AN AMSTERDAM SCHOOL MAHOGANY VENEERED COMMODE, designed by Michiel de Klerk and executed by 't Woonhuys, rectangular shape, the shaped slightly hemispherical top with upstanding rim at the back carved with egg-shapes and flanked on either side by a wooden and wooden inlaid apple and surmounted with wrought-iron swollen cylindrical decoration topped with ball-finial, a central vertical row of four small drawers with coromandel knob-handles set behind and flanking two bombé cupboard doors, each applied with a pair of cast-iron decorative hinges and with ebonised handles formed of swollen cylinders and held at the top and bottom by wrought-iron mounts, with rounded canted side stiles, on two shaped parabola ebonised feet (some stains, scratches and water damage), (1916-1917)

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AN AMSTERDAM SCHOOL MAHOGANY VENEERED COMMODE, designed by Michiel de Klerk and executed by 't Woonhuys, rectangular shape, the shaped slightly hemispherical top with upstanding rim at the back carved with egg-shapes and flanked on either side by a wooden and wooden inlaid apple and surmounted with wrought-iron swollen cylindrical decoration topped with ball-finial, a central vertical row of four small drawers with coromandel knob-handles set behind and flanking two bombé cupboard doors, each applied with a pair of cast-iron decorative hinges and with ebonised handles formed of swollen cylinders and held at the top and bottom by wrought-iron mounts, with rounded canted side stiles, on two shaped parabola ebonised feet (some stains, scratches and water damage), (1916-1917)
129 cm high x 160 cm long x 59.5 cm deep

拍品专文

In 1915 Michiel de Klerk (1884 - 1923) started his first sketches for a thirteen-piece dining-room and living-room suite and for a nine-piece drawing-room suite. He was commissioned by F.J. Zeegers of the 'Amsterdamse Meubileerinrichting 't Woonhuys' to design furniture for 't Woonhuys as the number of commissions in the construction sector, De Klerk being in architect in the first place, were very low that year.
These furniture suites are the most known and probably the best sold suites De Klerk ever designed. Parts of these suites can be find in Holland in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht,
The commode offered for sale here belongs to the nine-piece drawing-room suite which De Klerk designed in 1 15/16 and which was probably not executed until 1917. Only some nineteen sets were made.
The commode was bought by the parents of the present owner between 1917 and 1920 and is the only known surviving example

cf. Wendingen, Maandblad voor bouwen en sieren van Architectura et Amicitia, vol. 1925, issue 7, p. 9 for an illustration of the sideboard
Frans van Burkom, Michiel de Klerk, Rotterdam, 1990, p. 4, no. 1 for an illustration of the complete suite, p. 6 & 7, no. 3 & 4 for a model of the sideboard and an illustration of a photograph giving details as to the materials used, p. 24, no. 16 for an illustration of a design drawing of the sideboard

See illustration and front cover

Catalogus 't Woonhuys, circa 1930, for an illustration of the showroom with the nine-piece suite