AN OAK TURNABLE DESK-CHAIR, designed by Michiel de Klerk for the director's room of the Stoomvaartmaatschappij Nederland in the Scheepvaarthuis, Amsterdam and probably executed by 't Woonhuys, Amsterdam, angular and curved U-shape backrest curving around the seat and extending into the armrests, the armstiles carved at the front angle with linear decoration, shaped square padded seat, the hexafoil column base set just below the seat with a dodecagonal disc, on dodecagonal slightly domed foot, seat, back and part of arms upholstered in brown plastic material and adorned with round-headed copper bolts, with circular metal tag stamped SN 215, 1915-1916

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AN OAK TURNABLE DESK-CHAIR, designed by Michiel de Klerk for the director's room of the Stoomvaartmaatschappij Nederland in the Scheepvaarthuis, Amsterdam and probably executed by 't Woonhuys, Amsterdam, angular and curved U-shape backrest curving around the seat and extending into the armrests, the armstiles carved at the front angle with linear decoration, shaped square padded seat, the hexafoil column base set just below the seat with a dodecagonal disc, on dodecagonal slightly domed foot, seat, back and part of arms upholstered in brown plastic material and adorned with round-headed copper bolts, with circular metal tag stamped SN 215, 1915-1916
85.5 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. Frans van Burkom, Michel de Klerk 1884-1923, Bouw- en Meubelkunstenaar, Rotterdam, 1990, p. 20, no. 12, for an illustration of the interior of the director's room of the 'Konijnklijke Nederlandse pakketvaar' in the 'Scheepvaarthuis' in Amsterdam which De Klerk designed in 1912-1914, on which another desk-chair is visible; p. 25, no. 17, for an illustration of a chair for the director's room of the 'Stoomvaartmaatschappij Nederland'

Christie's wants to thank Frans van Burkom of the RKD for his help in cataloguing this lot

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