Pollaro Ruhlmann Reproduction “Granet” Macassar Ebony Executive Desk

A four-paneled screen in the Art Deco style. Handmade by Pollaro artisans. Straw marquetry on a hand polished solid walnut base. Straw m...

Ultimate comfort with firm body support and five different incline positions. A head pillow delivers idea positioning of the head and neck. Constructed by hand using solid titanium h...

Red, white, and black Art Deco styled art featuring stylized fish and geometric shapes. Handmade by Pollaro artisans utilizing traditional Asian eggshell inlay and lacquer...

Designed to withstand the elements...beautifully. An exterior table handmade by Pollaro master craftsmen to exude timelessness, artistry, and function. ...

Designed to withstand the elements beautifully. This exterior side table is handmade by Pollaro master craftsmen from hand-selected Burmese teak fr...

Bodil Kjaer designed the prototype for this impressive modernist desk in 1959 for the Massachusetts Institute Technology. This iteration of her work desk, a small reissue in 2007-200...

Desk by Margareta Köhler (1901-1974). ca. 1938. Macassar Ebony. Desk with detachable top with two drawers. Designed by Margreta Köhler for...

Vintage executive desk designed in the United States, circa 1970s. This refinished desk is extremely attractive to any viewer due to the versatility of the design and the elegance of...

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...