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Rosewood and brown leather: a pair of Cassina 917s

Start with the Cassina 917 armchairs by Afra and Tobia Scarpa, two of them, rosewood frames and brown leather, the kind of lot a dealer builds a page around. Jean-Michel Store is a vintage dealer in the Netherlands supplying interiors, retailers and collectors worldwide, and the nineteen pieces listed here show the range: Italian and German seating, Danish and Dutch cabinetry, a few lamps. Not one style. Space-age plastics next to rosewood, lacquer next to cast glass, documented designers next to anonymous Dutch production from the 1970s.

The Dieter Rams 620 chair for Vitsoe still has its plastic shell and its soft brown fabric. The Cini Boeri Brigadier two-seater for Knoll shows a high-gloss beige lacquered frame; the Carlo Bartoli Blop group puts deep green velvet on black lacquered resin. The dining chairs come as sets: Lübke in teak with beige wool seats, the Ernst Moeckl Z Chair in brown lacquered PU, the Augusto Savini Pamplona chair for Pozzi in cognac leather, and plain Dutch wooden chairs from the 1970s. Together they make Jean-Michel Store one of the larger sources of vintage armchairs and vintage dining chairs on the site.

The Heinz Lilienthal coffee table rests a 30 mm slab of cast glass on a wooden base stained cream-white; the Willy Rizzo dining set answers in black lacquered wood and brushed steel. Storage: the Behr 1307 Diamond sideboard and its highboard, mahogany veneer outside and pale maple inside; a brutalist bar cabinet from the 1970s in black oak with white doors; the Arne Vodder rosewood secretary for Sibast. Lighting: the Carlo Nason LT 361 table lamp, an aluminium frame holding four white crystal glass panels, and the iGuzzini Kuala floor lamp, also 1970s. Jean-Michel Store sells every one of these as found, with its condition written up on the page; that record, not a reissue number, is what makes the object collectible.

The Oblist places Jean-Michel Store in its vintage selection, next to contemporary studios from more than forty countries. Pieces ship from the dealer in the Netherlands. Interior designers and architects sourcing seating, a sideboard or a 1970s lamp for a residential, hospitality or office project can apply to the Architect Trade Program.