Dick Cordemeijer Cleopatra Daybed for Auping, Netherlands, circa 1960

David Horan (born in Dublin, 1982) is a multidisciplinary designer and manufacturer based in London. With a Master of Arts in Design Products from the Royal College of Art 2013, he cut his cloth with London-designers Faye Toogood and Michael Anastassiades, before opening his own studio in 2021. This handmade daybed is part of the inaugural furniture and lighting collection by Horan entitled Paper. The collection ‘Paper’, designed exclusively with Béton Brut gallery, sees Horan as a modern decoupeur, applying his material to an original series of works. The magic of paper is grounded in forms as precise as they are architectonic. Evoking Deco and Classical, the geometries contain harmony in ratio. ‘Paper’ is as much an experiment in de-composition as re-composition, the Dragon Skin daybed, left raw, is made from vintage handmade paper...

Four stools or side tables, design attributed to Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld. They were made in the 1970s from plywood and oak and sold in pairs. Rietveld’s designs were open sou...

This daybed was designed by Dick Cordemeijer in 1954. It is a beautiful and typical example of Dutch design. The frame is made of black coated metal and the ends are made of solid te...

The Arielle daybed is often misattributed to Wim Rietveld but is actually by the hand of Dick Cordemeijer who started at Auping in 1953 and was responsible for their famous 'Cleopatr...