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Decorative and Fine Arts, Antiques and Design
in Bexhill-on-Sea since 1993
a selection of latest stock
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Large Jack Doherty Studio Porcelain Bowl
A large studio pottery bowl in porcelain with soda glaze. 40cm in diameter, 12.5cm in height. Price: £795
Richard Riemerschmid Buffet Sideboard
Richard Riemerschmid Jugendstil Buffet Sideboard, Dresdner Werstatten fur Handwerkskunst, Ca. 1905.
A Fine French Empire Style Escritoire Cabinet
A fine quality Frengh Empire Style escritoire cabinet, the lower drawer pulling out to reveal leather writing surface and storage compartments. Profusely mounted with gilt bronze, ormolu mounts. Probably late 19th-early 20th century.
A Geiger Cross Hatch lounge chair
A Geiger Cross Hatch lounge chair by Eoos design. this is also retailed as the Herman Miller Cross Hatch chair.
Morris & Co. Breakfront Bookcase by George Washington Jack with Exceptional Porvenence.
A Morris & Co. breakfront bookcase by George Jack, this piece comes with exceptional provenance. Please enquire.
Morris & Co Secretaire by George Jack
Morris & Co Secretaire by George Jack, A beautifully made cabinet with superb marquetry work.
Bruce Talbert for Gillows
Aesthetic Movement corner cabinet by Bruce Talbert for Gillows. A documented piece, this has delightful painted figures to the doos, very much in the pre-raphaelite manner
An early 20th Century English Walnut cabinet
An early 20th Century handcrafted English Walnut cabinet, in the Cotswold School manner, with cast bronze walnut handle to the cabinet doors.
A Danful Yang Settee
A Settee by the artist and designer Danful Yang. This piece exemplifies her art in using traditional Chinese methods and motifs with a whimsical contemporary twist.
A Unique 1960s Hollywood Regency Carved Mahogany Marine Themed Table
Unique 1960s Hollywood Regency Carved Mahogany Marine Themed Table comissioned by the Mayor of Hove , Mr. Beva Funnell for his wife, from his own furniture works. The piece carved from solid mahogany by his master carver, took over 300 hours to complete. Please ask for more information.
A unique carved oak Scottish Baronial suspended seat
A unique piece, This is a 19th Century carved oak piece, the seat swings on four chains hanging from the carved uprights, these have iron interiors, allowing the seat to support normal human weight from such apparently fine uprights. Carved throughout with marine themes, a true statement piece.
Richard Riemerschmid Jugendstil Chairs
Richard Riemerschmid Jugendstil oak Chairs, Designed Ca. 1903, Made by Vereinigte Werkstatten fur Handwerkskunst, Dresden. The seats have been reupholstered in a commissioned printed velvet with Riemerschmid design.
Antique German Finely Carved Oak Coffer
A very fine German antique coffer with exceptional carving to the front, with original key as shown, detail of lock also shown. Dated 1789.
A Unique Hille of London Hollywood Regency Sideboard, Late 1940s.
This is a superbly made sideboard in the Hollywood regency manner , made by Hille of London in the late 1940s, it used components of furniture remaining in stock rather than new timber, to comply with Government regulations in the post-war period and designed and made for export only.
Marcel Breuer for Isokon, a set of nesting bent ply tables.
Marcel Breuer for Isokon, a set of three nesting bent ply tables. These, being in painted beech would date to the 1960s.
Marcel Breuer Aluminium Chair
Marcel Breuer Aluminium Chair by ICF. This model was handmade made under licence in Italy by ICF in small numbers in the 1980s. A rare piece.
Isokon Ventris Chair by Marcel Breuer
This is a Lounge or Club Chair in steam bent and flat birch ply, designed in 1936 by Marcel Breuer. There were originally two of these chairs designed by Breuer as part of the commission by Dorothea Ventris and made by P.E. Gane for her apartment in Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton designed Highpoint building in Highgate London. This example comes from a number produced in the late 1990s by Chris McCourt's Windmill Furniture for Isokon Plus after the original chairs were traced to descendants of Dorothea Ventris, who still had the chairs in the family's possession. McCourt carefully measured the originals and made the windmill chairs completely faithfully to the originals, even having a single man hand upholster the sprung seats. More recently, the chairs are now being manufactured by VG & P for Isokon Plus which is under new ownership.
This chair has the Windmill Furniture label under the arm.
This chair has the Windmill Furniture label under the arm.
A 1930s Art Deco Modernist dining table by PEL
A 1930s Art Deco Modernist dining table by PEL in the more expensive (at the time) blonde sycamore finish.
Werner Max Moser Reclining Chair Model R363/R1204 by Bigla, Switzerland 1930s.
This is an uncommon original 1930s modernist tubular steel lounge chair designed by Werner Max Moser for Bigla of Switzerland. It has an adjustable seating position by virtue of pegged notches which allow the freely removable seat frame to be positioned on the cantilever base.
The chair closely follows the Bauhaus school of design.
The chair closely follows the Bauhaus school of design.
Original 1930s Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe MR10 Cantilever Chair
This is a rare, very early example of Mies van Der Rohe's MR10 cantilevered side chair or Freischwinger. The chair has significant distinguishing features that can be seen in the photographs as follows.
. A fully welded structure, the curved cross member under the seat being welded in place and not screwed in.
. A completely seamless, continuous, tubular frame with no visible joins to the tubular steel at all.
. Steel backing strips which hold the leather to the rear of the frame by screwing into to steel strips welded to the frame itself, rather than into the tubular uprights.
. Small hooks welded to the underside of the seat rails at the front, designed to prevent the leather seat sliding forwands and downwards over the curved leg fronts.
. The frame tapering slightly towards the rear, being widest (49cm) at the mid point of the front curved legs tapering to 47.5 at the rear of the seat, to a minimum width of 45 at the top of the chair.
. The tubing is 25mm in diameter.
These features are, each on their own, unusual and rare if not unique, and when combined in the single chair, lead us to believe that this is a very early example, perhaps some form of prototype and certainly of careful, costly manufacture by hand. The frame is however chrome plated rather than nickel plated, suggesting to us a time of manufacture two or three years after the very first chairs produced by Metallgewerbe Joseph Müller. Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, we believe, did produce chairs with chrome plating around this time. We are also aware that Bigler, Spichiger und Cie. AG (Bigla) produced Mies chairs at this time. We would date this chair to Ca. 1930. We cannot make a firm attribution to the manufacturer as we have not seen another example with the features present here and have not been able to access original design records. There is no makers label present as is to be expected with such an early production.
This is an original, early chair with replacement thick leather, which has been carefully chosen with aged finish to the white surface. This chair was one of a pair, the first, now sold, had the original leather, this one had leather so deteriorated and torn it had to be replaced. We believe this leather to be fully in keeping, visually, with the age of the chair. All screws and fittings are the original ones
Condition report:
Good used condition with no repairs or damage to the frame, some wear and scratching to the chrome especially at the foota . As mentioned, the leather is a replacement as the original was missing completely from the frame when purchased.
. A fully welded structure, the curved cross member under the seat being welded in place and not screwed in.
. A completely seamless, continuous, tubular frame with no visible joins to the tubular steel at all.
. Steel backing strips which hold the leather to the rear of the frame by screwing into to steel strips welded to the frame itself, rather than into the tubular uprights.
. Small hooks welded to the underside of the seat rails at the front, designed to prevent the leather seat sliding forwands and downwards over the curved leg fronts.
. The frame tapering slightly towards the rear, being widest (49cm) at the mid point of the front curved legs tapering to 47.5 at the rear of the seat, to a minimum width of 45 at the top of the chair.
. The tubing is 25mm in diameter.
These features are, each on their own, unusual and rare if not unique, and when combined in the single chair, lead us to believe that this is a very early example, perhaps some form of prototype and certainly of careful, costly manufacture by hand. The frame is however chrome plated rather than nickel plated, suggesting to us a time of manufacture two or three years after the very first chairs produced by Metallgewerbe Joseph Müller. Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, we believe, did produce chairs with chrome plating around this time. We are also aware that Bigler, Spichiger und Cie. AG (Bigla) produced Mies chairs at this time. We would date this chair to Ca. 1930. We cannot make a firm attribution to the manufacturer as we have not seen another example with the features present here and have not been able to access original design records. There is no makers label present as is to be expected with such an early production.
This is an original, early chair with replacement thick leather, which has been carefully chosen with aged finish to the white surface. This chair was one of a pair, the first, now sold, had the original leather, this one had leather so deteriorated and torn it had to be replaced. We believe this leather to be fully in keeping, visually, with the age of the chair. All screws and fittings are the original ones
Condition report:
Good used condition with no repairs or damage to the frame, some wear and scratching to the chrome especially at the foota . As mentioned, the leather is a replacement as the original was missing completely from the frame when purchased.
David Gerstein French Window Handpainted Layered Steel Wall Sculpture
David Gerstein French Window Handpainted Layered Steel Wall Sculpture
Finnish Arts and Crafts Rocking Chair
An Early 20th Century Finnish rocking chair in Birch, with oil painting to the backrest in the manner of Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
A fine early 19th Century Ladies writing desk in satinwood
A fine early 19th Century Ladies writing desk in satinwood with marquetry inlay. A well made piece, even the reverse is fully finished for central placement in a room.
Original Enid Marx upholstered 1940s Utility ounge chair No.2
An exceptionally rare Easy Chair No.2a as shown in the Fifth Section of the First Utility Furniture Catalogue of 1943. The importance of this chair lies chiefly in that it retains the original Star and Stripe upholstery designed by Enid Marx for the Utility Design Panel in 1945. This textile design was then put into production by Morton Sundour. Chair No.2a was shown in the 1943 Utility catalogue and was not present in the catalogue of 1946. It is in itself a rare survivor. This model was designed by the Utility Advisory Group headed by Gordon Russell. In amazing condition.
B.N.F. Chair By Gaëlle Lauriot Prévost And Dominique Perrault In Doussie Wood. The Original Martin Stoll Edition, Numbered 124, 1995
This is a signed and numbered example of the BNF chair by Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault from the original edition by the Societé MartinStoll. The metal plaque to the upper surface of the backrest frame bears facsimile signatures of the designers and makers and the number 124 .
This chair was designed in 1995 for the French National Library (Bibliothèque National de France - hence BNF)
An unusual design, with bent ply seat and angular frame, the chair is comfortable, designed for use whilst reading, the high back is free to lean backwards against the frame allowing for movement often needed if sitting for a long time.
The ply seat appears to hover within the frame, as it is supported on steel arms under the seat.
The chair is constructed from Doussie wood, and the ply seat similarly faced. The wood is a hard and durable wood which withstands temperature and humidity fluctuations and physical stress very well.
This chair was designed in 1995 for the French National Library (Bibliothèque National de France - hence BNF)
An unusual design, with bent ply seat and angular frame, the chair is comfortable, designed for use whilst reading, the high back is free to lean backwards against the frame allowing for movement often needed if sitting for a long time.
The ply seat appears to hover within the frame, as it is supported on steel arms under the seat.
The chair is constructed from Doussie wood, and the ply seat similarly faced. The wood is a hard and durable wood which withstands temperature and humidity fluctuations and physical stress very well.
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