Retrospect Tables

Mid century Brutalist style coffee table. Made from oak. The sides of the table are decorated with copper strips embossed with hieroglyph style symbols. The top is made from wood wit...

Set of 2 modernist side tables. Handcrafted by a skilled carpenter in solid wood. The tops have been replaced by new wood and upholstered in red vinyl. Great set for a living room bu...

Designed in the 1920s by Bauhaus designer Takehiko Mizutani but never manufactured until Alivar took it in production in the 1980s. Typical Bauhaus design with minimal use of materia...

Amsterdam school vanity with central mirror. Made by dutch furniture company 't Woonhuys in the 1920s. The vanity is made from teak, ebony and Macassar rosewood. It has two cabinets...

Antique brutalist coffee table. Made from an antique cart wheel. The base is made from a solid piece of oak. The spindle on top fits inside the square hole in the wheel. The wheel is...

Modular puzzle dining table. Designed by Richard Nissen for Nissen furniture Denmark. The table was produced in 1978. The table has 6 legs. The legs are designed in an L shape. They ...

Materials: slate, glass Origin: Germany Period: 1980-1990 Dimensions: Top: 120x80cm, 1cm thick Bases: 45x15cm, Height. 40cm Specifications Minimalist slate and glass coffee table,...

Rectangular mid century coffee table. The top is made from numerous solid pinewood cubes joined together. The top is mounted on a simple solid wood frame. Probably made in the Nether...

Large railway sleeper coffee table. The top is made from thick oak beams. It stands on a solid oak base. The top has loads of patina and natural imperfections. The wood has a deep an...

Brutalist square coffee table. Made from solid wood with a natural stone (slate) inlay in the top. Made in China in the 1960s. It is painted in brown/gold paint that gives it a textu...

Original square coffee table. Designed by Hans J Wegner for Andreas Tuck Denmark. Made from solid oak. Very good condition.

Eames 691 coffee table by Herman Miller, USA 1958 Mid century design coffee or side table. Designed in the 1950s by Ray and Charles Eames and produced by Herman Miller in the 1970s. ...

African antique mortar. Handcrafted from a single piece of wood. The height is 63cm. Used to ground grain. Very decorative piece with a great color and patina. Use it as a side table...

Mid century minimalist dining set. It consists of a square table with a glass top and 4 chairs. The chairs have a steel tube frame with fabric covered backs and seats. They have the ...

Set of 3 nesting tables. The tables have beautifully designed legs and edges. All joint are glued and not a single screw or nail was used. All three are in very good condition with m...

Modernist side table with multiple levels. The frame is made from tubular steel with metal rods both functional and decorative. The upper shelf is original while the bottom ones are ...

Mid century serving cart. Model PT10 designed by Cees Brakeman for Pastoe in the 1950s. It has two trays made of shaped plywood. The frame is also made of plywood. Well designed piece with very nice details. It stands on the original castors. The cart can be disassembled. It was sold originally as flat packed furniture. For shipping it will be disassembled for safer and easier transport. Easy to put back together again with the original brass bolts. The wood gained a beautiful dark patina through the years. UMS Pastoe b.v. is a Dutch furniture manufacturer from Utrecht, which designs and produces furniture under the Pastoe brand name. This company was founded on April 13, 1913 in Utrecht as UMS, which stood for Utrechtse Machinale Stoel- en Meubelfabriek. The name Pastoe comes from "passe partout" and was added to the name after the Second World War Well-known designs are the wire steel chair SM05 by Cees Braakman and Adriaan Dekker, the cabinets by Aldo van den Nieuwelaar and Vision by Karel Boonzaaijer and Pierre Mazairac. Pastoe has worked with graphic designers such as Dick Bruna and Benno Premsela, photographers such as Ed van der Elsken and Cas Oorthuys and designers such as Shiro Kuramata, Shigeru Uchida, Maarten Van Severen and Vincent van Duysen. Frits Loeb founded the factory in 1913 under the name Utrechtse Machinale Stoel- en Meubelfabriek (UMS). This was located at Oosterkade 30 in Utrecht. The furniture that was produced was initially intended for his store at the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht, but soon it was sold at various points of sale in the Netherlands. When the space on the Oosterkade had become too small, the factory moved around 1918 to the building of the former Tegelfabriek 'Holland' on the Rotsoord. Since 2016, the factory has been on the Tugboat in Houten. UMS focused on the general public with its furniture. Business manager and designer Dirk Lubertus Braakman varied on the designs of the Amsterdam school. Although the business design style did not suit the taste of the general public, UMS continued to engage in innovative design, with influences from Scandinavia and art deco. After World War II After the Second World War, Loeb found an empty factory. He decided to rebuild UMS, with his cousin Frits Ullman assisting him. In the first years after the war, UMS mainly worked on behalf of third parties and did not yet have a permanent collection. Around 1947, the factory set a different course, with contemporary design central. In 1948, the new brand name Pastoe was introduced, which was added to the abbreviation UMS. Business manager and designer Cees Braakman, after a study trip through the United States, introduced a new technique of curved plywood and persuaded Loeb and Ullman to use this production method. Due to the use of this new technique, no more reference was made to the craft. New materials such as plywood finished with oak and birch veneer characterized the designs. The new production technique provided the subdued and sober design that later became the company's trademark. UMS Pastoe joined the Good Living Foundation. The focus of the UMS Pastoe collection was mountain furniture, where the consumer could put together a cabinet himself. This new concept of flexible cabinet systems was developed in 1955 in the cabinet system Meubelen-naar-maat. In this series, the cabinet could not only be assembled by the consumer himself, but also expanded later. This series was a great success at home and abroad. This became clear when the teak version was awarded a silver medal in 1957 at the 11th Triennale in Milan and Le Signe d'Or in Belgium. In 1968, the company received the BKI Award for the innovation of PVC-coated chipboard that is milled transversely; the plates could then be folded into a cube. This technique was applied in the 1967 Pastoe Cube...

Unique artistic writing desk and chair. The frame is made from steel and wrought iron in different shapes and sizes. Painted in several different colors. The glass top rest on 4 wood...

Unique handcrafted coffee table. The base is made from green painted wrought iron and it depicts 4 abstract figures with exceptional long limbs holding the top with their hands. The ...

High quality custom made executive desk. Made from solid Macassar ebony and Macassar ebony veneer. The front has two glass sliding doors with a thick glass shelf. It has one door on ...