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There is also plenty of more modern work to interest the interior designer on offer, such as the selection of furniture pictured right on the stand of Kunsthandel Frans Leidelmeijer of Amsterdam.

An appropriate offering for a Maastrict fair, these 1920s and 1930s (with one from 1951) chairs include a c.1934 white painted wood Crate chair (front left) said to have been made by the innovative Dutch designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld himself as a present for his good friend Mrs Elling-Nijland following her divorce.