The Art Deco and Amsterdam School collection of Pieter Goedings, former owner of cinema 'The Movies'
Film distributor and cinema owner, Pieter Goedings was the founder, owner, art director and interior designer of The Movies cinema. In the 1970s and 1980s he was the largest independent art-house distributor in the Netherlands and the discoverer of many beautiful films and talented filmmakers. In 1971 he transformed the dilapidated Hollandia neighborhood cinema into an Art Nouveau palace, popularly known as Little Tuschinski. The famous Art-Deco interior before the renovation was designed by Goedings. He designed the carpets, tapestries, woodwork, cinema seats and furnished the cinema with many antiques from the period.
Goedings was a very passionate collector of the Art Deco and Amsterdam School and he amassed one of the largest collections in the Netherlands. The Movies has recently been renovated, several antique objects can still be found there and the pattern of the carpet is also still his work. Room 1 is still entirely his work and can now be admired in its restored state.
As a passionate collector, he browsed through buildings scheduled for demolition and managed to acquire many beautiful objects at home and abroad. In the current auction, Veilinggebouw de Zwaan offers a beautiful selection from this important collection of Pieter Goedings. These include the three special stained glass domes by Willem Bogtman (1882-1955), with stained glass images of, among other things, the zodiac, ca. 1920. These three domes once hung in the ‘Blom en van AA’ building, Prins Hendrikkade 33 , Amsterdam (lot number 2712).
Extremely rare are the pair of chairs by Michel de Klerk (1884-1923) from 1915 (lot number 2717), and a three-part stained glass window by R. Roland Holst (1868-1938) from the former head office of NV Koninklijke Hollandse Lloyd at Prins Hendrikkade 3, Amsterdam (lot number 2701).
And with the opportunity to purchase the pair of French hanging lamps, lot number 2708, you can get a piece of Amsterdam, they also hang in The Movies and in Sauna Deco.
