Retrospect Furniture

Gold colored aluminium pendant lamp. The model is called "Circle" and was produced by Nordisk Solar in the 1980s. Inspired by the semi pendant lamp by Fog and Morup. The lamp is in g...

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...

Set of three nesting tables. Model "Isocele" designed by Max Sauze for Arrow in the 1970s. Made from steel wire with a glass top. The small glass top has some chips of one corner. Th...

Large uplighter space age wall lamp. designed by Giuseppe Ostuni for Oluce Italy in the 1950s. The saucer shaped shade measures 46cm in diameter. It holds 2 E27 bulbs. Suitable for 1...

Minimalistic designed writing desk. The top is made from solid wood and is painted green. The top has 5 drawers. 3 located on the front and 1 on each side. The middle drawer is the d...

Hand knotted oriental wall hanging. Made from wool, jute and other natural materials. The piece is still in very good condition. Hand-knotted in ...

Abstract cubist quilted wall hanging. Made from fabric depicting a town with a surrounding of waves and multicolored other textures. The style ca...

Mid century sideboard with sliding doors and 3 interior drawers. Designed by Ditte and Adrian Heath and produced by France & son (CADO) in the 1960s in Denmark. Made from solid oak...

Mid century table lamp. The base is made from turned hardwood and the shade is made from animal leather. The base has a magnificent grain pattern and deep and rich colors. The shade...

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 ...

Three column table lamp. Manufactured by Swiss company Temde in the 1970s. Made from solid robust pine. The three columns measure 40, 53, and 59cm in height. the globes measure 14cm ...

Back lit wall mirror. Designed by Emil Stejnar and produced by Rupert Nikoll, Austria in the 1950s. The mirror has an edge made from numerous glass flowers that reflect en disperse t...

Large brutalist style table lamp. Made from a heavy iron chain. The links have been welded to each other creating the illusion that it is defying gravity. Made in France somewhere in...

Space age table lamp. In the style of the moon rock lamp series by Andre Cazenave. The globe is made from fiberglass with ground mineral powder giving it a moon like appearance in bo...

Mid century flush mount ceiling lamp. Designed and made by Dutch company RAAK in the 1960s. It has a metal gallery with a s...

Space age wall hanging. Hand woven in the 1970s. The colors are still bright and livid. Made from poly-acrylic fibers. Amazing piece that will draw attention and bring color and a ...

Handcrafted slatted coffee table. Made from solid oak. The oak slats are connected to each other with wooden dowels. Dark stained wood with signs of use and wear consistent with age....

Wabi sabi style side table. It was handcrafted from solid oak. The base is made from a log of oak set on two handcrafted feet. Unique and natural item that will look great in virtual...

Meet "this is not a chair too". Unique and handcrafted piece by Dutch artist Max Jungblut. This "chair" is a sculptural interpretation of the "Searching" ...

Handcrafted table lamp by Fred and Andree Stocker. Made from ceramics with a blue glaze finish. The inner part fits inside the main piece. We are not exactly sure what the creators i...

Handmade set of two brutalist stools. Hand carved from solid wood. The seats have serrated edges resembling industrial cogs. They differ slightly in siz...

Set of two sculpted architectural columns. They are made from some kind of cast stone or plaster. They were probably meant as fireplace columns s...

Mid century Scandinavian modern pendant lamp. Designed by Uno and Östen Kristiansson for Luxus Sweden in the 1960s. It has a pine gallery with plexiglass top and bottom diffusers and...

Set of 2 floor standing candle holders. Made from wood and brass. They came from a monastery in Oirschot Netherlands The bases are made ...

Statue of two bears playing. It is made from ceramic with a copper colored glazing. Made in the 1960s in Spain by Santa Monica pottery. Marked underneath but...

Unique hand crafted brutalist wall lamp. The main design is made from wrought and welded iron with chunky pieces of crystal glass set in brackets.. It is mounted on a copper backplat...

Small hand turned ceramic vase or container in earth tone colors. It has three globes with the upper globe functioning as a lid. The creator is unknown. But could easily be a design ...

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...

Large modernist bench. Made from solid wood. The bench consists of two halves that are joined together with wood dowels and 2 large metal bolts. They can also be used as 2 separate s...

Surrealist abstract sculpture made from different kinds of wood. Created by Dutch visual artist Frederik Weerkamp. This sculpture was part of his personal collection. It depicts a p...

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...

Set of 4 J-151 dining chairs. Designed in the 1960s by Erik Ole Jørgensen and manufactured by Kvist möbler Denmark in the 1960s. They have a white lacquered beech frame. The paint is original and unrestored. The seats have been reupholstered in wool Teddy fabric. Very comfortable and warm natural material. Erik Ole Jorgensen was born in Denmark in 1925 and died in 2002. A Danish furniture designer...

Handcrafted anthroposophical desk lamp. Made from pine and brass. Adjustable in angle and reach. It is fitted with an e14 plug. Intended for use on a 240volts network but it can also...

Minimal design wall mirror. It has a round mirror in a copper frame. Handcrafted in the 1950s in the Netherlands. The copper has gained a beautiful patina throughout the years. The p...

Cast bronze candelabra. It has 4 arms that are set on a central rod. The arms can rotate around the rod. At the bottom it is capped with a cast bronze cap and at the top it has a cas...

Dispersion glass wall lamp. Made by Kalmar Austria in the 1970s. This is model "Herrenberg" mentioned in the 1972 catalogue. It has three E14 plugs. Suitable for both European and US...

Secretary desk made by German company Wasa in 1992. it is made from solid pine. It has a lid that folds down to function as a work top. Behind the lid there are shelves and drawers....

Abstract artisan folk art wall hanging. It is made of wood with nails hammered into it in a rectangular grid. The nails are hammered in at differ...

Brass spiraling artwork on a black marble base. Attributed to Curtis Jere 1970s. Highly decorative piece of art that also makes a beautiful sound by "pl...

Set of 2 ceramic table lamps. Probably designed by Piet Knapper and manufactured by the Mobach ceramic studio. The lamps are made from ceramic and glazed in blueish gray. The texture...

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 ...

Mid century spindle planter. designed by Anton Bee and Willy Guhl. Manufactured by Eternit SA, Switzerland in the 1950s. The planter is made from fibre reinforced cement. It has been...

Handcrafted living room or patio set. It is made in the style of Gerrit Rietveld and is clearly inspired by his legendary "kratstoel" or "crate chair" where difference lies in the amount of slats in the seat and back. This set was made during the 1950s and is entirely made from pine and assembled using round headed screws that are recessed in the wood. Made with great eye for detail. The set consists of 2 two-seater sofas and 1 lounge chair. Dimensions sofa: W. 130cm H. 70cm D. 75cm Dimensions chair. W. 75cm H. 70cm D. 75cm Seat height: sloping back from 33 to 27cm Armrest height: 52cm De Stijl (Dutch for "The Style"), also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden. De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a more narrow sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands. Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colors. De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg that served to propagate the group's theories. Along with van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian, Vilmos Huszár, Bart van der Leck, and the architects Gerrit Rietveld, Robert van 't Hoff, and J. J. P. Oud. The artistic philosophy that formed a basis for the group's work is known as Neoplasticism—the new plastic art (or Nieuwe Beelding in Dutch). According to Theo van Doesburg in the introduction of the magazine De Stijl 1917 no.1, the "De Stijl"-movement was a reaction to the "Modern Baroque" of the Amsterdam School movement (Dutch expressionist...

Set of 16 highly original miniature furniture. It consist of a dining table with 4 chairs, 2 beds with night stands and an occasional chair an a l...

Ceramic mid century table lamp with a plexiglass diffusor and fabric shade. Most likely designed by Bjorn Wiinblad in the 1960s. The lamp is marked with the manufacturer stamp of Rosenthal. It is part of the "Studio line" series which included vases, pots, lamps, tableware etc. The measurements including the shade are: H. 44cm, ø. 27cm The base measures: H. 30cm, ø. 21cm Bjørn Wiinblad (20 September 1919 – 8 June 2006), was a Danish painter, designer and artist in ceramics, silver, bronze, textiles, and graphics. His work has been shown widely in Europe, in the United States of America first in 1954 and in Japan, Australia and Canada in 1968. Wiinblad was named Man of the Year in New York in 1985 and was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Cultural Prize of 1995. Rosenthal Porcelain Company Wiinblad was an important designer for the Rosenthal porcelain company. His most popular Rosenthal dinnerware...

Small cast bronze abstract statue. It depicts a female cello player sitting on a round stool. It is designed in the style of Yves Lohé. No signature or markings visible. - Abstrac...

Large set of 15 space age flush mount lamps. The have a trumpet or tulip style shape. The measure 10cm in diameter and 11 cm in height (height measured without a bulb). Suitable for e27 LED, halogen and normal bulbs. Made by German company Cosack in the 1960s. All the lamps are in good used condition with minimal signs of age and use. They come without a bulb. The socket is a standard e27 screw socket. They are intended for hardwiring to a wall or ceiling junction box. The lamps are suitable for both European and US use depending on the voltage of the bulb used. Cosack Leuchten Founded in 1848 by the 3 brothers...

Set of 3 sculptural ‘Balance’ sconces in very good condition. Designed by the French designer / architect Bertrand Balas and manufactured by RAAK Amsterdam in the 1960s. The sconce...

Unique hammered iron wall lamp with bells. Intended for mounting above a door and fulfilling two functions. Illuminating the doorway and as a doorbell. The door would hit the bells a...

Original low stool. Made from bentwood and woven cane. Made by Thonet in the 1950s. Stamped with the Thonet name underneath.

Original mid-century umbrella stand in the manner of Mathieu Mategot. It is made from metal mesh. The white paint is original. Besides an umbrella stand it is also suitable as a wast...

Designed in collaboration with Theo Ruth, Frans Bergs & Jacques Weijenbergh. Model 158F. Produced for only a very short period (1958 - 1961). Important chairs designed by Theo Ruth ...

Unique and handcrafted freestanding bookcase. Made from solid wood. the frame has rounded edges by joining pieces of wood cut in a certain angle together and creating a curve. The pi...

Original French infirmary daybed. It came from the monastery of Holtum in the Netherlands. The monastery was run by a French order of nuns who came to the Netherlands in 1901 after b...

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 ...

Model 111 "Wink" lounge chair. Designed in the 1980s by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina. It is adjustable in multiple ways. The back is reclinable into an almost horizontal position. The ...

Exclusive high board cabinet in hardwood with 2 doors and 4 drawers. This exceptional piece is part of the Rungstedlund series. Hinges and keys in ...

Mid century sputnik chandelier. Designed and made by Ernst Palme in the 1960s, Germany. The lamp has 17 lights and is fitted with 16 facet cut Swarovski crystal globes reflecting the...