Dutch Art Deco modernist accent table, 1920s

A modestly sized occasional table or accent table, 1920s, with a modernist design. Each tableleg is is a quarter turned relative to the next. The piece is made of solid oak and is heavy, in very good lightly restored condition with respect to the original character.

This design with the perpendicular position of the tablelegs, is reminiscent of tables made by L.O.V. Oosterbeek but it is not marked.

Pictures all taken in natural light and some in bright sunlight, to give a good idea of colour and condition.

In the 1920s, a style of architecture and furniture design emerged that would become known as The Hague School. More sober than the imaginative Amsterdam School and more elegant and luxurious than De Stijl, this style is also called Dutch Art Deco.

After the First World War, young designers such as Izeren, Wouda, and Alons and developed their own modern interior designs. They chose the work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright as their mailsource of inspiration. The result was the now well-known Dutch modernism/ Haagse School style with its straight and cubist shapes.