Design joins the art and antiques at PAN Amsterdam
PAN Amsterdam, the art and antiques fair of today – 23-30 November 2008
Helvoirt, 8 September 2008. PAN Amsterdam is now offering even more to buyers of
art. Timeless designs by Gispen, Rietveld, Charles & Ray Eames and Charlotte
Perriand will soon be available at this art and antiques fair of today. In the new
design pavilion six design specialists will be showing objects and furniture by
prominent Dutch and foreign designers from around 1920 to the 1980s. Like all works
of art at PAN Amsterdam, design objects are vetted for authenticity, quality and
condition. Eleven new exhibitors will be at PAN 2008, and Nico Delaive and Ivo
Bouwman are returning. The house style is new too, in keeping with the fair’s
contemporary presentation and character. The 22nd PAN will be staged in the RAI
Parkhal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 23 to 30 November.
New at PAN Amsterdam: vintage design
Following the recent increase in the modern and
contemporary art offered at the fair, this year PAN will
include vintage design by top 20th-century designers. PAN
Amsterdam is satisfying the growing demand for applied
modern art and top quality design by adding a design
pavilion, making it the first general art and antiques fair to
offer this speciality a real platform. A new vetting
committee will also examine all these objects to ensure
authenticity, quality and condition. Vintage design is
extremely popular among enthusiasts of authentic
lifestyles. They have wide interests, an eye for design and
often combine many styles in their interiors.
DAX by Charles & Ray Eames
What’s on offer in the PAN design pavilion
Six Dutch design specialists are showing national and international style icons from
the period 1920 - 1980.
De Andere Tijd (Kampen) specializes in original Dutch tubular furniture and lighting
from the 1920s and 1930s with design classics by, among others, J.J.P. Oud, Paul
Schuitema , W.H. Gispen and Otto Muller. These architects and designers are
considered modernists and functionalists. On offer will be a kidney-shaped desk in a
chromed steel frame with outward-hinging, black lacquered wood drawers by T.W.
de Wit. It is this architect’s most talked-about design, made in a limited edition and
seldom seen for sale. The Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum has a variation of it. Price €
8,000.
My Modern (Dronten) is internationally regarded as an Eames expert. Among the
pieces by Charles and Ray Eames at PAN there are the LCW (lounge chair wood) in
rosewood and brown leather and a coral-coloured fibreglass tub rocking chair with
an aluminium frame. In contrast there is a red slatted chair with a bowed back and
seat by Rietveld, who was an important source of inspiration for the duo. Rietveld
designed the chair in the 1920s, but it was not made until the 1970s. We only know of
two examples, one of which is in the Stedelijk Museum. Price € 8,500. The aluminium
lighting units that Verner Panton designed in 1969 for the Spiegel building in
Hamburg are also unique. Price for each unit € 2,500.
Whiterouge Gallery (Maastricht) sells vintage design and modern abstract art
including lounge chairs by the Danish designer Grete Jalk and a laminated chair
from 1963 made by Poul Jeppesen.
Casper C. Ansingh (Amsterdam) is showing chair No. 4801 by the Italian industrial
designer Joe Colombo; it is made up of three plywood sections that slot together.
This was his first design for the Italian firm Kartell and dates from 1963/64.
Histoire (Arnhem) specializes in Scandinavian classics with the accent on Danish
designs. The star of this show is a 107 cm high hanging lamp by Louis Poulsen, known
as De Gigant/LP Centrum. The lamp is made of aluminium ribs with slats lacquered in
high gloss white. The conference set by Poul Kjœrholm, produced by E. Kold
Christensen, is another fine example of Danish design. The set consists of six ash
chairs with black leather seats (PK11) and a rectangular table (PK 55).
Frans Leidelmeijer (Amsterdam) is a well-known face at PAN Amsterdam.
Leidelmeijer is tracing the development of design in the 20th century by juxtaposing
items like a child’s chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1915 for an American
children’s nursery and a post-war child’s chair. The traditional nightlight from 1939
with the one-year old Princess Beatrix on the front in plique-à-jour enamelwork is from
another world compared with the avant-garde chromed metal and glass nightlight
from the same year.
New PAN logo and house style
PAN has a new house style. The combination of sanserif capitals for PAN and a serif
font for Amsterdam reflects what PAN Amsterdam stands for: an art and antiques fair
where present and past meet and inspire one another. After all, today’s design is the
antique of the future, and today’s antique was yesterday’s design.
What else is there to PAN?
PAN Amsterdam is an eight-day fair where private and professional collectors can
purchase art and antiques. 128 exhibitors from the Netherlands, Belgium and
Germany exhibit their best works in an area of 13,000 m². There are old and modern
paintings, photographs, furniture, jewellery, silver and glass, antiques, ethnic art,
Asian art and now vintage design pieces too. Old and new go well together at PAN
and asking prices range from €250 to €1,000,000. Items are vetted for quality,
authenticity and condition. PAN Amsterdam only gets the best, so it attracts young
and old alike who delight in buying there.
PAN – a selection from the wide range of art and antiques on offer
Presentations
‘PAN’s most beautiful’
Van Blaricum & Vis (Utrecht) are presenting ‘PAN Amsterdam’s most beautiful’, a
presentation of ten Persian silk carpets from the end of the 19th century. One of
them, a Tabriz, with 800,000 knots per m² is extraordinary. The decorative flower
patterns and the cream, blue and rust colours point to a provenance from the major
Hadji Djalili carpet workshop in Tabriz. The asking price is €85,000.
‘Paintings on porcelain’
An exhibition of Delft plaques can be seen at Aronson Antiquairs (Amsterdam).
These 'porcelain pictures’ served as wall decorations in Dutch interiors. The highlight
is a plaque from around 1690 with a picture of the Niobe frieze in the Palazzo Milesi in
Rome. Measuring 70 X 70 cm it is one of the largest examples known. The asking
price is considerably in excess of €100,000.
Objects
A contemporary portrait
Noortman Master Paintings (Maastricht) has an intimate little 17th-century portrait on
copper of around 11x15 cm, which is an early work by Antwerp artist Gonzales
Coques. The sitter is a young man in his early twenties who regards the viewer with a
lively expression. His fashionable long hair is painted swiftly and accurately and the
many details of the costume are depicted with great care. Price: €125,000.
Party at PAN
Nico Delaive (Amsterdam) has several works by Kees van Bohemen (1928 -1985).
They come from this Dutch Zero artist’s estate and before PAN they were at a
retrospective in the Jan van der Togt Museum. Van Bohemen had a particular style
that fused the abstract and the figurative, and Party, a colourful canvas of human
figures dating from 1977, is typical of his work.
Roy Villevoye and the Asmat
Kunsthandel Rueb (Amsterdam) is offering Compositie, an installation by Roy
Villevoye (1960) for €7,500. The work consists of two plastic bags filled with coloured
sheets and photographs, a skull, wood, canvas, sand, hair, a T-shirt and hardened
clay. Villevoye finds his inspiration among the Asmat tribe in Papua, with whom he
undertakes fascinating projects that bring two very different cultures together.
Silver from royal circles
A. Aardewerk (The Hague) has a silver terrine made in 1736 by the important Hague
silversmith Jacques Tuillier. The family arms engraved on the terrine are those of
Henry Charles, Count of Nassau-La Lecq (1669-1781), a descendant of Prince Maurits
of Orange, Count of Nassau. Price: €85,000.
Chinese guards
The pair of Chinese Lokapalas from the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907) is decorative
and unusual because of their large sizes—123 and 118 cm high. They are on sale for
€350,000 at Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art (Den Bosch). Originally made as a
burial gift, their function was to protect the dead on their journey to the hereafter.
The famous terracotta army of Xian is a well-known example of burial gifts like these.
A PAN souvenir
Dekker Antiquairs (Amsterdam) is selling an English gold bracelet with a small
booklet, set with diamonds, pearls and enamel for €9,500. The word ‘Souvenir’ is
written in large letters on the open pages. The piece was possibly a memento of an
engagement, marriage or birth and the inscription ‘June 21st 1863’ remains a silent
witness to it.
New faces
There are more new faces at PAN Amsterdam:
 Art Affairs (Amsterdam): international art with a strong conceptual character from
1960 to the present day. Work by such people as Armando, Sjoerd Buisman, Ad
Dekkers and Herman de Vries.
 Antiquariaat Forum ('t Goy): atlases, printed books, manuscripts, drawings,
engraved maps and prints, often contemporary coloured.
 Priveekollektie (Heusden a/d Maas): paintings, drawings, photographs, statues,
ceramics and glass by, among others, Anutosh, Pieke Bergmans, Eveline van de
Griend and Christiane Richter.
 Jhr. Guus Röell (Maastricht): furniture, artefacts and paintings made for western
markets and originating from Dutch East India Company trading posts.
 Willy Schoots (Eindhoven): work by international modern artists such as Daniel
Spoerri, Klaas Gubbels, James Brown and Armando.
Ivo Bouwman (The Hague) with 19th and 20th-century paintings and Nico Delaive
(Amsterdam), specialist in modern and contemporary art, are returning to PAN.
PAN Academy
For the second time, in collaboration with the Free Academy, the PAN Academy
has organized a compact course in Dutch for art lovers who already have a
collection or are considering buying art. Among the speakers will be collector Jan
Richter, PAN exhibitors Frans Leidelmeijer, Floris van der Ven and Rutger Brandt, and
artist-collector Sam Drukker. The PAN Academy will take place on 20 October, 3 and
17 November. For further information and to register: www.panacademie.nl
PAN Amsterdam 2008’s main sponsor is Van Lanschot Bankiers
Note for editors:
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For further information:
PAN Amsterdam, Denise Hermanns / Titia Vellenga, T: +31(0) 411 644 440/ E:
press@pan.nl
Contact for PAN Amsterdam in Belgium and Luxembourg:
Truuske Verloop, T: +32 (0) 497 485 967 / E: verloop@telenet.be