Frits Spanjaard Cupboards

For your consideration is this rather stylish and unusual 1930's Art Deco Modernist occasional table. Ideal size for modern day use. Very attractive 1930's beautifully figured Walnut...

Beautiful chunky oakwood cupboard made by a Danish Cabinetmaker in the 1920s. Wonderful hand carved motifs with middle-aged themes on the front of the doors. Baroque styled legs. Ori...

A real treasure from the 1930s is this Art Deco cupboard. Originally a bedroom piece with two very spacious, very generously sized open shelves with a sectioned area at the base for shoes. However this piece would also lend itself very well as a piece of office furniture. On first viewing this piece one can't not be impressed by the obvious quality and size, made from solid mahogany for the carcass with bleached blonde walnut...

Wonderful two-piece Art Deco kitchen cabinet from the 1930s. High-quality corpus made of wooden panels with ten doors, four shelves, one pull-out, fou...

This cabinet features a drawer and five shelves. It was crafted in the parish of Bonfim, Porto, Portugal, by Armazéns Nascimento, and is adorned with brass handles. In Porto, piece...

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...

Art déco kitchen cabinet from the 1920s. High-quality corpus made of blockboard in ash veneer with two foors, two glass doors, two solid wood drawers,...

A remarkable pine and cream painted plywood cupboard on black painted steel base. Strong utilitarian design very much in the style and time period of the works of Charlotte Perriand...

An Art Deco three sectioned dressing cupboard. Central variegated drawers flanked by to interior mirrored shelving compartments. Burr elm on solid mahogany with ebonised handles. Eas...

Astonishing corner cupboard attributed to Marcello Piacentini, important Italian furniture veneered in walnut wood, to note its unique design and t...

Buffet Art Deco Material: wood Style: Art Deco Country: France If you want to live in the golden years, this is the buffets that your project needs. We have specialized in the sale...

Amazing siderboard with drawers in wood Style: Art Deco Year: 1920 Material: wood and glass If you want to live in the golden years, this is the siderboard that your project needs. W...