Writing Desk and Model B Desk Chair - 1957 (design)
Painted wood, wood, and metal
Desk: 83 x 105,5 x 58 cm - Chair: 79 x 40,5 x 47,5 cm
Provenance:
Emile Vandervelde house II , Oostduinkerke
Private collection, Belgium
Literature:
Mil de Kooning, Fredie Floré, Iwan Strauwen, Hedendaags design, Alfred Hendrickx en het fifties-meubel in België, OKV Edition 2000, p.130
Mil de Kooning & Geert Bekaert, Lucien Engels, Architecture Art Design, WZW Editions and Productions, 2009, pp.183-185
Rare ensemble of a writing desk and Model B Chair designed for "Vacances heureuses" Home Emile Vandervelde 2 in Oostduinkerke. In 1999 this complex was demolished, and the remaining furniture was thrown away or destroyed. A limited number of chairs was saved, but of the writing desk, only two seem to have survived.