AN OAK AND METAL BOOKCASE

Details

Gerrit Th. Rietveld for Metz & Co, circa 1930
AN OAK AND METAL BOOKCASE
Oak shelves on white lacquered and chromium plated metal supports
76.5 cm. high x 219 cm. wide x 38.5 cm. deep

Provenance

Metz & Co, The Hague
Centraal Museum Utrecht (loan)

Literature

Marijke Küper and Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1888-1964, Utrecht, 1992, p. 131

Exhibited

Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1881-1964, 1992-1993 Utrecht, 2de Rietveldhuis, permanent exhibition (recently)

Special notice

Christie’s charges a premium to the buyer on the Hammer Price of each lot sold at the following rates: 29.75% of the Hammer Price of each lot up to and including €5,000, plus 23.8% of the Hammer Price between €5,001 and €400,000, plus 14.28% of any amount in excess of €400,001. Buyer’s premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

Gerrit Rietveld regularly designed interiors in the The Hague shop of Metz & Co. Two bookcases of this design were made for these occasions, but remained unsold. One of them was destroyed during the Second World War. The other is the present lot which was owned by a former employee of Metz & Co, until the father of the present owner inherited the piece.

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