Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Dutch, 1917-1995
Revered Dutch mid-century modernist designer Cees Braakman had been creating furniture since his teenage years when he was promoted to head of design at UMS Pastoe in 1948. Today’s vintage furniture enthusiasts know that Braakman found inspiration in works by Scandinavian artisans such as Alvar Aalto and Herman Miller luminaries Charles and Ray Eames — Braakman’s clean-lined dining chairs, sleek sideboards and other case pieces are demonstrative of those influences.
UMS Pastoe was established in 1913 by German-Jewish entrepreneur Frits Loeb and became rapidly successful largely owing to its reputation for well-made tables and chairs. However, the Dutch brand is best known by collectors for the modular sideboards, storage cabinets and other spare, streamlined case pieces that it produced during the postwar years.
The Utrecht-born Braakman took over for his father, Dirk, who had by then been managing the company for more than 20 years and had designed a variety of furnishings for the manufacturer by himself. A year before he assumed his new role at Pastoe, Cees visited the United States where he became enamored with the designs of Charles and Ray Eames and the other creative minds associated with legendary American furniture manufacturer Herman Miller.
While many Dutch designers who are now celebrated by vintage furniture collectors — names like Gerrit Rietveld and Friso Kramer are in this list — found inspiration in Piet Mondrian and the country’s De Stijl art movement, they also looked to Scandinavian modernists such as Alvar Aalto and Americans such as the Eameses. Cees Braakman was no different.
Braakman’s 1940s-era tour to the States included a visit to the Herman Miller factory in Zeeland, Michigan. At the time, architect-designer-journalist George Nelson was director of design at the firm and had enlisted a range of designers to collaborate with Herman Miller and create what are now icons of mid-century modernism. Braakman took notice of industrial manufacturing techniques at HM and in particular, the company’s innovations in furniture design owing to experimentation with molded plywood and fiberglass-reinforced plastic.
The Dutch designer introduced the first line of modern furniture at UMS Pastoe thereafter — a table, a chair, a bed and more created in molded plywood and featuring oak veneers, specifically tailored for smaller living spaces. Braakman was convinced that Pastoe should move on from the restrictions that a collection or set of furniture presented to consumers.
Furniture for a bedroom, for example, should be practical and built as individual pieces that could be adapted as more space became available. New production methods and creative marketing came into focus under Braakman’s leadership, and his own lines of oak and birch furniture — which were created around cupboards that could be reconfigured as needed, or armchairs that could be combined to form a sofa — earned acclaim and were commercially very successful.
UMS Pastoe was recognized for its innovative furniture at the Milan Triennial in 1957 and Le Signe d’Or in Belgium, and Cees Braakman’s work can today be found at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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Creator: Cees Braakman
Cees Braakman TU04 Coffee Table with Reversible Teak & White Top for Pastoe, NIB
By Pastoe, Cees Braakman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
From the family that originally owned it comes this 1958 TU04 Cees Braakman Modernist coffee table with black enameled metal frame and reversible top in teak and white Formica with l...
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Pastoe Coffee Table Model TA 07 by Cees Braakman with Reversible Top
By Pastoe, Cees Braakman
Located in Hellouw, NL
Pastoe coffee table Model TA 07 by Cees Braakman with reversible top, Netherlands 1950s. This Coffee Table is made of Teak Wood and has a reversible top with teak veneer on one side ...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Mid Century teak coffee table.
By Cees Braakman
Located in Weesp, NL
1950's Cees Braakman Mid Century Cees Teak Coffee Table.
Beautiful teak coffee table with reversible top, designed in the 1950s by the Dutch designer Cess Braakman for Pastoe.
As c...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Cees Braackman for Editions Pastoé, coffee table
By Cees Braakman, Pastoe
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Cees Braackman for Editions Pastoé, coffee table
the tray is scratched and there is a major blow, it will be necessary to sand the tray, or even to reapply it.
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Elegant Serving Trolley by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, Netherlands, 1950s
By Pastoe, Cees Braakman
Located in Voorburg, NL
Beautiful serving trolley in totally original state. Designed by Cees Braakman and produced by UMS Pastoe. The trolley has a solid teak frame and glass plates with original rubber pr...
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Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Pastoe Coffee table Model TH08 van Cees Braakman 1960s
By Cees Braakman, Pastoe
Located in Den Haag, NL
Beautiful vintage teak coffee table with reversible top. One side is teak veneered and the other side is white Laminate . Extremely useful at parties so that the table top cannot be ...
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1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Teak
Rare Combex series TB14 coffee table by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1950's
By Cees Braakman, Pastoe
Located in Steenwijk, NL
These tables are rare to come by. The set of two makes a perfect match due to the puzzle shape. The tables can be attached or used separately. The combex series is one of the earlies...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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New in Box Cees Braakman "TU04" Coffee Table with Reversible Top for Pastoe
By Pastoe, Cees Braakman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
From the original owners family comes this rare, never used "TU04" modernist coffee table, designed in 1958 by Dutch Mid-Century great Cees Braakman for widely acclaimed furniture ma...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Coffee table 'TA07' Japanese series by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, Netherlands
By Pastoe, Cees Braakman
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Reversible Top Coffee table TA 07 by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1960s
Coffee table - Japanese series - Cees Braakman - Pastoe - Netherlands 1960s
Wear consistent with age and use : M...
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Vintage coffee table by Cees Braakman for Pastoe Japanese series Model TU04
By Cees Braakman, Pastoe
Located in Breda, NB
Vintage coffee table by Cees Braakman for Pastoe Japanese series Model TU04.
Dimensions:
Width: 120 cm
Depth: 63 cm
Height: 46.5 cm
The table ...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Teak
TU04 Coffee Table by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1960s
By Cees Braakman
Located in Langemark-Poelkapelle, BE
Coffee table TU04 designed by Cees Braakman for Pastoe in the 1950s.
This table has a reversible table top (teak or formica side), black metal legs a...
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1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cees Braakman Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Mid century PT10 serving cart by Cees Brakeman for Pastoe, Netherlands 1950s
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Mid century serving cart. Model PT10 designed by Cees Brakeman for Pastoe in the 1950s. It has two trays made of shaped plywood. The frame is also made of plywood. Well designed piece with very nice details. It stands on the original castors. The cart can be disassembled. It was sold originally as flat packed furniture. For shipping it will be disassembled for safer and easier transport. Easy to put back together again with the original brass bolts.
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UMS Pastoe b.v. is a Dutch furniture manufacturer from Utrecht, which designs and produces furniture under the Pastoe brand name. This company was founded on April 13, 1913 in Utrecht as UMS, which stood for Utrechtse Machinale Stoel- en Meubelfabriek. The name Pastoe comes from "passe partout" and was added to the name after the Second World War
Well-known designs are the wire steel chair SM05 by Cees Braakman and Adriaan Dekker, the cabinets by Aldo van den Nieuwelaar and Vision by Karel Boonzaaijer and Pierre Mazairac. Pastoe has worked with graphic designers such as Dick Bruna and Benno Premsela, photographers such as Ed van der Elsken and Cas Oorthuys and designers such as Shiro Kuramata, Shigeru Uchida, Maarten Van Severen and Vincent van Duysen.
Frits Loeb founded the factory in 1913 under the name Utrechtse Machinale Stoel- en Meubelfabriek (UMS). This was located at Oosterkade 30 in Utrecht. The furniture that was produced was initially intended for his store at the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht, but soon it was sold at various points of sale in the Netherlands.
When the space on the Oosterkade had become too small, the factory moved around 1918 to the building of the former Tegelfabriek 'Holland' on the Rotsoord. Since 2016, the factory has been on the Tugboat in Houten.
UMS focused on the general public with its furniture. Business manager and designer Dirk Lubertus Braakman varied on the designs of the Amsterdam school. Although the business design style did not suit the taste of the general public, UMS continued to engage in innovative design, with influences from Scandinavia and art deco.
After World War II
After the Second World War, Loeb found an empty factory. He decided to rebuild UMS, with his cousin Frits Ullman assisting him. In the first years after the war, UMS mainly worked on behalf of third parties and did not yet have a permanent collection. Around 1947, the factory set a different course, with contemporary design central. In 1948, the new brand name Pastoe was introduced, which was added to the abbreviation UMS.
Business manager and designer Cees Braakman, after a study trip through the United States, introduced a new technique of curved plywood and persuaded Loeb and Ullman to use this production method. Due to the use of this new technique, no more reference was made to the craft. New materials such as plywood finished with oak and birch veneer characterized the designs. The new production technique provided the subdued and sober design that later became the company's trademark. UMS Pastoe joined the Good Living Foundation.
The focus of the UMS Pastoe collection was mountain furniture, where the consumer could put together a cabinet himself. This new concept of flexible cabinet systems was developed in 1955 in the cabinet system Meubelen-naar-maat. In this series, the cabinet could not only be assembled by the consumer himself, but also expanded later. This series was a great success at home and abroad. This became clear when the teak version was awarded a silver medal in 1957 at the 11th Triennale in Milan and Le Signe d'Or in Belgium.
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H 13.19 in W 47.25 in D 47.25 in
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Rare trolley designed by Cees Braakman. Produced by UMS Pastoe in the Netherlands around 1950 - 1960.
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An eye-catching “Puzzle” coffee table, model TB 14, designed by Cees Braakman and manufactured by Pastoe in the Netherlands around 1950.
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Pastoe Round Side Table by Cees Braakman in Oak
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H 14.97 in W 16.15 in L 14.97 in
TB14 Birch Plywood Combex Coffee Table by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1954
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Vintage Coffee Table by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1950
By Cees Braakman, Pastoe
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Midcentury coffee table with reversable top designed by Cees Braakman for Pastoe in de 1950s.
This teak wooden coffee table has a reversable top with teak or a white formica top.
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H 15.75 in W 23.23 in D 47.25 in
Cees Braakman coffee and cocktail tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Cees Braakman coffee and cocktail tables are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Cees Braakman coffee and cocktail tables, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original coffee and cocktail tables by Cees Braakman were created in the mid-century modern style in netherlands during the mid-20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider coffee and cocktail tables by UMS Pastoe, Metaform Holland, and Ghyczy. Prices for Cees Braakman coffee and cocktail tables can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $476 and can go as high as $3,133, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $1,108.
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