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PIANO LAMP
Details
JACOBUS JOHANNES PIETER OUD; Holland
PIANO LAMP
designed 1928, for W.H. Gispen, Rotterdam, patinated brass, cylindrical shade counter-balanced by spherical weight, on circular platform
12in.(30.5cm.) overall length
PIANO LAMP
designed 1928, for W.H. Gispen, Rotterdam, patinated brass, cylindrical shade counter-balanced by spherical weight, on circular platform
12in.(30.5cm.) overall length
Literature
Modernism: 1880-1940, Duncan, ACC, Minneapolis, 1998, p.135 similar example illustrated
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.
Further details
The example offered is from the first series of production, c.1928. Examples manufactured subsequently in the 1930s featured a switch to the circular platform. Oud met Theo van Doesburg and Gerrit Rietveld in 1915, and joined with them in developing the De Stijl movement. In 1918 Oud was appointed Rotterdam City Architect, and in 1927 designed strictly geometric housing for the 1927 Weissenhof housing exhibition in Stuttgart. This design, of simple rectilinear form and constructed from six basic geometric components, is widely recognised as a benchmark of early modernism.