Book Stand by Aksel Bender Madsen and Ejnder Larsen for Willy Beck, 1959

A comfortably wide (27.5’’) conference chair in solid teak and black leather. The designers characteristically clad the upper half of the chair in black leather while the exposed woo...

An tight back and seat sofa with dowel legs newly upholstered in a flecked oatmeal grey fabric.

A spare and well crafted stool having a shapely black leather seat floating on tapered teak dowel legs.

A spare and well crafted stool having a shapely black leather seat floating on tapered teak dowel legs.

Please note that this listing is for the Slant Book Stand and does not include the white pedestal. An abstracted icon that has wiped its traces, the slant is pure, saturated prese...

Antique panorama children’s book illustrated by Willy Pogany and retold by Edith L Elias. A total of 14 panels, one side with illustrations, and the other with text. Published by George G. Harrap & Company. This book is part of a children’s series by Willy Pogány of folding panoramas illustrations and text, inspired by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 epic, The Song of Hiawatha. Lines from Longfellow run underneath Pogány’s illustrations, which follow the Ojibwe child Hiawatha from his early kinship with the wild animals, through his struggles with Nahma, King of Fishes, and his own estranged father, Mudjekeewis, up to his courtship of Laughing Water (Minnehaha). The prose text by Edith Elias, printed on the verso of the panorama, carries Hiawatha’s story farther, through the death of Minnehaha and the coming of “the Pale-Face Chief.” Pogány’s dynamic frames, with their striking use of negative space, show the influence not only of Golden Age illustrators like Walter Crane, but also the new generation of cartoonists like Winsor McCay...

Dated 1765 a pewter book stand size 20cms high open 25cms x 30cms flat

A fine English table top lectern, missal or book stand of brass, featuring a reading top with pierced quatrefoils at each corner. The revolving recta...