Dutch Carpenters Chest, 1960s

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Carpenter's Chest Bossche School Style, The Netherlands, 1960s. This is a very unusual and unique carpenter’s chest in a very … Read more Carpenter's Chest Bossche School Style, The Netherlands, 1960s. This is a very unusual and unique carpenter’s chest in a very distinct Bossche School style, made in The Netherlands, 1960s. The Bossche School style was a traditionalist architectural movement in The Netherlands from the 1960s onwards, based on theories of Dom Hans van der Laan, a Benedictine monk and architect whose work emphasized the importance of proportion and the harmonious relationship between space and form. It revolves around his theory called 'Het Plastische Getal': a proportional system based on the X3−X−1 formula, an irrational number, known in mathematics as the 'plastic number'. See less