Gaston Eysselinck, Oak Stool for the PTT Building

Rare solid oak stool designed by Belgian architect Gaston Eysselinck in the 1940s. Originally conceived for the interior of the Post Building, or PTT building, in Ostend, a major public commission and an exceptional project within Eysselinck's short but important contribution to Belgian modernism. For Eysselinck, furniture was not secondary to architecture, and his building permit drawings often included fully detailed furniture designs. The stool's severe geometry and absence of ornament reflect the influence of interwar European functionalism, reinterpreted through Eysselinck's distinctly Belgian modernist sensibility. A rare surviving piece from the PTT building interior, preserved in beautiful original condition.