Dutch Art Deco Amsterdam School side table with a decorative design, 1920s

An elegant Dutch 1920s occasional table in oak, oak vener and black lacquered details around the tabletop and on the top of each leg.

This piece is in very good lightly restored condition. It's a lightweight table but sturdy and stable. The decorative motifs seen on the four tablelegs and around the top are characteristic for the Amsterdam School style.

''Amsterdam School'' is a collective name for the exuberant, imaginative and innovative design style from the period 1910-1930 by a diverse group of Dutch architects, interior designers and sculptors. Influential architects and designers include Michel De Klerk, Hildo Krop, Piet Kramer en J.M. van der Meij.

The Amsterdam School embodies several contradictions. It is an architecture that is instantly recognisable yet difficult to define. It celebrates the communal and the social yet gives almost infinite room for individual expression. It can look hyper-modern yet curiously medieval. And, at its most creative, it can be utterly, infectiously bizarre.

Amsterdam School architects designed a lot of exteriors and interiors in Amsterdam, but the style spreaded further all around the Netherlands. The Hague has its own variant, called The Hague School.