Lot 206
M. RYDER (DANISH 20TH CENTURY) AND ESKILD PONTOPPIDAN (DANISH 1933-) FOR DANSK MØBELKUNST Y
STACKABLE TABLES, c.1962
Auction: MODERN MADE | Lots 1 - 422 | Fri 01 May at 10am
Description
manufacturer's metal label (to underside), rosewood
Dimensions
stacked: 54cm high, 55cm wide, 55cm deep (21 ¼in high, 21 5/8in wide, 21 5/8in deep)
Footnote
Literature:
see Jalk, Grete (ed.), Dansk Møbelkunst gennem 40aar 1957-1966, Teknologisk Instituts Forlag, København, 1987, pp.206-7, illustrated, for an example of this model which was exhibited in the Copenhagen Cabinetmaker's Guild Exhibition in 1962.
Bent Salicatb wrote that ‘… I am quite sure that Kaare Klint would have been pleased to see M. Ryder’s and Eskild Pontoppidan's stackable tables, made by Ludwig Pontoppidan. Here is a beautiful example of a solution to a functional and mathematical problem: to make tables which could be stacked. As opposed to the usual suspended small tables, they were of the same height and they were made in sizes which allowed them to be placed end to end in spite of the fact that they were stackable. The construction is simple, elegant and strong…'
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