Oak Art Deco Modernist Open Bookcase by Frits Spanjaard for L.O.V. Oosterbeek

Bookcase embodies refined craftsmanship with its five-shelf design, inspired by the Art Origins period. A rounded, stepped motif accentuates its sleek form, while the thin, tapered l...

A beautiful and very striking Art Deco Birdseye maple open bookcase. This was made in England, it dates from the 1930’s. It is of superb quality, with a very useful design. It is sl...

1880s Hand carved oak

Carved Oak Open bookcase. The bookcase is good quality, with attractive carving on the front, it has 3 adjustable shelves The bookcase i...

A beautifully crafted late 19th-century oak open bookcase, richly detailed with deep hand-carved decoration. The frieze is adorned with an intricate foliate design of oak leaves and ...

Heavily carved open bookcase the large rectangular top with carved moulded edge. Above adjustable shelves are flanked by carved columns. All raised up on a plinth base. Dimensions He...

Aesthetic oak open bookcase of small proportions, the rectangular top above a carved frieze with ebonized detail, to the adjustable shelving flanked by reeded columns. All raised up ...

This unique architect's desk was designed by Frits Spanjaard in 1932. With its generous proportions, striking asymmetry, contrasting woods and the large knobs in solid Macassar ebony, the desk can be considered as an important example of the Haagse School (The Hague School) style. The desk has four large drawers on the right, which can be simultaneously locked with a single key. The interior on the left features six drawers and additional storage, and can be locked altogether as well. Particularly noteworthy are the four cleverly incorporated pull-out shelves of different dimensions creating additional space: two on the front, one on the right side and one large shelf on the back side. The desktop is executed in dark stained oak and features a dark grey leather insert. in 1932, the prosperous Van Stolk & Reese company commissioned Spanjaard to design the interior and furniture of their offices located on the Ceintuurbaan in Rotterdam. This custom desk was most likely designed for the office of the company’s director, which was designed by Spanjaard in a radically modernist way, combining his own sumptuous designs with the functionalist tubular steel furniture made by W.H. Gispen. Between 1925 and 1935 the work of Spanjaard was strongly connected to the Haagse School movement of which he’d become a main proponent. This style was not so much inspired by the Classic European Art Deco capitals such as Paris and Vienna but more by other national and international architectural developments such as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The influential magazine Wendingen published a series of articles on Wright still relatively unknown at the time in 1925 and the renowned architect Jan Wils also played an important role in the orientation towards Wrights work in The Netherlands. In its particular application of geometric shapes, primary colours and its sophisticated cubist division of the surface, the Haagse School designers were also aware of De Stijl movement, lead by contemporaries such as Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondriaan. At the same time the geometry, the harmonious proportions and the understated decorations were primarily based on the rationalist design principles of H.P. Berlage, who would later become one of Spanjaard’s clients himself. Design had to meet the functional demands of the user but purely utilitarian ideas were certainly not the most important. Due to his frequent travels to Germany, Spanjaard was also familiar with the designs of Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, especially appreciating the simplicity and purity of their designs. Biography Frits Spanjaard (1889-1978) started his career as the artistic director of the LOV furniture...

Heavily carved open bookcase the large rectangular breakfront top with carved moulded edge. Above three bays of adjustable shelves flanked by carved columns to the base all raised to...

This set of two fantastic Art Deco display cabinets/bookcases/sideboards. Made of solid oak. Art Deco style, early/mid-20th century. With anthracite-coloured interior. Both cabinet...