Handcrafted modernist oak sideboard by Edmond Bellefroid, Netherlands 1920s

One of a kind and handcrafted sideboard.
According to the previous owner it was designed and made by Edmond Bellefroid and for Vic Reinders in the 1920s.

The sideboard was handcrafted from oak. Skillfully made piece that withstood the test of time with ease. Although it is over a hundred years old it remains in a very good condition.

Guillaume Marie Edmond Bellefroid (Maastricht, July 3, 1893 – there, January 7, 1971) was a Dutch painter, ceramist and industrial designer.

During his MULO training, he took the evening course at the Stadssteeken Institute in Maastricht and a Sunday course with Rob Graafland. From 1910 he was educated at the École St. Luc in the Belgian city of Liège. Bellefroid joined the group of young painters around Rob Graafland. The Limburgsche Kunstkring had also emerged from this group in 1910, of which Edmond later became a part. In 1918-1919 he was on the list of working members, in 1923 he was named as a resigning board member. In the 1920s he was a member of the Gang of De Suisse, a group of artists and culture lovers who met regularly at the Café Suisse at the Vrijthof in Maastricht.

Bellefroid lived in Maastricht until 1927, then moved to Neerharen and returned to Maastricht in 1933. In the period 1929-1946 he was designer of pottery tableware at De Sphinx in Maastricht, succeeding Willem Jacob Rozendaal. In 1949, he moved to competitor Mosa as an industrial designer. In 1938, he also designed a crystal service for Kristalunie.

Bellefroid taught at the Stadsacademie, the precursor of the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts. According to contemporaries, he was an authoritarian but charismatic personality. He was an honorary citizen of Maastricht and a knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Mathieu Antoine Victor ("Vic") Reinders (Maastricht, August 7, 1888 - June 14, 1961) was a Dutch poet and artist.

In 1910, Reinders founded the Limburgse Kunstkring together with Jan Bakhoven, Guillaume Eberhard, Herman Gouwe, Rob Graafland, Henri Jonas, J. van der Kooy and Jos Narinx. He was a Dutch teacher by profession. He has been publishing poems since the 1930s, but his first collection first appeared when he was sixty years old.