A PANELLED OAK DESK, designed by H. van Dorp, rectangular top lined with green material resting on a central drawer flanked on either side by a smaller drawer, above two cupboard doors with fitted interiors, on six shaped rectangular section legs, with carved linear decoration

PROPETY OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE H. VAN DORP

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A PANELLED OAK DESK, designed by H. van Dorp, rectangular top lined with green material resting on a central drawer flanked on either side by a smaller drawer, above two cupboard doors with fitted interiors, on six shaped rectangular section legs, with carved linear decoration
76 cm high x 138 cm wide x 77 cm deep

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H. van Dorp (1872-1936) was trained at the Quillinus School in Amsterdam after which he designed furniture for a.o. the firm for Jansen & Zonen in Amsterdam. He received the 'Medaille d'Or' for the furniture he designed for working-class houses in 1916 and for the furniture he designed for L'Exposition Internationale des Art Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925

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