Fa. Drilling Art Deco Amsterdamse School Ladies Desk, 1924

Magnificent and rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School coffee table. Design by Fa. Drilling Amsterdam. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid walnut base and top with original solid m...

Stunning and rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School armoire or wardrobe. Design by Fa. Drilling Amsterdam. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s. Solid oak with original black lacquered key...

Very elegant lady's desk made of solid walnut and maple. The form consists of simple geometric shapes that are connected and superimposed in such a way that very interesting silhouet...

French Modernist Art Deco desk by Lucien Rollin, circa 1935, in oak with bronze drawer pulls. This desk is part of an office suite by Rollin (please see #1135 for the entire suite) and is available with or without its matching armless chair. The desk is 51” wide x 31.5” deep x 29.5” high and the open height beneath the apron is 23.5”. Lucien Rollin studied at the Ecole Boulle in Paris. Following his studies Rollin worked in the studio of the Master of Art Deco, Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann. Later he returned to the Ecole Boulle while he worked for the architect Michel Roux-Spitz. Rollin participated in Ruhlmann’s Hotel du Collectionneur pavilion at the 1925 Exposition Internationales des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris (now called the 1925 Expo – the exhibition which later launched the term “Art Deco”). In 1928 Rollin set up his own studio and was influenced by a diversity of sources including Ruhlmann, Frank Lloyd Wright, classical Greek and Louis XVI styles. He became a prolific designer of Art Moderne furniture...