter Gropius (hired as a consultant to Isokon). The very slight alterations Gropius made was to include sharper curves to the cut-out squares of the stool. Gropius’s drawings for the redesign can reportedly be found in the collection of the V&A Museum, London.
The separate tray placed on top of the stool is unusual and rare in that it is much thinner than all other trays we have seen. This has led to some minor warping over time (which may have been why it was produced later with a thicker rim?) The thinner rimmed tray may suggest that this was an early production or at the least a more limited production?
h.46.5cm x w.44cm x d.44cm
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Price: 3.650 euro
1950s wooden stool
Midcentury beech wood stool.
Circa 1950s. Attributed to Gerrit Rietveld for Spectrum Furniture. (with some provenance)
Price: 1,500 euro
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