Sculptural Primitive French Folk Art Elm Chair

A super sculptural French artist made steel “throne” chair. Clean design with heavily patinated sheet steel. Acquired from the artists house on the outskirts of Paris.

An exceptional 18th C. elm dinning table from Northern France (most probably Normandy). Simply and solidly constructed Heavily patinated top with many age old repairs. A comfortab...

A C.1950s primitive riven slate occasional table/plinth from the Angers region of France. Simple interlocking base. Able to be fully dismantled.

A small 6 seater mountain dinning table constructed in our London workshop from slabs of 18th C. Catalan walnut. Heavily patinated with many age old repairs.

A good sized 19th Catalan dinning table with traditional “A” frame legs. Heavily patinated through years of use with many age old repairs. Sympathetically restored in our London wo...

A super rare late 17th C. Bench from Galicia. Primitive yet solid construction with a very contemporary form. Beautiful texture with 300 years of patination. Spain C.1690

Rustic folk art chair from Northern Sweden. The chair is unique and hand-made into a primitive example of an antique chair. The pine has never been pa...

18th century hedge row chair in elm from England. Has the crest detail on top. Beautiful patina, circa 1760.

French alp, folk art , chair.

19th century English Folk Art stick chair made out of elm. Surprisingly comfortable and worn on the ends of the arms where someone would have handled to...

Koncz Vilmos (1932 – 2006). He started painting at the age of 30, using the following techniques: charcoal, pastel, oil. He has had solo exhibitions eight times in Budapest, and his works have been featured in seventeen group exhibitions worldwide. He was an experimental creator. Its more than 420 works include glass mosaics, terracotta, copper embossing and furniture carving. After his death, most of his oeuvre was “lost”. A decade and a half passed from painting to the first carvings. Middle Eastern and African culture had a major impact on his further artistic work. Traveled and created in Baghdad, Kuwait, Beirut and Tanzania. He became acquainted with the ancient folk art of the Makonde tribe, with carvings of ebony and ivory, which changed his creative career. When he made an authentic bracelet out of ivory, decorated with African motifs, the members of the tribe welcomed him among themselves. He became the tribe’s "Mister Vili." An exhibition of his painted paintings was held at the Kilimanjaro Hotel. He learned the machining of copper from the Arabs and the making of glass mosaics, and the tricks of jewelry making from the Hindus. He had forty large sculptures erected in various settlements of Hungary, mostly multi-field, made with a circular carving technique. Everything from ornaments on the table to the three-meter-high monument was found in his oeuvre. The Tiszakürt Arboretum also houses two wooden sculptures made of circular carvings: Tasso and the Tanzanian family tree. Donated works of his hometown: the 1956 headboard, the “Jászok” and “Kunok” (Old Hungarian Tribes), the “Flute”, the “Kolompolás” (Ringing the Bell) and the “Winged Altar”. In the 1980s, he also made carvings for the Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden. His Ars Poetic was: “I do what I love, which drives from within, because I want to leave marks behind that I once existed and perhaps not uselessly” (2002). The term "Brutalist" originated from Le Corbusier’s Cité...

French primitive chair France, early 20th century Artisan crafted, rustic look and feel Chair frame is made of raw wood Bowtie back support ...