The website www.design20.eu offers you an expert driven market place for your design items from the 20th century.
We offer your items to the resale in commission. > Commission contract. For that you must explain your offer to it in a form intended for it. The publication is free and takes place in the name of “design of this 20th century.”
To the publication of your offer, your statements and descriptions about the objects are checked carefully by experts and are supplemented if necessary. The more complete and exact your form is, the quicker it can be published on the website. If the form cannot be filled at all or only very partially, you have the opportunity to ask for an editing by our experts, which will add costs.
The commission-contract comes about first, if you get a written confirmation of design20.eu, and agree this again. > terms and conditions/ data protection-regulations..
Please send your offer per mail or the print version to:
Dr. Heide Rezepa-Zabel, Apostel-Paulus-Str. 26, 10823 Berlin, Germany.
Design20.eu provides a German and English language trading platform for buyers and sellers of important 20th Century design objects.
We check and research every attribution on the basis of art historical sources according to recent scientific knowledge and we support our findings with a list of further literature and museum collections in a comprehensible way. The glossary explains technical terms, stylistic features and biographical data of designers and manufacturers. Please subscribe our newsletter and we keep you posted about newly arrived items.
Buyers can acquire the offered items at a fixed price with no additional or hidden costs. We authenticate every object with our safety label and deliver it with an expert’s report. We prepare all goods diligently for transport and deliver them to you insured within one week. Special arrangements regarding shipment can be met. Due to the rarity of the objects, we kindly request pre-payment.
Sellers can offer their goods on a commission basis. For each offer, the seller has to supply some details in a special form provided by us. We will examine the information given and the seller will receive a written confirmation by design20.eu. The contract between seller and design20.eu will only become legally binding after the seller has agreed once more to this letter of confirmation.
To present historical design objects in a dependable manner has been made a concept of Design20.eu in order to gain the trust of collectors on a long-term basis.
Expertise
The objects on offer are certified by Dr. Heide Rezepa-Zabel.
Short biography:
Masters in history of art and economics, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Training program in the auction company Christie’s London.
Student of the “Christie’s Education Department”.
Doctoral degree at the Humboldt University at Berlin about twentieth-century design.
Scientific research and documentation for design collections.
Expertises for inheritances and guardianships, consultations and procurements in trade of art.
List of publications
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Mobilmachung im Kunstgewerbe, in: Hasso Bräuer: Archiv des deutschen Alltagsdesigns, (= Digitale Bibliothek, 56), Berlin 2001.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Gediegenes Gerät fürs Haus – Geschmackserziehung vor einhundert Jahren, in: Beate Manske (Hg.) im Auftr. der Wilhelm-Wagenfeld Stiftung. Von Lust und Qual der richtigen Wahl, Ästhetische Bildung in der Alltagskultur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Bremen 2004.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Deutsches Warenbuch, Reprint und Dokumentation, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2005.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Vermeide Kleinliches! Museum der Dinge, Berlin 2006.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Deutscher Werkbund – Mitstreiter des guten und schlechten Geschmacks, in: Museumsjournal Jg. 21, no. 3, 2007, p.12f..
Kampf der Dinge. Eine Ausstellung im 100. Jahr des Deutschen Werkbunds, hrsg. vom Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge Berlin, mit Beiträgen ed.a. from H. Rezepa-Zabel, Berlin 2007.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Das Deutsche Museum für Kunst in Handel und Gewerbe, in: Kampf der Dinge, Der Deutsche Werkbund zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit, ed. by Werkbundarchiv- Museum der Dinge, Berlin 2008, p.88-93.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: „Form ohne Ornament“, in: Berlin 2008, p.94-96.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Warenbuch und Warenkunden, in: Berlin 2008, p.100-109.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Künstliche Schönheiten, in: Kat. Bakelit 100, Kunststoff aus Erkner erobert die Welt, hrsg. vom Chemie-Museum Erkner 2009, p.48-54.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Bakelit, Teil 1, in: Sammler Journal, Dezember 2009, p.50-59.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Bakelit, Teil 2, in: Sammler Journal, January 2010, p.48-57.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Mode und Design aus Bakelit, Vortrag 5. Baekeland-Tag des Chemie-Museums Erkner, 26.02.2010.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Ebena Kunststoffe, in: Sammler Journal, July 2010, p.84-91.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Herbert Hirche, in: Sammler Journal, August 2010, p.32-39.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Fragile – Sammlung Bröhan, in: Sammler Journal, November 2010, p.61-69.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Henkel & Grosse, in: Sammler Journal, August 2011, p.36-44.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Haël, in: Sammler Journal, Nov. 2011, p.38-47.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Kunststoffe 40er- bis 70er Jahre, Teil 1, in: Sammler Journal, January 2012, p.52-58.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Kunststoffe 40er- bis 70er Jahre, Teil 2, in: Sammler Journal, February 2012, p.52-58.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Kunststoffe 40er- bis 70er Jahre, Teil 3, in: Sammler Journal, March 2012, p.94-99.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Wächtersbacher Steingutfabrik, in: Sammler Journal, April 2012, p.30-39.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Schönwald Porzellan, in: Sammler Journal, August 2012, p.44-51.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Jugendstilfliesen, in: Sammler Journal, March 2013, p.64-73.
H. Rezepa-Zabel: Richard Riemerschmid, in: Sammler Journal, October 2013, p.26-34.
