Mid century plywood PT10 serving cart by Cees Brakeman for Patoe, Netherlands 1950s

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. The wood gained a beautiful dark patina through the years. 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.

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