
French mid-century metal & glass coffee table.
A 1950s French table with a circular metal base with hairpin legs and a stunning thick handmade glass top.
Price: 985 euro
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French mid-century metal & glass coffee table.
A 1950s French table with a circular metal base with hairpin legs and a stunning thick handmade glass top.
Price: 985 euro
Renate Müller (Germany, 1945-now)
Renate Müller therapeutic toy duck. Circa 1970s-80s.
Jute & leather.
Mid-century German designer Renate Müller designed therapeutic toys that stemmed from a long standing family interest in pedagogy and progressive education. Her interest in simple designs and natural materials were influenced by the earlier Bauhaus school.
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60cm high x 40 x 30.
Price: 1,800 euro
Werkstätten Hagenauer.
Circa 1950s. Double sided carved head of an African woman.
33.5 x 25 x 9cm
It has a warm patina and is mounted onto a 3mm brass base plate. [more images available on request]
Price: 950.00 euro
1950s wooden stool
Midcentury beech wood stool.
Circa 1950s. Attributed to Gerrit Rietveld for Spectrum Furniture. (with some provenance)
Price: 1,500 euro
Gunnar Daan (Dutch 1939-2016)
Midcentury plywood prototype chair by Dutch architect Gunnar Daan (1939-2016)
This child’s high chair is believed to be a prototype for the later high chair produced by Metz & Co in 1966. The design was conceived by Daan for his own children and was to be manufactured from a single sheet of plywood with as little wastage as possible.
h.80cm x w.61.5cm x d.61.5cm
Price: 1,250.00 euro
Space age coffee table
_A 1960s-70s low table. The table could be said to have a nautical theme running through it with its shaped ship like form and refracted light between the glass and table. It has visual similarities to Isokon furniture and to that of the Irish designer Max Clendinning from the 1960s.
Painted moulded plywood with ocean glass top.
h.32cm x w.131.5cm x d.58cm
Price: 985.00 euro
A group of five Dutch painted wooden boxes. (manner of Rietveld/ Metz & co)
Price: 450.00 euro
Paul McCobb (USA 1917-69)
Circular low table. Teak wood and steel.
Dia.90cm; Height 38cm
This table was designed as part of a range of simple mahogany wood and steel tables. They were retailed by Metz & Co., in Amsterdam (image 3). The table has a light grey painted finish which we presume is original. The brochure in image 2 shows the tables with a natural wood finish – Although the Metz & Co., image (image 3) shows one of the tables with a painted finish.
In the book ‘Metz & Co.: The Creative Years’ by Petra Timmer, the author elaborates on the relationship between Metz & Co and the American artist Paul McCobb:
“Henk de Leeuw had met the interior designer Paul McCobb in America and had discovered the same refined lines and distinction in his furniture as Penaat’s work. De Leeuw agreed with him that Metz would take his designs into production exclusively for the Netherlands, an appointment that was also made with Ponti, Pagani, Albini, Robin Day and the Danish Peter Hvidt, among others. In 1958 a separate exhibition was dedicated to McCobb’s furniture…”
1,375.00 euro