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Hendrik Petrus Berlage. Dutch. A set of four Gothic Revival oak side chairs with a progressive A frame design to the legs, echoing design from the Gothic revival period and particularly A W N Pugin in Great Britain and Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc in France. Berlage is considered the Father of Modern Architecture in the Netherlands and his designs closed the gaps between the Traditionalists and the Modernists, Berlage's theories inspired a new generation of Dutch architects in the 1920s, including the Traditionalists, the Amsterdam School, De Stijl and the New Objectivists. He designed Holland House in 1916, in Bury Street in the City of London for a Dutch shipping company and travelled extensively in europe and also visited America in 1911 where he was heavily influenced by the work of Frank Llyod Wright. He received the British RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1932. Works of Berlage are in the public collections of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Museum de Fundatie, and Kröller-Müller Museum. Circa 1900. £4500.
